Other scientific activities

Administration activities

  • Interlocutor and responsible in Paris VIII of the Laboratory LAGA (since 2017).
  • Head (since 2021) of the research team at the LAGA laboratory a>" Algebra, Geometry, Combinatorics, and Applications to Cryptography and Coding” (AGC3)
  • Head (since 2020) of the Master in Arithmetic, Coding and Cryptology of the diploma "Master Mathematics and Applications" at the the University of Paris VIII.
  • Member of Council of the Laboratory LAGA (since 2018).
  • I am responsible (from 1st January 2022 to present) for the international relations of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Paris VIII.
  • Head of the research team MTII "Mathematics for information and image processing" (2017-2018) in the laboratory LAGA.
  • Head of Master: I was heading the Master's degree in Mathematics (Master's Mathematics and Applications to Coding theory and Cryptography) at the University of Paris VIII since 2013.
  • I was in charge (with C. Carlet) of the Master MACC (Mathematics and Applications to Coding theory and Cryptography) program of mathematics from 2006 to 2009.
  • Member of Council UFR: I was member of the Council of Unity of Formation and research (UFR) at the University of Paris VIII from 2006 to 2010.
  • Budget: Charge of the budget of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Paris VIII from 2006 to 2009.
  • Teaching and administrative training: Charge teaching and administrative training in cryptology between Thales and University Paris VIII form 2008 to 2009.
  • Member of the Recruitment Commission: I'm a member (vice president) of the Recruitment Commission for Mathematics at the University of Paris VIII since 2008. This commission is in charge of the recruitment of Assistant and Associate Professors.
  • Member of committee: I was a member for 7 years (2011-2018) of the french research coordination committee (Codes and Cryptography), gathering more than 250 researchers.
  • I am responsible (since January 1st, 2022) for international relations within the Department of Mathematics of the University of Paris VIII.
  • I am a member (permanent guest) of the Council of Laboratoire LAGA in Paris 13 (since 2018).
  • I am a member of the council of the Paris VIII doctoral school n°224 Cognition, Language, Interaction at Paris 8 (since 2018).
  • I am a member of the advisory committee of the mathematical sections of Paris VIII.
  • I am a member (often responsible) of the monitoring committee for doctoral theses at Paris VIII.

Supervisions Ph.D Thesis

  1. Ph.D Thesis of Mrs Jian Liu (co-supervised with Lusheng Chen), School of Mathematical Science-University of Nankai-China) at the University of Paris VIII in the China Scholarship Council framework (CSC), defended on May 29, 2015. Since her defence, she has held the position of associate professor at a university in China.
  2. Ph.D Thesis of Mr Bennenni Nabil (co-supervised with K. Guenda) with the University of Sciences and Houari Boumedienne USTHB technology, Algeria, supported on October 23, 2016. Since his defence, he has held the position of Associate professor in Algeria.
  3. Ph.D Thesis of Mr Ahmet Sinak (co-supervised with the METU Applied Mathematics Institute, Ankara, Turkey) (co-supervision with Ferruh Ozbudak) at the University of Paris VIII defended on 08 September 2017. Since his defence, he has held the position of Associate Prof in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Faculty of Science, Necmettin Erbakan University of Turkey. Faculty of Science, Necmettin Erbakan University of Türkiye.
  4. Ph.D Thesis of Mr Amine Mrabet (in co-supervision with the University of Tunis) (co-supervised with Nadia Mrabet and Mohsen Machhout) defended on 08 November 2017. Since his defence, he has held the position of expert in cryptography for a leading company in France.
  5. PhD Thesis of Mr Junwei Wang (co-supervised with Jean-Sébastien Coron, Matthieu Rivain and Pascal Pallier) at the University of Paris VIII and the University de Luxembourg defended on June 24, 2020. He was Awarded 2020 the Chinese Prize for “Best thesis” in the field. After his thesis, he became a cryptographic expert for a high-level company in France and obtained an important position at “Apple” in Paris, France.
  6. PhD Thesis of Mr Ashref Aloui at the University of Paris VIII was defended on June 28, 2022. Since his thesis defence, he has held a senior executive position in the cryptography section of the Tunisian Ministry of Defense.
  7. Ph.D. Thesis of Mrs Liqin Qian at the University of Paris VIII (co-supervised with Xiwang Cao) and The Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China ("cotutelle"), defended on July 25, 2022. Since her thesis defence, she has held a postdoctoral position in a research laboratory in China. Since fall 2023, she is an associate professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Anhui University, Hefei, China.
  8. Ph.D. Thesis of Mr Said Eddahmani at Paris VIII University, in progress. Defence foresaw in 2024.
  9. PhD Thesis of Mr Ruikai Chen at the University of Paris VIII, in progress. Defence foresaw in 2024.
  10. Ph.D. Thesis of Mr. Virginio Fratianni at the University of Paris VIII (since 2022), in progress.

