# Sylvain Girard's scientific page I lead the “Reliability & Robustness” team at [Phimeca Engineering Paris](http://phimeca.com/). We use data science and numerical simulation to help designing, operating and maintaining industrial system safely and efficiently. My topics of interest include * **From data and simulation to decision** -- Modelling *creates* uncertainty. This is a bad product: people mostly want to get rid of it. We help our partners to shift from the illusion of complete control to robust risk management and efficient decision processes. * **Embracing complexity** -- *Complexity* also bears negative connotation. Yet, complex systems have emergent behaviours that go far beyond those of their parts: otherwise we would stick to hammer an nails kind of technologies (sometimes we should). We tackle this by dimension reduction, deep learning, and system scale (a.k.a. 0D/1D multi-physics) modelling. * **From R&D to something else** -- Modelling is a tribal activity: a small group share tacit (=hard to transcribe) knowledge of great potential. Good ideas often lead to good R&D. Often, good R&D leads to… good ideas at best. We help partners to widen the innovation spiral and produce concrete outcomes. * **AI, Animal Intelligence** -- Especially those of apes, and *homo sapiens sapiens* in particular (for lack of frequent contact with other species). --- ## News * March 2025 -- Our preprint “Accurate and fast prediction of radioactive pollution by Kriging coupled with Auto-Associative Models” is [online](https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2025/egusphere-2024-3838/). * November 2024 -- The 6th Researcher--Engineer Gathering, “[Mathematical confluences](https://seminaire.phimeca.com/), took place on 21st November 2022 at [IHP](http://ihp.fr/). Presentations are available online at: . Thank you very much to all speakers and attendants. ### Recent and upcoming talks * 2024/10/14→17/ -- [λμ24](https://www.imdr-lambdamu.eu/) hosted by [Institut de Maîtrise des Risques (IMdR)](https://www.imdr.eu/). I presented the first results of the [POLIVAL](research/polival) project: “'Uncertainty': the elephant in the living rooom of soil pollution management?.” [`[🗎 get slides]`](https://sylvaingirard.net/pdf/talk/LM24_cloudspotting_eode_phimeca.pdf) * 2024/10/11 -- [TSP day](https://thermosyspro.com/journeeTSP/) organised by EDF and Phimeca. I presented “HeatXSysPro: From Excel to robust tool for Air Fan Coolers performance assessment” [`[🗎 get slides]`](https://thermosyspro.com/journeeTSP/assets/presentations/06_Phimeca_EDVANCE_HeatXSysPro.pdf) * 2024/6/14 -- [17th OpenTURNS' Users Day](https://github.com/openturns/openturns/wiki/User-day-%2317-2024). [OpenTURNS](https://openturns.github.io/www/) is an open source python module for statistics and machine learning. I talked about the [OtFMI](http://openturns.github.io/otfmi/master/) module, a two-way interface to the [FMI model exchange standard](https://fmi-standard.org/) [`[🗎 get slides]`](https://sylvaingirard.net/pdf/talk/girard24-otfmi-ju-ot17.pdf). --- ## Content ```{toctree} publication research/index joboffer ```