Born and raised in Montréal (Québec), François Grondin received his bachelor’s degree (’09) in Electrical Engineering from McGill University, and his Master’s degree (’11) and Ph.D. degree (’17) in Electrical Engineering from the Université de Sherbrooke. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in CSAIL for two years, and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering at Université de Sherbrooke since 2020. His current research mainly focuses on robot audition, which involves numerous challenges, that go beyond traditional far field speech recognition approaches, that typically combines signal processing, machine learning and embedded systems.