Guy A. Dumont received his Diplôme d'Ingénieur from ENSAM, Paris, France in 1973 and his Ph.D., Electrical Engineering from McGill University, Montreal in 1977.

In 1973-74, and then again from 1977 to 1979, he worked for Tioxide France. From 1979 to 1989, he was with Paprican, first in Montreal and then in Vancouver.

In 1989, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia where he is a Professor leading Process Control.

Guy Dumont was awarded a 1979 IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Honourable Paper Award; a 1985 Paprican Presidential Citation; a 1990 UBC Killam research Prize; the 1995 CPPA Weldon Medal; the 1998 Universal Dynamics Prize for Leadership in Process Control Technology; and the IEEE Control Systems Society 1998 Control Systems Technology Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the BC Advanced Systems Institute, and a member of ISA, PAPTAC and TAPPI.

His current research interests are: adaptive control, distributed parameter system control, control loop performance monitoring, predictive control, with applications to the process industries, mainly pulp and paper, and more recently to biomedical engineering.