Gildas Avoine



Gildas Avoine

Gildas Avoine is professor of information security and cryptography at the UCL in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), where he leads the Information Security Group (GSI) in the Department of Computing Science and Engineering. Before joining the UCL, he was researcher at the MIT (USA) hosted by Ron Rivest in the CSAIL, and at the EPFL (Switzerland) in the LASEC headed by Serge Vaudenay, where he obtained a PhD degree in cryptography. Previously, he studied at the University of Caen (France) where he received a Bachelor degree in mathematics and Bachelor and Master degrees in computer science.
Gildas Avoine also leads training and consulting for companies, especially in his favorite field that is security of radio-frequency identification solutions (RFID).

Contact


Information Security Group
UCL /  INGI /  GSI
Place Saint Barbe, 2
Office Réaumur A.142
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium
Phone: +32 10 47 31 51

Research

My research activities relate to cryptography and information security, especially cryptographic protocols. My recent works addressed fair exchange protocols, time-memory trade-offs, non-adjacent form representations, but also and mostly authentication in radio-frequency (RFID) systems, from both theoretical and practical approaches.

Publications and Presentations

Publications and presentations are available from the Publications section of this website.

Teaching Activities

  • Computer system security (LINGI2347), UCL, Spring, Since 2007.
  • Secured system engineering (LINGI2144), UCL, Fall, Since 2008.
  • Network and communication seminar (LINGI2349), UCL, Spring, Since 2009.
  • Mathematics for computer science (LSINF1250), UCL, Spring, Since 2010.
  • Cryptographic devices (Module A6.2), ENSTA Paris, Fall, Since 2007.