Samuel Letellier-Duchesne holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering from the Université the Montréal, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, completed in 2020. He also holds a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the Université the Montréal, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, awarded in 2014. He recently served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he worked with the MIT Sustainable Design Lab to bridge the gap between the urban building energy model and electric grid power system optimization fields. He developed and maintained a web micro service using python and react technologies, for the purpose of accelerating the creation of the urban building energy models. He also developed a distributed energy generation optimization tool that is now used in interactive urban planning. In spring 2017, as a visiting student at MIT's Sustainable Design Lab, Mr. Letellier-Duchesne was the lead author of a scientific paper that put forth a methodology to link urban building energy modeling and district energy modeling.