• Renewable energies: photovoltaic and wind
• Power electronic converters
• Electric machines and variable speed drives
• Electrical power quality

Intelligent control and smart energy management techniques combined with technological advances have enabled the deployment of new operating systems in many engineering applications, especially in the domain of transport and renewable resources. Indeed, the control and energy management of transportation and renewable resources are shifting towards autonomous reasoning, learning, planning and operating. As a result, these techniques also referred to as autonomous control and energy management will become practically ubiquitous soon.

Professor. Specialist in the design, control and engineering of autonomous and non-autonomous hybrid microgrids.

Research interests:
• Microgrids (autonomous and non-autonomous)
• Control
• Power management
• Power electronics
• Energy storage
• Drives of electrical machines
• Electric vehicles
• Power quality
• Artificial intelligence

Since 2004, Mohamed Mohamedi has been a Professor at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Centre for Energy, Materials and Telecommunications. His research interests are in electrochemical technologies that encompass materials, fundamentals, and prototypes for applied research related to energy storage and conversion, including:

– Nanostructured multifunctional catalysts for direct alcohol fuel cells

– Advanced self-supporting catalysts for rechargeable Zn-Air batteries

– Environmentally friendly hybrid supercapacitors using both charge storage mechanisms in double-layer electrochemical capacitors (EDLCs) and metal oxide-based pseudocapacitors.

– Energy sources of implantable enzymatic biological fuel cells for medical applications

– Numerical simulation and fabrication of microfluidic energy systems

-Electrochemical sensors for diabetes detection and monitoring

Since 2019, Mihaela Cibian has been a professor in the Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Physics at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR), and a researcher at the Hydrogen Research Institute (IRH). Her research interests focus on artificial photosynthesis, specifically solar fuels, and energy conversion applications for sustainable development. Her research program proposes the use of Smart (Chemistry) Tools and Strategies (S(C)TS) to develop compounds and molecular and/or hybrid systems, as well as research methods, with pre-integrated regeneration, self-protection, and self-correction characteristics. She is also interested in applying strategic planning to an integrated research-education approach at the university level.

Thermal energy systems: My core research area is in thermal-fluids in sustainable and low-carbon energy technologies. Carbon-free thermal energy sources, such as solar and nuclear, paired with technologies using high temperature (>400°C), heat transfer fluids, such as molten salts and synthetic oils, are promising alternatives that could achieve high thermal efficiencies. Examples include molten salt solar receivers, thermal energy storage, Generation IV nuclear reactors, and salt-cooled fusion reactors. Improving thermal-hydraulics analyses and predictions is crucial in order realize major safety, reliability, and economic breakthroughs in these technologies.

I focus on advanced experimental and applied computational methods for radiative heat transfer in high temperature heat transfer fluids. My group’s research involves developing methods to measure the thermal radiation absorption and scattering optical properties of high temperature fluids, developing and carrying-out lab-scale experiments to investigate the mechanisms governing the interaction between radiation and convection in volumetrically heated fluids used in solar and nuclear applications, and using the experimental data to develop computational and analytical models to improve system efficiencies.

Research areas:

• Data science (data mining, knowledge representation, artificial intelligence in general and machine learning in particular)
• Computer security
• Internet of Things (IoT) and its applications to: Smart Health, Smart Homes, Smart Cities, Smart Industry and IT system resilience
• Transformative experiences with the paradigms of augmented/virtual/mixed realities, IoT and AI.

Mr. Issa is a specialist in the field of renewable energy, marine electric propulsion and power distribution, with a doctorate in engineering from the University of Quebec in Chicoutimi (UQAC), and a master’s degree from the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières (UQTR). He held the position of Director of Research and Development at AMH Canada from 2006 to 2012 and is a Research Associate at the Cégep de Rimouski (his CCTT) Innovation Maritime (IMAR), since April 2018.

