François Pomerleau

François Pomerleau began his research career by collaborating with the Canadian Space Agency and the European Space Agency whilst studying computer engineering at the University of Sherbrooke. He obtained his master’s degree from the same university in 2009, following a one-year stint at EPFL (Switzerland), where he worked on a prototype autonomous car. He completed his PhD at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) in 2013, during which time he took part in several robotic deployments in uncontrolled environments, including with European fire brigades and in Alpine lakes. Following technology transfer work at Alstom Inspection Robotics and a stint at Laval University, he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada to continue his research at the University of Toronto in mobile robotics. He continued his technology transfer work as a postdoctoral researcher at Laval University in the Robotics Laboratory and collaborated with the company Robotiq on the development of Industry 4.0. Since September 2017, he has been a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Laval University.