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.