Damien Douxchamps was born in Bruxelles (Belgium) in 1975. He received his PhD Degree in electrical engineering from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) in 2004. He has worked on several projects at the lab, including MODEST, art.live and I-WAKE. He has also worked as photography and machine vision consultant for Alterface. He moved to Japan in 2004 where he worked as invideted researcher and assistant professor at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Image Processing Laboratory. He was also invited researcher at National Taiwan University (Hydrotech Research Insitute) in 2005-2006 and at ATR in 2006-2007. He is active in the Linux community as main programmer of libvisca and the IIDC projects libdc1394 and coriander.
He is now senior researcher at Cyberdyne, a startup of Tsukuba University specialised in robotic exoskeletons. His main interests include machine vision, robotics and ocean engineering. He is member of the IEEE Ocean Engineering Society.
When not on official duty, he can be found scuba diving, shooting pictures in remote places or hacking weird electronic devices and chunks of software. Up-to-date information can be found on his personal website.