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)