Resume

Name		Francesc PINYOL i MARGALEF
Birth		8th August 1969, Reus, Catalonia, Spain
Sex		Male

Educational Background

4/1993-10/1998	Ph.D. thesis in the Signal Processing Laboratory (LTS) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland: "Three-dimensional Reconstruction of DNA Molecules from Stereoscopic Noisy Images". Spanish title: 4/2002.
9/1987-3/1993	Graduation in Telecommunication Engineering (communications), from ETSETB, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona.

Experience

2015-	Watchity Definition of general architecture of a cloud-base live video streaming platform: cloud resources management, backend, frontend, mobile apps. Participation in development of several modules: backend (Django, Django Rest Framework, PostgreSQL, CentOS Linux, Python: Celery, Fabric) cloud resources management (Python, Django, DRF, AWS: EC2, S3, CloudFront, CloudFormation, Route53, boto3) streaming platform (ffmpeg, GStreamer, WebRTC, Janus gateway, Snowmix, Nginx, FastCGI, bash)
12/2013-2015	Freelance Online cloud-based platform for live video distribution (MPEG-DASH, Django, Amazon Web Services, GPAC, ffmpeg, OpenStack) DVB-T capture, transcoding and streaming in real time on Raspberry Pi platform (Gstreamer) Web-based management platform for DVB EPG equipment (DVB, Django) IP injection of DVB AIT tables in DVB equipment (DVB, OpenCaster, iptables) Setup of RadioVIS server for RadioDNS (Flask, RabbitMQ, STOMP, Django)
7/2012-12/2013	Medialab Barcelona / dualStream, Barcelona Participation in projects: REST web application for mobile applications (Django, Apache, Android) MPEG-DASH live server (HbbTV, GPAC, C) DVB-T Digital Rights Managment (Django, Apache HTTP server, Marlin, OpenSSL) Computer cluster management (Jira, Confluence, Linux, Debian, Python, Mandriva Pulse2) Sports vibration platform development (Django, OpenSSL, Android, IOIO, Apache) Teaching: 2013-2014: Digital TV lab Digital video lab 2012-2013: Digital TV lab Digital video lab theory Mathematics 2nd Engineering: probability (2nd semester)
3/2006-7/2012	Centre of Digital Television, Departament de Tecnologies Mèdia - DTM,Enginyeria i Arquitectura La Salle, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona Scientific advisor in Digital TV area. Participation in 6th framework European projects: SUIT (DVB-T, RTP streaming, SVC, WiMax, C++) Portivity (MPEG Laser streaming, GPAC, C++) Participation in national projects: Tarifa (i2cat): Future internet Trilogy (P2P, MPEG-4 Scalable Video Coding) RAFFI (MHP, DNIe, VNC) Raudos, Raudos 2 Transgame (Linux, DVB tools) Phidias (SVC) i3Media (DVB-PCF) Participation in projects for companies: video transcoder (ffmpeg, Linux) digital certificates for DVB-T (HbbTV, OpenSSL) DVB-SI remuxing (XML, C++, MS Visual) Course on MPEG-4 Scalable Video Coding DVB reports EBU reports Participation in the organization of ICME 2011 (International Conference on Multimedia and Expo) Web chair Co-chair of Workshop on Hot Topics in Multimedia Delivery (HotMD 2011) Teaching: Director of a PhD thesis 2011-2012: exercises Calculus and Algebra 1st Architecture lab Multimedia Communications (MCDEM) 2010-2011: exercises Calculus and Algebra 1st Architecture lab Multimedia Communications (MCDEM) 2009-2010: exercises de Mathematics 2nd Engineering lab Multimedia Communications (MCDEM) 2008-2009: theory Calculus 1st Architecture
12/2002-3/2006	Inspecta, Bellaterra - Cerdanyola del Vallès Classification techniques for natural cork stoppers on wine bottles, according to their appearance (shapes and colour), and application to industrial machinery (C++, Matlab, OpenCV). Viability report fot the analysis and colour detection in cork disks for stoppers (Matlab).
4/2000-5/2002	R&D department. Intelligent Software Components (iSOCO). Sant Cugat del Vallès. WAP application. Integration with existing Delphi application (WML, Delphi, Java, Corba). Writing of documentation about WAP gateways. Electronic commerce application (WWW shop). Back-office for products catalogue database. Delphi GUI and database integration. Personal content (obtained from WWW) aggregation. Java programming (servlets) at HTTP protocol (SSL) level. Automatic personal authentication in sites. Information retrieval from obtained HTML code. Technical solutions and market possibilities exploration for interactive digital television applications. Writing of an internal presentation. Innovation department. Simulation techniques (special attention in those based on multiagents and artificial intelligence) and dedicated software study, for an European project about simulation of business models for multimedia content digital distribution. Writing an internal presentation. Innovation department.
11/1998-3/1999	Application of own detection and reconstruction algorithms to the reconstruction of filiform objects. Laboratory for Computation and Visualization in Mathematics and Mechanics, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
11/1998-3/1999	Responsible for analytical geometry exercices courses. Chaire de géometrie. Département de mathématiques. EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
4/1997-5/1997	Development of a demonstration of the future system "Teaching over WWW" (Java), Signal Processing Laboratory of EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
8/1996-10/1996	Development of an intranet utility to manage personal absences, using CGI (Java). Signal Processing Laboratory of EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2/1996-10/1998	Web master at Signal Processing Laboratory of the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
9/1992-3/1993	Diploma Thesis Work in Electrical Engineering in the Signal Processing Laboratory of the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. The subject of this work was: "Statistical modeling of hierarchical subband images by vector quantization and arithmetic coding" (C).

