Research activities

Research topics

Conference chairing

Technical Program Committee Member

Projects in progress

Completed projects



Research topics


  • Privacy: Privacy Enhancing Technology, personal data protection, pseudonymity, usage control, GDPR
  • Digital identity management (security and privacy), Self Sovereign Identity (blockchain)
  • Internet of Things (security and privacy): connected objects, sensors/wireless sensor networks, lightweight protocols
  • Distributed systems (security and privacy): cloud, IoT, fog, blockchains
  • Database anonymization
  • Use cases: Smart grid, Smart cities, Internet of Vehicles, e-health
  • Tools: Blockchain, applied cryptography, cryptographic primitives, lightweight protocols
  • Validation: Prototypes, security games, formal proof, mathematical proof


Conference chairing




Technical Program Committee Member


  • BIOTC 2024 (6th Blockchain and Internet of Things Conference)
  • Trustcom 2023 (22nd Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications)
  • IEEE ISORc 2024 (26th IEEE International Symposium On Real-Time Distributed Computing)
  • DPM 2023 (Data Privacy Management)
  • APVP 2023 (Atelier sur la Protection de la Vie Privée)
  • FPS 2023 (16th International Symposium on Foundations and Practice of Security)
  • AiOfAi '23 (3rd Workshop on Adverse Impacts and Collateral Effects of AI Technologies)
  • Brains 2023 (5th conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services)
  • CSNet 2023 (7th Cyber Security in Networking Conference)
  • SecIndustry 2023 (2nd Workshop on Cybersecurity in Industry 4.0)
  • SP2I 2023 (International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Intelligent Infrastructures)
  • BIOTC 2023 (5th Blockchain and Internet of Things Conference)
  • MobiSecServ 2023 (8th International Conference on Mobile Applications, Security, and Services)
  • Trustcom 2022 (21st Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications)
  • FPS 2022 (15th International Symposium on Foundations and Practice of Security)
  • IEEE CSR 2022 (IEEE Cyber Security & Resilience)
  • B2C 2022 (Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Congress)
  • IFIP IoT (5th cross-domain IFIP Internet of Things Conference)
  • SP2I 2022 (International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Intelligent Infrastructures)
  • Brains 2022 (4th conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services)
  • BIOTC 2022 (4th Blockchain and Internet of Things Conference)
  • MobiSecServ 2022 (7th International Conference on Mobile Applications
  • Security, and Services), UbiSec 2021 (The 17th International Conference on Ubiquitous Security)
  • UbiSec 2021 (The 17th International Conference on Ubiquitous Security)
  • Trustcom 2021 (20th Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications)
  • International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Intelligent Infrastructures (SP2I 2021)
  • IFIP NTMS 2021 (International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security)
  • DPM 2021 (Data Privacy Management)
  • CSR 2021 (1st International Conference on Cyber-Security and Resilience)
  • SECITC 2020 (13th International Conference on Security for Information Technology and Communications)
  • DPM 2020 (Data Privacy Management)
  • IFIP IoT 2020 (IFIP Internet of Things 2020)
  • Trustcom 2020 (19th Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications)
  • IFIP NTMS 2020 (International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security)
  • Brains 2020 (2nd conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services)
  • IWCMC 2020 (Sixteenth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications)
  • MobiSecServ 2020 (Sixth Conference On Mobile And Secure Services)
  • DPM 2019 (Data Privacy Management)
  • Trustcom 2019 (18th Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications)
  • IFIP IoT (2nd cross-domain IFIP Internet of Things Conference)
  • MobiSecServ 2019 (Fifth Conference On Mobile And Secure Services)
  • IFIP NTMS 2019 (International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security)
  • Security and Communication Networks, Transactions on Information Forensics & Security
  • IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
  • WISTP'2018 (12th WISTP International Conference on Information Security Theory and Practice)
  • DPM 2018 (International Workshop on Data Privacy Management)
  • CARI 2018 (Conférence Africaine sur la recherche en Informatique)
  • ICICS 2018 (20th international conference on information and communications security)
  • IWSEC 2018 (12th International Workshop on Security)
  • MobiSecServ 2018 (Fourth Conference On Mobile And Secure Services
  • IFIP IoT (1st cross-domain IFIP Internet of Things Conference)
  • ISPS'2018 (International Symposium on Programming and Systems)
  • IEEE ISC2 2017 (3rd Annual IEEE International Smart Cities Conference)
  • WISTP'2017 (11th WISTP International Conference on Information Security Theory and Practice)
  • IFIP NTMS 2018 (International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security)
  • DPM 2017 n Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services, and Technologies)
  • IWSEC 2017 (12th International Workshop on Security)
  • DNAC 2016 (30 ème édition du congrès DNAC, De Nouvelles Architectures pour les Communications)
  • IEEE NGMAST 2016 (International Conference and Exhibition on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services, and Technologies)
  • CARI 2016 (Conférence Africaine sur la recherche en Informatique)
  • WISTP 2016 (10th WISTP International Conference on Information Security Theory and Practice)
  • NOTERE 2016, VTC2016-Fall (IEEE 84th Vehicular Technology Conference)
  • IFIP NTMS 2016 (International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security)
  • IWSEC 2016 (11th International Workshop on Security)
  • MobiSecServ 2016 (Second Conference On Mobile And Secure Services 2016)
  • IEEE NGMAST 2015 (International Conference and Exhibition on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services, and Technologies)
  • DPM 2015 (International Workshop on Data Privacy Management)
  • WISTP 2015 (9th WISTP International Conference on Information Security Theory and Practice)
  • ISPS'2015 (12th International Symposium on Programming and Systems)
  • CFIP-NOTERE 2015, IFIP NTMS 2015 (International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security)
  • MobiSecServ 2015 (Conference On Mobile And Secure Services)


