Awards

2021: I was awarded a Fulbright Visiting Scholar grant, which supported my 1-year sabbatical stay at University of California San Diego, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, where I was also appointed as a Visiting Professor.
2014: Eurocrypt 2014 Best paper award, for the paper on the quasi-polynomial discrete logarithm algorithm.
2014: Grand prix de la recherche 2014, awarded by Association des Amis de l'Université de Lorraine
2012: Prix La recherche 2012 (no publicly accessible link that I know of), awarded for the RSA-768 factoring record, among other works by the group.
2011: The article An $L(1/3)$ Discrete Logarithm Algorithm for Low Degree Curves has been published in Journal of Cryptology as an IACR Distinguished paper (I am coauthoring only the journal version).
2010: Grid'5000 award related to the solving of the RSA-768 matrix on Grid'5000.
2003: Prix de thèse de l'école polytechnique.