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
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Charles PILLET |
Topics: Error detection and correction |
Research Assistants
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Daniel NGUYEN |
Project: Reverse engineering of the XboxOne USB adapter for Guitar Hero Live |
Current Students
Ph.D.
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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 |
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Joel Poncha LEMAYIAN (cosupervised with Prof. Kaiwen ZHANG) |
Project: Efficient PoWs for IoT Networks |
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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 |
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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
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Marwa Tageldien Thabet ABDALLAH |
Project: Learning Framework for eCPM Prediction in Online Advertisement [thesis] |
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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] |
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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
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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] |
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Gabriel OUAKNINE-BEAULIEU |
Project: Design of a Windows driver for the WiiU/PS3 USB adapter for Guitar Hero Live [report][github] |