Marie-Luce Bourguet's short bio
I graduated from the University of Bordeaux I (France) in 1987 as an
Electronic
Engineer (Maitrise E.E.A.). I then moved to Montreal, Quebec to work
as an
engineer at Bell
Northern Research Lab, on the evaluation of spoken
dialogue systems.
Back in France at the end of 1988, I did a Master
in Signal Processing at ENIEG Grenoble (D.E.A. traitement du signal,
1989). I then moved back to Montreal to
start a PhD in Multimodal Interaction, at the Centre Canadien de
Recherche sur l'Informatisation du Travail (CCRIT) federal
lab. I obtained my PhD with highest distinctions in 1992 from the
University
of Grenoble.
I spent
the next 5 years in Tokyo, Japan, working first at the Secom Intelligent
Systems Laboratory, redesigning and
prototyping their central security control operating system. I then
moved to NHK Science
& Technical Research
Lab. (Japanese
National Broadcasting Corp), as a Japan
Science and Technology Agency
(STA) fellow,
working on multimodality and interactive TV.
I moved back to Europe (UK) in 1998 to work at Canon Research Centre
Europe Ltd.
Since
September 2000, I am a lecturer in the Computer Science Department,
Queen Mary,
University of London.