I am Jérémy Lecoeur, prononciation: /ləkɶʁ/ – Le: e like e in the, coeur: c like k, oeur like urr in purr.
I was born in France in 1980 in the beautiful city of Caen, in Normandy. I grew up there, spending my childhood on the D-day beaches and exploring the castle of William the conqueror (one of the oldest in Europe).
That’s also where I went to college to earn my DEUG (1st french college diploma) in Natural Sciences, then a licence and a master in Computer Science at the University of Caen. I moved to Rennes, Britanny, in France, for my PhD at INRIA (French national institute of research in computer science and automaton) under the supervision of Dr. Christian Barillot.
I arrived in Nashville in February 2010 to join Benoit Dawant’s Medical Image Processing lab at Vanderbilt University to broaden my area of research: from segmentation of MRIs (my thesis) to image guided surgery and registration problems in very high resolution images. I also taught CS251 (Intermediate Software Design) during Spring semester 2011.
I joined the Section of Biomedical Image Analysis at the University of Pennsylvania in April 2012 to work on high angular resolution diffusion imaging in autistic and schrizophrenic patients under the direction of Ragini Verma.
I am a big fan of ice hockey : go Predators !.