Pascal Dupuis graduated in electrical engineering and obtained a PhD in biomedical engineering from Louvain School of Engineering, Belgium, in 1989 and 2001, respectively. Since 2001, he occupied various postdoc positions, with the last one at University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, where he focused on light sources metrology and aging in a wide sense, including perceptual aspects. He joined Kawantech in 2018, a French startup developing smart systems located inside street luminaires and performing tasks such as lighting control, parking control, and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications.