Philippe Rochat

Ch. des Oisillons, 1B CH-1110 MORGES (Switzerland) http://philippe.rochat.net/
+41 21 6170305
Born March 26th, 1968, married, one child, Swiss and Italian

Computer Science Professor

Education

2003

Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL)

1997

Master in Computer Science, EPFL

Telecommunication and artificial neural networks options.
Graduate work: Java adaptation of a fault tolerant server system. Implementation with redundant web server.

1989-1994

Micro-engineering, EPFL

1989

Federal Maturity, "X" type (Latin, Ancient Greek, Sciences), Collège de St-Maurice

Continuing Education

2004-2006

HES-SO Professor pedagogical formation

2003

NETS prize winner

Entrepreneurship courses at the Babson College, Boston

2002-2003

Entrepreneurship courses CREATE program, EPFL

2001-2002

Accounting and Finance courses, EPFL

Academical Experience

2007/03 - present EPFL

Project Manager of Bioinformatics, Blue Brain Project

Responsible of leading the development of the databases, access tools and management-supporting tools for the project and it’s extension to international nodes.

03/2003-03/2007 HEIG-VD, Yverdon et Lausanne

2005-2007 Postgraduate program in computer science EPG-INA/ELO director

Computer science teaching program definition and management and Bologna process adaptation.
Financial and Human resources management.
Courses quality control and student candidates review.

2003-2007 Computer science professor

Teaching and examination at Bachelor and Postgraduate (MAS) degree in the following fields:
- Programming: Java, C, C++ et Ada
- Software engineering, advanced software engineering, advanced information systems
- Distributed computing, DataBases
Students tutor.
Diploma projects supervision.

2005-2007 GAPS-Web project management

Management, planification and staffing of five collaborators for the elaboration of twenty something web tools for academical management in the process of Bologna modularisation.
Different refactoring, new technologies integration (SAJAX) and fifteen something new modules have emerged in an ergonomic platform well appreciated by student and professor users.

03/1997-03/2003 EPFL

Rewarded in 2000 for "exceptional personal involvement in his contributions"

2004-2005 Lecturer, DataBase Laboratory (LBD)

IBD (DataBase Engineering) teaching and coaching students.

2000-2003 Ph.D. assistant, LBD

Research (Ph.D. Thesis) on Internet Proxys aiming to improve caching and adding services with added perceived dimensions for the intermediary agent.

1997-2003 Research and teaching assistant, LBD

As Prof. Stefano Spaccapietra's assistant, teaching to MSc classes (about 40 attendees). In charge of the complete preparation and program for a very popular semester practical course involving Databases and Internet technologies (Java, JMS, RMI, PHP, Jabber and XML-RPC). Direction of a dozen of students' semester and diploma projects with successful results. Teaching outside of EPFL to the World Health Organization (WHO).

03/1996-02/1997 Institute of Hydraulic Machines and Fluid Mechanics (EPFL-IMHEF)

System manager for UNIX system networks (HP-UX and SunOS), products evaluation and tools development.

Experience

1999-2003 Simple Data Sàrl, Parc Scientifique, Lausanne (partner, manager, CEO)

Co-founder with three people from the DataBaseLaboratory, EPFL. The company is a spin-off base on the SIRANAU project for the commercialisation of the academic prototype.
After two years, the company moved from multimedia storage to custom service and development. That shift had started in 1999 already with many differents mandats for the UN.
In 2001 take over 100% of the shares.
In 2003, the company got involved in bank tools with the arrival of a new partner and co-director. Simple Data publish many software with different architecture. One of them - tariff eye - is a very smart tool in bank procuts cost management.

2003 Bank

Conception and marketing of management, decision support tools for financial activities.

1999-2002 SIRANAU

Project manager for the operations on the academic prototype, SIRANAU, moved into production for the National Library.
In charge of all technical infrastructure management.

2001-2002 Colorconnexion

Development and product managemenet for a GSM communication system. The service was designed as an entertainment and meeting application. Project leader of a team of three developpers.

2001 GSMSecure SA, Geneva

Development of a system for goods localization. The system is based on GPS and GSM technologies. Participation in commercial negociation for deployment in South Africa.