Other projects

Translation of Mageia Linux to catalan.

Training and courses

1/2015	"Eines i programari de reconeixement de textos manuscrits", CVC, Associació d'arxivers i gestors de documents de Catalunya, Barcelona (5h)
11/2002	"Consultoria acústica", Col·legi Oficial d'Enginyers de Telecomunicació de Catalunya, Barcelona. (12h)
10/2002	"Ràdio digital (DAB)", Col·legi Oficial d'Enginyers de Telecomunicació de Catalunya, Barcelona. (12h)
7/2002	"Infraestructures comunes de telecomunicació", Col·legi Oficial d'Enginyers de Telecomunicació de Catalunya, Barcelona. (12h)
3/2001-3/2002	"Programa d'especialització en xarxes i serveis de telecomunicació", Associació Catalana d'Enginyers de Telecomunicació, Barcelona. (136h)
9/2001	"El impulso de la televisión digital terrenal en España", Universitat Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Barcelona (15h)
4/2001	"Televisión interactiva", Recoletos Conferencias y Formación, Madrid. (16h)
2/2000	"Infraestructures comunes de telecomunicació", Associació Catalana d'Enginyers de Telecomunicació, Barcelona. (12h)
4/1996	"Traitement des signaux et images", EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2/1996	"IRIX administration", EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
3/1995-3/1996	"Communication Networks", post-graduate course in the Computer Science Departement of the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
7/1994	"EMBS-IEEE Biomedical Imaging", Ile de Berder, Brittany, France.
1/1994-12/1994	"Virtual Reality and Multimedia", post-graduate course in the Computer Science Departement of the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
10/1985-7/1987	"Computer Programming Course", Europe Company Corporation, Barcelona.

Society membership

IEEE	No. 02627990,
Associació Catalana d'Enginyers de Telecomunicació	No. 887

Computer skills

Operating systems	UNIX (Linux, IRIX), MS Windows
Computer platforms	PC, Silicon Graphics, SUN, Android
Languages	C, C++, bash scripts, Python, Java, HTML, PHP3, CGI, OpenGL, OpenCV, Inventor, Pascal.
Databases	MySQL/MariaDB
Office suits / Word processing	LibreOffice, OpenOffice, LaTeX, LyX, MS Office.
Cloud computing	Amazon Web Services
Others	Django, Apache HTTP server, OpenSSL
Version control	Git (github: cescp, GitLab: francesc.pinyol.m), Subversion, CVS

Language skills

Catalan	mother tongue.
French	very fluent, oral and written.
Spanish	very fluent, oral and written.
English	very fluent, oral and written.