Supervisions of Master Thesis

    Since 2006, I have supervised nearly 100 internship projects in License 3 and Master 1. Below is the list of my supervision at Master 2 level (knowing that our students are invited to carry out end-of-study internships in companies):
  1. Master Thesis of Mozhgan Taghizadehtabarsi in coding theory defended on 17 September 2014.
  2. Master Thesis of Edgar Ndie in Boolean functions defended on 1st September 2017.
  3. Master Thesis of Omar Diankha Boolean functions and Side Channel Attacks defended on 1st September 2019.
  4. Master Thesis in Cybersecurity and cyber defense of Guillaume Avillaneda defended in January 2020.
  5. Master Thesis in Cybersecurity and cyber defense of Jordan Berfroi defended in January 2020.
  6. Master Thesis in Cybersecurity and cyber defense of Jean-Vincent Blossier defended in January 2020.
  7. Master Thesis in Cybersecurity and cyber defense of Jean-Thierry Calvet defended in January 2020.
  8. Master Thesis in Cybersecurity and cyber defense of Charles Dubos defended in January 2020.
  9. Master Thesis of Mohamed Hassen Tazairt defended on December 2020.
  10. Master Thesis of Roosevelt Essono Assoumou defended in December 2020.
  11. Master Thesis of Kone Ibrahima defended on December 2020.
  12. Master Thesis of Nourelhouda Aouni defended on December 2020
  13. Master Thesis of Sarah Lemboub defended on December 2020.
  14. Master's thesis by Gaye Baye Bara Laye defended in December 2020 (University of Paris VIII).
  15. Master's thesis of Badreddine Chah defended in December 2020 (University of Paris VIII).
  16. Master Thesis of Juba Ait Salem defended in December 2020 (University of Paris VIII).
  17. Master’s thesis by Grigor Hakobyan defended in December 2020 (University of Paris VIII).
  18. Master Thesis of Laetitia Debesse defended in March 2021 (ENSTA, Institut Polytechnique de Paris).
  19. Master Thesis of Elsa Brou defended in June 2021 (Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris).
  20. Master Thesis of Marouane El Fadli defended in June 2021 (Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris).
  21. Master's thesis of Nail Baaziz defended in June 2021 (Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris).
  22. Master Thesis of Edme Quentin Master's degree defended in June 2022 (University of Versailles-University Paris Saclay).
  23. Master Thesis of Saussay Nicolas defended in June 2022 (University of Versailles-University Paris Saclay).
  24. Master Thesis of Roboubi Keivan defended in June 2022 (University of Versailles-University Paris Saclay).
  25. Master's thesis by Virginio Fratianni defended in July 2022 (the University of Orsay-University Paris Saclay and University Padova).
  26. Master Thesis of Alexey Nazarov's Master's degree defended in June 2022 (University of Paris VIII).
  27. Master Thesis of the Master Adam Hacham defended in June 2022 (University of Paris VIII).
  28. Master Thesis of Thoussa Vigneswaran defended in June 2022 (University of Paris VIII).
  29. Master Thesis of Cheikh Tidiane Sakho defended in June 2022 (University of Paris VIII).
  30. Master Thesis of Cissokho Karamba defended in June 2022 (University of Paris VIII).
  31. Master Thesis of Ahmad Yaghi defended in June 2022 (University of Paris VIII).
  32. Master Thesis of Doan-Quan Nguyen defended in June 2022 (University of Paris VIII).
  33. Master's thesis of Abdelkader Oullami defended in June 2022 (University of Paris VIII).
  34. Master's thesis of Baba Cissokho defended in november 2023 (University of Paris VIII).
  35. Master's thesis of Diankatu Mavambu defended in nnovember 2023 (University of Paris VIII).
  36. Master's thesis of Kaci Amaouche defended in november 2023 (University of Paris VIII and the compagny "ComThings", Nice).
  37. Master's thesis of Yassine Ozaim defended in november 2023 (University of Paris VIII and University of Luxembourg).
  38. Master's thesis of of Noémie Akpaki. Start in 2024 (Paris VIII University and THALES group).
  39. Master's thesis of Maria Slim. Start in 2024 (Paris VIII University and ORANGE group).
  40. Master's thesis of Romuald Linon. Start in 2024 (Paris VIII University).
  41. Master's thesis of Siyuan Chen. Start in 2024 (Paris VIII University and Univessity of Orsay Paris Saclay).

