Benoit Boulet, P.Eng., Ph.D., FCAE is the Associate Vice-President of Research and Innovation (R+I) at McGill University, a role he has held since 2021. In this role, Professor Boulet supports the overall mission of advancing research excellence at McGill while also increasing research-based innovation. He oversees the Office of Innovation and Partnerships within R+I, with the goal of driving progress in technology transfer and partnership programs with industry.

Concurrently, he is also a Professor in the Faculty of Engineering (Electrical and Computer Engineering), and Director of the McGill Engine, a Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship Centre. He was Associate Dean (Research & Innovation) of McGill’s Faculty of Engineering from 2014 to 2020 and Director of McGill's Centre for Intelligent Machines from 2007 to 2013. Professor Boulet is also a board member at Mila (Quebec's AI Institute), IVADO, as well as Montreal InVivo, among other prominent research organizations in Quebec.

He obtained a Bachelor's degree in applied sciences from Université Laval in 1990, a Master of Engineering degree from McGill University in 1992, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto in 1996, all in electrical engineering. He is a former Director and current member of the McGill Centre for Intelligent Machines where he heads the Intelligent Automation Laboratory. His research areas include the design and data-driven control of electric vehicles and renewable energy systems, machine learning applied to biomedical systems, and robust industrial control. He first joined McGill University in 1998.