omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Éric Moulines. Éric Moulines (born in Bordeaux on 24 January 1963) is a French researcher in statistical learning and signal processing.  He received the silver medal from the CNRS in 2010, the France Télécom prize awarded in collaboration with the French Academy of Sciences in 2011. He was appointed a Fellow of the European Association for Signal Processing in 2012 and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2016. He is General Engineer of the Corps des Mines (X81).

Biography 
Éric Moulines entered the École polytechnique in 1981, then went to study at Télécom ParisTech.

He began his career at the Centre national d'études des télécommunications where he worked on speech synthesis from text. He is involved in the development of new waveform synthesis methods called PSOLA (pitch synchronous overlap and add).

After defending his thesis in 1990, he joined the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications as a lecturer. He then became interested in different problems of statistical signal processing. In particular, it contributes to the development of subspaces methods for the identification of multivariate linear systems and source separation and develops new algorithms for adaptive system estimation.

He received the authorization to direct research in 2006 and became a professor at Télécom Paris. He then devoted himself mainly to the application of Bayesian methods with applications in signal processing and statistics.

Éric Moulines directed 21 theses, was president of the jury for 9 theses, was rapporteur for 10 theses, was member of the jury for 6 theses.

Scientific work 
He is interested in the inference of latent variable models and in particular hidden Markov chains, and non-linear state models (non-linear filtering) In particular, it contributes to filtering methods using interacting particle systems. He was more generally interested in the inference of partially observed Markovian models, coupling estimation and simulation problems with Monte Carlo Markov Chain Methods (MCMC). He has also developed numerous theoretical tools for the convergence analysis of MCMC algorithms, obtaining fundamental results on the long time behaviour of Markov chains.

Since 2005, he has been working on statistical learning problems, including the analysis of stochastic optimization algorithms.

He joined the Centre de mathématiques appliquées de l'École polytechnique as a professor in 2015. He is interested in Bayesian inference from large scale models, with applications in uncertainty quantification in statistical learning.

Honours and awards 

 Elected member of the French Academy of Sciences in 2017
 CNRS Silver Medal in 2010
 Officier of the Palmes Académiques.

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Jean Salençon. Jean Salençon is a French physicist born on November 13, 1940. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and the French Academy of Technologies.

Biography 
An engineer with degrees from the École Polytechnique (X1959) and the École nationale des ponts et chaussées (1964), a doctor of science (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 1969), Jean Salençon was a professor at the École nationale des ponts et chaussées from 1977 to 1998 and a professor at the École polytechnique from 1982 to 2005. He has also taught at several prestigious schools and universities in France and abroad. He was non-resident Rector of CISM (Udine) from 2004 to 2012 and a member of several university or industrial scientific councils in France and abroad and of the Board of Directors of the Conservatoire national des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) from 2005 to 2011.

A member of the Academy of Sciences since 1988, he was its president in 2009 and 2010 and, as such, chaired the Institut de France in 2009. Jean Salençon is an honorary general engineer in the field of civil engineering and was a founding member of the Academy of Technology.

Scientific work 
Jean Salençon's research work concerns the mechanics of continuous media, the calculation of structures and civil engineering structures, and the irreversible behaviour of solid materials for industrial applications.

He was particularly interested in the irreversible behaviour of materials (plasticity, viscoelasticity and their industrial applications. He is the author of the theory of computation at break which he implemented for the first global computation of the bearing capacity of surface foundations on homogeneous or heterogeneous isotropic soils or anisotropic soils and also for stability analyses of earth and reinforced soil structures. In the case of foundations or structures subjected to seismic loads, the method is used for "pseudo-static" analyses. He also developed this theory in the probabilistic framework both from the point of view of material strength and stress and showed that it is the theoretical basis for ultimate limit state design (ULSD), which is incorporated in some current design regulations.

Honours and awards 
He is a member of the Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Technology, the Istituto Lombardo, Milan (foreign member), the Academia das Ciéncias de Lisboa (foreign member), the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (honorary member), the Academia europaea, the Hong Kong Institute for advanced study (Senior Fellow), the Montpellier Academy of Sciences and Letters (correspondent).

He is Commandeur of the Ordre de la Légion d'Honneur, Commandeur of the Palmes Académqiues and Officier of the Ordre du Mérite.

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Navin Doshi. Navin Doshi (born 1936) is an author, scholar, philanthropist, and co-founder of Nalanda International, a non-profit organization.

Early life and education 
Originally from Bombay, India, Doshi completed his undergraduate studies at the College of Engineering, Pune, and received his Bachelors of Engineering degree from the L.D. Engineering College of Gujarat University, before moving to the U.S. in 1958. In the U.S., Doshi attended University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, to complete his Master's in electrical engineering and then UCLA for his PhD program.

