Cédric Sébastien Mesnage

Talks

Social Shuffle, Music Technology Group, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain 10th Feb 2012

Social Shuffle, KTH, Royal Technical University of Stockholm, Sweden, 16th Jun 2011

Social Shuffle, USI, University of Lugano, PhD defense, Switzerland, 18th May 2011

Social Shuffle, University of Caen, Normandy, 29th Jun 2010

Profile

French citizen. Born the 7th April 1980 in Cherbourg. Able to conduct business in French and English. Notions of Italian and German.

Experience

Researcher, LinkedBrainz project, Music Informatics group, Center for Digital Music(C4DM), Queen Mary University of London, UK, Mar 2011-Jul 2011

Enseignant Chercheur, Hypermedia group, University of Paris 8, Saint Denis, France, Apr 2010-Sep 2010

Research assistant, University of Lugano, Switzerland, Oct 2005-Sep 2010

Teaching. Research projects. Doctoral studies.

Software Architect, Nepomuk European project, Jan 2006-Jan 2009

Set up of the software architecture. User studies. Developer interviews. Documentation. Software life cycle. Dissemination.

CEO, tty0, 2001-2003

Production and set up of a documentation manager for the Conservatoire du littoral.

Education

PhD in Informatics, University of Lugano - 2005-

MSc in Algorithms and Information Modeling, University of Caen - 2005

Teaching

Master level assisting in information retrieval in Perl. Creation and teaching of a Web 2.0 social software engineering course with Ruby on Rails. Assisting in data structures and algorithms. Project tutoring. Teaching C++.

Software projects

I mostly program in Ruby with which I implemented a few projects :

Starnet, a recommender and browser of music videos based on your facebook social network, tags and songs from last.fm and youtube videos.

RDFa on rails, a library of helpers to publish RDFa data in Ruby on Rails and Ruby CGI apps.

Semantic Web on Rails Development(SWORD), a plugin for Ruby on Rails to create applications which rely on ActiveRDF.

I also can program on other platforms : php, python, Shell, java, C, XCode, Perl, Prolog, caml, haskell...

Selected Publications

C. S. Mesnage and M. J. Carman. Piloted Search and Recommendation with Social Tag Cloud-Based Navigation. The 1st workshop on music recommendation and discovery. Sep. 2010, co-located with ACM-RECSYS.

C. Mesnage and M. Carman. Tag Navigation. The 2nd International Workshop On Social Software Engineering and Applications, co-located with ESEC/FSE 2009.

M. Jazayeri, C. Mesnage, and J. Rose. Modern Web Application Development. In Andrea De Lucia, Filomena Ferrucci, Genny Tortora, Maurizio Tucci (eds.) Emerging Methods, Technologies and Process Management in Software Engineering. Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press, February 2008.

E. Oren, C. Mesnage, B. Heitmann, A. Haller, M. Hauswirth, and S. Decker, A flexible integration framework for Semantic Web 2.0 applications. IEEE Software, Sep. 2007.

C. Mesnage and E. OrenExtending Ruby on Rails for Semantic Web Applications.Web Engineering, 7th International Conference, ICWE 2007, Como, Italy, July 16-20, 2007

Referrals

Pr. Yngve Sundblad, HCI group, KTH, Royal Technical University of Stockholm, Sweden.

Pr. Mehdi Jazayeri, Phd Advisor, founding dean of the Faculty of Informatics of Lugano, Switzerland.