Summary

My interests revolve around the various facets of cryptography, with a particular focus on cryptologic algorithms related to number theory and algebraic geometry. Another aspect of my work relates to randomness and the blockchain technology.

Education

PhD Thesis (2014 - 2018), EPFL, Laboratory for Cryptologic Algorithms
Advisors: Arjen Lenstra and Robert Granger.
Thesis title: Arithmetic and geometric structures in cryptography.
Jury: Ola Svensson (chair), Andreas Enge, Pierrick Gaudry et Zsolt Patakfalvi (examiners).

Master’s degree in Mathematics, Minor in Information Security (2012 - 2014)
EPFL, thesis at the University of California, Berkeley
Thesis advisors: Kenneth Ribet and Dimitar Jetchev.
Thesis title: Walking on Isogeny Graphs of Hyperelliptic Curves of Genus 2.

Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics (2009 - 2012), EPFL

Baccalauréat Scientifique (2009), Lycée Aux Lazaristes, Lyon.

Experience

CNRS researcher, chargé de recherche (2023 - today), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon), Unité de Mathématiques pures et appliquées (UMPA), France

CNRS researcher, chargé de recherche (2020 - 2022), Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux (IMB), France

Postdoc (Jan - Dec 2019), Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Cryptology Group, headed by Ronald Cramer.

Research engineer (Jul - Aug 2014), Institute for Information and Communication Technologies, HEIG-VD
Design, proof of security, and implementation in C of a new efficient pairing-based broadcast encryption scheme.

Visiting student researcher (Feb - Jun 2014), University of California, Berkeley
Study of the isogeny graphs of Jacobians of genus 2 curves, design and analysis of new algorithms for applications in hyperelliptic curve cryptography.

Teaching assistant (2010 - 2018), EPFL
Supervising student projects and exercise sessions in topology, linear algebra, C and C++ programming, advanced calculus.