EcoCloud Experimental Facility for Research on Sustainable Computing
Dr. Miguel Peón and Dr. Xavier Ouvrard of the EPFL EcoCloud Center
Dr. Miguel Peón-Quirós is a sustainable computing systems manager at EcoCloud.
He received an MSc in Computer Engineering from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), and later a PhD at the Computer Architecture and Automation Department of the UCM, in collaboration with IMEC, Belgium. He worked as a post-doctoral researcher at IMDEA Networks (Madrid) and the Embedded Systems Laboratory of EPFL (Lausanne).
His research interests are on system-level optimization techniques for low-power computing systems
is a sustainable computing systems manager at EcoCloud. He is 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 projects: from UrbanTwin 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 an international one, 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 domains, from programming to IT infrastructure management, via data science and machine learning techniques.