Resume
Academic Achievements
- 2024: PhD defense of Samuel Pelissier (supervised)
- 2023: PhD defense of Michael Toth (supervised)
- 2021: Knight of the French Order of Merit
- Co-developed the ROBERT and CLEA privacy-preserving protocols used in France’s official TousAntiCovid app
- Led the IRTF NWCRG research group on coding for efficient network communications within IETF standardization
Background
- Permanent researcher at Inria, the French national institute for research in digital science and technology
- Team leader of the PRIVATICS Inria research team since late 2019, which has focused on privacy since its inception in 2013
- Main research interests include privacy considerations, especially privacy risks associated with smartphones, IoT devices, and web browsers
- Previously worked extensively on robust content distribution techniques, particularly transport protocols (e.g., FLUTE/ALC, FECFRAME) and forward erasure correction (FEC) codes (e.g., LDPC-Staircase, GLDPC codes)
- Actively involved in IETF standardization; co-led the IRTF's 'Coding for Efficient Network Communications' (NWCRG) research group with M.J. Montpetit
- Co-authored the ROBERT and CLEA protocols with PRIVATICS colleagues, which formed the basis of contact and presence tracing in France’s TousAntiCovid app (2020–2022)