Thomas Ledoux

Thomas Ledoux is a full professor at IMT Atlantique (campus Nantes) and a member of the Stack team (a joint team of Inria and LS2N). He received his Habilitation thesis (HDR) from the Nantes University in 2018 in which he proposes dynamic reconfiguration of software architectures (in particular for "Green Clouds"). His research interests include Software engineering, Autonomic computing, Green computing, Cloud/Fog/Edge computing and Blockchain technologies. He is currently investigating self-adaptive component-based applications for large-scale distributed systems powered by renewable resources. He has previously led several national projects for the Stack team, advised more than 10 PhD theses and post-doc, participated in several selection committees for the recruitment of assistant professors, acted as an expert for several national projects, served on a number of journal/conference program committees, been a member of some twenty thesis juries, given several guest talks, published more than 70 publications in the field of distributed software engineering and won several best paper awards. He is the head of the think tank "Filière informatique nantaise" (created by the Nantes University, Centrale Nantes and IMT Atlantique) which aims to federate the main actors of IT training in the Loire Atlantique region). In addition, he has several responsibilities in higher education: - Member of the board of directors of the association "Talents du numérique" - Co-pilot of the Ecolog initiative with INR (https://institutnr.org), which aims to offer structured teaching resources for sustainable IT, frugal software or green computing for higher education trainers. - Head of the ”ArchOps” industrial chair – dealing with Cloud innovation – at IMT Atlantique (https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/chaire-d-enseignement-archops). - Head of FIL software engineering apprenticeship program (http://www.imt-atlantique.fr/formation/ingenieur-par-apprentissage/ingenieurs-specialite-ingenierie-logicielle). This 3-year program leads to a Master's degree in software engineering at IMT Atlantique. - Member of IMT Atlantique's teaching committee