Benoit Boulet
Director, McGill Engine Centre for Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Benoit Boulet, P.Eng., Ph.D., SMIEEE is Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University which he joined in 1998, and Director of the McGill Engine, a Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship Centre. He was Associate Dean (Research & Innovation) of McGill’s Faculty of Engineering from 2014 to 2020. Professor Boulet obtained a Bachelor's degree in applied sciences from Université Laval in 1990, a Master of Engineering degree from McGill University in 1992, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto in 1996, all in electrical engineering. He is a former Director and current member of the McGill Centre for Intelligent Machines where he heads the Intelligent Automation Laboratory. His research areas include the design and data-driven control of electric vehicles and renewable energy systems, machine learning applied to biomedical systems, and robust industrial control.
Ph.D. (Toronto); M.Eng. (McGill); B.A.Sc. (Laval); P.Eng. (OIQ)
Machine Learning and Control for an Intelligent Sustainable World
ECSE 211 Design Principles and Methods
ECSE 501 Linear Systems
ECSE 513 Robust Control
ECSE 303 Signals & Systems I
ECSE 304 Signals & Systems II
ECSE 493 Control & Robotics Lab
FACC 400 Engineering Professional Practice
William Dawson Scholar (2004-2014)
autonomous driving, robust reinforcement learning, data-driven robust control, design and control of electric vehicle drivetrains, fast charging of autonomous electric vehicles, automatic glucose control systems for diabetes, control of polymer forming processes
Supervision of typically 5-6 Ph.D. students and 3-4 M.Sc. students
Senior Member of the IEEE, Alternate Warden of the Corporation of Seven Wardens (Camp 2, iron ring ceremonies), President of Coronado Systems (consulting in control engineering and automation)