Led by IMT Atlantique, the industrial chair ValaDoE, “VALue Added Data and Energy,” is conducted in partnership with the Pays de la Loire Region, Nantes Métropole, Enedis, Mines Saint-Étienne, and Télécom Paris Tech. At the heart of the energy and digital transition, its work relates to the implementation of new networks in collaboration with companies and local authorities.
To successfully transform towards multi-energy, intelligent, and flexible networks, the ValaDoE Chair brings together the entire chain of stakeholders—industry and local authorities—as well as academic actors covering all the disciplines involved: Internet of Things, energy networks, protection and data science analysis.
The Chair is dedicated to the design, deployment, and operation of the energy networks of the future: one of the many challenges of the programme is to identify and remove obstacles that could slow down the implementation of these new energy networks.
At the heart of this issue: transforming data into information that can be shared among the various stakeholders, and ensuring its reliability.
The Chair relies at Mines Saint-Étienne on the expertise of the Fayol Institute: Mireille Batton-Hubert, head of the Mathematics and Operations Research for Engineering department, coordinates the project.
Nihad Aghbalou, a postdoctoral researcher recruited as part of the Chair, will work on certain identified scientific challenges related to the integrated modeling of energy networks and its adaptation.
Three PhD theses funded by the Chair are starting this year in the fields of Processes & Energy Systems, Communication & Networks, and Data Science.
Two of them will be jointly supervised by IMT Atlantique and Mines Saint-Étienne (M. Batton-Hubert). They will focus respectively on two themes:
- Analysis of the added value of data around networks (urban development of territories/Smart Grid/Smart Networks)
- Reliability and security of data for an intelligent network.
This work will draw on the expertise and skills of the Fayol Institute, which has recognized expertise in the fields of mathematics for decision support, computer science and intelligent systems, and performance of production systems and territories.
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Contact: Mireille Batton-Hubert, Fayol Institute, Limos (Laboratory of Computer Science, Modeling and Optimization of Systems)