2001 Silentsoft SA, Parc Scientifique, Lausanne

Manager of a three technicans for the development of a system that imports weather data and mesures based on a captor network with GSM technology.
The system is based on web services and an XML DataBase.
In charge of setting up the tools and technologies to be used in the company.

1999 ONU (UNCTAD)

Advanced web solutions development for the UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade And Development).

1994-1995 IBM

Member of the IBM-UNIPOWER team in charge of academic market. The team also proceeded to large scale deployment at CERN and EPFL with high performance servers installation.
Development of the first web site for the OFIAMT (Federal Office of Work And Industry) and teaching the people in charge there.

1991-1994 Levi's

Management of the entire computer system for the Swiss French headquarters. My final report lead to the creation of a full-time job.

Computer

OS/Platforms

UNIX (SunOS, HP-UX, AIX, Linux)
Windows NT and Windows 2000, DOS
Apple Macintosh MacOS
IBM OS/2
AmigaOS

Languages

C/C++, Java, SQL, HTML, AspectJ (+AOP), PHP
Ada, Pascal, Smalltalk, Perl, Python, Shell-scripts, XML(-RPC), UML

Systems & API

Proxy, Jabber, JMS, JMF, Sendmail, DNS, Firewall, Tomcat, Apache and various Intranet/Internet technologies, Oracle, Informix, Tamino,PostgreSQL, mySQL, msql, HSQLDB, LaTeX, Junit, LDAP, Postfix
Publications

Publications

L'éthique du virtuel: Apocalypse contre Platon

Sabina Di Gregorio, Bernard Reber, Philippe Rochat, "L'éthique du virtuel: Apocalypse contre Platon ", Virtual worlds 98, premier Colloque international sur l’image de synthèse et le virtuel, March 1- 3, 1998. (Russian publication by "Académie des Sciences de Moscou").

Proxy caching based on object location considering semantic usage

Philippe Rochat, Stuart Thompson, "Proxy caching based on object location considering semantic usage" Fourth International Web Caching Workshop, WCW'99, San Diego,
March 31 - April 2, 1999.

Mass Archiving of Multimedia Data

Emmanuel Buff, Yves Dennebouy, Philippe Rochat, Stefano Spaccapietra, "Mass Archiving of Multimedia Data", Advances in Multimedia and Databases fort he New Century, a Swiss/Japanese Perspective, Kyoto, Nov 30 - Dec 2, 1999.

Proxys Internet Avancés

Philippe Rochat, "Proxys Internet Avancés", thèse No 2762 (2003), EPFL.

Language Capabilities

French

mother tongue

English

read and written fluently

Italian

good knowledge

German

good knowledge

Extra-Curricular

1999-2001 CPI (Commission Presse et Information, EPFL)

Member of the commission in charge of the setting and controlling the application of the communication rules for EPFL intern and external press and on the Internet.

1999-2000 Radio Suisse Romande (RSR)

National Radio for the French speaking part of switzerland

On air with a scientific vulgarisation performance.

1993-1998 Fréquence Banane (Radio EPFL-UNIL)

Students Radio

Co-founder and president of the association in 1993. Fréquence Banane is the first campus radio in Switzerland.
IASTAR (International Association of Student Television and Radio) Switzerland foundation.

1996-1997 Paléo Festival de Nyon

European Music Festival

Creation of the "Paleo Live" concept for Philip Morris (Festival Sponsor) as a web animation built on site. The concept was then sold to a major telecom company.

1989-1996 Balélec (EPFL Festival)

Students Music Event

Balélec is the biggest student event in Europe with an attendance of over 15'000 in 1993 already and more than 20'000 in 2000.
Association president, accounting back in the black numbers.
Set up the big stage project with success, Balélec being raised to the rank of music festival.
In charge of animation which consists of organising and planning of all artistic performances and technical logistic (stages, sono, covers, etc.) With seven stages, a hundred artists and profusion of different styles, the public is definitely acquired.

1991-1996 Satellite

EPFL Students Bar

In charge of Comics and Games. Organisation of stage performances. Organizer of game night parties and artists exhitibits.
Co-organizer of exhibit "de brüsel à Lozan" by two famous comics artists, Peeter and Schuiten, in 1994.

1991-1993 MUME

Internet MultiUser Game

MUD (Multi User Dungeson: multi user role play game on the Internet) creation called "MUME". Still online today, it counts more than 500'000 characters created and thousands of active players.