Thibault Simon
I am a researcher working on ICT environmental footprint, and I am particularly interested in these subjects:
- Sustainable ICT
- Life Cycle Assessment
- Environmentally Extended Input–Output Analysis
- Software architecture
Feel free to reach me at contact[at]thibaultsimon.fr
Research
On the 6 December 2024, I successfully defended my PhD thesis intitulated Software Ecodesign: Estimating and Reducing Software Environmental Footprint. The manuscript is openly available here, and the defense replay (in French) here.
Papers
S. Cerf, A. Luxey-Bitri, C. Quinton, R. Rouvoy, T. Simon, C. Truffert, Untangling the Critical Minerals Knot: when ICT hits the Energy Transitions pre-print, 2024 [Paper]
T. Simon, D. Ekchajzer, A. Berthelot, E. Fourboul, S. Rince, R. Rouvoy, BoaviztAPI: A Bottom-Up Model to Assess the Environmental Impacts of Cloud Services, in HotCarbon’24, 2024, Santa Cruz (Remotely) [Paper] [Code] [Slides]
E. Guégain, T. Simon, A. Rahier, and R. Rouvoy, Managing Uncertainties in ICT Services Life Cycle Assessment using Fuzzy Logic, in International Conference on Information and Communications Technology for Sustainability (ICT4S), 2024, Stockholm [Paper]
T. Simon, P. Rust, R. Rouvoy, and J. Penhoat, Uncovering the Environmental Impact of Software Life Cycle, in International Conference on Information and Communications Technology for Sustainability (ICT4S), 2023, Rennes [Paper] [Slides] [Code]
Talks
From Bottom-Up to Top-Down: Rethinking Approaches to Assessing ICT’s Mineral Dependencies at The True Cost of ICT: From Materiality to Techno-Solutionism, 2024, Stockholm (Sweden) [Abstract] [Slides]
Tackling the Environmental Impact of Digital Services: Challenges and solutions at the European Sustainability Science Lab seminar (Sustainability science: what’s in a name?), 2024, Darmstadt (Germany) [Slides]
Enhancing the Embodied Environmental Footprint Estimations of ICT: Leveraging EEIO Techniques at Green Days, 2024, Toulouse [Slides]
Vers des applications à plus faible impact environnemental, Ma thèse en trois minutes (Jury’s prize) [Video]
Table ronde: La méthode Analyse de Cycle de Vie, un cadre d’évaluation d’impact reconnu par tous et adaptée au numérique au GreenTech Forum, 2023, Paris
Shaping the hidden environmental impacts of software at Green Software and Human Actors: design, code, and behavior - community workshop, 2023, Rennes [Abstract] [Slides]
Curriculum Vitae
Work experiences
- 2021-2024: Doctoral Researcher @Orange, Rennes
- 2018-2021: Software Engineer Apprentice @Orange, Caen
- April-June 2018: Software Engineer Intern @CGI, Rennes
Education
- 2021-2024: PhD Candidate in Computer Science @Université de Lille/Inria
- 2019-2021: Master’s Degree of Business Administration, head of class @EM Normandie Business School
- 2018-2021: Software Engineering Diploma, cyber-security and e-payments major in apprenticeship @Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Caen (ENSICAEN)
- 2016-2018: Higher National Diploma in Computer Science @IUT de Caen