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Name and family name: Léo Perrin

Born the: 11-20-1990

Feel free to contact me at leoperrin (at] picarresursix.fr for any information.

You can also find me on LinkedIn[link] and github.

# Engineering and mathematics student

## Education and Diplomas

2011-2013 Master in Mathematics at KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

Exchange student in a master of mathematics at Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, the"Royal Institute of Technology" in Stockholm, Sweden. There I studied, among other things, applied numerical methods, complexity theory, discrete mathematics (algebra, combinatorics…), proof complexity and cryptography.

2009-2011 Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Lyon, France

Multidisciplinary engineering student at the ECL. I followed specific lectures in algorithmic, mathematics (finite elements, functionnal analysis), computer science (constraint and logical programming), fluid mechanics (study of turbulences and unstabilities) and crisis management.

2007-2009 CPGE Scientifique at Berthollet highschool (Annecy, France)

Classes preparing for Engineering Schools competitive examinations. Intensive lectures in math and physics as well as english, philosophy and theoretical computer science classes.

June 2007 Baccalauréat S (high school diploma), with higher distinction

Scientific high school diploma with specialisation in mathematics obtained at Gabriel Fauré high school, Annecy (France).

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## Internships and Work Experience

May-July 2011 Three Months Internship in the LIRIS Laboratory, Lyon, France

Development of a Java application allowing a huge number of people to the annotate media. Java programming (Eclipse), UML modelisation, use of CrowdSourcing (Amazon's Mechanical Turk via CrowdFlower), autonomous working.

juillet 2010 Worker Internship at NTN-SNR, Meythet, France

Internship at the logistics department of a factory. Shelves labelling, stocktaking, handling.

hiver 2007 Private Mathematics Teacher

Private lessons given to a student willing to attend the French competitive exam that used to be required for school teachers (IUFM).

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## Academic Projects and Associative Activity

2011-2012 Volunteer at the "language café" at KTH

KTH's library organizes every day, at luch time, a meeting with student willing to practice a foreign language and native speakers. With another French girl, I am in charge of making students talk with each other in French once a week by finding conversation topics, making sure everybody gets a chance to speak, talking with them in a simple or sophisticated idiom depending on their level, etc.

2010-2011 Second Year Project: Computer Network

Design and realisation of a system implementing the IEEE 802.1x network standard to allow the administration of the network of ECL's campus' residencies. In charge of the use of a LDAP.

2009-2010 First Year Project : Gesture based Interface

Project Manager of a first year project. Design, realisation and test of a Human-computer Interaction (HCI) relying only on the user's gestures, without any mouse or keyboard. Team work, multicultural team management (four nationalities), C++ programming. This project was nominated by the school for the internal price of the best first year project.

2009-2010 Depute-President of ECLAIR

"Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Amis de l'Informatique et des Réseaux" (ECL, Friends of IT and Networks) is a benevolent students association in charge, among other things, of the administration of the network of the residencies on ECL's campus (more than 700 users). GNU/Linux administration, public speech, network administration, realisation of the master of a USB stick given to each first year student.

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## Computer Literacy

- Use and administration of GNU/Linux based Operating Systems (OS) (especially Debian, Ubuntu and CentOS).
- C++, Java, Python, MATLAB (octave)programming; imperative and Object Oriented (POO) programming, basic knowledge of logical programming (I had Prolog lectures during my second year at the ECL). Samples of my code can be seen on my github repository.
- Command-line use of MySQL databases.
- Use of the bash shell: command lines and scripting.
- Use of the office suites OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice and Microsoft Office…
- … Though I prefer LaTeX which I use almost every day.
- I use (gnu) Emacs whenever I need to edit text files, either when programming, writing reports (Latex) or modifying this very page.
- Web programming: HTML/CSS and basic knowledge of PHP. I have written the content and the stylesheets of this website (except those of the "blog" section which uses wordpress).
- Graphics edition with The GIMP (raster) and InkScape (vectorial). Unless the contrary is specified, I have created all the visual content of this website.

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## Languages

- French: native speaker
- English: perfectly fluent (soon to have a master passed in english)
- Spanish: read and written but some difficulties when talking
- Swedish: basic conversation
- Arabic: beginner

## Interests and Hobbies

- Computer programming, study of mathematics and cryptography.
- Web administration: this website (the whole www.picarresursix.fr domain) is hosted on a server I've rent. I upload content to this website using a FTP server.
- Aïkido, a Japanese martial art, 1st kyu (equivalent of a brown belt in several other martial arts).
- Reading, in particular the literature of the end of the XIXth century with authors such as HG. Wells or J. Verne and modern sci-fi like Frank Herbert or Neal Stephenson.
- Writing: I am writing an ebook of math vulgarisation which I want easy to read for everyone. You can check it on my github repository but it is in French.

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