Keynotes

Dr. Meltem Sonmez Turan is a mathematician in the Computer Security Division of National Institute of Standards and Technology. Meltem co-leads the Lightweight Cryptography Standardization project at NIST. Her research interests include symmetric cryptography, random number generation and circuit complexity.

Vincent Nicomette is an engineer from ENSEEIHT Toulouse (1992), doctor of INPT (1996) and holder of an HDR from the INPT (2009). After having worked as an engineer in Matra Marconi Space (today Airbus Defense and Space), from 1997 to 2000, he is now a teacher at INSA Toulouse and a researcher at LAAS-CNRS since October 2000. His main research work covers 3 main aspects: 1) network security, and in particular lately the security of IoT communication protocols, 2) the security of the lower layers of operating systems, and 3) the security of critical embedded systems. He is also co-manager of the TLS-SEC course in Toulouse, a course dedicated to computer security and provided at three different schools: INSA, ENAC and N7.

Romain Cayre is currently a post-doctoral researcher in the S3 (Software and System Security) team at the EURECOM Institute in Biot. His research work is devoted to the security of wireless communication protocols and the security of embedded systems, with a particular interest in the analysis of interactions at the boundary between software and hardware. He received an engineering degree in computer science from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse in 2018, and carried out his doctoral thesis from 2019 to 2022 within the TSF team (Tolerance to faults and Dependability) from LAAS-CNRS. During his PhD thesis, his work focused on the security of wireless communication protocols in the context of the Internet of Things. As part of this work, he has produced several software tools published under a free license, in particular the Mirage wireless protocol vulnerability analysis tool.

Eleonora Losiouk is an Assistant Professor at the University of Padua (Italy). In 2018, she obtained her Ph.D. in Bioengineering and Bioinformatics from the University of Pavia (Italy). She has been a Visiting Fellow at EPFL in 2017 and a Fulbright Visiting Fellow at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley in 2021/2022. In 2021, she got the H2020 CONCORDIA Award for Early Career Women Researcher. In 2022, she was awarded a Google Research Program Scholarship to develop a tool that automatically detects and exploits vulnerabilities in Android apps. Her main research interests regard the Android OS security and the wireless communications security (in particular, the Bluetooth Low-Energy ones). She has recently started inspecting the Automated Program Repair research area.

Victor Vuillard is the security director of S3NS, a Thales subsidiary in partnership with Google, aiming to operate in France a Trusted Cloud offering with the efficiency and richness of GCP Cloud services. Before joining S3NS in September 2023, he spent 7 years at ANSSI. He was responsible for the audit and inspection team and in particular led the first audits of Operators of Vital Importance. He was then the first head of the Rapid Intervention Group, the ANSSI team which intervenes in large-scale compromises. At the same time, he held the position of Deputy SSI Officer of the SGDSN. In 2013, he joined EDF as cybersecurity manager for nuclear engineering to define the security strategy for the 58 French nuclear power plants, define the security architectures, audit the security level and participate in cybersecurity governance jointly with the operator. In addition to creating and managing the team in charge of these cybersecurity issues at EDF, he was also French representative at the IAEA (United Nations) to help define international practices for securing nuclear installations, as well as at the IEC. In 2018, he was then security director of the Parrot group, the leading European manufacturer of micro-drones. As Cybersecurity CTO, he designed the overall security architecture and security features of drones, to deliver trusted drones, particularly for defense and homeland security.