Canadian citizen, living in Montreal, Quebec. Married with 3 children.
Email: michel.dagenais@polymtl.ca
Phone: (514) 340-4711 ext.4029
Fax: (514) 340-3240
Postal address:
Prof. Michel R. Dagenais
Dept of Computer Eng.
Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
P.O. Box 6079, Succ. Centre-Ville
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3C 3A7
B.Eng. Electrical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal
In 2001-2002, while on industrial leave, invited researcher at Ericsson Research Canada, to study the adaptation of the free Linux operating system for high performance and high availability computer clusters serving telecommunication applications.
In 1995-1996, on a one year leave of absence from Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, worked as Director of Software Development at Positron Industries, provider of 911 emergency call center telephony equipment for a few thousand cities across the world. Main architect for the next generation 911 emergency call management software. This mission critical, distributed, soft real time, fault tolerant, computer integrated telephony application accesses several remote databases.
Strong interest in computer engineering algorithms with applications in Distributed Systems, run-time support libraries, operating systems, and computer architecture. Past coordinator for the following courses:
Coordinator for the following undergraduate and graduate courses and projects:
Distributed Systems.
Performance analysis of runtime support libraries and operating systems.
Freely accessible archives for scholarly publishing.
Free and Open Source Software.
2003-2004 Computer Engineering Teaching award from the Polytechnique student association.
1996-1997 Computer Engineering Teaching award from the Polytechnique student association.
Co-founder in 1996, with Jacques Gélinas, of the Quebec Linux and Free Software user group.
1988-1989 Computer Engineering Teaching award from the Polytechnique student association.
I enjoy bicycling, skiing, hiking, river running and camping with the family and friends. Cooking and/or eating and building things are fun too.