Simon-pierre Deschênes
Cofondateur Tessellate Robotics CTO
Quebec, Quebec, Canada
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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
lidar10
3d-mapping10
point-cloud10
cprogramming-language10
data-structure9
robotics9
data-structures9
algorithms9
ubuntu7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
norlab-ulaval/ros2_tcp_tunnel
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Nodes that allow reliable TCP relay of ROS 2 topics between remote machines.
Contributions:37 commits, 44 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
rostcp
norlab-ulaval/percep3d_lessons
May 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:89 commits, 22 PRs, 77 pushes in 1 year
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