Dr. Bruno Paillard is Convergence Instruments’ co-founder and chief engineer and is responsible for all of our innovative, leading-edge product designs. He completed his initial training as an electronics technician at IUT-Le Creusot (France) in 1982 and received his BS in Electrical Engineering from INSA-Lyon (France) in 1985. He received his Masters Degree and Ph.D. in Digital Signal Processing from Universite de Sherbrooke (Canada), completing the latter in 1992. His doctoral dissertation focused on the emerging fields of auditory modeling and perceptual coding of music.

From 1993 to 2003 he was a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Universite de Sherbrooke, where he taught classes on embedded systems and did advanced research on adaptive filtering and active control of acoustical and vibrational processes. His research work led to several groundbreaking applications and technology transfers, including the world’s first multi-channel active noise cancellation system in an industrial exhaust stack. In 1998, while still working at Universite de Sherbrooke, he began consulting for D-BOX Technologies (Canada), who were developing the world’s first motion simulation system for home theater applications.

He was Director of Research and Development for D-BOX from 2004 to 2008 and while there developed their unique vibro-kinetic technologies. In particular, he was responsible for the hardware and software designs of their DSP systems, including breakthrough designs for their proprietary electro-mechanical motion actuators and computer-based motion controllers. His work at D-BOX contributed greatly to their being awarded over half a dozen patents for their motion simulation systems and technologies.