Curriculum Vitae

Employment

  • 2019- co-Director, Retail Innovation Lab, McGill University
  • 2019- Associate Member, Bensadoun School of Retail Management, McGill University
  • 2013-2019 Director, Centre for Intelligent Machines, McGill University
  • 2018-2019 Member of Technical Advisory Board, Brisk Synergies inc.
  • 2015- Member of Technical Advisory Board, Irystec inc.
  • 2014-2017 Member of Technical Advisory Board, LiveBarn inc.
  • 2010- Founder, Technologie Cylonix.
  • 2005-2011 Associate Dean, Academic, Faculty of Engineering, McGill University
  • 2004-2005 Associate Chair (acting), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University
  • 2004- Full Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University
  • 1996-2004 Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, McGill University
  • 1994-1996 Visiting Researcher, Nissan Cambridge Basic Research, Cambridge, MA
  • 1990-1994 Gordon McKay Associate Professor, Division of Applied Science, Harvard University
  • 1986-1990 Gordon McKay Assistant Professor, Division of Applied Science, Harvard University
  • 1985 Researcher, Macdonald Detwiler and Associates, Richmond B.C.

Sabbatical Leaves

  • 2012 Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia
  • 2001-2002 Visiting Researcher, Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, Universite Rene Descartes (Paris V)
  • 1992 Visiting Researcher, Computation and Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology

Education

  • 1985-1986 Post-doctoral Fellow, Division of Applied Science, Harvard University
  • 1985 PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of British Columbia
  • 1980 B.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, University of British Columbia

Awards and Honours

  • 2017 EMEA Lumiere Award for Best Conference Paper, IC3D 2017. Awarded to Jonathan Bouchard and James Clark.
  • 2017 Honorable Mention for Best Student Paper in the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal. Awarded to J. Bouchard and J.J. Clark, August 2017.
  • 2014 Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society (CIPPRS/ACTIRF) Award for Research Excellence, May 2014.
  • 2012 Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, best student paper. Awarded to Amin Haji-Abolhassani and J.J. Clark, May 2012.
  • 2011 Outstanding Reviewer Award, 2011 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).
  • 2006 Canadian Conference on Intelligent Systems, best poster. Awarded to Carmen Au, Sandra Skaff, and J.J. Clark, May 2006.
  • 2005 Canadian Conference on Intelligent Systems, 3rd prize for best poster. Awarded to Sandra Skaff, Carmen Au, and J.J. Clark, May 2005.
  • 2003 Canadian Conference on Intelligent Systems, best poster. Awarded to Tina Ehtiati and James J. Clark, May 2003.
  • 2002 Canadian Conference on Intelligent Systems, 2nd prize for best poster. Awarded to Vinod Nair and J.J. Clark, May 2002.
  • 1987 IEEE Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Society best transactions journal paper prize for an author younger than 30 years of age. Awarded to James J. Clark, Matthew Palmer, and Peter D. Lawrence.