Career 
After his studies, Doshi started working as an aerospace engineer at TRW Inc. He started a bedspread business and made investments in real-estate and other financial instruments.
 
In 1999, Doshi with his wife, Pratima Doshi endowed the Doshi Chair of Indian History at UCLA and founded the Sardar Patel Award. In 2006, Doshi endowed a professorship for Indic traditions at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) which also gives a Bridgebuilder Award annually, jointly with Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts and the Department of Theological Studies. He is also a member of the LMU Advisory Board since 2009, the board of directors of South Asian Studies Association and on the board of directors of the Indic Foundation.
In 2020, Doshi created an endowment to support academic works of SASA and this endowment is attached to the Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology at LMU.

In 2012, Doshi established the Haridas Chaudhuri Chair in Indian Philosophies and Cultures and a Doshi professorship in Asian Art at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). In 2019, he established a chair on water and sanitation research, named after his parents, Kanchan and Harilal Doshi, at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar.
 
In 2019, Doshi received the Doctorate of Peace award from the Maharishi University of Management in Iowa.

Awards & Honors 
2023 Honored by the President and Board of Trustees of Maharishi International University for establishing The Doshi Center for Maharishi Ayurveda and Integrative Health.
2017    Exemplar Community Service Award presented by the board of directors of South Asian Studies Association (SASA), Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California.
2019    Doctorate of Peace Award from the Maharishi University of Management, Iowa City, Iowa.
2023    Honored by the President and Board of Trustees of the Maharishi International University for establishing the Doshi Center of Maharishi Ayurveda and Integrative Health.
2023    Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the Indo-American Senior Heritage Foundation, Artesia, California.

Books 

Saving Us from Ourselves, 2005 – 
Transcendence: Saving Us From Ourselves, 2009 – 
Economics and Nature: Essays in Balance, Complementarity and Harmony, 2012 – 
Light With No Shadow: My Life Bridging Two Cultures, 2016 – 
Gold Incarnate Sun Gold, 2019 –

Bibliography
South Asian Studies: Bridging Cultures, A Felicitation Volume to Celebrate the Life and Work of Navin Doshi, edited by Deepak Shimkhada, 2020 –

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John Baldwin (trade unionist). John Baldwin (16 August 1923 – 28 November 2007) was a British trade union leader.

Born in West Ham, Baldwin grew up in Basildon, where he was educated at Laindon Road Secondary School.  He joined the Royal Navy in 1938, later moving to serve in the Royal Marines, seeing action in numerous events from the Dunkirk evacuation to the D-day landings.  He left the Marines in 1948, and soon became a steel erector, joining the Constructional Engineering Union (CEU).

Baldwin came to prominence in the CEU, becoming a shop steward, and then a convener.  In 1957, he began working full-time for the union as an organiser, and in 1969 he was elected as its assistant general secretary.  In 1971, the CEU became the Construction Section of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (AUEW), retaining considerable autonomy.  He became general secretary of the section in 1976.  He was initially seen as a left-winger, and despite his commitment to the Labour Party, he was also supported by the Communist Party of Great Britain.  However, in 1980 he became frustrated with striking laggers on the Isle of Grain, and broke the strike by personally driving a bus through the picket line.  He also worked on a scheme to move bargaining on pay and conditions from the site level to the national or regional level, believing that this would increase union authority, while also reducing the number of industrial disputes.

In 1984, following disputes in the AUEW, the Construction Section became a core part of the union, and Baldwin became its National Secretary (Construction), serving until his retirement in 1988.  In 1978, Baldwin was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

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INS Beas (F137). INS Beas was a  of the Indian Navy. She was launched by Vickers-Armstrong Ltd at Newcastle upon Tyne in 1958 and completed in 1960. Beas served in the Battle at Mormugão harbour 1961 and during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. She was stricken by the INS in 1988 and scrapped in 1992.

Construction and design
In 1954, the British Admiralty ordered the sixth anti-aircraft frigate of the  for the Indian order as INS Beas.

She carried pennant number F137, in 1980s changed to F37.

Service

1971 war
Beas took part in amphibious landings at Cox's Bazar alongside her sister ship , landing divers in advance of the landing and providing gunfire support to the landings.

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Biodiversity reserves of Quebec. A biodiversity reserve of Quebec is a protected area established to promote maintenance of biodiversity in the terrestrial environment and more specifically to maintain representatives of the various natural regions of Quebec, Canada.
There are five biodiversity reserves in Quebec with permanent protection status.

Definition

The main difference from national parks is that there is no systematic development or establishment of service infrastructure or recreational or educational activities organized by the government. 
In addition, hunting and trapping activities, occupations such as vacationing and recreational activities such as hiking, biking, snowmobiling or motor boating are permitted. 
These are protected areas where, in general, only industrial activities exploiting natural resources are prohibited, while access and traffic are free.

