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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.

Research Staff

Postdoctoral Researcher

Charles PILLET
Charles PILLET
Topics: Error detection and correction

Research Assistants

Daniel NGUYEN
Daniel NGUYEN
Project: Reverse engineering of the XboxOne USB adapter for Guitar Hero Live

Current Students

Ph.D.

Diego Orlando BARRAGÁN GUERRERO
Diego Orlando BARRAGÁN GUERRERO (cosupervised with Prof. Ghyslain GAGNON)
Project: On Optimal Latency of Multi-Hop Transmission of Short Messages over Low-Traffic or Continuous-Transmission Links in AWGN Channels
 
Joel Poncha LEMAYIAN
Joel Poncha LEMAYIAN (cosupervised with Prof. Kaiwen ZHANG)
Project: Efficient PoWs for IoT Networks
 
Ilshat SAGITOV
Ilshat SAGITOV
Project: Energy-Proportional Polar Decoders
 
Homayoun SOHRABPOUR SHAFTI (cosupervised with Prof. Rachel BOUSERHAL)
Project: Prediction Models for a Radio-Acoustical Virtual Environment

Research Master’s

Gabriel HARDY (cosupervised with Prof. Kaiwen ZHANG)
Project: Towards flexible mining of cryptocurrencies
 
Alexandre LINTEAU (cosupervised with Prof. Frédéric NABKI)
Project: Routing Algorithm Accelerator for MESH Networks
 
Zidi NOUR (cosupervised with Prof. Lokman SBOUI)
Project: Localization in a Radio-Acoustical Virtual Environment
 
Gabriel OUAKNINE-BEAULIEU
Gabriel OUAKNINE-BEAULIEU (cosupervised with Prof. Rachel BOUSERHAL)
Project: Emulating a Radio-Acoustical Virtual Environment and Analysing its Added Value

Alumni

Postdoctoral Researcher

Lokman SBOUI, Professor at ÉTS, Canada

Research Assistant

Simon PICHETTE, EERS Global, Canada
 
Jean-François TÊTU, R&D Software Engineer at Jump Trading, USA
 
Louis-Charles TRUDEAU, R&D Hardware Engineer at Jump Trading, USA

Ph.D.

Ngoc NGUYEN THI THU, Microelectronics Designer, Dolphin Design, Canada
(Was cosupervised with Prof. Georges KADDOUM)
Project: Design and Implementation of Chaos-Based Random Number Generators for IoT Platforms [thesis]

Research Master’s

Marwa Tageldien Thabet ABDALLAH
Marwa Tageldien Thabet ABDALLAH
Project: Learning Framework for eCPM Prediction in Online Advertisement [thesis]
 
Tannaz KALATIAN
Tannaz KALATIAN, Software Engineer at ResQ, Canada
Project: Design and Implementation of a Enhanced Successive Cancellation Flip Decoder and Rapid SCF Execution-Time Estimation [thesis]
 
Amir Abbas MODIR
(Was cosupervised with Prof. Georges KADDOUM)
Project: Towards a New Generation of IoT based on Network Coding for the Industry 4.0 [thesis]
 
Huu My NGUYEN
Huu My NGUYEN, Software Engineer at Pason, Canada
Project: Forecasting the time series of eCPMs in online advertising [thesis]

Professional Master’s

Louis CLÉROUX (cosupervised with Prof. Kaiwen ZHANG)
Project: Key Distribution System Encryption for Secure International Transmissions
 
Jose Enrique SALAIS SIGALA
Project: Design of a macOS driver for the WiiU/PS3 USB adapter for Guitar Hero Live [gitlab]

Undergrad Internship

Daniel NGUYEN
Daniel NGUYEN
Project: Reverse engineering and design of a Linux driver for the PS4 USB adapter for Guitar Hero Live [report][github][kernel patch]
Project: Reverse engineering the autocalibration hardware of the Rock Band 3 Mustang Pro Guitar [report][github]
 
Gabriel OUAKNINE-BEAULIEU
Gabriel OUAKNINE-BEAULIEU
Project: Design of a Windows driver for the WiiU/PS3 USB adapter for Guitar Hero Live [report][github]