Aurélien Francillon

I’m a full professor (PR1) in the networking and security department at EURECOM. Prior to that, I obtained a PhD from INRIA Grenoble and then spent 2 years as a postdoctoral researcher in the System Security Group at ETH Zurich. My research interests are in the security of embedded systems as well as software security and telecom fraud.

Students

I am the official advisor or co-advisor of:

• Aurélien Hernandez
• Romain Malmain
• Soumaya Boussaha
• Henri Carnot

And collaborate with 1 post-doc:

• Solmaz Salimi and 1 research Engineer:
• Marco Cavenati

Former students/engineers

• Florent Moriconi, PhD, 2024,
• Romain Cayre, post-doc 2022-2024, Assistant Professor, INSA/ LAAS
• Pierre Ayoub, PhD 2024, now Post Doc at LAAS Toulouse
• Damien Maier, BS thesis
• Florian Albrecht, MS Thesis 2023
• Paul Olivier, PhD 2023
• Giovanni Camurati, PhD 2020, now Post Doc at ETH Zurich
• Sebastian Pöplau , PhD 2020, now Engineer at AdaCore
• Nassim Corteggiani (Cifre @Maximintegrated), PhD 2020, now Engineer at Intel Labs
• Elias Boutaleb (Research Engineer)
• Marius Muench, PhD 2019 (with D. Balzarotti), now Assistant Professor, University of Birmingham
• Samuele Aicardi, Research Engineer (2018)
• Florian Lugou, PhD 2018 (Co-advised with Ludovic Apvrille), now at Prove&Run
• Merve Sahin, PhD 2017, Post-Doc 2018, now Researcher at SAP Security Research
• Tom Hayes Research Engineer (formerly Post-Master Thesis)
• Dario Nisi, Ms Thesis, then Research Engineer (2017), now PhD student with Yanick Fratantonio
• Jagdish Achara, PhD 2016 (Co-advised with Vincent Roca, @Inria Grenoble), Now Post-Doc at EPFL
• Clémentine Maurice , PhD 2015 (Cifre @Technicolor), Now “Chargée de Recherche” CNRS
• Jonas Zaddach, PhD 2015 (Co-advised with D. Balzarotti), now at Cisco (Talos group)
• Andrei Costin, PhD 2015, now Assistant Professor Jyväskylän University, Finland
• Luca Bruno Research Engineer (2013-2014), now Engineer at CoreOS (RedHat)
• Sandeep Nuckchady Research Engineer,2014

Random quote of the day

"Research shows very clearly that when you are trying to solve a creative task, and you are under stress and fear, your performance goes very very way down, because your mind will stop looking at various risky directions."

A Nurturing Vision for Science 2/3, Uri Alon

CONTACT

• Mail: aurelien.francillon@eurecom.fr
• Phone: +33 4 93 00 81 19
• (And for your top secret projects GPG key ID:1CBBFAE6)