Prof. Abdelatif Merabtine has been a Professor in the Department of Construction Engineering at ÉTS since 2023. He holds an engineering degree from the École nationale polytechnique d’Alger in 2008, a master’s degree from the University of Paris-Ouest Nanterre in 2009, a doctorate from the University of Lorraine in 2012, and a Habilitation à diriger des recherches from the École normale supérieure Paris Saclay in 2021. His area of expertise is building science, with a focus on evaluating and improving thermal comfort in buildings, as well as optimizing the energy performance of HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) systems.
Prof. Wahid Maref is a professor at the Department of Construction Engineering École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), University of Quebec. He holds a Dipl. eng. of State from the National Polytechnic School of Algiers, a D.E.A. from Paris VI University, and a Ph.D. from the Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse. His research interests include building science and physics, modeling and digital simulation of heat and humidity transfers in buildings, Fluid Mechanics and CFD Modeling, systems analysis, energy performance, development of national and international building codes and standards, development, and design of test benches, experimental methods, procedures, etc.
Prof. Kun Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS). Before
joining ÉTS, he worked as a Research Scientist at CanmetENERGY, Natural Resources Canada, and as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). He has practiced in the industry as a building engineer for three years. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Polytechnique Montréal, the engineering school of Université de Montréal. His research interests include investigating next-generation modeling languages and tools, advanced controls, data analytics, and machine learning techniques and their integration into buildings and cities to improve energy efficiency, flexibility, and resilience.
Prof. Daniel Rousse received the B.Eng. and Master's degrees from Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Université de Montreal, Montreal, Canada, in 1985 and 1988, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from McGill University, Montreal, in 1994, all in mechanical engineering. He was then a Full Professor at Universite Laval (1995-2004), vice-president of development at Universite du Quebec in Rimouski (2004-2007), and director of development and special projects at the head office of Université du Québec (2007-2009). He is now a Full Professor at Ecole de technologie superieure, Universite du Quebec, Montreal, where he is the Director of the t3e Group. His research areas are sustainable and renewable energy, transfer, conservation, conversion, and production of energy, modeling of energetic phenomena, measurements in energy, energy efficiency in building and industrial processes, and ecoenergetic design.
Dr.
Adrian Ilinca is a professor in Mechanical Engineering at École de Technologie Supérieure. He was a professor, founder, and director of the Wind Energy Research Laboratory at Université du Québec à Rimouski. He completed a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal. His areas of interest are the aerodynamics and aeroelasticity of wind turbines, icing effects on wind turbines with anti-icing and de-icing techniques, and wind-diesel systems with compressed air energy storage.
Prof. Dr. Ricardo Izquierdo is a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS) in Montreal, Canada. He received his B.Eng., M.Sc.A., and Ph.D. in Physical Engineering from Polytechnique Montréal. He has participated in the creation of two institutional research centers. NanoQAM centers on nanomaterials and energy and is at the Université du Québec à Montréal; he co-directed this research center from 2007 to 2010 and focused on the development and application of nanomaterials for energy production and storage. CoFaMic centers on the codesign and fabrication of microsystems; he directed this research center from 2010 to 2017, and it is dedicated to the development of microsystems that can be used in a variety of applications, from medical devices to environmental sensors. His research focuses on the use of organic semiconductors and nanomaterials, such as carbon nanotubes and quantum dots, and their processing using printed electronic techniques.
