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                    <h2>Problem-Solving</h2>
                    <p>Finding creative solutions to ill-defined problems.</p>
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                    <h3 class="major">Tracking cars using telecom fiber</h3>
                    <p><span class="image left"><img src="images/traffic.jpg" alt="" /></span>
                        With the development of <b>autonomous vehicles</b>, there is an increasing need for sensors
                        detecting
                        motion in the cameras' dead angles, especially in urban areas.
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                        At Stanford University, I demonstrated that it is possible to repurpose telecom fiber-optic
                        cables &mdash;
                        the same as for high-speed internet &mdash; to <b>track vehicle traffic</b>. This is done by
                        sending a
                        laser pulse through the fiber and measuring the backscattered energy. As moving objects make the
                        fiber
                        underground vibrate, it shows up in the recorded data.
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                        To extract this data's full value, I developed <b>new signal processing algorithms</b> for
                        vehicle
                        tracking, combining high-performance computing and deep learning. Since the data are solely
                        based on
                        vibrations, this process is entirely anonymous.
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                        <code>Python</code> <code>C++</code> <code>TensorFlow</code>
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                    <h3 class="major">Finding what you need when you do not know what you need</h3>
                    <p><span class="image right"><img src="images/compressor.jpg" alt="" /></span>In Japan, I worked on
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                        <b>digital
                            rebranding</b> of <a href="https://www.valeo.com/en/japan/">Valeo</a>, an automotive
                        supplier company.
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                        market
                        study, some customers mentioned not finding the product information they needed on the website.
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                        when I asked them, these same customers knew how to access and browse the product catalog.
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                        Why did they feel like they could not find the product information? The actual problem was not
                        that they
                        could not find the data, but that they <b>did not know what to do with the data</b>.
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                        I set out to create a tool to help customers identify the best Valeo product for their needs.
                        Gathering
                        input from the engineering team and the marketing team, I built a <a
                            href="http://www.valeocompressors.com/performance-tool"><b>web-based performance
                                calculator</b></a>
                        that determines the best product as a function of the customer's vehicle specifications. The
                        customer
                        supplies details about their desired use-case, and the web-app calculates which components
                        in the catalog meet their requirements.
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                        <code>CSS/HTML</code> <code>PHP/SQL</code> <code>JavaScript</code>
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