Gildas Avoine

Gildas Avoine is professor of applied cryptography and information security at the UCL in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), 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 is also an independent expert in cryptography and information security. He leads training and consulting for companies, especially in his favorite field that is radio-frequency identification (RFID).

Thanks to Laetitia for the picture! (Boston, USA, Aug. 2006)

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

2007-01-27	The paper ePassport: Securing International Contacts with Contactless Chips by G.Avoine, K.Kalach, and JJ. Quisquater has been accepted at the conference Financial Cryptography and will be presented on January 29th, 2008.
2007-11-11	A paper co-written with Pascal Junod and Philippe Oechslin entitled Characterization and improvement of time-memory trade-off based on perfect tables has been accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC).
2007-11-11	The French magazine MISC published in September/October 2007 (Number 33) an issue on Security and Privacy in RFID Systems.
2007-09-01	The book Computer System Security, Basic Concepts and Solved Exercises written by P. Junod, Ph. Oechslin, and myself, and published by the PPUR / CRC Press, is now on sale.