PhD Supervision & Juries

PhD supervision and the training of young researchers are central to my activities. I am also heavily involved in evaluating research at national and international levels.

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1. Supervision Summary

Level	Status	Count
Habilitation to Direct Research (HDR)	Defended	1
PhD Thesis	Defended	7
PhD Thesis	Ongoing	2

2. Juries Summary

Role	France	International	Total
PhD Jury Chair	1	0	1
HDR Reviewer	1	0	1
PhD Reviewer	11	11	22
PhD Examiner	5	2	7
Thesis Committee Member	1	0	1
External Reviewer (Msc/MPhil)	0	3	3
Total	19	16	35

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3. Detailed Supervision

Habilitation to Direct Research (HDR)

• Mohamed Hamroun (09/2024 - 01/2025)
  • Topic: Contributions to indexing and information retrieval: application to general and medical multimodal data.
  • Role: Garant. Defended on 08/01/2025 at the University of Limoges.

Defended PhD Theses

• Jean de Bonfils Lavernelle (11/2022 - 11/2025)
  • Topic: Software isolation in embedded systems: Study of threats and protection mechanisms
  • Supervision: Director. Co-supervised with P.-F. Bonnefoi (33%) and B. Gonzalvo (33%).
• Fabien Thomas-Brans (03/2021 - 05/2024)
  • Topic: Diagnosis and repair of encrypted and damaged electronic media
  • Supervision: Director. Co-supervised with T. Heckmann (50%).
• Mohammud Shaad Ally Toofanee (03/2021 - 12/2023)
  • Topic: An innovative ecosystem based on deep learning: Contributions for the prevention and prediction of diabetes complications
  • Supervision: Director. Co-supervised with K. Tamine (50%) and M. Hamroun (25%).
• Louis Moreau (10/2018 - 12/2022)
  • Topic: Trust solutions for security in the Internet of Things
  • Supervision: Director. Co-supervised with E. Conchon (50%).
• Mathieu Klingler (08/2018 - 03/2022)
  • Topic: Cryptographic protocols for privacy respect
  • Supervision: Director. Co-supervised with E. Conchon (50%).
• Fatma Merabet (11/2017 - 06/2021)
  • Topic: Security solutions for the internet of things for home autonomy assistance
  • Supervision: Director. Co-supervised with E. Conchon (33%) and M. Belkadi (33%).
• Amina Cherif (06/2016 - 03/2021)
  • Topic: Security of active RFIDs and applications
  • Supervision: Director. Co-supervised with M. Belkadi (50%).

Ongoing PhD Theses

• Lisa Mignerey (Start: 02/2025)
  • Topic: Study of the application of artificial intelligence on hypervisors executed on resource-constrained systems.
  • Supervision: Director. Co-supervised with K. Tamine (33%) and A. Ferrari (33%).
• Ibtihel Mansour (Start: 07/2025)
  • Topic: Sign language recognition system for real-time inclusive communication in medical care.
  • Supervision: Director. Co-supervised with R. Abassi (20%) and M. Hamroun (60%).

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4. Detailed Juries List

Chair of PhD Jury

• Rezak Aziz (18/12/2025) - CNAM, France.

HDR Reviewer

• Christophe Cariou (10/07/2025) - Université Clermont Auvergne, France.

PhD Reviewer

• Ridwane Aissaoui (04/12/2024) - ENAC, France.
• Adrien Jousse (13/12/2022) - INSA Centre Val de Loire, France.
• Hadrien Barral (20/09/2022) - École Normale Supérieure (ENS) Paris, France.
• Martin S. Kelly (08/04/2022) - Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom.
• Lehlogonolo Polaki Iviwe Ledwaba (04/06/2021) - City University of Hong Kong, China.
• Jyoti Gajrani (10/2020) - Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India.
• Fidel Paniagua Diez (04/2020) - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.
• Sangeetha C P (11/2019) - Anna University, India.
• Malvin Nkomo (05/2019) - University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
• Muhathir Oluwaseyi Oloyede (04/2019) - University of Pretoria, South Africa.
• Lyes Bayou (19/06/2018) - IMT Atlantique, France.
• Thibaut Heckmann (18/06/2018) - École Normale Supérieure (ENS) Paris, France.
• El Habib Boudjema (04/05/2018) - Université Paris-Est, France.
• Lazaros Kyrillidis (16/01/2018) - Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom.
• Thinh Le-Vinh (14/12/2017) - CNAM, France.
• Benoit Ducray (31/08/2017) - Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom.
• Mihaela Lavinia Dinca (11/07/2017) - City University of Hong Kong, China.
• Jean Aimé Maxa (28/06/2017) - ENAC, France.
• Collins Mtita (13/06/2016) - UPMC / IMT / Télécom SudParis, France.
• Benjamin Venelle (16/07/2015) - INSA Bourges (LIFO), France.
• Hassane Aissaoui-Mehrez (10/07/2015) - UPMC / IMT / Télécom ParisTech, France.
• Raja Naeem Akram (2012) - Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom.

PhD Examiner

• Edem Kodjo (20/12/2024) - Télécom ParisTech, France.
• Van-Hoan Hoang (27/01/2022) - La Rochelle Université, France.
• Nabil Abdoun (22/07/2019) - Université de Nantes, France / Université Libanaise.
• Imad Belkacem (31/01/2019) - Université d’Oran 1, Algeria.
• Xavier Boudvin (19/12/2018) - IMT Atlantique, France.
• Mohammad Abu Taha (12/07/2017) - Université de Nantes, France.
• Achraf Karray (12/2008) - Université Bordeaux 1, France.

Thesis Committee

• Sophie Dramé-Maigné (06/03/2018) - Université Paris-Saclay, France.

External Reviewer (Msc/MPhil/MEng)

• Carel Phillip Kruger (04/2021) - University of Pretoria, South Africa.
• Rashedul Hassan (29/01/2019) - Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom.
• Lehlogonolo P.I. Ledwaba (08/12/2017) - University of Pretoria, South Africa.