Publications

Gonzalez, A. J., Martin de Pozuelo, R., German, M., Alcober, J., Pinyol, F.,
"New Framework and Mechanisms of Context-Aware Service Composition in the Future Internet,"
ETRI Journal, vol.35, no.1, Feb. 2013, pp.7-17. (RG)
Gonzalez, A. J., Martin de Pozuelo, R., German, M., Alcober, J., Pinyol, F., & Ghafoor, K. Z. (2012).
Enabling SCI-FI: Service-oriented Context-aware and Intelligent Future Internet. (RG)
Rovira, M,
"Transmission of videogames on hybrid platforms",
IV Congreso de Televisión Digital Interactiva, Palma (2011, November)
Gonzalez, A. J., Martin de Pozuelo, R., Pinyol, F., & Alcober, J. (2011).
In-Network Service Selection and Composition Based on User and Network Context.
In Euro-NF International Workshop on Traffic and Congestion Control for the Future Internet (pp. 3-4).
Gonzalez, A. J., Martin de Pozuelo, R., Alcober, J., Pinyol, F., & Ghafoor, K. Z. (2011, July).
Context-aware multimedia service composition using quality assessment.
In Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2011 IEEE International Conference on (pp. 1-6). IEEE. (RG)
Gonzalez, A. J., Martin de Pozuelo, R., Alcober, J., Pinyol, F., Gutierrez, A., & Monguet, J. M. (2011, June).
Costing framework for service-oriented future internet architectures: empowering requester's choice.
In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Future Internet Technologies (pp. 84-90). ACM. (RG)
E. Burgoa, M.Rovira, F. García, P. Arce, J. M. Quinteiro, E. Loizaga, J. Martinez, J.Tejada, M.Zorrilla, J. Lopez, C.Galicia, F. Pinyol, J.C. Guerri, J. V. Llácer, N.Martínez, J. Ágreda, A. Arrieta, D.Gonzalez, E. Martel, and V.Beviá.
"Raudos: Interactive multiplatform audiovisual delivery"
In Euro ITV, Tampere, Finland, 2010
F. Pinyol Margalef, M. Rovira, J.Borrell, and G. Fernandez Ubiergo,
"Media content management platform",
In Euro ITV, Tampere, Finland, 2010
F. Pinyol Margalef, M.Rovira Vall, A.Iborra Garcia, G. Fernandez Ubiergo, C. del Ojo Elias, D. Hernando, and T. Felguera,
"Usage of thin clients on stb for secure interactive applications",
In NEM Summit, Barcelona, 2010 (RG)
Francesc Pinyol Margalef, Alejandro López and Gabriel Fernández,
Frame-accuracy Synchronisation for Mobile TV Interactivity,
IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB), Bilbao, Spain, 13-15 May 2009 (RG)
J. Deigmöller, G. Fernàndez, A. Kriechbaum, A. López, B. Mérialdo, H. Neuschmied, F. Margalef, R. Trichet, P. Wolf, R. Salgado et al.
Active Objects in Interactive Mobile TV,
in Proceedings of the 15th International Multimedia Modeling Conference on Advances in Multimedia Modeling. Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009, pp. 224–226 (RG)
J. Deigmöller, G. Fernàndez, A. López, B. Mérialdo, H. Neuschmied, F. Pinyol, R. Trichet, P. Wolf, R. Salgado, F. Milagaia, S. Glaser, A. Duffy
Portivity: object based interactive mobile TV system
2008 NEM Summit Conference Proceedings, October 13-15, 2008, Saint Malo, France
pages 146-151, ISBN 978-3-00-025978-4
Prats, F.E.; Reguant, V.D.; de Pozuelo, R.M.; Margalef, F.P.; Ubiergo, G.F.;
Intelligent playout for the optimal IP distribution of H264 SVC/MDC services over broadband and broadcast platforms.
Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting, 2008 IEEE International Symposium on
March 31 2008-April 2 2008, Las Vegas, Page(s):1 - 5, ISBN: 978-1-4244-1648-6
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ISBMSB.2008.4536636 (RG)
Reguant, V.D.; Prats, F.E.; de Pozuelo, R.M.; Margalef, F.P.; Ubiergo, G.F.;
Delivery of H264 SVC/MDC streams over wimax and DVB-T networks
Consumer Electronics, 2008. ISCE 2008. IEEE International Symposium on
14-16 April 2008 Page(s):1 - 4, ISBN: 978-1-4244-2422-1
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ISCE.2008.4559440 (RG)
C. de Solà Fàbregas, F. Piñol i Margalef,
Adaptive predictive coding of ultrasound images
Proc. of the 11th Int. Symposium in Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, p. 1004, Berlin, Germany, June 25-28, 1997.
C. de Solà, F. Piñol i Margalef,
Applying JPEG compression to a Geometric Transformation of Ultrasound images,
Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBS96), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 31 - November 3, 1996 (RG)
Francesc Piñol i Margalef, Patrick Furrer, Murat Kunt, Jacques Dubochet
The Flying Cylinder: a New Algorithm for Filament Recognition in Noisy Stereo Images
Journal of Structural Biology, Vol. 116/1, pp. 25-29, January-February 1996. (RG)
V. Katritch, J. Bednar, P. Furrer, F. Pinol-i-Margalef, M. Kunt, A. Vologodskii, A. Stasiak, and J. Dubochet,
Determination of DNA persistence length by cryo-electron microscopy. Appendix: I. Persistence length of DNA molecules confined to the thin liquid layer. II. From stero-micrographs of DNA molecules to their reconstructed trajectories. Automatic procedure of filament recognition and its adaptation for the measurement of DNA persistence length.
Journal of Molecular Biology, 254, pp. 591-594, 1995.
Francesc Piñol i Margalef, Patrick Furrer, Jacques Dubochet
3D Reconstruction of DNA Molecules
Proceedings 15ème Colloque sur le Traitement des Signaux et Images GRETSI, Juan-les-Pins, France, p. 893, September 18-21, 1995. (RG)

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