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Strategic research: Professor Lahrichi and Professor Pal principal investigators of two of several IVADO-funded programs

December 17, 2021

Professor Nadia Lahrichi is Principal Investigator of an Institut de valorisation des données - IVADO supported program on human health and secondary use of data. Professor Christopher Pal is Principal Investigator of a program focused on artificial inte ...

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Professor Ke Wu elected member of Germany’s acatech academy

December 16, 2021

Full Professor Ke Wu (Department of Electrical Engineering), has been elected to the Deutsche Akademie der Technikwiessenchaften (acatech), the German Academy of Science and Engineering. ...

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Appointments to the CIRAIG management team

December 13, 2021

The International Reference Centre for the Life Cycle of Products, Processes and Services – CIRAIG announces the appointment of Sara Russo Garrido as Executive Director and François Saunier as Assistant Executive Director. ...

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Cybersecurity: Creation of a Research Chair in Supply Chain Resilience

December 9, 2021

Canada’s Polytechnique Montréal and France’s Institut de Recherche Technologique (IRT) SystemX are launching the CRITiCAL Chair for Cyber-Resilience in Transport Systems Infrastructures and Supply Chains. ...

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Autonomous cars on the roads... and drones in the skies

Before driving on our roads, each autonomous car will have to obtain a certification from Transport Canada, a step that’s only possible if cars are shielded from computer attacks. (Photo: Eschenzweig, license CC BY-SA 4.0). By putting in-car artificial ...

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Professor Samuel Yniesta wins Earthquake Engineering Research Institute Innovation Prize

December 8, 2021

Assistant Professor Samuel Yniesta, (Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering), has received the Shah Family Innovation Prize from the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI). ...

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Artificial Intelligence: a new Canada-CIFAR Chair in AI for Professor Foutse Khomh

December 7, 2021

Full Professor Foutse Khomh and his team from Polytechnique Montréal's Department of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering has been awarded a Canada-CIFAR Chair in IA. ...

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Willow Dew, seventh recipient of the Order of the White Rose

December 2, 2021

At a ceremony held with the presence of Danielle McCann, Québec’s Minister of Higher Education, Polytechnique Montréal’s university executive presented the seventh Order of the White Rose Scholarship to Willow Dew, a graduate of the University of Alberta& ...

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Activities commemorating December 6, 1989

November 30, 2021

Thirty-two years have passed since the anti-women attack that took the lives of 14 young women and injured 13 other individuals on December 6, 1989, at Polytechnique Montréal. To honour the memory of the victims of this tragedy, several commemorative acti ...

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Adam Schachner, Industrial Engineering Research Master's student wins Mitacs award

November 24, 2021

Adam Schachner received the Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation – Masters, at the eleventh annual ceremony of the national innovation body. ...

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AI – a potential helping hand for humanitarian aid

For the training of artificial intelligence tools developed by HEC Montréal and Polytechnique Montréal, images of disasters used- including those generated by the passage of Hurricane Matthew in the West Indies in 2016. (PHOTO: Haiti Hit by Hurricane Ma ...

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"Sciences & Médias": Web capsules to prepare researchers for interviews with journalists

November 18, 2021

How should you talk to journalists? What mistakes should you avoid, and above all, how can you ensure you're being understood? Viviane Lalande, an adept at making science accessible, offers answers to these and many more queries in a series of capsul ...

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Engineering Physics Professors Ludvik Martinu and Jolanta-Ewa Sapieha win NSERC Synergy Award for Innovation

November 17, 2021

Awarded in the “Two or More Companies” category, Full Professor Martinu and Associate Professor Sapieha received one of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council- NSERC's most prestigious honours, the Synergy Awards for Innovation. ...

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Biofabrication: contrôler la qualité des protéines… dès leur sortie de la cellule

By pairing a biosensor- like this one- with a bioreactor filled with cultured cells, Professor De Crescenzo wants to ensure that the quality of antibodies is monitored during the manufacturing process, rather than after its been completed. (Photo: Marti ...

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Professor Maksim Skorobogatiy named American Physical Society Fellow

October 27, 2021

Full Professor Maksim Skorobogatiy (Department of Engineering Physics), received the latter distinction in recognition of his outstanding contributions in the field of industrial and applied physics. ...

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Permafrost: learning to build on shifting soil

In the Far North, melting permafrost is disrupting the lives of thousands in their communities. (PHOTO: Wojtek Gajek, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences) At a time when the world is attempting to curb carbon emissions, the inhabitants o ...

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Professor Gilles Savard appointed Acting President of Polytechnique Montréal

October 1, 2021

Polytechnique Montréal’s Board of Directors today announced the appointment of Professor Gilles Savard as Acting President for a term beginning October 1, 2021, and ending January 7, 2022. Thereafter, he will become Interim President (as of January 8, 202 ...

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Professor Pierre G. Lafleur appointed President of the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAP)

September 16, 2021

Full Professor Pierre G. Lafleur, from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Director of the Bureau de l’amélioration continue des programmes at Polytechnique, was recently elected Chair of the CEAP because of his extensive knowledge of accreditation ...

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Mass produced hockey sticks… from braids!?

PhD student Maissaloun El-Jakl, who works in Professor Louis Laberge Lebel's laboratory, is developing part of a mass production-oriented braiding and pultrusion process for composite hockey stick handles. (Photo: Martin Primeau) Braided hockey sti ...

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Professor Catherine Beaudry elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

September 7, 2021

Full Professor Catherine Beaudry from the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering, is the first Polytechnique Montréal woman faculty member be elected to the Royal Society of Canada- and the institution's first professor to become a memb ...

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