FRANCILLON Aurélien

education

PhD in Computer Science from INRIA/INP Grenoble (2009)
Postdoctoral researcher in computer security at the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland (2009-2011)

He has been involved in cooperative research with many companies through publicly funded projects (NEC, NXP, Arkoon, etc.) or direct partnerships (Google, Technicolor,...).
Prior to his PhD, he was working as an expert engineer at INRIA in cooperation with ST Microelectronics.

In 2024, he receives the Test of Time Award Winner 2024 from NDSS Symposium for the paper "SMART: Secure and Minimal Architecture for (Establishing a Dynamic) Root of Trust (2012)"
In 2020, he received one of the Google Faculty Research Awards 2019-2020 in the "Security" category.
He also received a Distinguished Paper Award for the paper "Symbolic execution with SymCC: Don't interpret, compile!" written with Sebastian Peoplau.
Google also awarded him the Google Bughunter Hall of Fame Honorable Mention in 2020.
In 2015, he received with Clémentine Maurice and their co-authors a Best Paper Award for the article presented at DIMVA 2015: "C5: Cross-cores cache covert channel"
In 2013, he received with his co-authors the Best Student Paper Award for the article: "Implementation and implications of a stealth hard-drive backdoor" (ACSAC 2013)
Prix de Thèse INP Grenoble 2010