David Rivest-Hénault received his B.Eng. with highest honors in automation engineering from University of Quebec’s École de technologie supérieure, Montreal, in 2005. He then joined the Synchromedia Laboratory for multimedia communication in telepresence with scolarships from both NSERC and FQRNT, and received his Ph.D. with highest honors in 2012. He was a visiting researcher at Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, in 2010, and a software expert in a computer vision startup, C-Tec, Laval, Québec (2004-2010).
Dr. Rivest-Hénault is now a Postdoctoral Fellow at CSIRO, The Australian e-Health Research Centre, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, where he is working on imaging methods for MR-based planning and adaptive prostate radiation therapy.