About

I am a postdoctoral researcher in cryptography at CryptoExperts. From 2021 to 2025, I worked as a Security Analyst at Thales ITSEF, a security evaluation laboratory specializing in the assessment of embedded device security. Prior to that, I completed my PhD at the University of Lyon (2018–2021) and have been promoted as a Young Auditor (2025) of the IHEDN. This website focuses exclusively on my publicly available academic and research activities.

My research interests lie at the intersection of practical cryptography, physical security, and embedded systems. My work has primarily focused on side-channel analysis, the application of machine learning to physical attacks, and the use of such attacks to assess and improve the security of embedded deep neural networks. More recently, I have turned my attention to the defensive aspects of side-channel security, particularly masking countermeasures and their formal security proofs.

News

• 2026-10: 📢 Internship Opportunity (2027) — I am looking for a Master's intern for a six-month research project starting in March/April 2027, focusing on interpretable generative side-channel attacks on desynchronized traces. Feel free to contact me if interested! (Detailed description)

• 2026-06: Sana Boussam (PhD student) has defended her PhD entitled « Design and Analysis of Generative Models for Generic and Interpretable Side-Channel Attacks » on June, 22th.

• 2026-06: Sana Boussam (PhD Student) has had her first single-author paper accepted at Crypto 2026 !! Interested readers can access the paper here.

• 2026-04: Our paper « A Divide-and-Conquer Strategy for Hard-Label Extraction of Deep Neural Networks via Side-Channel Attacks » has been accepted at CHES 2026 !!