Xavier Ouvrard

Background

About Xavier Ouvrard

Xavier is currently a systems specialist at Ecocloud, a research center at EPFL, responsible for managing the experimental space dedicated to conducting cutting-edge research in sustainable IT and IT for sustainability. He is involved in different research project: from Urban Twins to Heating Bits but also on monitoring datacenter energy, efficiency and sustainability, and carbon emission assessment. Xavier has a multidisciplinary background: a postgraduate degree in process engineering, a teaching advanced ("professeur agrégé") certification in mathematics, and a PhD in computer science. His career, primarily in international settings, reflects this diversity, notably including a six-year tenure at CERN after spending 20 years as a high school mathematics and computer science teacher in an international school, where he was also fully in charge of the IT network—from its construction and implementation to ongoing maintenance. Earlier in his career, he worked in the paper making industry. Xavier has advanced skills in many domain from programming to IT infrastructure management, via data science and machine learning techniques.