Fetal-Neonatal Neuroimaging & Developmental Science Center

Nicolas Rannou is a "Research Software Engineer" interested in providing creative and efficient solutions to real-world problems.

Education
He received his Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Signals and Images in Biology and Medicine at Universite de Bretagne Occidentale in Brest, France while completing his Engineer Diploma in Electronics and Computer Sciences at Institut Superieur de l'Electronique et du Numerique (ISEN) in Brest, France.
Nicolas graduated at ISEN after a six months internship at the Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. During this training, he implemented a module in "Slicer3D" (http://www.slicer.org) to correct the intensity inhomogeneities in MRIs.

Experience
After graduation, Nicolas worked for two and a half years in the Megason Laboratory, Harvard Medical School as "Junior Software Engineer". His work consisted in designing, developing, testing and distributing a cross platform application for large images visualization, segmentation and analysis.
He is currently a main developer of "The X Toolkit: WebGL for Scientific Visualization" (http://www.goXTK.com), a javascript based library for scientifc viualization.

His research interests include:

• Signal and image processing
   
• Algorithms and data structures
   
• Web-based technologies
   
• Open source