Patrick Dubois

Engineering Summer Student

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Québec, Quebec, Canada

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About me
Data Scientist - Passionate Technologist and Change Agent
Education
- Université Laval
  1997 - 2001
  B.Sc. Electrical Engineering 4.0/4.33
  Activities and Societies: 1998-2000: Electronic Director (during 2nd year) and active member of GAUL (aerospace student group).
- Université Laval
  2005 - 2009
  M.Sc. Electrical Engineering
  • Master's thesis : Real-time FPGA Radiometric Calibration of an Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer.• Floating-point to fixed-point algorithm conversion using Matlab and VHDL-2008• Novel HW/SW FPGA co-simulation approach using SystemC
Experience
- Canadian Coast Guard
  May 1998 - Aug 1998
  Engineering Summer Student
- EXFO
  May 1999 - Aug 1999
  Engineering Summer Student
- JDS Uniphase
  May 2000 - Aug 2000
  Engineering Summer Student
  • DSP programming for a Dynamic Gain Equalizer Filter for DWDM optical networks.
- Telops
  Jan 2001 - Dec 2011
  • Electronics leader & architect of a 5 engineers team developing state-of-the-art IR cameras @ 1000 fps• Participated in the development of a patent-pending permanent real-time calibration method for IR cameras• Acting as senior electronic engineer and the technical reference for FPGA designs• Successfully transferred master's degree work into Telops HyperCam line of imaging spectrometer• Implementation of design re-use practices that increased productivity in the EE team • FPGA designer for Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometers.• Electronic architect for high performance data processing boards.• Design of an ultra stable optical wavelength reference (±0.2 ppm stability).• Implemented several new processes in a young company: Parts&Vendors (parts list manager), CVS (version control system), code re-use practices, bug tracker (Trac & Redmine).
  - Electronic Systems Engineer
    Dec 2008 - Dec 2011
  - Electronic Designer
    Jan 2001 - May 2010
- ABB
  Dec 2011 - now
  • Engineering Product Leader for the MB3000 and MBGAS-300 FTIR spectrometers product line, and FTIR core• System engineer in charge of the IR cameras subsystem in the PCW STDP† (cryogenic packaging of two 320x256 FPAs with optical filters 1 mm away from retina)†Polar Communications & Weather satellite mission Space Technologies Development Program
  - Data Scientist
    May 2022 - now
  - Senior Systems Engineer
    Dec 2011 - May 2022
Licenses & Certifications
- Generative AI with Large Language Models
  DeepLearning.AI, Amazon Web Services
  Jan 2024
  View certificate
- Introduction to Data Science in Python
  Courser
  Mar 2021
  View certificate
Honors & Awards
- Awarded to Patrick Dubois
  Winning team at the ABB Accelerator/Hackathon event - Mar 2025 Out of 170+ teams participating in the hackathon-style Accelerator event, our team won first place with the project "Multiwave AI Quote Assistant Powered by Knowledge Graph (GraphRAG)"
- Awarded to Patrick Dubois
  PAMA Employee Award 2024 ABB Dec 2024 Won this award with my teammates, for the creation of BoChat, an AI chatbot augmented with an internal R&D documents database to answer queries.
- Awarded to Patrick Dubois
  NSERC Industrial Post-Graduate Scholarship recipient NSERC Sep 2005 Thanks to a partnership with Telops, I was awarded a scholarship to go back to school to earn a master's degree with a project that eventually was integrated into Telops' products.