Brice Colombier

Research

• Hardware security
• Physical attacks: side-channel and fault injection
• Post-quantum cryptography
• Applied cryptography

PhD students supervision

• Maya Abi Ghanem (started in 2024) co-advised with Lilian Bossuet.
  Secure hardware accelerators for hybrid cryptography schemes
• Mathieu Descos (started in 2024) co-advised with Cédric Killian.
  Physical security of embedded neural networks
• Jorge Andres Hoyos Ramirez (started in 2024) co-advised with Lilian Bossuet.
  Study and design of memory protections for an heterogeneous SoC architecture
• Alexandre Ortega (started in 2023) co-advised with Lilian Bossuet.
  Hardware implementation of post-quantum cryptography schemes on FPGA
• Justine Paillet (started in 2023) co-advised with Lilian Bossuet.
  Lightweight and secure implementations of post-quantum cryptography algorithms on FPGA
• Nicolas Vallet (started in 2023) co-advised with Pierre-Louis Cayrel and Vincent Grosso.
  Physical security of code-based post-quantum cryptosystems
• Ihab Alshaer (2020 - 2023) co-advised with Vincent Beroulle and Paolo Maistri.
  Cross-layer fault analysis for microprocessor architectures

Bachelor / Masters students supervision

• Tom Fleuranceau (M2, 2025)
  Study of the effects of quantization on the cryptanalytic extraction of neural network models
• Njokwonyi Stanelius Ntosong (B.Sc., 2025)
  Soft Analytical Side-Channel Attacks on ASCON
• Natacha Muel Camenen (M2, 2024)
  Cryptanalytic extraction of neural network models
• Léo Raclet (L2, 2023)
  Hardware implementation of the matrix-vector multiplication over F2 on the ChipWhisperer platform
• Gijs Burghoorn (M1, 2022)
  Hardware and software simulation of clock glitch fault injection attacks
• Jardel Kaique Santos Duarte (M1, 2022)
  Laser fault injection attacks on unpowered devices
• Gwenvael Le Bars (M1, 2022)
  Hardware implementation of the matrix-vector multiplication over F2
• Mohammed Mezaouli (M1, 2022)
  Software implementation of the matrix-vector multiplication over F2
• Florent Rougier (M1, 2022)
  Setup and automation of an electromagnetic side-channel setup
• Meriam Jamal (M2, 2021)
  Side-channel attacks on the Classic McEliece cryptosystem
• Wassim Barriere (L2, 2020)
  Development of a side-channel traces simulator in C++
• Julien Vernay (M1, 2020)
  Advanced laser fault injection with a multi-spot setup
• Éloïse Delolme (L2, 2019)
  Setup and automation of an electromagnetic side-channel setup
• Théo Basty (L2, 2016)
  Development of a parser for combinational netlists