Dr. William PENSEC

PENSEC William

28 years old

France - Saint-Étienne (42000) - Laboratory Hubert Curien - University Jean Monnet

• 10/2024 -

Postdoctorate in computer science: Security Evaluation of Neural Network FPGA implementations - University Jean Monnet, UMR CNRS 5516, Laboratory Hubert Curien - SESAM Team - Saint-Étienne (France)

• 10/2021 - 09/2024 / PhD Defense : December 19, 2024

PhD Thesis in Computer Science: Enhanced Processor Defence Against Physical and Software Threats by Securing DIFT Against Fault Injection Attacks - Université Bretagne Sud, UMR CNRS 6285, Lab-STICC - Lorient - European Label - https://hal.science/tel-04862037/

• 2019 - 2021

Master in Computer Science, specialization in Software for Embedded Systems (LSE) - Université de Bretagne Occidentale - Brest

• 2015 - 2019

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (Computer Science: Foundations and Applications) - Université de Bretagne Occidentale - Brest

• 2014 - 2015

First Year Common to Medical Studies (Première Année Commune aux Études de Santé - PACES) - Université de Bretagne Occidentale - Brest

• 2014

Obtaining the Baccalaureate, S-SVT series, ISN option (Informatique et Sciences du Numérique / Computer Science and Digital Sciences) - Lycée de Cornouaille - Quimper

• Supervision:
  • 2022 : Co-supervision of a M2 student working on : Implementation of a RISC-V processor on an FPGA target
  • 2022 : Co-supervision of an M1 internship on : Physical attack on FPGA target

• Computer Science:
• Programming language: C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Android, Python, Bash, TCL, AADL, Ada, Visual Basic
• Hardware development: VHDL, System Verilog, FPGA, Vivado HLS, Assembly, RISC-V, LiteX
• Project management: GitHub
• Web: HTML, CSS, PHP, BootStrap, WordPress
• Data management: MySQL, JSON, YAML, XML
• Operating Systems: Linux, Windows
• Microcontroller: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Zedboard Zynq-7000, Basic 3, ChipWhisperer, STM32
• Languages:
• French: Native speaker
• English: B2
• Italian: A2+
• Spanish: High School / A2

• Academics
• 2020 - 2021 (Master 2) :
• Creation of a 3D drone simulator from the INET library of OMNeT++ - C++.
• Android/IoT application : Connected Matrix - Android, Java, NodeJS, Raspberry Pi
• Optimization of parallel algorithms - C, OpenMP - Compilation Parallelism
• Runtime detection - VHDL, FPGA, Vivado HLS - System-On-Chip
• Accelerators on ZedBoard - C++, VHDL, Vivado HLS, FPGA - Co-Design Synthesis
• Modeling and prototyping with AADL Inspector/Ocarina of an Embedded System - AADL, AADLInspector, Ocarina
• 2019 - 2020 (Master 1) :
• Realization of an integer/chain calculator - JCup, JFlex - Compilation
• Analysis of a home automation scenario management language (DOMUS) and code production for the SiDo code simulator - JCup, JFlex - Compilation
• Simulation of an epidemic - OpenCL, MatrixStudio - Massively Parallel Programming (GPU)
• Websocket robot control - HTML, NodeJS, CSS, BootStrap - Mobile Robotics
• Implementation of a scheduling simulator - Ada - Real Time System
• 2017 - 2019 (Licence 3) :
• Creating a spreadsheet software - C
• Creation of a text comparison software - C
• Robotic projects - Arduino, Scratch

• Personal
• Creation of an Android application for fuel consumption management - Android, MySQL, PHP, BootStrap - 2021
• Creation of a website to manage the organization of personal festive events - PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, HTML - 2019/2021
• Creation of a website - HTML, CSS, JavaScript - 2016

• 2023 - Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland, Lugano)
  • International mobility as part of my PhD - Visiting PhD student - SystemVerilog, Python - May 2023 to September 2023
• 2021 - UBO (Lab-STICC)
• Cooperation of drones in a heterogeneous system - Intern - Java, C++, ModBus, Raspberry Pi - April 2021 to August 2021
• 2020 - UBO (Lab-STICC)
• Simulation of a drone with GPS sensors and accelerometer in C++ - Intern - C++, Java, CARES Framework - May 2020 to June 2020
• 2019 - UBO (Lab-STICC)
• Classification of I/O requests for file access optimization on an embedded system - Intern - R, Linux, Bash - June 2019 to July 2019
• 2019 - UBO OpenFactory
• Modeling the position of the Brest streetcar in real time - Intern - Arduino, C, Raspberry Pi, Python, JSON, PHP, HTML, Linux - April 2019 to June 2019
• 2018 - UBO OpenFactory
• Connected Weather Station - Intern - Arduino, WiFi, Server - May 2018 to July 2018

• Sports : Swimming (club and leisure), cycling, water sports (kayak, boat, scuba diving)
• Hobbies : Travel (France, Italy, Spain), Video games, Movies and series, Reading, Music