José Manuel Fernandez, Department of Computer Engineering
Hired as a research assistant in January 2004, José Manuel Fernandez began teaching computer security and algorithm design in  September of that year. His short-term goal at Polytechnique is to strengthen research efforts into computer and software security already begun by some research groups. He also hopes to contribute to making the department a leader in IT security in Canada and around the world.

Benoît Barbeau, Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering Benoît Barbeau has worked at Polytechnique since 1997 as a research fellow with the NSERC Industrial Chair in Drinking Water, affiliated with the department. Starting next semester, he will be teaching two graduate-level courses, CIV 6208, "Design of Water Purification Structures," and CIV 6215, "Chemistry of Water and Advanced Treatments." His interests range from groundwater-vulnerability assessment to microbiological contamination and the impacts of climate change on drinking-water treatment facilities.

Christophe Caloz, Department of Electrical Engineering
Christophe Caloz worked from 2000 to 2004 as a research engineer at UCLA's Microwave Electronics Lab. In September he begins teaching the undergraduate course ELE 4500, "Passive Microwave Circuits," as well as the graduate-level course ELE 6501, "Microwave Circuit Analysis." He is planning to develop a graduate-level course on microwave and millimetre-wave applications for metamaterials, and also hopes to develop novel electromagnetic metastructures that incorporate ferroelectric materials and nanoferrites for microwave and millimetre-wave applications. Lastly, he is completing work on a book entitled Electromagnetic Metamaterials: Transmission Line Approach and Microwave Applications.

Jean-François Frigon, Department of Electrical Engineering
Jean-François Frigon was previously Senior Design Engineer and Director of Wireless Communications Systems for Los Angeles-based Innovics, from 2001 to 2003. He also worked as a graduate student researcher at UCLA. Next semester he will be teaching ELE 3702 and ELE1600, "Information and Telecommunications" and "Introduction to Electronic Circuits," respectively. His research projects involve the physical layer in wireless communications systems. He is specifically interested in multiple antenna techniques for improving performance of these systems.

Yves-Alain Peter, Department of Engineering Physics
Yves-Alain Peter is a former engineer and project head with the Swiss Centre for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM). He will be teaching the undergraduate courses PHS 4311, "Microsystems" and PHS 4310, "Microfabrication." He hopes to establish a strong base of research activity in microsystems at Polytechnique via development of the Microfabrication Laboratory (LMF). He will also be maintaining active collaborations with industry partners and orienting research toward tunable photonic devices.