Michaël Ménard received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, in 2002 and 2009, respectively. From 2009 to 2011, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Cornell Nanophotonics Group under the supervision of Prof. Michal Lipson. In June 2011, he joined the microelectronic program at UQAM until September 2021, when he started to work with the Department of Electrical Engineering, École de Technologie Supérieure. He jointly manages the Microtechnology and Microsystems Laboratory. In 2019, he was a Visiting Researcher with the Department of Applied Physics, The University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. He has published over 80 publications and holds five issued patents and three pending patent applications. His research interests include integrated optics, silicon photonics, nonlinear optics, micro-opto-electromechanical systems (MOEMS), optomechanics, and microfabrication. He is an Active Member of NanoQAM, the Research Center on Nanomaterials and Energy. He is a member of the Quebec Order of Engineers. He holds or has held financial support from the Microsystems Strategic Alliance of Quebec (ReSMiQ), the Center for Optics, Photonics, and Lasers (COPL), the Quebec Fund for Research in Nature and Technology (FRQNT), Prompt Québec, PRIMA Québec, and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).