People

Team

Jean Provost, Ph.D., ing.

Professor, Department of Engineering Physics. FRQS Research Scholar. IVADO Professor. Member of the Montreal Heart Institute, the UdeM/Poly Biomedical Engineering Institute, IVADO, TransMedTech, the CIHR College of Reviewers, IEEE (Senior), and the Verasonics Scientific Advisory Board. Professor at Polytechnique Montréal since 2018; teaches GBM3805 Physique Moderne pour le Génie Biomédical and PHS3910 Techniques Expérimentales.

Jonathan Porée, Ph.D.

Research Associate, Head of our TransMedTech mobile ultrasound imaging and therapy platform. The platform offers on-site development and deployment of ultrafast ultrasound imaging and therapy tools, tailored to the specific needs of researchers and manufacturers. His research interests are broad but mainly focus at this time on the development of Myocardial Ultrasound Localization Angiography in the beating heart and Transcranial Ultrasound Localization Microscopy. Fellowships by IVADO, TransMedTech.

Stephen A. Lee, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Scientist. Main research interests include simulations and single capillary reporters, and how they can be used to enhance our understanding of neurovascular processes in neurodegeneration and stroke.

Nin Ghigo, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Scientist. Main research interests include pulsatility imaging and industrial/governmental collaborations.

Paul Xing

Ph.D. Candidate. Main research interests include transcranial imaging and aberration correction. Scholarships by NSERC, FRQ, TransMedTech.

Oleksandra Gulenko

Ph.D. Candidate, jointly supervised by Prof. Jean Provost and Dr. Abbas Sadikot (McGill). Her research aims to investigate changes in brain vasculature associated with ultrasound-based brain therapies, such as blood–brain barrier opening. Scholarships by FRQ, TransMedTech.

Alice Wu

Ph.D. Candidate, jointly supervised by Prof. Jean Provost and Dr. Michaël Chassé (CHUM). Her research focuses on developing Dynamic Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (DULM) for brain imaging in 3D, with the goal of studying cerebral hemodynamics throughout the cardiac cycle. Scholarships by FRQ, TransMedTech.

Alexis Leconte

Ph.D. Candidate, jointly supervised by Prof. Jean Provost and Dr. Jean-Claude Tardif (Montreal Heart Institute). His research focuses on developing Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) for imaging the myocardium, aiming to visualize and quantify microvascular blood flow in the beating heart wall. Scholarships by FRQ, TransMedTech.

Cai Jie

Intern. Works toward the development of 4D spatiotemporal tracking. Scholarship from NSERC.

Marco Pontrelli

Intern. Works toward the development of aberration correction in transmit. Scholarship from NSERC.

Malo Rossetto

Intern. Works toward track-based graph representation of the entire brain vasculature.

Ludovic Goetz

Intern. Works toward voxel-wise speed-of-sound correction when imaging using a row-column array probe.

David Bracco, MD

Collaborator. Works toward high-frequency imaging of the heart intramyocardial vasculature.

Alumni

Vincent Perrot, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Scientist, 2020–2022. Now Senior Research Scientist at DarkVision.

Chloé Bourquin, Ph.D.

Provostlab's (first!) Ph.D. student. Scholarships by FRQ, TransMedTech. Now Journalist at La Presse.

Brice Rauby, Ph.D.

Member of MILA, jointly supervised by Prof. Jean Provost and Dr. Maxime Gasse (MILA). His research investigated novel deep learning–based methods for Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM), with particular emphasis on three-dimensional extension and in vivo applicability. Scholarships by IVADO, FRQ, TransMedTech. Now at SoundBlade Medical.