Ruven Pillay
Research Scientist And Project Manager at Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region France
Summary
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SeniorRuven Pillay is a research scientist and project manager with 19 years of experience applying advanced imaging and computational methods to cultural heritage conservation. Based in Greater Paris, he leads projects at the Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France and coordinates international conservation science efforts through ICOM-CC. His hands-on expertise spans multispectral and hyperspectral imaging, colorimetry, high-resolution capture, and semantic web/databases, underpinned by practical programming in C/C++, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, and PHP. As a long-time project manager for IIPImage he has bridged research, open-source tooling, and museum workflows to make complex imaging data accessible and reusable. Colleagues describe him as someone who turns sophisticated imaging technologies into operational processes that directly inform restoration decisions.
19 years of coding experience
Github Skills (51)
tiff10
javascript10
high-resolution10
viewer10
low-memory10
image-processing10
image10
image-viewer10
image-server10
pdf10
linux10
iiif10
graphicsmagick10
ruby10
homebrew10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ruven/iipsrv
May 2007 - Jan 2023
iipsrv is an advanced high-performance feature-rich image server for web-based streamed viewing and zooming of ultra high-resolution images.
Contributions:3 releases, 2 reviews, 468 commits in 15 years 10 months
image-serverhigh-resolutionimage-processingjpeg2000tiff
ruven/iipmooviewer
Mar 2012 - Feb 2021
IIPMooViewer is an advanced javascript HTML5 image viewer for streaming high resolution scientific images
Contributions:152 commits, 8 PRs, 52 pushes in 9 years
image-viewerjavascriptimage-blendingiiif
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