Biodiversity reserves are managed by the Quebec Ministry of Sustainable Development, Environment, Wildlife and Parks.

Biodiversity reserve, along with aquatic reserve, is a status set up to provide Québec with a network of protected areas that must include representative samples of all types of ecosystems. 
This level of representation is determined by the Quebec Reference Ecological Framework, which ensures an adequate spatial distribution of protected areas in Quebec.

List of Quebec biodiversity reserves

Proposed biodiversity reserves 

The ministry has set aside several territories for the creation of future biodiversity reserves.
In general, this proposed status is valid for a period of 4 years. 
Some of the proposed biodiversity reserves protect areas that are under study with a view to creating national parks:

Albanel-Témiscamie-Otish]] (proposed park)
Anneaux-Forestiers
Baie-de-Boatswain
Basses-Collines-du-Lac-au-Sorcier
Basses-Collines-du-Lac-Coucou
Basses-Collines-du-Lac-Guernesé
Basses-Collines-du-Ruisseau-Serpent
Brûlis-du-Lac-Frégate
Brûlis-du-Lac-Oskélanéo
Buttes-du-Lac-Montjoie
Canyon-de-la-Rivière-aux-Rats
Collines-de-Brador
Collines-de-Muskuchii
Côte-d’Harrington Harbour (projet de parc)
Domaine-La-Vérendrye
Dunes-de-la-Rivière-Attic
Esker-Mistaouac
Estuaire-des-Rivières-Koktac-et-Nauberakvik
Fjord-Tursukattaq
Forêt-Montmorency
Grandes-Piles
Hirondelle
Îles-de-l’Est-du-Pipmuacan
Îles-du-Kiamika
Kangiqsujuaq
Lac-Berté
Lac-Dana
Lac-Gensart
Lac-Ménistouc
Lac-Némiscachingue
Lac-Onistagane
Lac-Pasteur
Lac-Plétipi
Lac-Saint-Cyr
Lac-Sérigny
Lac-Taibi
Lac-Wetetnagami
Marais-du-Lac-Parent
Massif-des-Lacs-Belmont-et-Magpie
Montagne-Blanches
Montagne-du-Diable
Mont-O’Brien
Mont-Sainte-Marie
Monts Groulx
Opémican 
Paakumshumwaau-Maatuskaau
Paul-Provencher
Péninsule-de-Ministikawatin
Plaine-de-la-Missisicabi
Plateau-de-la-Pierriche
Quaqtaq-Kangirsuk
Réservoir-Decelles
Rivière-de-la-Racine-de-Bouleau
Rivière-Delay
Rivière-Vachon
Ruisseau-Niquet
Seigneurie-du-Triton
Sikitakan Sipi
Station-de-Biologie-des-Laurentides
Tourbières-Boisées-du-Chiwakamu
Vallée-de-la-Rivière-Godbout
Vallée-de-la-Rivière-Maganasipi
Vallée-de-la-Rivière-Natashquan (projet de parc)
Vallée-Tousignant
Wanaki
Waskaganish

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Mary Ann Weitnauer. Mary Ann Weitnauer (née Ingram and also published as Mary Ann Ingram) is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Georgia Tech, known for her research on optical communication, radar, wireless networks, and smart antennas.

Weitnauer graduated from Georgia Tech in 1983, and completed her Ph.D. there in 1989. She joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 1989, after completing her doctorate. At Georgia Tech, she was ADVANCE Professor of Engineering from 2006 to 2011.

Weitnauer was a visiting professor with Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, from 2006 to 2008, and with Idaho National Laboratory, in 2010. 

In 2017, Weitnauer was given Georgia Tech's Class of 1934 Outstanding Service Award. In the same year, the Radio Club of America gave her their Vivian A. Carr Award "for outstanding achievements by a woman in the wireless industry".

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Kori Inkpen. Kori Marie Inkpen (also published as Kori Inkpen Quinn) is a Canadian computer scientist specializing in human-computer interaction at Microsoft Research. A consistent theme of her research has been the interaction of children with computers.

Inkpen is a 1992 graduate of Dalhousie University,
and completed her Ph.D. in 1997 at the University of British Columbia (UBC).
At UBC, she credits Maria Klawe and a project led by Klawe on educational electronic games for sparking her interest in human-computer interaction and encouraging her to continue in academic computer science. Her dissertation, Adapting the Human-Computer Interface to Support Collaborative Learning Environments, was jointly supervised by Klawe and Kellogg S. Booth.

