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.
Professional Experience
| Associate Professor, EE Dept., ÉTS, Canada | 2018 – present |
| Postdoctoral Researcher, TCL, EPFL, Switzerland | 2016 – 2018 |
| Research Assistant, EE Dept., ÉTS, Canada | 2014 – 2016 |
| Research Assistant, ECE Dept., McGill University, Canada | 2014 – 2016 |
| Consultant, various businesses and locations | 2004 – present |
| Research Professional, COMunity & LaCIME, ÉTS, Canada | 2009 – 2012 |
| Internships | |
| - ASIC Design Dept., Matrox (MGI), Canada | 2005 |
| - Multimedia Messaging System (MMS) Dept., Ericsson, Canada | 2004 – 2005 |
| - IT Service, ÉTS, Canada | 2003 |
Teaching Experience
| Lecturer, EE Dept., ÉTS, Canada | |
| - Software Development for Electrical Engineering (ELE216) | 2019 – present |
| - Digital System Design (ELE140) | 2007 – 2016, 2019 – present |
| - Algorithms (ELE440) | 2009 – 2010 |
| - Computer Graphics (ELE615) | 2008 – 2009 |
| Teaching Assistant, EE Dept., ÉTS, Canada | |
| - Digital System Design (ELE140) | 2006 – 2009 |
| - Computer Architecture (ELE340) | 2007 – 2008 |
| - Design Methodology (ELE400) | 2006 – 2008 |
Mentoring Experience
| Jean-Raphaël Poulin and Julien Lenseigne, final undergrad project at ÉTS | 2019 |
| Project: Development of an interactive display terminal | |
| Alex Jourdan, master student at EPFL | 2018 |
| Project: RTL Implementation of a LoRa PHY | |
| Juan Antonio Martín Galacia, master student at EPFL | 2018 |
| Project: Reverse engineering of the LoRa PHY | |
| Juan Guirado López-Puigcerver, exchange undergrad student EPFL | 2018 |
| Project: Hybrid ARQ scheme using in-band full-duplex LoRa | |
| Michiel Van Beirendonck, master student at EPFL | 2018 |
| Project: FPGA implementation of a Vertcoin Miner | |
| Laurier Loiselle, master student at EPFL | 2018 |
| Project: Validation based hardware design for image processing applications | |
| Nicolas José Gonçalves, master student at EPFL | 2017 |
| Project: Very high throughput polar decoder on APU for software-defined radio applications | |
| Thomas Verelst, exchange master student at EPFL | 2017 |
| Project: Implementation of a packet encoder/decoder pair in the GNU Radio framework | |
| Furkan Ercan, Ph.D. student at McGill | 2015 – 2016 |
| Thesis: Efficient Polar Code Decoder Implementations | |
| Seyyed Ali Hashemi, Ph.D. student at McGill | 2014 – 2016 |
| Thesis: Fast and Area-Efficient Polar Code Decoders |
Editorial Activities
| Associate Editor, IEEE Communications Letters | 2021 – present |
| Associate Editor, Elsevier Microelectronics Journal | 2016 – 2020 |
Technical Reviewer
| Journals |
| - IEEE Communications Letters |
| - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits |
| - IEEE Signal Processing Letters |
| - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I and II |
| - IEEE Transactions on Communications |
| - IEEE Transactions on Magnetics |
| - IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing |
| - IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems |
| - IEEE Wireless Communications Letters |
| - Springer Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering (ZUSC) |
| Conferences and Workshops |
| - IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP) |
| - IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS) |
| - IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communic. (PIMRC) |
| - IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) |
| - IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) |
| - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) |
| - IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) |
| - IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS) |
| - International Symposium on Turbo Codes & Iterative Information Processing (ISTC) |
Standardization Activities
| Reporter, 3GPP RAN1#88 Meetings | 2017 |