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, in 2016.
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 at 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. From 2016 to 2018, I worked with Prof. Andreas Burg as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Telecommunication Circuits Laboratory (TCL), École 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. I was a Visiting Professor at Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität (RPTU), Kaiserslautern, Germany, in June 2025 and will be a Visiting Professor at ENSEIRB-MATMECA, Bordeaux INP, Bordeaux, France, in November 2025, and at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in March 2026. 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. Since August 2021, I have been serving as an Associate Editor for the Coding area of IEEE Communications Letters.
News & Travel
- Nov 2025: In Bordeaux, France, as a Visiting Professor at ENSEIRB-MATMECA, Bordeaux INP, working with Profs. Camille LEROUX and Christophe JÉGO.
- Oct 2025: Our paper that proposes partitioned successive-cancellation list flip decoding of polar codes with early stopping and fast restart mechanisms has been published in the Springer Journal of Signal Processing Systems.
- Jun 2025:
- In Kaiserslautern, Germany, as a Visiting Professor at Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität (RPTU), working with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Norbert WEHN and Claus KESTEL.
- Diego Orlando BARRAGÁN GUERRERO successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations Diego!
- May 2025:
- Our paper that proposes EVMx, an FPGA-based smart-contract execution engine, has been accepted for presentation at BlockDLT 2025. Poncha will be presenting that work at the conference next July.
- William MAGNAN joined the group as a research master student to work on the hardware design and implementation of a flexible cold wallet for multiple cryptocurrencies. Welcome William!
- Mar 2025: Our paper that proposes restart mechanisms for the successive-cancellation list–flip decoding of polar codes has been accepted for publication in the MDPI Entropy Journal.
- Jan 2025: Our paper that proposes a generalized restart mechanism for successive-cancellation flip decoding of polar codes has been accepted for publication in the Springer Journal on Signal Processing Systems.
- Dec 2024:
- Our paper that proposes new perturbation-based decoding algorithms for polar codes has been accepted for presentation at IEEE WCNC 2025. Charles will be presenting that work at the conference in March.
- Ilshat SAGITOV successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations Ilshat!