François Bouffard Member, GERAD share Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University francois.bouffard@mcgill.ca Phone: 514 398-2761 Fax: 514 398-4470 Research Axes Axis 2: Decision support made in complex systems Axis 3: Decision support made under uncertainty Research Applications Energy, environment and natural resources Engineering (engineering design, digital design) Publications Sep 2024 Flexibility Characterization of Sustainable Power Systems in Demand Space: A Data-Driven Inverse Optimization Approach Mohamed Awadalla and François Bouffard IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 39(5), 6196–6209, 2024 BibTeX reference Mar 2024 Tight and Compact Data-Driven Linear Relaxations for Constraint Screening in Unit Commitment Mohamed Awadalla and François Bouffard IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation, 2(1), 63–78, 2024 BibTeX reference Jan 2024 A Comparative Study of Polynomial Chaos Expansion-Based Methods for Global Sensitivity Analysis in Power System Uncertainty Control Xiaoting Wang, Rong-Peng Liu, Xiaozhe Wang, and François Bouffard IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, 71(1), 216–220, 2024 BibTeX reference 94 publications News Corridor énergétique Manitoba-Nunavut : quel impact aura cette entente? Apr 18, 2025 Listen to the interview in French on Radio-Canada Ohdio avec François Bouffard, Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar from McGill University. Cutting off electricity to Americans would be risky Mar 11, 2025 Cutting off electricity to Americans would be risky, with François Bouffard, Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar from McGill University. To read in French in the Journal de Québec. How will the route of the new Appalachian-Lower St. Lawrence power line be determined? Nov 21, 2024 How will the route of the new Appalachian-Lower St. Lawrence power line be determined?, with François Bouffard, Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar from McGill University. Listen to the interview in French with Éric Gagnon, Info-réveil, on Ohdio. 19 news Prizes and awards 2022 Professor among the world’s most influential researchers in 2021 and in career Mendeley (Elsevier) 2021 Professor among the world’s most influential researchers in 2020 and in career Mendeley (Elsevier) 2021 Outstanding Academic Service Award Faculty of Engineering McGill University 2020 Professor among the world’s most influential researchers in 2019 and in career Mendeley (Elsevier) Editorial Boards & Comittees Member of the Editorial Board Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, 2012-2017 IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2009-2017 IEEE Power and Energy Letters, 2009-2017 Supervision Sophia Watret Ph.D. Jorge Pedraza Gomez Ph.D. Sophia Watret Master's degree Junyuan Zhao Ph.D. Sayani Seal Postdoctoral research Nicolas Bernier Master's degree Simon Giard-Leroux Master's degree Abdelrahman Ayad Ph.D. Aisha M. Pasha Master's degree All supervisions (43)