Stef II's Curiculum Vitæ

Stéphan TASSART
3550 Jeanne Mance #1016, H2X 3P7 Montréal, Québec, Canada.
perso. tel : (514) 845 1932
office tel : (514) 871 4963
email : tassart@ircam.fr
WWW : http://www.ircam.fr/equipes/analyse-synthese/tassart

EDUCATION

	1994-1999		PhD, at the Ircam's Analysis-Synthesis team: model and simulation of wind instruments, parameter analysis by extented Kalman filtering.
	1993-1994		Master degree with honors in acoustics, computer science and signal processing applied to the music (ATIAM).
	1993		Graduate of the French State Engineering Degree.
	1993		Student at TELECOM Paris, "École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications", three year course program leading to the State Engineering Degree.
	08/92-12/92		A 5 month long internship at the "Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique" (INRS Telecommunication) at Montreal, (Quebec, CANADA) in speech processing and recognition.
	1990		Attained "DEUG A" (2 years of general studies) specializing in mathematics and physics.
	1988-1990		National Preparatory Class Program ("Mathématiques Supérieures", "Mathématiques Spéciales M'") at the lycée Henry IV in Paris. An intensive program emphasizing mathematics and physics, leading to a competitive examination for admission to French graduate-level engineering schools ("Grandes Ecoles").
	1988		French Baccalauréat (secondary school diploma) with honors in mathematics and science.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

	1997-1998		Searcher in the analysis-synthesis team at Ircam ; assistant coordinator of the ATIAM Master degree.
	04/94-09/94		Internship at Ircam in the fields of signal processing, control system, computer science and acoustics.
	08/91		Blue collar internship at Radio France.

LANGUAGE

French: mother tongue.
English: good written and oral level; journeys to England, Canada, US, Japan ...

STUDIES

	1988		Micro-compiler written in assembly language for mathematic expressions.
	1989		Function plotting program for Apple IIGS.
	01/91-03/91		Design of a disassembling software for Motorola 68000 on PC.
	10/91-01/92		Studies and improvements of a neural network (Kohonen) recognizing handwritten digits.
	01/92-03/92		Design of a musical sequencer for PC.
	08/92-01/93		Presentation of my engineering internship: spectral analysis, formantic analysis, parameters' extraction for vowel recognition.
	03/93-04/93		Design of a client-server system for UNIX in DATAGRAM mode.
	04/93-06/93		Design of a speech recognition application on the DATAVOX card.
	04/93-07/93		Final study: Acoustic Signal Analysis/Transformation/Synthesis based on a Sinusoides plus Noise Decomposition. Time stretching.
	06/93		Design of an INMARSAT speech synthesizer for the IBM PC.
	06/93		Modification of a phase vocoder for the IBM PC.
	10/93-09/96		Administration of a personal Unix workstation.
	02/94-04/94		Programmation of a musical synthesizer/sequencer in C++.
	07/94-01/95		Development in C, C++ and Maple on different OS (Ultrix, Dec-Unix, Linux, Irix) of a symbolic and numerical environment dedicated to the simulation of acoustic tubes with viscothermal losses.
	06/95-03/96		Development and study of different new algorithms for fractional delays.
	04/96-07/96		Supervision of a project leading at the Ircam's "Journées Portes-Ouvertes" and then at the NAM'96 and ICMC'96 conferences to the presentation of a real-time "physical model" synthesizer controled by a MIDI keyboard in order to illustrate the new features of the fractional delay and nolinear excitators algorithms.
	01/96-09/96		Administration of a personal Unix network.

COMPUTING EXPERIENCES

	Operating System		UNIX (Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, SunOS, Solaris, Ultrix, Digital-Unix, Irix...), VAX/VMS, PC/MSDOS/Windows.
	Computing langages		C, C++, Pascal, assembly language, Lisp...
	Software		scientific softwares (Matlab, Maple), shell and filters languages (Awk, Lex, Yacc, Sh, Tcsh, Tk/Tcl, Perl...), word processing (Emacs, TeX/LaTeX, Troff ...), multimedia (SGML, HTML, java) spreadsheet, database (SQL)...

EXPERT IN:

Informatique
- Maple : formal and symbolic calculator,
- Matlab : numerical calculator, simulations.
Signal Processing
- Digital audio signal processing,
- Digital audio synthesisers,
- Digital filtering.

OUSTIDE INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES

Electronic and computer music;
President of the Audio Club, which manages a small MIDI studio (a MIDI synthesizer, and a sequencer). Organizer of 2 concerts of electronic music (June, 1991 and 1993) with Paul Haslinger formerly from Tangerine Dream.

PUBLICATIONS

Depalle, P. and Tassart, S. (1995). State space sound synthesis and a state space synthesiser builder. In Proc. Int. Computer Music Conf. (ICMC'95), pages 88-95, Banff, Canada.
Depalle, P. and Tassart, S. (1996). Fractional delay lines using Lagrange interpolators. In Proc. Int. Computer Music Conf. (ICMC'96), Hongkong.
Tassart, S. and Depalle, P. (1996). Fractional delays using Lagrange interpolators. In Proc. Nordical Acoustic Meeting (NAM'96), Helsinki, Finland.
Tassart, S. and Depalle, P. (1997). Analytical Approximations of Fractional Delays: Lagrange Interpolators and Allpass Filters. In Proc. ICASSP'97, Munich, Germany.
Msallam, R., Dequidt, S., Tassart, S. and Caussé, R. (1997). Physical Model of the Trombone including Nonlinear Propagation Effects. In Proc. ISMA'97, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Tassart, S., Depalle, P., Msallam, R. and Dequidt, S. (1997). A fractional delay application: time-varying propagation speed in waveguide. In Proc. Int. Computer Music Conf. (ICMC'97), Thessaloniky, Greece.

Last update on
Tue Jul 7 11:54:36 1998

Tassart Stéphan
IRCAM

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