DOB: 8/7/68 in Dijon, Burgundy, France. French citizen

Current situation: Maitre de conférences at ENSIM (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs du Mans), Université du Maine.

Graduated with a PhD in Human Development and Communication Disorders at the School of Human Development at the University of Texas at Dallas.

"ARTIST: ADAPTIVE RESONANCE THEORY for the INTERNALIZATION of the STRUCTURE of TONALITY" (almost 1Mb) Abstract

Languages spoken/written: French, English, Spanish

Programmation languages proficiencies:

• JAVA
• Turbo Pascal
• C++
• Prolog (My favorite!)
• Lisp
• Matlab
• Sas (stastistics package)
• Fortran
• Basic
• Forth
• dBase
• Genesis
• Notions of Assembleur, Ada and MIDI files

• Formal languages and graphs (logic and generative grammars)
• Probabilities / Statistics
• Numerical analysis (optimisation theory)
• Network Systems
• Assembleur
• C++
• Pascal
• Unix
• Infography (including GKS language)
• Algorithmic
• Database
• Productic / Robotic (production sciences)
• Distributed Systems (parallel programming)

M.S. (1998) in Applied Cognition and Neuroscience from the University of Texas at Dallas.

NEURAL NETWORKS:

Projects during the years 90-92 concerned NEURAL NETWORKS:

• year 1: Programming in C of an all-purpose neural network simulator. Applied to LETTER RECOGNITION.
• year 2: Application of the neural network to the prediction of chemical activities for DRUG DESIGN.
• year 3: Architecture optimization and performance optimization of the neural networks previously used.

Professional Experiences: Tutoring, Teaching, Research & Software Development
Tutoring of many French students in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, English Worked for the software company InovaSys, developing part of the following softwares (including ALL imagery and user interface modules):

• CRISTAL: Tool for teaching cristallography: 3D visualization / rotation / animation of cristals. On Windows.
• RMN: Simulator of a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance machine (visualization of electron spin, FID curve and spectra). On both windows AND Mac.

I conducted a series of experiments (running human subjects, preparing stimuli and statistically analysing the results) which results were presented at conferences (see next section).

Publications:

• 1994: Abdi, H., Piat, F., & Dowling, W.J. Interference in the early time course of melodies. Paper presented at the 3rd ICMPC (International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition), Liege, Belgium.
• 1995: Abdi, H., Piat, F., & Dowling, W.J. Memory for melodies and interfering tasks. paper presented at the SMPC (Society for Music Perception and Cognition), San Francisco.
• 1996: Piat, F., & Dowling, W.J. Interpolated tasks and memory for melodies. Poster presented at the 4th ICMPC, Montreal, Canada.
• 1999: Kollias S. and Piat, F. The PHYSTA project, poster presented at ICMCS'99 (International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems), June 7-11, Florence Italy. (Abstract)
• 1999: Piat, F. and Stamou, G. Refining Rules of Emotion Recognition in Hybrid Systems. Presented at the 3rd IMACS CSCC'99 (International Multiconference on Circuits, Systems, Communications and Computers. July 4-8, Athens Greece).
• 2000: W. A. Fellenz, J. G. Taylor, R. Cowie, E. Douglas-Cowie, F. Piat, S. Kollias, C. Orovas and B. Apolloni. On emotion recognition of faces and of speech using neural networks, fuzzy logic and the ASSESS system. IEEE-INNS-ENNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Como, Italy, 24-27 July 2000.
• 2000: Piat, F. and Tsapatsoulis, N. Exploring the time course of facial expressions with a fuzzy system. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2000), July 30 - August 2, 2000, New-York, USA.
• 2000: Piat, F. ARTIST: A connectionist model of musical acculturation. 6th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), August 5-10, 2000, Keele University, UK.
• 2000: N. Tsapatsoulis, K. Karpouzis, G. Stamou, F. Piat and S. Kollias. A Fuzzy System for Emotion Classification based on the MPEG-4 Facial Definition Parameter Set. X European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) 5th-8th Sept 2000, Tampere, Finland.
• 2001: Piat, F. The Neural Network Model of Music Cognition ARTIST and Applications to the WWW. International Conference on Web delivering of music, WEDELMUSIC, Nov. 30th-Dec. 1st 2001, Florence, Italy.
• 2001: Piat, F. What connectionist models can learn from music. Operational Programmes for Research and technology: 2nd symposium on Human Networks of Music Informatics. Thessaloniki, June 1st 2001. (Invitation, Abstract)
• 2001: Piat, F. What connectionist models can learn from music. Mousikotropies. Aristotle University Thessaloniki - Greece, December 2001.
• 2002: D’Ausilo A., Piat F., Mastacchi A., Olivetti Belardinelli M. Salience as a fundamental cue to musical pattern recognition: a Parallel Distributed Processing approach. ICMAI'02 (2nd International Conference of Music and Artificial Intelligence), 12-15 September 2002, Edinburgh, Scotland.
• 2003: Bidel S., Lemoine L., Piat F., Artières T. and Gallinari P. Apprentissage de comportements utilisateurs de produits Hypermédias. Journées francophones d’Extraction et de Gestion des Connaissances. EGC 2003, Jan 22-24, Lyon, France.
• 2003: Bidel S., Lemoine L., Piat F., Artières T. and Gallinari P. Statistical machine learning for tracking hypermedia user behavior. 9th International Conference on User Modeling, UM 2003, June 22-26, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
• 2003: D’Ausilio A., Piat F., Londei A. and Olivetti Belardinelli M. Competitive vs feed-forward modelling of music recognition tasks. 5th ESCOM, 8-13 September 2003, Hanover, Germany.
• 2003: Gallinari P., Bidel S., Lemoine L., Piat F. and Artières T. Classification and tracking of hypermedia navigation patterns. 13th ICANN 2003, June 26-29, Istanbul, Turkey. (Invited)
• 2004: Piat, F. L'émotion musicale comme propriété émergente de la perception tonale dans un modèle connexioniste. Journées du CNA2 2004 "Musique et Emotions", Lille, 14-15 Mai 2004. Abstract
• 2009 : Teutsch P., Piat F. and Reffay, C. Anonymizing and sharing corpora of online training courses. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. Workshop "Interaction Analysis and Visualization for Asynchronous Communication" , CSCL 2009, Rhodes, Greece, June 2009, 6 p.
• 2014 : Piat F., Carlier F. and Renault V. De Nouvelles Interfaces pour Apprendre la Théorie de la Musique. Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication pour l'Enseignement, TICE 2014, Nov. 22-24, Béziers, France.

• 1999: NEuroNet Roadmap: First Report on the Use of Neural Networks and Other Computational Intelligence Techniques in Intelligent Multimedia Systems. S. Kollias, F. Piat and A. Drossopoulos, ICCS-NTUA, 3rd June 1999.
• 1999: NEuroNet Roadmap: Selected Applications - Neural Networks for Emotion Recognition. S. Kollias and F. Piat, ICCS-NTUA, 17th December 1999.