Dr. Lopes obtained his PhD from McGill University in 1996. He was an Associate Professor at Federal University of Para, Brazil, from 1996-2001. In 2002, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2002 at the rank of Associate Professor and has been a Professor since 2013. His present research interests are power electronics and distributed power generation.
He was a member of the NSERC Solar Buildings Research Network, leading subproject 3.2.a entitled “Development of Interconnection Technologies for Grid-Connected PV Systems”. He was a technical representative for Canada in Task 11 “PV Hybrid Systems within Mini-grids” of IEA-PVPS and the lead author of the report “PV Hybrid Mini-grids: Applicable control Methods for Various Situations.” Dr. Lopes is a Member of the international advisory board of Efficacity, French Urban Energy Transition Institute, since February 2018. He is also a member of the Administration Board and of the Academic Committee of the Institut en Génie de l’Énergie Électrique (IGEE). Dr. Lopes has supervised to completion 9 PhD students, 31 Master of Applied Science students and 95 Bachelor (final year capstone project) students. He has published about 40 journal papers and more than 130 conference papers.Dr. Lopes is a member of the Ordre des Ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ) and a senior member of the IEEE.

Loïc Boulon received the master degree in electrical and automatic control engineering from the University of Lille (France), in 2006. Then, he obtained a PhD in electrical engineering from University of Franche-Comté (France). Since 2010, he is a Professor at UQTR and he works into the Hydrogen Research Institute (Full Professor since 2016).
His work deals with modeling, control and energy management of multiphysics systems. His research interests include hybrid electric vehicles, energy and power sources (fuel cell systems, batteries and ultracapacitors). He has published more than 120 scientific papers in peer-reviewed international journals and international conferences and given over 35 invited conferences all over the word. Since 2019, he is the world most cited authors of the topic “Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC); Fuel cells; Cell stack” in Elsevier SciVal.
In 2015, Loïc Boulon was general chair of the IEEE-Vehicular Power and Propulsion Conference in Montréal (QC, Canada). Prof. Loïc Boulon is now VP-Motor Vehicles of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and he found the “International Summer School on Energetic Efficiency of Connected Vehicles” and the “IEEE VTS Motor Vehicle Challenge”. He is the holder of the Canada Research Chair in Energy Sources for the Vehicles of the future.

Pragasen Pillay (F’05) received the bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Durban, South Africa, in 1981 and 1983, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA, in 1987.,He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, where he is the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada/Hydro-Québec Senior Industrial Research Chair, Montreal, QC, Canada. In 2017, he was an Honorary Professor with the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.,Dr. Pillay was a recipient of the 2015 IEEE IAS Outstanding Achievement Award.

Youmin Zhang is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering, Concordia University, Canada. His research interests are in the broad areas of monitoring, diagnosis and fault-tolerant control, guidance, navigation and control of unmanned systems and smart grids with integration of wind and solar renewable energies towards smarter (autonomy), safer (safety), more reliable (reliability), and more resilient (security) operations against physical faults and cyber-attacks, and with applications to forest fires and smart cities by combining with remote sensing techniques. He has published 8 books, over 600 journal and conference papers. Dr. Zhang is a Fellow of IEEE and CSME, and has been selected as World’s Top 2% Scientists. He has been an Editor-in-Chief (EIC), Editorial Advisory Board Member and Associate Editor of several journals, including as an Associate Editor of “IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics”, “IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks & Learning Systems”, “IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems – II: Express Briefs”, “IET Cyber-systems and Robotics”, “Unmanned Systems”, a Board Member of Governors and Representatives for Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, and a Deputy EIC for “Guidance, Navigation and Control” etc. He has served as (Honorary) General Chair, Program Chair of several unmanned systems, renewable energies, and smart cities relevant conferences.

Assistant Professor, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Networked control systems, distributed control, multi-agent control, game theory.
Data security and privacy for smart infrastructures.
Autonomous systems, mobile robotics.

Research interests:

• Energy

Research areas:

• Power converters modeling and high density packaging
• Electric drive simulation (real-time and offline)
• Power converters real time simulation on FPGA
• Measurement and prediction of power converters EMI performances

Research topics

Energy Storage, Industrial and Power Electronics, Electricity Conversion and Distribution, Transportation Equipment, Electrical Networks.

Research disciplines

Electrical Engineering and Electronic Engineering.

Research areas:

• Energy

Expertise:

• Electrical machines and drives
• Simulation and control of electrical networks
• Dynamics and stability of electrical networks
• Hybrid sources of electrical energy

Research Interests:

Primary Research Theme: Combustion and Energy Systems
Research Lab/Group: Alternative Fuels

The development of technologies that do not rely on fossil fuels is a major challenge facing society today. Our research program is aimed at the development and validation of models for the combustion properties of alternative and sustainable (bio-derived) fuels through a complementary experimental, computational, and analytical modeling approach. We are also investigating flames of a mixture of solid and gaseous fuels, combustion in heat recirculating burners for Stirling engine generators, the vaporization properties of biofuel/petrofuel blends, and the reaction of metal-water mixtures for hydrogen production.

Qingsong Wang received her B.Sc. degree in Automotive Engineering from Jilin University, Changchun, China, in 2012, her M.Sc. degree in Automotive Engineering from Tongji University, Shanghai, China, in 2015, and her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, in 2018. Between July and September 2017, he was a visiting research associate at WEMPEC, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the École de technologie supérieure – Université du Québec, Canada. From 2018 to 2019, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; from 2019 to 2021 he was a Professor at Coventry University, Coventry, UK. His research interests include electrical machines and wireless power transfer, with applications in electrified transportation and renewable energy systems. He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles in journals and conference proceedings. He is an associate editor of the journal IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification and a senior guest editor of Energies.

