Simon Bozonnet was born in Oyonnax (France) in 1985. Simon Bozonnet obtained a diploma in electrical engineering from the INSA Lyon (France) -National Institute of Applied Sciences- in 2008 with specialization in Signal Processing in addition to a Master of Research in Images and Systems. As part of his studies he spent one year at KTH, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
He undertook his Master’s thesis at the CEA (Nuclear Energy Center, Bruyères-le-Châtel, France) where he worked on signal fusion and intelligent systems for source localization. In October 2009 he moved to EURECOM (Sophia Antipolis, France) and joined the Multimedia Communications Department as a Ph.D. candidate with TelecomParisTech. His supervisor is Nicholas Evans.
His research interests include multimedia indexing, and specifically speaker diarization. He participated in LIA-EURECOM’s recent submission to the NIST RT`09 evaluation and contributes his expertise in speaker diarization to the national ‘ACAV’ project which aims to improve web accessibility for the visually and hearing impaired. Simon Bozonnet is a student member of the IEEE for 3 years.
