Julien Tscherrig

About

Experience

1. 2020 — Present

   IT Project Manager

   BCV — Banque Cantonale Vaudoise

   Leading IT projects in Finance & Risk domains. Primary activity. Coordinating multidisciplinary teams, governing portfolios of several thousand person-days per year, business-IT alignment, regulatory compliance.

2. Since 2019

   Managing Director

   JOE-SI Sàrl

   Applied research and IT development company serving the Swiss federal administration, cantonal administrations and Swiss SMEs, in partnership with the HumanTech Institute (HES-SO).

3. Since 2018

   Managing Director

   Ilygo Sàrl

   IT engineering and software development services for SMEs in French-speaking Switzerland.

4. 2014 — 2020

   Head of Smart and Innovative Services Group

   HumanTech Institute, HEIA-FR (HES-SO)

   Leading an applied research group. Project supervision and industrial and institutional partnerships with cantonal and federal administrations, automotive and railway manufacturers, and various SMEs of the Fribourg region.

5. 2012 — 2014

   Scientific Assistant

   HumanTech Institute, HEIA-FR (HES-SO)

   Applied research alongside a Master's at the University of Fribourg. Student supervision, contributions to the institute's projects.

Education

1. 2014 — 2019

   PhD in Computer Science

   University of Fribourg

   Thesis: Situational Web Synthesis. Advisors: Prof. Philippe Cudré-Mauroux & Prof. Omar Abou Khaled. Semantic Web, document aggregation and extractive summarization. Several concepts validated and operationally deployed within the Swiss federal administration for political information analysis.

2. 2014 — 2016

   DAS in Higher Education Didactics (Did@cTIC)

   University of Fribourg

   Diploma of Advanced Studies in university didactics. Diploma project on improving the Software Engineering course at HEIA-FR.

3. 2012 — 2014

   Master in Computer Science

   University of Fribourg

   Bridging Master's leading to the PhD. Design of the LinkedPolitics system: extraction of political facts published online in semi-structured or unstructured formats, conversion into semantic data (RDF), incremental interlinking and exploitation as Linked Data, applied to the Swiss political context. Work published at AINA 2016.

4. 2010 — 2012

   Master of Science HES-SO in Engineering

   University of Bedfordshire (UK) — HES-SO

   Master's thesis carried out at the University of Bedfordshire. Initial work on data analysis and fusion — foundations of the LinkedPolitics research line.

5. 2007 — 2010

   Bachelor of Science HES-SO in Computer Science

   HEIA-FR — School of Engineering and Architecture of Fribourg

   Bachelor thesis: brain-computer interface combining EEG sensor and immersive navigation (Google Street View). Published at HCI International 2011 (Head-Computer Interface: A Multimodal Approach to Navigate through Real and Virtual Worlds).

Skills

Scientific Publications

Selection · 89 citations on ResearchGate

1. 2019
   Situational Web Synthesis

   PhD Thesis, University of Fribourg
2. 2019
   Classifying vehicles' behaviors using global positioning systems information

   ICDS 2019, Athens
3. 2016
   LinkedPolitics: Incremental Semantic Lifting of Political Facts

   AINA 2016, pp. 1072-1079
4. 2016
   Leveraging Co-authorship and Biographical Information for Author Ambiguity Resolution in DBLP

   AINA 2016, pp. 1080-1084
5. 2013
   Democratizing 3D Dynamic Gestures Recognition

   IEEE Workshop on User-Centered Computer Vision (UCCV)
6. 2012
   Extending the interaction area for view-invariant 3D gesture recognition

   IPTA 2012, pp. 293-298
7. 2012
   Ontology Based Scope Visualisation

   Web Intelligence / IAT Workshops 2012, pp. 210-214
8. 2011
   Head-Computer Interface: A Multimodal Approach to Navigate through Real and Virtual Worlds

   HCI International 2011, LNCS 6762, pp. 222-230

Teaching

1. Since 2020

   External Expert for Bachelor & Master Theses

   HES-SO

   Regular external expert role for Bachelor and Master HES thesis defenses, including evaluation of presentations and participation in juries.

2. External lecturer — completed

   Introduction to the Web of Data (MAS)

   HE-Arc Engineering

   MAS module of 2 ECTS on Web evolution (1.0 → 3.0), Linked Data & Open Data, ontologies, RDF/RDFS/OWL, NoSQL, SPARQL.

3. Teaching Assistant — 2012-2015

   Software Engineering & Software Engineering for Telecom (Bachelor)

   HEIA-FR

   Three years as teaching assistant for the Software Engineering courses, Computer Science and Telecommunications Bachelor classes. Full redesign of the pedagogical approach.

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