Dr William PENSEC

PhD in Computer Science and Digital Architectures


Postdoctorate researcher

Security assessment on FPGA implementation of neural networks on RISC-V architecture



Contact : +33 04.77.91.57.59 (Pro) Email :
Google Scholar : 10 citations / 16 publications Institution : Université Jean Monnet -
UMR CNRS 5516, Laboratoire Hubert Curien (LabHC) -
SESAM Team - Saint-Étienne
GitHub: WilliamPsc LinkedIn
ORCID : 0009-0006-0234-8213 H-Index : 2 / Index i10 : 0
Research interests:
  • Hardware security for embedded systems / RISC-V processors.
  • Physical attacks (mainly fault injections).
  • Security of neural network implementations.

Biography

From September 2025, I will be an Associate Professor at the Université of Montpellier, South of France. I will be attached to the Laboratory of Computer Science, Robotic and Microelectronic of Montpellier (Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Micro-électronique de Montpellier - LIRMM). I will teach at the Engineering school of Polytech Montpellier in the Electronic and Industrial Computing department in both specialities Microelectronics and Automatic (MEA), as well as, Embedded Systems (SE).

Since October 2024 until August 2025, I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Université Jean Monnet, in Saint-Étienne, in the SESAM team of the Laboratoire Hubert Curien. My current research focuses on evaluating the security of FPGA implementations of neural networks, with an objective of securing them against fault injection attacks.

From 2021 to 2024, I did a PhD thesis in computer science at the Université Bretagne Sud, as part of the ARCAD team at the Laboratoire des Sciences et Techniques de l'Information, de la Communication et de la Connaissance (Lab-STICC) in Lorient. My work focused on extending processor protection against physical and software threats by securing the Dynamic Information Flow Tracking (DIFT) mechanism against fault injection attacks.

I am also the author or co-author of several conference papers published in several international conferences (Sensors S&P, DSD, ISVLSI).


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