Samuel Pierre received the B.Eng. degree in civil engineering in 1981 from École Polytechnique de
Montréal, Québec, the BSc and MSc degrees in mathematics and computer science in 1984 and 1985,
respectively, from the UQAM, Montréal, the MSc degree in economics in 1987 from the Université de
Montréal, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1991 from École Polytechnique de Montréal.
From 1987 to 1998, he was a Professor at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières prior to joining the
Télé-Université of Québec, an Adjunct Professor at Université Laval, Ste-Foy, Québec, an Invited Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, then the Université Paris 7,
France. He is currently a Professor of Computer Engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal where
he is Director of the Mobile Computing and Networking Research Laboratory (LARIM), chairholder
of the NSERC - ERICSSON Chair in Next Generations Mobile Networking Systems and Director of
Mobile Computing and Networking Research Group (GRIM). His research interests include wireline
and wireless networks, mobile computing, artificial intelligence, and telelearning. He is a senior member
of IEEE and a member of ACM. He is a Regional Editor of the Journal of Computer Science, an Associate Editor of IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer
Engineering and IEEE Canadian Review, and serves on the editorial board of Telematics and Informatics
edited by Elsevier Science. He has received many distinctions, such as the Prix Poly 1873 for excellence
in teaching (2001 and 2005), Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada (2003), among others. He is a
Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (2008). In 2009, he has been awarded Chevalier de
l’Ordre national du Québec, “the highest distinction given by the Québec government.”