Simon Abelard

Student mentoring and internships

• PhD thesis of Pierre Pébereau co-supervised with M. Safey El Din, started in December 2022
  "Algebraic cryptanalysis of post-quantum signature schemes"
• Master internship of Mael L'Hostis, Mar-Aug 2023
  "Fast and constant-time modular inversion applied to the KEM BIKE"
• Master internship of Sana Boussam (joint with ANSSI), Feb-Aug 2022
  "Side-channel attacks assisted by Artificial Intelligence"
• Master internship of Claire Jauvion, Mar-Aug 2022
  "Algebraic approaches for computing isogenies whose degrees have small prime factors"

Introductory Mathematics for Cryptography (INFMDI720) at Telecom Paris (Fall 2020)

• Lectures (10.5 hours in total)
• Exercise sessions (10.5 hours in total)
• Design of 5 exercise sheets and final exam

Algorithms and data structures at UWaterloo (Spring 2019)

• Lecturer for the enriched course (30 hours)
• Design of 5 assignments and 2 exams

Operations Research at Mines Nancy (2015-2018)

• Exercise sessions for second-year students (total ~80 hours)
• Exercise sessions for first-year students (total ~15 hours)
• Course and exercise sessions for first-year students (total ~25 hours)

Computer Science at Mines Nancy (2015-2018)

• Algorithmics and programming in python, exercise sessions, second-year students (~35 hours)
• Algorithmics and programming in python, exercise sessions, first-year students (~20 hours)
• Data bases, exercise sessions, second-year students (~20 hours)