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Research interests and affiliations

Research interests
  • Digital systems design, configuration and programming
  • Reconfigurable systems (FPGA, microcontroller)
  • High Level Hardware Description Languages (HDL)
  • Fast, safe and simple design of digital architectures
  • Hardware In the Loop (HIL)
  • Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) at 10GBE, 40GBE and 100GBE
  • Digital systems appliances
  • Artificial Intelligence, neural networks are their implementations
Expertise type(s) (NSERC subjects)
  • 2514 Digital signal processing
  • 2704 Distributed and parallel processing
  • 2719 Computer architecture and design
  • 2722 VLSI systems
  • 2800 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Computer Vision, use 2603)

Publications

Recent publications

Biography

Jean Pierre David received his degree in Electrical Engineering (specializing in electronics) from the University of Liège (Belgium) in 1995. His final year project involved the development of a MIDI interface using optical sensors to measure the speed at which piano keys were pressed in order to deduce their velocity.

He then worked for a year as a researcher at the Integrated Devices and Electronic Circuits (DICE) laboratory at the Catholic University of Louvain. In the context of the PSVA project (Prosthesis for Substitution of Vision by Audition), he designed and built a portable system capable of capturing an image from a video camera and converting it into a sound composed of 640 sine waves, whose amplitudes varied in real time based on the image received by the camera.

He then became a teaching assistant and began a Ph.D. on reconfigurable systems (FPGAs). In addition to his research, he developed numerous mixed analog-digital projects for his students, notably for the design of robots.

He defended his doctoral thesis in June 2002 and was awarded the title of Doctor of Applied Sciences from the Catholic University of Louvain. In August 2002, he became a professor at the University of Montreal, in the Laboratory for Analysis and Synthesis of Ordered Systems (LASSO). Since January 2006, he has been a professor at Polytechnique Montréal. In June 2013, he was promoted to Associate Professor. He has been a Full Professor since June 2021.

Jean Pierre David is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a member of the Microelectronics and Microsystems Research Group (GR2M), and a member of the Québec Strategic Microelectronics and Microsystems Network (ReSMiQ).

Supervision at Polytechnique

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News about Jean Pierre David

NEWS | February 25, 2021
NSERC Alliance Grants: Polytechnique Montréal ranks first, winning 24% of all funds awarded to Québec universities | Read
NEWS | February 24, 2021
50 Polytechnique Montréal researchers among the top 2% most cited in their respective fields | Read

Press review about Jean Pierre David

February 16, 2020, La Presse, Étudiants honorés Quelque 145 étudiants du collégial et 50 élèves du secondaire ont relevé des défis proposés par le Département de génie de Polytechnique Montréal les 7 et 8 février 2020. Selon Yves Goussard, directeur du Département de génie électrique de Polytechnique, « La mobilité durable pose plusieurs défis. Au cours des prochaines années, la société aura besoin d’un nombre croissant d’ingénieurs électriques bien outillés et en mesure de proposer des solutions innovantes ». On constate que le génie électrique est méconnu alors que le Québec a besoin d’ingénieurs électriques et qu’il y aura des défis passionnants à relever dans le domaine au cours des prochaines années », explique de son côté Jean-Pierre David, professeur agrégé au Département de génie électrique de Polytechnique et organisateur du concours.
October 20, 2018, Le Devoir, Est-ce que l'IA fonctionnera un jour avec aussi peu d'énergie qu'un cerveau humain? L'expertise de Jean Pierre David, professeur agrégé au Département de génie électrique de Polytechnique Montréal