Alasdair Newson
Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Full Professor, MAP5 lab, Université Paris Cité · British & French

Email: anewson 'at' isir.upmc.fr

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Professional experience

  • Sept. 2026 – present Full Professor
    Université Paris Cité (MAP5)
  • Sept. 2023 – August 2026 Lecturer
    Sorbonne Université (ISIR lab)
  • June 2018 – August 2023 Assistant Professor
    Télécom Paris (LTCI lab)
  • Jan. 2017 – May 2018 Postdoc
    Télécom Paris — Stochastic models for film grain synthesis
  • Sept. 2015 – Dec. 2016 Postdoc
    Université Paris Descartes — Stochastic models for film grain synthesis
  • May 2014 – June 2015 Postdoc
    Duke University — Background/foreground estimation in videos
  • Feb. 2010 – August 2010 Internship
    Technicolor R&I, Cesson-Sévigné — Logo removal algorithm & GPU parallelisation

Education

  • Feb. 2024 HDR, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
    “On Several Mathematical and Data-Driven Models for Image and Video Editing, Synthesis and Analysis”
  • Jan. 2011 – March 2014 PhD in image processing
    Technicolor & Télécom ParisTech — “On Video Completion: Line Scratch Detection and Video Inpainting in Complex Scenes”
  • Sept. 2005 – July 2010 Engineering diploma (Master’s), Computer Science
    Université de Technologie de Compiègne — Real-time and embedded systems
  • June 2005 French Baccalauréat (scientific section, mention bien)
    Lycée International de Saint-Germain-en-Laye

Academic exchanges

  • Feb. 2009 – July 2009 Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
    Six-month exchange, electronics and computer science
  • Feb. 2007 – July 2007 Fachhochschule Karlsruhe, Germany
    Six-month exchange

Languages & skills

Languages: Bilingual English–French; German (fluent); Spanish (beginner); Japanese (beginner).

Research domains: Image and video processing, computer vision, inpainting, statistical methods, variational methods.

Computing: C, C++, Matlab, Scilab, Ada, Python, VHDL, assembler, SQL, UML, Pascal, LaTeX, Excel, Word, PowerPoint.

Intercultural experience: Having lived in Great Britain, Canada, France, Germany and the United States, I enjoy discovering and adapting to new cultures and situations.

Awards and distinctions

  • ANR Jeunes Chercheurs Jeunes Chercheuses grant (starting October 2021)
  • Google best student paper award, CVMP 2013 (“Towards fast, generic video inpainting”)