We are convinced that today’s world, based on the unwavering belief in technological solutions only, will not last, and therefore the need to develop the necessary perspective when developing, designing, or studying artificial intelligence solutions.

The team

The greenAI Uppa team has been split in 2022. Most of its members are still working on sustainability and machine learning in the south west of France. This page will keep on updating news of GreenAI in the region of Pau and around.

This page is under construction and will be updated to highlights GreenAI related initiatives around University of Pau and CY-Tech university.

Our research

This page is dedicated to topics linking AI with environment. According to the Afnor organism, this corresponds to

• The need to use an AI system rather than another less energy-intensive solution to achieve the same objective has been demonstrated;

• Best practices are adopted by the producer, supplier, and customer to reduce the environmental impacts of the service using an AI algorithm;

• Uses and needs are aimed at remaining within planetary boundaries and have been previously questioned.

Team members

We wish to bring together different people from different communities but with one share commitment: take collective actions on the world’s greatest crisis and build a safe and healthy planet for the next generations.

Sébastien Loustau

After a PHD thesis defended in 2008, at Institut de Marseille Sebastien worked as Associated professor at Université d’Angers in the lab LAREMA where he defended his Habilitation thesis in 2014. He found the AI start-up LumeanAI in 2015 and the non-profit organization IAPau in 2016. In 2020, he is researcher at the LMAP at Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour and created the GreenAI UPPA Group. He is now investigating social aspects in agriculture practices, notably the links between sufficiency, resilience, and how focusing on performance can lead to a vulnerable society.

For contact, send an email at sebastien[dot]loustau[at]univ-pau.fr

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Paul Gay

Paul obtained his phd between LIUM in France and IDIAP Reshearch Institut in Switzerland in 2014 on unsupervised Audio-visual person identification in news video. Then, he went through a teaching period at the LIA (2015) a Post-doc in computer vision, at IIT/PAVIS (2016 - 2018), and worked at the LumenAI on community detection (2019 - 2020). He is currently researcher at the ETIS working on environmental and social consequences of AI, by building monitoring tools and running qualitative studies.

For contact, send an email at paul[dot]gay[at]univ-pau.fr

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Matthieu Francois

Matthieu obtained his Master’s degree in 2020 at Université de Grenoble Alpes. He is currently doing a PHD in social computing with the Tree laboratory, where he analyses how environmental topics are discussed in large social media corpus.

For contact, send an email at matthieu[dot]francois[at]univ-pau.fr
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Fatou Kiné Sow

Fatou obtained her master’s degree in Big Data in 2021 at Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour. After a year of experience as Data Scientist, she joined Green AI in December 2021 in collaboration with Prof en Poche on a computer vision and AR project. She now works as an independant data scientist.

For contact, send an email at fksow[at]univ-pau.fr
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Nicolas Tirel

Nicolas graduated from the engineering school CYTech (ex-EISTI) at Pau, France in 2021 with a speciality in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. He is passionated about Data Science since he went to Taïwan for an Exchange Semester during his school time. Thus, he decided to join GreenAI UPPA team on a project about two fields that are really meaningful for him : education and environment. He is currently doing a Phd with the Liuppa laboratory and university of Zaragoza. His research focus on techniques for deploying computing tasks on servers to reduce the carbon footprint of digital services.

He also facilitates scientific collective intelligence workshops to raise environmental awareness, focusing on climate, biodiversity, and digital issues, within the @Baskula association, in order to understand the challenges and levers for action in favor of a more sustainable and just world.

For contact, send an email at nicolas[dot]tirel[at]univ-pau.fr
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Florian Valade

Florian is a graduate engineer from ECE and is starting a CIFRE thesis on edge computing in collaboration with the company Fujitsu. The objective of this thesis is to implement Computer Vision algorithms in a frugal way and to embed the models as close as possible to the cameras, depending on the difficulty of the task and the input data. For contact, send an email at florian[dot]valade[at]fujitsu.com.

Jordy Palafox

Jordy defended his Phd Thesis in 2018 at UPPA LMAP. After a post-doc in 2018-2019 at La Rochelle in the lab LASIE, he is now an assitant professor at Cy Tech Pau, and leader on the Verdinum Project on education for responsible ICT.

For contact, send an email at jordy[dot]palafox[at]univ-pau.fr
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Contact

Feel free to contact us if you want to contribute: contact Paul