Professor Issa is currently leading research projects related to the maritime industry (electric propulsion and green ports) and on the field of renewable energy and control systems based on artificial neural networks. Author of nearly 35 scientific publications in peer-reviewed international journals and a dozen chapter of books all over the world, Mr. Issa is a professor at the Maritime Institute of Quebec and an associate professor at UQAR. He co-supervises nearly 10 students at the Masters and PhD levels in connection with his research activities.

Built on 9 years of experience as an industrial researcher at Alcan International Ltd and on 17 years in academia (7 yrs in mechanical engineering at Université de Sherbrooke (UdS) and 10 yrs in chemical and biotechnological engineering at UdS), the expertise of Pr. Martin Désilets covers mainly 2 domains: 1- thermal diagnostic and simulation of electrochemical reactors and 2- development of reduced models for process control purposes. His recent contributions in the numerical simulation of electrochemical systems helped to understand transport phenomena inside various engineering applications like aluminium reduction process, alumino-thermal reduction of niobium oxide, electro-reduction of CO2, production of metallic lithium or lithium ion batteries. His management experience with technological transfer is regularly used to help his R&D partners to design and optimize their production facilities.

Assistant professor at the Université du Québec at Trois-Rivières (UQTR) in the department of mechanical engineering, Marie Hébert received her Ph.D. in Mechanical and Mechatronics engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2020. She developed her expertise in mechatronics and fluid dynamics. As a member of the Hydrogen Research Institute, she is actively involved in projects for the electrification of various vehicles with fuel cell systems. Her research interests include multiphysics systems, modelling, fuel cell systems, fluid dynamics, control, optimization of fluid supply, and microfluidics. She was awarded the Mechanical engineering medal in 2016 from Concordia University and has been the recipient of several scholarships such as the Nanofellowship from the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, and the Canada Graduate Scholarships – Doctoral (CGS D) from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

Project manager at the Innovative Vehicle Institute, Marc-Antoine Legault is a mechanical engineer and holds a master’s degree in robotics from the Université de Sherbrooke. He has been responsible for numerous research projects related to electric vehicles, applied, among other things, to high-capacity, high-voltage Li-ion tractive battery technologies. He also established a research group on autonomous vehicle technologies within the IVI. His field of expertise also extends to multiphysics simulations, the emulation of complex “hardware-in-the-loop” systems for the aeronautics industry and also the safety of Li-ion batteries. He also has a great interest in innovation management and the management of multidisciplinary R&D teams.

Dr. Mohsen Kandidayeni is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UQTR. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Quebec, Trois-Rivières (UQTR) in 2020. He has held positions as a postdoctoral researcher at Université de Sherbrooke and a research associate at the Hydrogen Research Institute of UQTR.

Dr. Kandidayeni’s research focuses on renewable energy, particularly hydrogen applications in transportation. His work includes health management of fuel cell systems, energy management of hybrid vehicles, and control of PEM fuel cells and electrolyzers. He has published around 65 journal and conference papers and received numerous awards, including the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award at UQTR in 2020 and scholarships from FRQNT.

He is a member of IEEE and has been Chair of Electric Vehicles, Vehicular Electronics, and Intelligent Transportation at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) since 2022.

Dr. Maha Bhouri has been an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering at the Université du Québec à Rimouski since August 2023. Prior to this position, she spent three years as an assistant professor, a teaching-focused position, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She received her PhD in energy and materials sciences from the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, followed by two postdoctoral fellowships at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR-Stuttgart) and Dalhousie University. His research interests focus on the development of solid hydrogen storage systems and thermal energy storage systems with the objective of accelerating the energy transition in Canada.

Dr. Maha Bhouri has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Engineering at the University of Quebec at Rimouski since August 2023. Before joining this position, she spent three years as a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She earned her PhD in Energy and Materials Sciences from the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières, followed by two postdoctoral fellowships at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) and Dalhousie University. Her research interests focus on advancing the clean energy transition through the development of solid-state hydrogen storage systems and thermal energy storage systems.