Xavier Maldague received B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Laval University, Quebec City, Canada, in 1982, 1984, and 1989, respectively. He has been a full professor with the Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering, Laval University, Quebec City, Canada since 1989, where he was the Head of the Department from 2003 to 2008 and again in 2018. His research interests include infrared thermography, nondestructive evaluation (NDE) techniques, and vision/digital systems for industrial inspection. He is an honorary fellow of the Indian Society of Nondestructive Testing. He is also a fellow of the Canadian Engineering Institute, the American Society of Nondestructive Testing, and the Alexander von Humbolt Foundation in Germany. He holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Infrared Vision. He has been the Chair of the Quantitative Infrared Thermography (QIRT) Council since 2004.