Member of Ph.D thesis's defense

  1. Ph.D. Thesis of Rafael Fourquet, entitled "List decoding codes of Reed-Muller and application to cryptanalysis ", defended on November 3 2011, Paris VIII (examiner).
  2. Ph.D. Thesis of Jean-Pierre Flori, entitled "Boolean functions, algebraic curves and multiplication complex ", defended on February 03, 2012, Telecom Paris (examiner).
  3. Ph.D. Thesis of Chérif Mihoubi "Cyclic codes ternary rate 1/2 ", defended on 21 December 2012, Telecom Paris (examiner).
  4. Ph.D. Thesis of Lin Sok, entitled "Code, Lattices and functions boolean ", defended September 20, 2013, Telecom Paris (referee).
  5. PhD thesis of Stéphanie Dib entitled "Distribution of non-linearity of boolean functions ", defended on 11 December 2013, University of Marseilles (rapporteur).
  6. PhD thesis of Deng Tang, entitled "Boolean functions for diagrams cryptographic by streams and blocks, defended on 01 July 2014, University of Paris VIII (examiner).
  7. PhD thesis of Valentin Suder entitled "Differential Properties of permutations and application in cryptography symmetric ", defended on November 5, 2014, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt and Paris 6 University, France (examiner).
  8. Ph.D. thesis of Brahim Merabe, entitled "Security criteria of Boolean functions against algebraic attacks on flow diagrams and by blocks ", defended on January 12, 2015, University of Boumediene, Algeria (referee)
  9. Ph.D. Thesis of Soukayna Qarboua "Quaternary approach functions cryptographic, boolean functions and Tu conjecture and Deng "defended on 23 June 2016, Telecom Brittany / ITI (referee).
  10. Ph.D. The thesis of Samir Hodzic entitled "Characterization of generalized bent functions and some other related topics to cryptography ", defended on August 10 2017, Koper, Slovenia (referee).
  11. Ph.D. thesis of Pierrick Méaux, entitled "Hybrid fully homomorphic framework ", defended on December 08 2017, ENS, INRIA, Paris, France (examiner).
  12. Ph.D. The thesis of Nicolas Marrière, entitled "Cryptanalysis ciphers by blocks with method variances ", defended on 20 December 2017, Cergy, France (guest).
  13. Ph.D thesis of Nishant Sinha entitled `` Analysis of symmetric ciphers " defended on August 31 2018, Roorkee, India (referee).
  14. PhD Thesis of Bhupendra Singh entitled `` On rotation symmetric Boolean functions " defended in May 2019, India (referee).
  15. PhD Thesis of Yann Rotella entitled`` Mathematics discrete applied to symmetric cryptography " defended September 19, 2018, INRIA, Paris, France (examiner)
  16. Ph.D thesis of Thanh-Hung Dang, entitled "Complexity scalar of type algorithms Chudnovsky from multiplications in finite fields" defended on May 25 2020, Luminy, Marseille, France (referee).
  17. PhD Thesis of Maamar Oulad, entitled “Optimizations of Channel Attacks Hidden ", defended on September 08, 2020, Paris, France (guest).
  18. PhD Thesis of Violetta Weger, entitled “Information Set Decoding in the Lee Metric and the Local to Global Principle for Densities " defended on 17 November 2020, Zurich (referee).
  19. PhD thesis of Pratap Kumar Behra entitled "Construction of strong S-boxes for block ciphers" defended on August 2021, Madras, India (referee).
