Biography

Serge Vaudenay entered at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in 1989 with a major in mathematics. He earned his agrégation (secondary teaching degree) in mathematics in 1992, then a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Paris 7 - Denis Diderot in 1995. He subsequently became a senior research fellow at the CNRS, prior to being granted his habilitation à diriger des recherches (a postdoctoral degree authorizing the recipient to supervise doctoral students). In 1999, he was appointed as a Professor at the EPFL, where he created the Security and Cryptography Laboratory.

CURRENT WORK

• Cryptographic analysis: security analysis (security proofs, attacks) of cryptographic primitives
  
• Lightweight cryptography: design and analysis of cryptographic primitives in constrained environments (stream cipher, key agreement, RFID privacy)
  
• Secure communication channels: key agreement, authentication and confidentiality, privacy
  

Serge Vaudenay's research is sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

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