Since 1990, Robert Bergevin has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Université Laval, where he has been a full professor since 2001. He defines his contribution by the following formula: "A methodology from the general to the particularResearch Center in Robotics, Vision and Machine Intelligence to make explicit the conceptual and formal aspects of systems" added to "A discretization of space and time to structure and organize analysis and design" gives "A progression towards an understanding that is simply communicable and universally applicable".

Professor Bergevin teaches cognitive computer vision, parallel and real-time systems and design methodology. He is one of the founders and promoters of the design track in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and was director of the Bachelor of Computer Engineering program from 2001 to 2010. Since 1985, he has been a researcher in cognitive computer vision; ontology, methodology and categorization are the fundamental concepts to which he pays particular attention. Professor Bergevin was Area Editor for the journal Computer Vision and Image Understanding from 2002 to 2017.

Robert Bergevin is a generalist and a student and proponent of global anticipatory design science (R. Buckminster Fuller) and general semantics (Alfred Korzybski).