Damien Douxchamps was born in Bruxelles (Belgium) in 1975. He received his PhD Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Catholic University of Louvain in 2004. He has worked on several projects at the lab, including MODEST, art.live and I-WAKE. He is also working as photography and machine vision consultant for the Alterface company. He is active in the Linux community as main programmer of libvisca and the IIDC projects libdc1394 and coriander.

He is now invited researcher at the NAIST Image Processing Laboratory, Japan. His main interrests are machine vision 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. More odds and ends about Damien Douxchamps can be found on his personal page.