 

Gaixia Zhang holds the Marcelle-Gauvreau Research Chair in Engineering at the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Montreal, Canada. She received her Ph.D. from Polytechnique Montréal and then continued her research at Western University and INRS, Canada. His research interests focus on advanced materials (catalysts, electrodes, and electrolytes) for sustainable energy devices and systems, including batteries, fuel cells, green hydrogen production, and_CO2 reduction. She is also interested in interface and device engineering, as well as in-situ characterizations and theoretical simulations. She has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including Nature Sustainability, Energy Environmental Science, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Angew. Chim. Int. Ed., ACS Energy Letters, and more. She is the author of 10 book chapters and holds 4 U.S. patents (along with industry) related to batteries and fuel cells. She is among the top 2% of scientists in the world.

Gaixia Zhang is a Marcelle-Gauvreau Engineering Research Chair Professor at École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Montreal, Canada. She received her Ph.D. degree from Polytechnique Montréal, and then continued her research at Western University and INRS, Canada. Her research interests focus on Advanced Materials (catalysts, electrodes, and electrolytes) for Sustainable Energy Devices and Systems, including batteries, fuel cells, hydrogen production, and CO₂ reduction. She is also interested in interface and device engineering, as well as in-situ characterizations and theoretical simulations. She has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles in top journals including Nature Sustainability, Energy Environmental Science, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., ACS Energy Letters, etc. She has authored 10 book chapters and holds 4 US patents (with industry) related to batteries and fuel cells. She is among the world’s top 2% scientists

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).

Abdeldjebar Hazzab completed his degree in State Engineering (1995), Magister (1999) and Doctorate (2006) at the University of Science and Technology of Oran in Algeria, all in electrical engineering. Since May 01, 2023 he has joined the Centre for Research and Innovation in Energy Intelligence (Cr2ie) in Sept-Îles as a researcher, he participates in the development of Cr2ie’s research projects. From October 01, 2023 to date, he has been an Associate Professor at the École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS) in Montreal. From July 01, 2022 to October 01, 2023 he was Visiting Professor where he contributes to the development of research in GRÉPCI. From April 4, 1999 he held the position of Assistant Professor, in February 2006 he became a Lecturer, in November 2011 he had the rank of Professor at the University of Bechar in Algeria. He has taught several modules in electrical engineering. He has held several administrative and scientific positions at the university. Director and founder of the CAOSEE research laboratory 11/2009 to 04/2022. Project manager of 05 research projects related to AI. He has supervised more than 43 doctoral theses and 40 master’s theses. Author of nearly 135 scientific and technical publications and 04 chapters in books. He has extensive experience in the energy field, particularly in renewable energy, advanced control, power electronics, industrial computing, AI, microgrids, smart grids, energy storage, and industrial energy efficiency.

Dr. Ruelland designed a simulator of electric railway networks to size power equipment and evaluate train performance. As a train control engineer, he developed an expertise in RAMS (Reliability Availability, Maintenability, Safety) of electronic systems during his work to extend and renovate the Montreal metro. He is the author of articles on the energy optimization of railway networks for the IEEE and for the AQTr.

Dr. Ruelland has been a lecturer in electric transportation at ÉTS since 2016. Since 2022, he has been a teacher at Cégep Limoilou in electrical engineering technology. He participates in research efforts in the field of community resilience. The aim is to propose new software or hardware means to support a community in the event of an energy failure, while taking decarbonisation into account.

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.

A chemical engineer by training, David holds a master’s degree and a doctorate in lignocellulosic materials science and engineering from UQTR. During his studies and his research position at Innofibre, he developed an expertise in the chemical modification of cellulosic fibers and the development of biomaterials. His research focuses on the use of lignocellulosic fibers and biomass valorization in several sectors of activity such as pulp and paper, protective packaging, construction, water treatment, printed electronics and batteries.

Chemical engineer by training, David holds a master’s and a doctorate in science and engineering of lignocellulosic materials from UQTR. During his studies and his research position at Innofibre, he has developed expertise in the chemical modification of cellulosic fibers and the development of biomaterials. His research focuses on the use of lignocellulosic fibers and the valorization of biomass in several sectors such as pulp and paper, protective packaging, construction, water treatment, printed electronics, and batteries.

Nassim Noura is a substitute professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR). He obtained his master’s degree in France at the University of Lille in electrical engineering and his Ph.D. at UQTR also in electrical engineering around hydrogen hybrid vehicles. His research interests are focused on the energy management of hybrid systems, energy source modeling and real-time multi-objective optimization. Nassim Noura is piloting, within the RQEI, the management agreement for the structuring of research in green hydrogen and bioenergy with the Energy Squad and the Government of Quebec.

Daria C. Boffito is a professor of chemical engineering at Polytechnique Montréal. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Electrification of Intensified Processes and Catalysis (EPIC). She has received Canadian and international awards, including the Emerging Leader Award from the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering (2019). In 2014, she was awarded the NSERC Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. Professor Boffito is one of the executive editors of Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, the leading scientific journal in this field. She also serves on the editorial boards of Mechanochemistry and Tetrahedron Green Chem. In addition to sonochemistry, her research areas include process intensification, biomass conversion, heterogeneous catalysis (and photocatalysis), CO₂ conversion, and the recovery of critical metals from end-of-life streams. Professor Boffito collaborates with several Canadian and international companies in the fields of process intensification, gas-to-liquid technologies and metal extraction.