Simon-pierre Deschênes
Cofondateur Tessellate Robotics CTO
Quebec, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon-pierre Deschênes is a robotics-focused software engineer and cofounder/CTO of Tessellate Robotics, driving autonomy for off-road vehicles from Quebec with nine years of hands-on experience. He is a PhD candidate in computer science at Université Laval specializing in mobile robotics, 3D mapping and lidar-based localization, building on a master's and a software engineering bachelor's. His technical work includes maintaining and extending libpointmatcher—an ICP library used in robotics—where he fixed critical I/O bugs and added features and tests, showing deep familiarity with core mapping algorithms. He also teaches and develops course platforms and robotic systems for Laval students, translating research into practical education and tooling. Comfortable across research, open-source maintenance, and startup engineering, he combines rigorous academic grounding with product-minded execution in autonomy stacks. An understated strength is his repeated role as a bridge between students, research labs, and industry, accelerating technology transfer in perception for autonomous vehicles.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Université Laval
French, English
Github Skills (13)
matcher10
mat10
c-language10
lib10
3d-mapping10
cprogramming-language10
point-cloud10
lidar10
data-structure9
robotics9
data-structures9
algorithms9
ubuntu7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
norlab-ulaval/libpointmatcher
Jul 2018 - Jul 2021
An Iterative Closest Point (ICP) library for 2D and 3D mapping in Robotics
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 32 reviews, 80 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Simon-pierre primarily contributed to the core library by fixing bugs related to file input/output operations, particularly for VTK files and other file formats. They also added new features, like the DistanceLimitDataPointsFilter, which included creating its structure, adding tests, and documenting it, indicating an involvement in expanding the library's functionality. Their work encompasses modification and creation of core functionalities in the library.
roboticsclosesticppoint-cloudsiterative
norlab-ulaval/norlab_xsens_driver
Nov 2022 - Jun 2024
Driver for xsens IMUs compatible with ROS 2
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 7 months
imuimu-sensorroboticsros2
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