Arnaud Lina
About me
I was born/grew up in: Limoges, France
I now live in: Montreal, QC, Canada
I completed my training/education at: Eng. school (Applied Math) in France, M.Sc.A Polytechnique Montreal, MBA in Montreal
What I do at work
Today I am a facilitator. I make sure researchers and developers have everything they need to make progresses in their respective projects.
My career path is
I was very manual, always building things with my hands, including electronic circuits. I was very visual and manual, and my studies were naturally oriented towards mechanical engineering. But at some point, I met with computer vision, and it gave me exactly this compromise between math, and building things from my hands (programming algorithms), and almost immediate and visual results.
I am motivated by
Working everyday with a group of brilliant problem solving oriented people.
How I affect peoples’ lives
Computer vision can be positively contributing to solving problems societies are facing. For example, computer vision systems are used into automatic sorting machines of wastes to improve efficiency of recycling process.
Outside of work I
I practice and teach Judo.
My advice to others
Explore and experiment.
- Art
- Math
- Science
- Technology
- Always wanted to be outside
- Played on a sports team
- Enjoyed working with my hands
- Liked being given free range to explore my ideas
- Was really creative
- Never wanted to be in the classroom
- Didn't really care about grades
- Always knew exactly what I wanted to do
- Liked to take things apart to see how they worked
- Liked to design or build things
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Let’s Talk Science recognizes and thanks Arnaud Lina for his contribution to Canada 2067.
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