Funded Research Projects


2023-2028 AMAskZONE ERC starting grant (PI) Generation and Verification of Masking Countermeasures Against Side-Channel Attacks
2023-2026 RESQUE bpifrance Post-quantum cryptography
2022-2026 SWAP ANR Sboxes for Symmetric-Key Primitives
2018-2022 VeriSiCC FUI25 (coordinator) Verification of Side-Channel Countermeasures
2017-2020 RISQ PIA, bpifrance Regroupement de l'Industrie français pour la Sécurité post-Quantique
2013-2015 CLE ANR Cryptography from Learning with Errors
2010-2014 PRINCE ANR Proven Resilience against Information leakage in Cryptographic Engineering


Scientific Activities


Steering committee member 2021-2025 CHES
2019-2024 CARDIS

Program chair 2022 CHES with Thomas Eisenbarth
2019 CARDIS with Tim Güneysu

Program area chair 2025 Crypto
2024 Crypto, Communications in Cryptology (CiC journal)
2022 Eurocrypt

Test of time award committee 2025 CHES
Program committee member 2026 RWC, Africacrypt
2025 Eurocrypt, RWC, Cascade
2024 CHES, Eurocrypt, Asiacrypt
2023 CT-RSA
2022 RWC, Eurocrypt, CCS, Asiacrypt
2021 CHES, Asiacrypt
2020 CHES, COSADE, Asiacrypt, CARDIS, TCC
2019 CHES, COSADE, Asiacrypt
2018 CHES, Asiacrypt, CARDIS
2017 CARDIS


Seminar Organization


22-09-2022 second VeriSiCC seminar with invited talks from worldwide experts on formal verification of side-channel countermeasures
25-09-2019 first VeriSiCC seminar with invited talks from worldwide experts on formal verification of side-channel countermeasures


Students Supervision


Current Students Ghozlane Boukacem - PhD 2025-
Noémie Akpaki - PhD 2025-
Gaëtan Cassiers - Post-Doc 2024-
Victor Normand - PhD 2024-

Past PhD Students Nicolas Bon - PhD 2022-2025
Abdul Rahman Taleb - PhD 2020-2023
Mélissa Rossi - PhD 2017-2020
Past Interns Ghozlane Boukacem (2025), Victor Normand (2024), Muaad Tamtam (2024), Nicolas Bon (2022), Matthias Trannoy (2021), Thibauld Feneuil (2020), Abdul Rahman Taleb (2020), Raphael Wintersdorff (2019), Mélissa Rossi (2016), Alice Duval-Kister (2015), Antoine Darnay (2014)

PhD Committees


I served as a PhD committee examiner for: Daphné Trama (November 2025), Andersson Calle Viera (April 2025), Camille Mutschler (December 2024), Djedjiga Belhadj (March 2024), Lorenzo Casalino (January 2024), Fabrice Lozachmeur (January 2024), Etienne Marcatel (October 2022), Axel Mathieu-Mahias (December 2021), Gabriel Zaid (November 2021), Lauren De Meyer (April 2020).

I served as a PhD committee reviewer for: Maria Chiara Molteni (February 2022).

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