Biography

Pierre Dumouchel, born in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University, as well as a Master's and a Doctorate degree in Telecommunications from the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS). He joined the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) as a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering in 1995, following which he transitioned to the Software and Information Technologies Engineering Department, which he helmed for nearly three years before his appointment as Director-General. He also founded and managed the Master's program in Information Technologies Engineering program from 2005 to 2011. He became ÉTS Director-General in February 2014.

Previously, Pierre Dumouchel served as Vice-president, Research and Development, and Vice-President, Scientific Affairs, at the Centre de recherche informatique de Montréal (CRIM); he was also principal researcher of the CRIM's Speech Recognition team, and a scientific columnist on Radio-Canada's Les années lumière.

His research interests focus on artificial intelligence, in particular in speech recognition for subtitling applications, speaker verification for electronic eavesdropping applications and emotion detection for health and call centre applications.