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.
Funding
| Main Author | |
| ``Towards an Open Ecosystem for the Design Space Exploration and Autogeneration of Error-Correction Solutions’’, Discovery Grant, NSERC Canada | 2025 – 2030 |
| ``Vers la mise en oeuvre éconergétique de mécanismes de preuve du travail pour l’Internet des Objets’’, Research support for new academics, FRQNT Québec | 2020 – 2021 |
| ``Identification des variables d’influence et création d’un modèle prédictif restreint pour l’établissement du meilleur prix plancher pour de la publicité en ligne’’, Engage Grant, NSERC Canada | 2019 |
| ``Self-optimizing decoders for modern error-correcting codes that promote energy efficiency on the basis sufficient quality’’, Discovery Grant, NSERC Canada | 2018 – 2023 |
| ``Efficient Polar Encoding and Decoding for FPGAs’’, 2nd ORCA Open Call for Extensions, ORCA project funded by EU’s Horizon 2020 programme (PI: Andreas Burg) | 2018 – 2019 |
| ``Energy Proportional Decoding of Polar Codes for 5G with Variable Complexity Algorithms’’, Swiss NSF #175813 (PI: Andreas Burg) | 2017 – 2018 |
| ``Evaluation of the practicability of using parallel decoders for polar codes’’, Engage, NSERC Canada #558413 (PI: Warren Gross) | 2014 |
| ``Methodology and Platform for Power Efficient Wireless DSP Algorithm Implementations’’, GreenICT, Prompt (PI: Claude Thibeault) | 2009 – 2011 |
Awards
| ÉTS’ Board of Directors’ Award for Teaching Excellence | 2024 |
| Best Experimental-Demonstration Award at the IEEE CASS & Regroupement Stratégique en Microsystèmes du Québec (ReSMiQ) Innovation Day | 2015 |
| Financial support for conference participants from the Regroupement Stratégique en Microsystèmes du Québec (ReSMiQ) | 2014 |
| McGill University Graduate Research Enhancement and Travel (G.R.E.A.T.) Award | 2014 |
| Doctoral financial support scholarship from the Regroupement Stratégique en Microsystèmes du Québec (ReSMiQ) | 2010 |
| Doctoral research scholarship from the Fondation Universitaire Pierre Arbour | 2010 |
| Doctoral research scholarship from the Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies (FQRNT) | 2010 |
| Institutional M.Eng. scholarship from the École de technologie supérieure | 2007 |