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François Leduc-Primeau
B.Eng., M.Eng., Ph.D.

Phone: (514) 340-4711 Ext. 2204 Fax: (514) 340-4078 Room: M-5023
Primary sphere of excellence in research
Information and Communication Technologies
Secondary sphere(s) of excellence in research
Modeling and Artificial Intelligence
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Research interests and affiliations

Research interests

Digital circuits and systems, telecommunication systems, hardware for deep learning, error-correction codes

Expertise type(s) (NSERC subjects)
  • 2504 Integrated circuits
  • 2507 Communications systems
  • 2519 Microelectronics
  • 2525 Wireless communication systems
  • 2701 Computer hardware
  • 2702 Computer systems organization
  • 2722 VLSI systems

Publications

Recent publications
Conference paper
Brown, S., Nadal, J., & Leduc-Primeau, F. (2023, September). Low-Activity Gallager-B LDPC Decoding [Paper]. 12th International Symposium on Topics in Coding (ISTC 2023), Brest, France (5 pages).

Biography

François Leduc-Primeau received the B.Eng. degree in 2007, the M.Eng. degree in 2010, and a Ph.D. degree in 2016, all in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of McGill University (Montreal, Canada). In 2016-17 he was a postdoctoral researcher at IMT Atlantique (Brest, France), and in 2018, he was a postdoctoral researcher at École de Technologie Supérieure (Montreal, Canada) and a lecturer at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). In 2019, he joined the department of Electrical Engineering of Polytechnique Montréal as an Assistant Professor.

His research work is at the crossroads between digital system design and telecommunications, with a focus on improving the energy efficiency of various digital systems used in signal processing and communications.

Education

Supervision at Polytechnique

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News about François Leduc-Primeau

NEWS | October 14, 2022
Polytechnique Montréal partners with Ericsson Canada and Montréal-based universities to improve 5G sustainability using AI | Read
NEWS | June 22, 2021
Discovery grants: Polytechnique Montréal obtains nearly $3,9 million for research programs | Read

Press review about François Leduc-Primeau

February 22, 2024, Québec Science, Solutions pour une intelligence artificielle moins énergivore François Leduc-Primeau, professeur au Département de génie électrique, explique que le développement de nouvelles puces électroniques plus efficaces rend la consommation d’énergie des grands modèles d’IA plus modérée.