Pascal Giard, P.Eng., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Electrical
Engineering at École de technologie
supérieure (ETS), a member of
the Université du
Québec network.
I am actively looking for talented students interested in wireless communications, signal processing, and machine learning. Have a look at the Open Positions.
Biography
I received my B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Montréal, Canada, in 2006 and 2009, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from McGill University, Montréal, Canada.
From 2009 to 2010, I worked as a research professional in the NSERC - Ultra Electronics Chair in Wireless Emergency and Tactical Communications at ÉTS. From 2007 to 2016, I was a Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering, ÉTS. I also collaborated as a research professional in the Research Chair in Design Methodology for Highly Integrated and Reliable Hybrid Systems (CRICSH) at ÉTS from 2012 to 2016. Then, from 2016 to 2018, I worked with Prof. Andreas Burg as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Telecommunication Circuits Laboratory (TCL), Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.
I am currently an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department of the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Montréal, Canada. My research interests are in the design and implementation of signal processing systems with a focus on embedded systems, connected objects, and modern error-correcting codes.
I received the Best Experimental-Demonstration Award at the IEEE CASS & ReSMiQ Innovation Day 2015. I serve as a reviewer for several IEEE journals and conferences, and served as an Associate Editor for the Elsevier MicroElectronics Journal (MEJ) from 2016 to 2020. I am currently Associate Editor for the Coding area of IEEE Communications Letters.
News & Travel
- Jan 2024: Our paper that proposes a low-latency decoding solution of shortened polar codes based on their automorphism groups has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Communications Letters.
- Jul 2023: Our paper that explores the creation of LUT-based unrolled and pipelined decoders for polar codes has been accepted for publication at ITSC 2023. I will be presenting that work at the conference next September.
- Mar 2023:
- Our paper that proposes an early-detection scheme to reduce communications latency has been accepted for publication in the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.
- Our paper that introduces and investigates Partially-Symmetric Reed-Muller (PS-RM) codes, a family of polar codes yielding good performances under Automorphism Ensemble decoding, has been accepted for publication at IEEE ITW 2023. Charles will be presenting this work at the conference.
- Our paper that presents a simplfied restart mechanism for successive-cancellation flip decoding of polar codes has been accepted for publication at IEEE WCNC 2023. Ilshat will be presenting this work at the conference.
- Jan 2023: Gabriel OUAKNINE-BEAULIEAU joined the group as a Master’s student to work on the emulation of a Radio-Acoustical Virtual Environment and to analysing its added value, a project tied to the CRITIAS research chair.