Projects in progress


  • Multidisciplinary Chair of Institut-Mines-Télécom « Values and Policies of Personal Information »
  • Participation to ANR project TRUST, 2024-2027
  • Head of Tasks 4, PEPR project TrustInCloud, 2023-2030
  • TSP representative, PEPR project Tracia, 2023-2027
  • TSP representative, H2020 PRIMA project MoreMedDiet, 2023-2026
  • Joint collaboration with EDF, "Protection of data used to train Machine Learning models", laboratoire commun IMT-EDF SEIDO, 2023-2026
  • Joint collaboration with Orange Labs, "Better consideration of security and privacy in digital identities", 2023-2026


  • Some of the projects results (demonstrations, source codes...)


  • SPOT: Secure and Privacy-Preserving PrOximiTy Protocol for e-Healthcare Systems
  • PIMA: A Privacy-preserving Identity management system based on an unlinkable MAlleable signature
  • H2020 SPARTA Multi client Searchable-Symmetric Encryption


  • Completed projects


  • European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the grant agreement No $830892$, project SPARTA (SPARTA Multi client SSE results ).
  • Joint collaboration with EDF, "Data protection in energy services", joint lab EDF-IMT SEIDO, 2018-2021
  • Joint collaboration with Entrouvert, "User centric personal data management for local communities", 2018-2021
  • Joint collaboration with Orange Labs, "Security for IoT in Smart Home heterogeneous networks", 2017-2020
  • Joint collaboration with Gemalto, "Token based authorization system for IoT", 2016-2019
  • Joint collaboration with CEA-LIST, "Lightweight Security Protocols for IP-based Wireless Sensor Networks and the Internet of Things", 2013-2016
  • Joint collaboration with Orange Labs, "Measuring data privacy and utility within statistical databases", 2014-2017
  • Collaboration with Traxens, "Robust and lightweight security in a wireless sensor network connected to a centralized system or mobile devices", 2013-2016
  • Joint collaboration with Hakanai Studio, "Robust, extensible and lightweight security adapted to video games based on NFC technology", 2013-2016
  • Projet OMTE (Opération de Maturation Technico-Economique), Digiteo sur la maturation du brevet “ Procédé pour crypter des données dans un cryptosystème NTRU (N,p,q) ", 2012-2014
  • Systematic project ODISEA2(Open Distributed Networked Storage Architecture), 2011-2014
  • ANR CSOG Project RescueIT (sécuRisation dE la Chaine logiStique orientee serviCe depUis le mondE des objets jusqu’à l’univers InformaTique) - Second rank for the innovation price, 2010-2013
  • Project in collaboration with France Telecom R&D: Name resolution platform for considering migration to DNSSEC, 2011-2012
  • ANR TLCOM Project MobiSEND (Etude de la sécurité de l'auto-configuration et utilisation des outils associés pour les protocoles de sécurité et de mobilité en IPv6), 2008-2010
  • ANR TLCOM Project 3MING (Mobilité Multi-technologie Muti-homING), 2008-2010
  • Systematic project FC2 (Fédération de Cercles de Confiance), 2007-2010
  • ANR project SARAH (Services Avancés pour Réseaux Ad Hoc), 2007-2010
  • RNRT project CAPTEURS, 2005-2008
  • Collaboration with ITAM, Mexico: Federated Identity Architectures, 2005-2008
  • IMT one-year project : DisPairse (Disque Pair à Pair Sécurisé) 2007
  • Project in collaboration with Alcatel : Optimizing the mobile reauthentication in case of handovers, 2005-2007
  • Project in collaboration with France Telecom R&D : Authentication system integrating dynamic configuration of Mobile IPv6 and taking into account mobile's moves, 2004-2006
  • IMT one-year project EcoMesh, 2005
  • IMT one-year project VERICERT (Certificate verification with the CADDISC method), 2004
  • Project in collaboration with France Telecom R&D : IP networks security, 2001-2004
  • Project in collaboration with France Telecom R&D : IPv6 security for mobility-based network services, 2001-2002
  • Project CADDISC (Combining LDAP and DNSsec directories to distribute keys securely), 2003
  • Project SECURIM (Security Functions Involved in the Mobility Service Initialization), 2001
  • Project in collaboration with the French Army (CELAR) : access control over ATM networks
  • ACTS project SCAN (Secure Communications in ATM Networks) : development of an equipment prototype allowing to secure communications over ATM networks, 1998-1999