Who am I?

I am assistant Professor at the XLIM (UMR 6172 University of Limoges / CNRS -- France) laboratory since 09/2004 and I got a permanent position in 09/2006.
In 2008, I have been elected for 4 years as member of the scientific council of the University of Limoges.

I am currently member of SSD (Smart Security Devices / Périphériques Sécurisés Intelligents) led by Prof. Jean-Louis Lanet and of the DMI department (Département Mathématiques Informatique / Mathematics and Computer Sciences Department -- led by Prof. Moulay Barkatou) of XLIM.
I am also involved in the SeFSI program (Sécurité et Fiabilité des Systèmes d'Information / Security and Safety of Information Systems -- SeFSI is a transverse initiative of XLIM led by Prof. Jean-Pierre Borel).
For the 09/2006-09/2008 period, the University of Limoges and the Limousin Region have decided to fund my research.

I am involved in:

  • the MADNESS (Mobile Ad Hoc Network with Embedded Secure System) project of the emergent "Security of Information" team.
  • SALS (about the security of smart cards -- led by Pierre Dusart) and SRAD (about the security of mobile ad hoc networks -- led by Pierre-François Bonnefoi), two projects of the SeFSI program.
  • the SARAH (Services distribués Asynchrones pour Réseaux Ad Hoc / Delay-Tolerant Distributed Services for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks) project between the LaBRI (Bordeaux, France), LITIS (Le Havre, France), VALORIA (Vannes, France) and XLIM (Limoges, France) laboratories. This project will begin at the end of 2005 and will be funded by the ANR (Agence Nationale pour la Recherche / National Agency for the Research) for 3 years.
  • several projects with the "Distributed Systems and Objects" team of Prof. Serge Chaumette at the LaBRI (UMR CNRS 5800).
  • several projects with the ISG-SCC (Information Security Group - Smart Card Centre) of the Royal Holloway, University of London.

I obtained my Ph.D. at the University Bordeaux 1 (France) in December 2004. The subject of my thesis was on the Java Card security (development of an emulator to experiment attacks against Java Card platform and applets; modeling some security problems).
From 03/09/2001 to 02/09/2004, I worked on the Java Card security in the ITSEF (Information Technology Security Evaluation Facilities) of SERMA Technologies.
From  01/02/2006 to 31/03/2006, I was invited researcher at the ISG-SCC (Information Security Group - Smart Card Centre) of the Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL). Then, from the 01/04/2006 to 10/08/2006 I was in a postdoctoral position at the ISG-SCC of the RHUL.