Nabil Bouzerna

Responsible of all factors that govern the projects success to ensure delivery within time, cost, quality and risk parameters. Projects specifically focus on interaction with multimedia & multilingual contents for monitoring and intelligence purposes, with special emphasis on :

- MediaCentric® : Middleware & Data Exchange Architecture in order to provide cutting edge solutions based on the latest advances in open software design and integration,

- MediaView® : Multimodal Interfaces for ease accessing multimedia information.


Leads advanced Research and Development programs and projects around multimodal & multilingual analysis:

- PEAs (Advanced study programs for MoD/Direction Générale de l'Armement) :
> Large scale platform dedicated to the processing of audio flows of all kinds, from open sources (radio, television, podcast, etc...) to informal conversation, for monitoring and alert purposes ;
> Experimental OSINT platform dedicated to evaluation and benchmarking, according to technical and usability factors, of Open-source software, Commercial off-the-shelf software;
> Provider of processing services for video, audio, image and text for an OSINT platform : Data Acquisition (SAT, OTA, Web), Video Summarization, Face Detection & Recognition, OCR, Spoken Language Identification, Speaker Identification, Automatic Speech Recognition and Machine Translation;


- QUAERO (European R&D program / OSEO Innovation). Innovative developments with laboratories (RWTH, KIT, ...) in particular for the translation of vocal data. Provider of processing services for video, audio and text :
> Multimedia Data Acquisition (Web Mining),
> Face Detection & Recognition,
> Automatic Speech Recognition,
> Machine Translation.


- VIRTUOSO (European Union FP7 Security project). Provider of processing services for video, audio and text for an OSINT platform :
> Multimedia Data Acquisition Systems (Web & SAT),
> Automatic Speech Recognition,
> Machine Translation.

In charge of all factors that govern projects success to ensure delivery within time, cost, quality and risk parameters.

Collaborative work with R&D laboratories to improve AdvestiSEARCH™ features :
- monitor and control circulation of a copyrighted video without consent on UGC platforms
- detect plagiarism of a copyrighted text without consent over the web

Involved into R&D projects around multimedia processing :
- ANR PIITHIE (plagiarism detection),
- ANR RAFFUT (Automatic detection of infringing files on UGC sites),...

Innovative solution design to track piracy on video website sharing (UGC) such as YouTube, Dailymotion, MySpace, MetaCafe… based on Genetics Algorithm (GA) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques.

New features of AdvestiSEARCH™ an automated copyright protection service that enables digital content providers to monitor, assess and combat the unlawful distribution of protected content over networks.

Design & development of system to detect and prevent the unauthorized use and transmission of sensitive and confidential information in several fields such as :
- Payment accreditation / Credit card numbers : Visa, American Express, MasterCard, IBAN, SWIFT-ABA routing,
- Health : Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Medical result,
- Privacy information (PII, NPI) : Social Security Number, National identification number, Passport number,

Improvement of techniques for identifying confidential or sensitive information ranging from keywords, dictionaries, regular expressions and fingerprinting.

New features of AdvestiGUARD™ DLP system which allows :
- to protect intellectual and industrial property through the application of internal security measures,
- to conform with government security standards, whether international (Sarbanes-Oxley, ISO 17799) or national (Gramm-Leach-Bliley, HIPAA, Financial Security Law), PCI DSS (GIE Credit Card), Bale II, Directive UE 95/46/CE, CNIL,...

Specification writing of Infocenter BCI (data warehouse & data mining technologies).

System allows to reconciliate CRM data (Peregrine ARS on Oracle DB) with Nortel Networks PABX Telephony data from Sybase DB.

Training in Business Intelligence at Business Objects Center Training (ROLAP).

Design & development of statistical analysis software (decision support),data mining features and maintenance intervention manager (predictive analytics on breakdowns)

MS VB6 & MS Access

Founder and owner of an international firm specialized in sourcing of computing and consumables products in China.

TechniDesk is based on a unique concept : critical functions such as product development, tool design, production supervision, quality control, and logistics, are handled by TechniDesk's internal experts.

Production takes place at selected, certified Chinese factories, which provide machine capacity, operators, and shop-floor supervision.