Dr Pierre Dumouchel

Dr Pierre Dumouchel, B.Eng. (Université McGill), M.Sc., Ph.D. (INRSTélécommunications). Pierre is actually Scientific Vice-President at CRIM and full professor at the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) of Université du Québec. Pierre was the vice-president Research and Development of CRIM from 1999 to 2004. Before he was the Principal Researcher of the CRIM’s Automatic Speech Recognition team and a scientific columnist at Radio-Canada, the French Canadian National Radio. He has more than 23 years of expertise in Speech Recognition Research, six years in managing a research team and three years in managing the Research and Development unit of CRIM. His research has resulted in many technology transfers to such companies as Nortel, Locus Dialog, Canadian National Defence, Le Groupe TVA, as well as many SME, as such as Ryshco Media. His research interests are in search by transduction and automatic adaptation to new environment. He favoured applications of speech recognition for the hard-of-hearing and audio-visual film indexation. Father of four children, Pierre is able to manage to find time to conduct a philharmonic orchestra of 50 musicians. The Grand Orchestre de Châteauguay has played with popular singers such as Richard Séguin, Marie-Denise Pelletier, Johanne Blouin, Luce Dufault and Natasha St-Pier.