Dr William PENSEC

• 09/2025 -

Associate Professor: University section 61 - University of Montpellier associated to Montpellier University Polytechnic School (Polytech Montpellier) - UMR CNRS 5506 - Laboratory of Computer Sciences, Robotics and Microelectronics of Montpellier (LIRMM) - ADAC Team - Montpellier, France.

• 10/2024 - 08/2025

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

• 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