Researcher at Lift lab
Barcelona Area, Spain
- Current
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- Researcher at Lift lab
- Past
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- PhD student at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Associate at Simpliquity
- Research assistant at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Software Engineer at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland
- Research Collaborator at University of Geneva
- Quality Assurance Intern at Borland Software Corporation, CA, USA
- Education
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- Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Biel School of Engineering
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Fabien Girardin’s Summary
Researcher at Lift lab with a specific focus on the integration of ubiquitous technologies in urban environment and people practices. This implies the mixed application of engineering and scientific skills to understand, foresee and create the technological and social evolutions of contemporary cities.
I hold a PhD degree in Computer Sciences and Digital Communication from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. During my graduate studies I was also affiliated with the SENSEable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.
In addition to academic conferences, I have spoken and lectured in conferences and institutions such as Picnic, Lift, Yahoo!, Mobile Monday Barcelona, Villes 2.0, etc.
Fabien Girardin’s Specialties:
Engineering: fast-prototyping, development of urban data analysis, mapping and visualization systems, designing and building real-world mobile, geolocated, distributed and decentralized systems, software project management.
Science: statistics, qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, ethnography, reporting.
Fabien Girardin’s Experience
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Researcher
Lift lab
(Research industry)
May 2009 — Present (8 months)
Co-founder of Lift lab, a research agency that helps companies and institutions understand, foresee and prepare for upcoming changes triggered by technological and social evolutions.
Leading consulting and investigation works on the integration of ubiquitous technologies in urban environment and people practices. This implies the application of mixed engineering and scientific methods to understand, foresee and create the technological and social evolutions of contemporary cities. -
PhD student
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
(Educational Institution; UPF; Research industry)
October 2005 — June 2009 (3 years 9 months)
Studied the implications of the integration of location-aware technologies in urban environments. My research particularly focused on exploring aspects of human interactions with ubiquitous geographic information such as people strategies to cope with spatial uncertainty or the ability to infer individuals and groups time-space activities with respect to their privacy.
PhD Thesis title: "Aspects of implicit and explicit human interactions with ubiquitous geographic information"
Teaching assistant for the undergraduate courses on Software Engineering and Interface Design
In addition to academic conferences, I have spoken and lectured in conferences and institutions such as Picnic, Lift, Yahoo!, Mobile Monday Barcelona, Villes 2.0, etc. -
Associate
Simpliquity
(Research industry)
January 2006 — April 2009 (3 years 4 months)
Co-founder of Simpliquity, a Swiss Federal Institute of Technology spin-off that offers user experience consultancy in the domain of emerging technologies
Consulting in the domain of location-based services and urban informatics.
Team leader in the design and development of a mobility detection system for mobile phones to perform in-sitiu, context-aware experience sampling surveys on a world-wide scale. -
Research assistant
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Research industry)
February 2008 — December 2008 (11 months)
Coordination of a research project at the MIT SENSEable City Lab on the presence and movements of tourists in urban environments
Collection and analysis of real-time and historical aggregated spatio-temporal records to improve the understanding of different aspects of mobility, travel and tourism. -
Software Engineer
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)
November 2003 — October 2005 (2 years )
Member of the CRAFT, a learning technology lab, with a focus on technologies for collaboration.
Design and development of mobile, locative, and collaborative applications: CatchBob!, a pervasive game to study location awareness, and ShoutSpace a geographical messaging system for the EPFL community.
Development and administration of computer supported learning environments used by students and academics -
Research Collaborator
University of Geneva
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)
January 2003 — November 2003 (11 months)
Member of TECFA, the education technology unit at the Faculty of Psychology and Education of the University of Geneva, that develops and used tools to study socioconstructivist teaching and learning with the Internet.
Technology prospecting and prototyping of a next generation computer-supported collaborative learning system. Administration of community and educational portals for children and educators -
Quality Assurance Intern
Borland Software Corporation, CA, USA
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; BORL; Computer Software industry)
October 2000 — August 2001 (11 months)
Development and maintenance of test applications on many areas of interoperability, security and SOAP integration for CORBA distributed systems and J2EE applications servers
Fabien Girardin’s Education
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Universitat Pompeu Fabra
PhD , Computer Science and Digital Communication , 2005 — 2009
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Universitat Pompeu Fabra
M.Phil. , Computer Science and Digital Communication , 2005 — 2007
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Biel School of Engineering
BSc , Computer Science , 1998 — 2002
