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|name=François Germain|
|image=francois_germain.jpg|
|program=M.A. Music Technology (09/2009 - 08/2011)|
|supervisor=Prof. [[people:Philippe Depalle]], Prof. [[people:Marcelo M. Wanderley]]|
|website=http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~francois|
|email=francois [dot] germain [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca|
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Master's Thesis: Nonlinear modelling of analog synthesizers' effects

===== Academic background =====
  * **Preparatory classes in Mathematics and Physics**  at Lycée Fermat, Toulouse, France (09/2004 - 07/2006)
  * **Diploma from the Ecole Polytechnique** (Palaiseau, France) with Major in Communications, Signal Processing and Operational Research (09/2006 - 08/2009)

===== Conference poster =====
  * F. Germain and G. Evangelista, "Synthesis of guitar by digital waveguides: Modeling the plectrum in the physical interaction of the player with the instrument," in //Proc. of the IEEE Workshop on Applications
of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics// (WASPAA-09), 2009, pp.25-28.

===== Research interests =====
  * Instrument acoustics
  * Sound Processing

===== Other interests =====
  * Piano, Keyboard performance
  * Sports: soccer, basketball
  * Linguistics

===== Publications =====

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