PERSONAL
Name: Marc Belleau
Languages spoken and written : French
and English
Telephone : 935-4251
e-mail address: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Sept. 1973 - June 1976
Bachelor in Science – McGill University
. Honours Physics
Sept. 1976 - June 1978
Master in Electrical Engineering - McGill University
. Thesis Title: Optimal Quantizers in
Linear Predictive Coding of Speech
Sept. 1991 - June 1994
Bachelor in Science – McGill University
. Major Biochemistry
Laboratory experience
. to study the effect of solutions containing GABA receptor
agonists and
a potassium channel blocker on the spinal cord by recording electrical
activity with extracellular electrodes.
Sept. 1994 - Dec. 1998
Master in Science - Universite de Montreal
.Biomedical sciences
. Thesis Title:
Postnatal development of the electrophysiological
characteristics of nucleus accumbens neurons in rats
Laboratory experience
. to perfuse
brain fluids in artificial cerebro-spinal fluid and localize the
nucleus accumbens with a stereomicroscope.
. to find neurons
by the blind search technique with a glass electrode
filled with an intracellular-like solution and record their membrane
voltages.
. to estimate
the input resistance from the I-V curve and calculate the
membrane time constant, the peaks, widths and thresholds of the action
potential, as well as firing train parameters.
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
NSERC PostGraduate Scholarship, 1979
McConnell Scholarship, 1973
PUBLICATIONS
Some Spatial Factors Associated with Positron
Annihilation, G. Azuelos, M. Belleau, J.E.
Crawford, J.E. Kitching, Nuclear Instruments
and Methods, No.142(1977), pp. 491-493.
CONFERENCES
Electrophysiological aspects of postnatal
development of rat nucleus accumbens in vitro M.
Belleau, R.A. Warren (abstract at the
25th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience,
November 11-16, 1995.
Quantizers for Linear Predictive Speech
Coders, Marc Belleau and Peter Kabal, 9th
Biennal Symposium on Communications, Kingston,
Canada, August 28-30, 1978
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
Sept 1980-June 1991
Junior engineer at SR-Telecom Inc. (They sell a microwave radio
system interface to the telephone network.)
.
to expand
the control program written in custom-made assembler
language (600 lines) running on a processor built with discrete
logic.
. to design
a digital circuit for monitoring traffic in this older version
of the radio-telephone system.
Senior software engineer
. to supervise the work of a technician
up to 1989
.
to design the entire software
(written in Z80 assembler to
achieve real-time speed) for a new high capacity fixed point to
multi-point voice/data system was designed. (the master radio
station could allocate up to 60 PCM trunks, to subscribers
distributed among a maximum of 512 subordinate radio stations)
. to rewrite the
program in 8086 assembler (15000 lines) for
greater speed and slower uart-based application programs in C (10000 lines).
. to assist
three new software engineers
. to debug, document,
and re-design existing programs when
obvious conceptual flaws were detected.
. to render software more
robust for protection against hardware
breakdown and noise degradation
. to interface
the system to Ericsson's AXE digital switch
Jul.-Aug. 1993
Intern at Ste-Justine Hospital
.
to learn about the sterile techniques
involved in the handling of rat brain
cell cultures, and to get familiar with immuno-fluorescent microscopy
and radioactive EGF binding assays.
PERSONAL RESEARCH
January 1999-
. to partition a 5.1Gb
hard drive on a Pentium II PC with Windows95,
BEOS 4.5.2 and Linux RedHat 5.1 (kernel 2.0.34).
. to install Java 1.2.2 on the
Linux partition without a functioning
Java3D until the Mesa (OpenGL-like) facilities in the Linux package
are upgraded (otherwise, the applets can be displayed by
Netscape Communicator 4.51 for Linux) .
. to install on Linux
DHCP ethernet access and a WinAmp version
to hear MP3 audio files .
. to familiarize myself
with Java 1.2.2 including Java3D
on the Windows 95 partition .