Adrien Luxey-Bitri's personal web page

You can contact me via e-mail at adrien@[this site] (without brackets), or via Matrix at @adrn:deuxfleurs.fr.

I teach at Univ Lille's informatics departement.
I do research on distributed systems, ecology and privacy at the SPIRALS team (Inria, CRIStAL, Lille).
I do activism, notably through Deuxfleurs association.
Below are my publications, and other links.

Now (what I'm currently up to)

Teaching

Teaching is a broad thing. Besides attending various classes and fulfilling administrative duties, I also supervise students' Master theses, and tutor them in their internships and apprenticeships.
I eagerly share my fondness for learning and the scientific method, to my students and the rest of the world.
I very much enjoy the teaching model entitled "the unknowing teacher" (Le Maître Ignorant).

Courses

Past courses

Research

I like to see everything through the lens of distributed systems: digital infrastructures & services, human societies (including legal, economic and social interactions), planet Earth and its ecology...
Since 2020, I am part of the Spirals team (Inria, CRIStAL, Lille) which studies the adaptability of distributed systems, and is led by Lionel Seinturier.
I spent my PhD (1016-19) in the WIDE team (Irisa, Rennes), which I consider top-notch on the research topic of distributed systems protocols.

I have a keen interest in studying the environmental footprint of the digital sector: this involves understanding its global production/usage/waste chain, its relation to other economic sectors (notably the energy transitions), and its human & ecological impacts (notably regarding its mineral requirements).

I finally keep a close eye on the state of the right to privacy in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), its abuses, and technical and regulatory counter-measures.
This implies scrutinizing platforms that are used by the public at large, e.g. the Android & iOS operating systems, and the web.

Currently studied topics

Activism

I am a co-founder of Deuxfleurs association, and a member of its administrative council.
It is a French digital hosting collective (we serve static websites, e-mails and the like), where we promote conviviality, and try to invent emancipatory usages of digital technologies.
We are part of the CHATONS collective, to which I also participate.

In Lille, I also partake in Chtinux, which is a constellation of Hauts-de-France collectives involved in the promotion of digital freedoms. The RAOULL members (another CHATONS association) are close pals.

You can physically discuss digital freedoms and other informatics-related topics with us, every last Tuesday of the month at Café Citoyen around 7:30PM. (Ping me first, for I cannot make it every month.)

Publications

Presentation slides I made