  20. Ph.D. thesis of Dan Zhang entitled "Design of sequences with good correlation properties", defended on August 26, 2021, in Bergen, Norway (referee).
  21. Ph.D. thesis of Mohammed Zitouni entitled "Etudes et implémentation des algorithmes de couplages sur les courbes hyper-elliptiques sur les corps premiers" defended on September 14, 2021, in Paris, France (examiner).
  22. PhD thesis of Wei Cheng entitled "What Can Information Guess?", defended on December 10, 2021, Telecom Paris, Institute Polytechnic of Paris, France (examiner).
  23. PhD thesis of Asma Chaouch entitled "Efficient implementation of the arithmetic Adapted Modular Number System (AMNS)" defended on December 15, 2021, Toulon, France (referee).
  24. PhD thesis of Charul Rajput entitled "On some constructions of locally recoverable codes" defended on February 24, 2022, Roorkee, India (referee). .
  25. PhD thesis of Rene Rodriguez entitled "Minimal binary linear codes" defended on December 2, 2022, Koper, Slovenia (referee). .
  26. Ph.D. thesis of Bastien Pacifico entitled " Construction polynomiale d’algorithmes de multiplication de type Chudnovsky de complexité bilinéaire linéaire", defended on December 15, 2022, Institute mathematics of Aix Marseille, France (examiner).
  27. Ph.D. thesis of Hamid Boukerrou entitled "Synthèse de nouveaux automates à états finis décrits par une représentation matricielle: application à la cryptographie", defended on April 4, 2023, University of Nancy, France (examiner).
  28. PhD thesis of Chloé Gravouil entitled "Boolean Fault-Resistant Masking and White-Box ability of Lightweight Cryptography", IRMAR, defended on June 27, 2023, University of Rennes, France (examiner).
  29. PhD thesis of Yi Liu Thèse de doctorat de Yi Liu intitulée “Security Assessment Against Side-Channel Attacks: Insights from an Information-Theoretic Perspective” soutenue le 15 Novembre 2023, Télécom Paris Saclay, France (examiner).
  30. PhD thesis of Vidya Sagar entitled "Constructions of linear codes with nice parameters" defended in November 2023, New Delhi, India (referee).
  31. PhD thesis of Abhishek Roy entitled "Constructions of $1$-D sequences and $2$-Array with flexible lengths for applications", Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna, defended in March 2024, India (referee).

Educational activities

  • Author of book: Joint author of the book "Mathematics L2" Pearson Education, 2007 (Chapter "Quotients rings and finite fields" and Chapter complement "From finite fields to error-correcting codes").
  • Jury member of a national competition: competition Mathematics A (Algebra and Analysis) from 2005 to 2014
  • Corrective books: book "oral competitions Central School / Supelec School/ Mine School/ Polytechnic School"; a collection of Ellipses and book "Mathematics L1"; collection Pearson Education.
  • Scientific document examiner: "An analysis of scientific papers" in Mathematics for Polytechnic competitions in 2011.
  • Framing of training courses: framing of almost 50 training courses Master in Mathematics and information theory from 2006 to 2009.
  • Oral examinations in preparatory classes: preparation for the oral competition in Mathematics (2nd year class preparatory MP, PSI*, MP*, PC* and 1st year of preparatory class MPSI) for 28 years.