Simon Abelard

Student mentoring and internships

• PhD thesis of Pierre Pébereau co-supervised with M. Safey El Din, 2022-2025
  "Geometric approach to the cryptanalysis of multivariate signature schemes"
  Pierre received the first prize of the EDITE graduate school for his work
• Master internship of Marie Bonboire, Feb-Aug 2026
  "Cryptanalysis of the MAYO signature scheme"
• Master internship of Semwell Ferrari (with M. Safey El Din), Feb-Aug 2026
  "Quantum algorithms for solving polynomial systems"
• M1 internship of Hao Shi (with L. Perret), Apr-Jul 2026
  "Study of factorization-based multivariate 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"

Optimization at EPITA (Fall 2025)

• Linear programming for M1 international students (12 hours)
• Non-linear optimization for M1 international students (15 hours)

Cryptography courses at ESME (Spring 2026)

• Lectures and exercises for second-year Bachelor students (24 hours)
• Lectures and exercises for third-year Bachelor students (20 hours)

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)