Francois Pomerleau, Senior Member, IEEE, received a Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from ETH Zurich (Switzerland) in 2013 and the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Université de Sherbrooke in 2009. He has been a professor at Université Laval since 2017. His research interests include 3D reconstruction of environments using laser data, autonomous navigation, search and rescue activities, environmental monitoring, trajectory planning, and scientific methodology applied to robotics. Prof. Pomerleau is a Professional Member of the Order of Engineering of Quebec (OIQ), a Member of the Strategic Center of Distributed Intelligent and Shared Environments (REPARTI), and the director of the Northern Robotics Laboratory (Norlab).