Emmanuel Thomé — Vitae

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Emmanuel Thomé

Inria senior research scientist

CARAMBA team leader

Work: Emmanuel.Thome@inria.fr
Personal: Emmanuel.Thome@gmail.com
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Phone: +33 (0)3.54.95.86.59
Postal mail:
INRIA, Bât. B, CARAMBA
615 rue du jardin botanique
F-54600 Villers-lès-Nancy
France

Professional experience #

2022/01–
INRIA senior research director (DR1), CARAMBA team leader.
2021/08–2022/08
Visiting professor, University of California San Diego, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Security and Cryptography group.
2015-now
INRIA research director, CARAMBA team leader.
2006–2015
INRIA research scientist (CR1)
2003–2006
INRIA junior research scientist (CR2)

Education and degrees #

2012
Habilitation à diriger des recherches Université de Lorraine.
2000–2003
PhD student (link to PhD thesis) École polytechnique, supervisor: François Morain
1999–2000
University of Illinois, Chicago (visiting scholar)
1995–2000
École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. élève fonctionnaire.

Awards #

2021
Fulbright Visiting Scholar grant, which funded my sabbatical stay at University of California San Diego, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, from 2021/08 to 2022/08. This grant is a joint financing effort of the French-American Fulbright commission and the Grand-Est Region.
2015
Best paper award, ACM CCS 2015 (link), Imperfect Forward Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice, (paper).
2014
Grand prix du chercheur, awarded by Région Lorraine. (link no longer available).
2014
Best paper award, Eurocrypt 2014 (link), A Heuristic Quasi-Polynomial Algorithm for Discrete Logarithm in Finite Fields of Small Characteristic.
2012
Prix La Recherche, factorization of RSA-768. (link no longer available).
2003
PhD award, École polytechnique.

Students #

2008–2011
Romain Cosset, Applications des fonctions thêta à la cryptographie sur courbes hyperelliptiques. co-supervision with G. Hanrot. University Nancy 1. Defended on 2011/11/07. Link to PhD thesis document
2011–2015
Hamza Jeljeli, Accélérateurs logiciels et matériels pour l'algèbre linéaire creuse sur les corps finis. co-supervision with J. Detrey. Université de Lorraine. Defended on 2015/07/21. Link to PhD thesis document
2013–2016
Hugo Labrande, Explicit computation of the Abel-Jacobi map and its inverse. Cotutelle supervision with M. J. Jacobson, Jr. Université de Lorraine, University of Calgary. Defended on 2016/11/14. Link to PhD thesis document
2014–2018
Svyatoslav Covanov, Multiplication algorithms : bilinear complexity and fast asymptotic methods. co-supervision with J. Detrey. Université de Lorraine. Defended on 2018/06/05. Link to PhD thesis document
2018–2020
Simon Masson, Algorithmique des courbes destinées au contexte de la cryptographie bilinéaire et post-quantique. co-supervision with A. Guillevic. Université de Lorraine. Defense planned in december 2020. Link to PhD thesis document
2018–2021
Aude Le Gluher, Topic: Improved complexity analysis and simulation of the Number Field Sieve. Co-supervision with P.-J. Spaenlehauer. Link to PhD thesis document
2021–2024
Haetham Al Aswad. Topic: the Number Field Sieve and its variants. Co-supervision with C. Pierrot.
2021–2024
Antoine Leudière. Topic: the algorithmics of Drinfeld modules and there applications to cryptography. Co-supervision with P.-J. Spaenlehauer.

Grants (present and past) #

2023–2028
co-PI (with Gaëtan Leurent) of the Cryptanalyse project, under the umbrella of the PEPR Cybersécurité. Total budget 5 M€, partners: Inria Nancy (CARAMBA), Inria Paris (COSMIQ), Inria Bordeaux (LFANT), IRISA, LIRMM, LMV, LIP6, LJK, UPJV.
2022–2025
scientific leader (coordinator) of the ANR Kleptomaniac project, focusing on key length estimates for classical public-key cryptographic primitives. Total budget 465 k€, partners: Inria Nancy (CARMABA), LIP6, ANSSI.
2018
compute time allocation on the PRACE infrastructure.
2015–2020
coordinator, CPER cyberentreprises. Host of many local projects with needs for research infrastructure. Total budget 4.5 million €.
2013–2016
scientific leader (coordinator) of the ANR Catrel project, focusing on discrete logarithms over finite fields. (ANR Blanc project)
2009–2012
local correspondent of the ANR Chic project, focusing on hyperelliptic curves, isogenies, and point counting problems (scientific leader/coordinator: David Lubicz, IRMAR, Rennes). (ANR Blanc project)
2006–2009
member of the ANR Cado, focusing on the Number field sieve algorithm (scientific leader/coordinator: Pierrick Gaudry, LORIA). This project was the original source of funding that led to the cado-nfs software.

Committees and collective responsibilities #

2021–
editorial board member, Journal of Algebra
2019–2023
elected member of the Inria Evaluation Committee
2019–2023
elected member of the Inria Technical Committee
2018–2021
member of the scientific directorate of Schloss Dagstuhl
2010–2020
member of the steering committee of the Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium (ANTS).
2011–2014
elected member of the Inria Evaluation Committee
2007–2018
member of the scientific committee of the Journées Nationales de Calcul Formel.

Program Committees: Eurocrypt 2021, ANTS 2020, Eurocrypt 2016, FPS 2015, ECC 2015, LatinCrypt 2014, SAC 2014, ECC 2012, ECC 2011, WCC 2011.

Participation in conference organization: ECC 2011, ANTS 2010, JNCF 2008, JNCF 2007.

Other committees #

2024
president of two hiring panels at Université de Lorraine.
2011–
About 30 hiring or advancement panels at Inria at various level, most of them as part of my duties as an elected member of the Evaluation Committee in 2011-2014 and 2019-2023.
2018
president of hiring panel at Inria Nancy.
2014–2022
hiring panel for post-docs and PhD students at Inria Nancy. (Comipers, commission de recrutement des personnels chercheurs)
2013–2015
PhD/HDR supervisory board in Nancy. (CMI, Commission de mention informatique)
2013–2018
(non-scientific) elected member of local committee on safety and working conditions at Inria Nancy and at Loria. (CHSCT, comité hygiène, sécurité, et conditions de travail)
2008–2011
hiring and supervisory panel for fixed-term engineer positions. (CDT, commission des développements technologiques)

Keynote invitations #

ANTS XIII (2018), WCC 2015, Waifi 2012.

Also, invitation-only workshops: ECC 2017, ECC 2014, ECC 2002.

PhD or HdR panels #

As of winter 2024, about 12 PhD or HdR committees (as examiner, reviewer, or president) since 2013.