After postdoctoral research at the University of Washington, she was a faculty member at Simon Fraser University from 1998 to 2001 and at Dalhousie University from 2001 to 2007 before joining Microsoft in 2008.

In 2017 the Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society gave her their CHCCS/SCDHM Achievement Award "for her many contributions to the field of human-computer interaction, especially her work on collaboration technologies".

References

External links

A Conversation with the CHCCS 2017 Achievement Award Winner: Kori Inkpen, Microsoft Research

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John Kenneth Hulm. John Kenneth Hulm (4 July 1923, Southport, UK – 16 January 2004) was a British-American physicist and engineer, known for the development of superconducting materials with applications to high-field superconducting magnets. In 1953 with George F. Hardy he discovered the first A-15 superconducting alloy.

John K. Hulm received his undergraduate degree in 1943 from the University of Cambridge and then worked on radar development until the end of WWII. After the war he returned to Cambridge and received his PhD in 1949 with a thesis on the thermal conductivity of superconductors. His thesis advisor was David Shoenberg. At the University of Chicago, Hulm was a postdoc from 1949 to 1951 and an assistant professor from 1951 to 1954.

In 1954 he became employed at the Westinghouse Electric Corporation research laboratory in Pittsburgh. There he assembled and led a research team dealing with the physics of materials, especially superconductors. He was promoted in 1956 to manager of
the lab’s Solid State Physics Department and in 1960 to associate director, Material Science, with several departments under his management. He spent the rest of his working career at Westinghouse.

In the 1960s Hulm took on more managerial and engineering duties. For the two years 1974 and 1975 on a leave of absence from Westinghouse, he was the science attaché at the U.S. Embassy in London. He returned to Westinghouse as manager of the Chemical Sciences Department. In the 1980s he was director of corporate research and R&D planning. He retired in 1988. In 1989 he accompanied Mildred Dresselhaus to Japan to evaluate that country’s superconductivity research. During his career he was the author or co-author of about 100 scientific papers.

In 1948 Hulm married Joan Askham. Upon his death he was survived by his widow, four daughters, a son, and six grandchildren.

Awards and honours
 1964 — John Price Wetherill Medal (shared with Howard Aiken, John Eugene Kunzler, and Bernd Matthias)
 1979 — American Physical Society International Prize for New Materials (shared with John Eugene Kunzler and Bernd T. Matthias)
 1980 — Member of the National Academy of Engineering
 1988 — Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Selected publications

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Karl W. Reid. Karl W. Reid (born in 1963) is an American writer and engineer, and the first Chief Inclusion Officer of Northeastern University after serving as the longtime chief executive officer of the National Society of Black Engineers. Dr. Reid previously worked on new program development at the United Negro College Fund, as  Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in various roles at IBM.

Early life and education 
Reid was born in the Bronx and grew up in Roosevelt, New York. His parents were committed to his education and Reid attended a magnet school. He was an undergraduate student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied materials science and was a Tau Beta Pi scholar. He was a member of the National Society of Black Engineers whilst at MIT. He joined as a freshman and was elected National Chairperson in 1984. After graduating with a master's degree in 1985, Reid joined IBM where he worked in product management and consulting.

Research and career 
After reading Jonathan Kozol's book Savage Inequalities Reid was inspired to bring positive change through education. After twelve years in the computer industry Reid returned to his alma mater, working on education programs for underserved communities in the United States. Whist working at MIT Reid completed a doctorate degree at Harvard University that looked at the relationship between race, identity and academic attainment. He was made head of the Office of Minority Education at MIT and also served as Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education.

Reid wanted to work on project at a national scale, so moved to the United Negro College Fund (UNCF). At UNCF he controlled the development of new programs as Vice President of Research and Innovation. The United Negro College Fund supports the United States' 37 historically black colleges and universities.

As of 2014, Reid has served as Executive Director of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). At NSBE Reid works to end the underrepresentation of black people in engineering courses. He was awarded the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring in 2003. He hopes that there will be 10,000 black undergraduate engineers in the United States by 2025. He established the 50K coalition, a collaborative of the NSBE, the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers and the Society of Women Engineers, that looks to end the underrepresentation of minority students in engineering.

Awards and honours 
In 2018 Reid was awarded the Transformer Award from the Black Alumni of MIT. He was also awarded the American Association of Engineering Societies Kenneth Andrew Roe Award, which recognises efforts to promote unity between engineering societies.

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Brigitte Jaumard. Brigitte Jaumard is a computer scientist and expert on mathematical programming. She earned a doctorate in 2006 from ENSTA ParisTech under the supervision of Michel Minoux, after previously teaching at Polytechnique Montréal. She is a professor of computer science and software engineering at Concordia University, where she is the holder of an Honorary Concordia Research Chair in Optimization of Communication Networks.

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