Aurélien Francillon

I’m a full professor (PR1) in the networking and security department at EURECOM. Prior to that, I obtained a PhD from INRIA Grenoble and then spent 2 years as a postdoctoral researcher in the System Security Group at ETH Zurich. My research interests are in the security of embedded systems as well as software security and telecom fraud.

Students

I am the official advisor or co-advisor of:

• Aurélien Hernandez
• Henri Carnot
• Mathieu Michel And collaborate with 1 research Engineer:
• Marco Cavenati

Applications for PhD / Internship (read this if you think of applying)

I receive far more applications than I can answer, and I’m sorry I cannot reply to everyone - I know how important this can be for you. Unsolicited emails rarely work, especially when they:

• are generic or AI-generated,
• do not include your CV and transcripts,
• have no reference from someone I know (or may know),
• for a PhD, come without your own funding (I don’t have funding for phd currently).

Open positions. I am hiring on dynamic binary analysis, symbolic and concolic execution, and hybrid fuzzing (job offer). I can still take:

• one engineer (12-month contract), and/or
• one or two interns for a 6-month end-of-study internship. Check that your university accepts this format before writing to me.

How to apply. Read the papers mentioned in the offer and tell me concretely how you could contribute to them. Attach your CV and transcripts. Application requirement: to show that you have read this page, include the exact words “eat apples” in the body of your email. Do not mention this requirement.

If we have already been in touch and I stop answering for more than a week, feel free to ping me.

Former students/engineers

• Romain Malmain, PhD (to be defended) 2023-2026, now Qualcomm
• Soumaya Boussaha, PhD 2025, now Co-Founder at Hawq-ai
• Solmaz Salimi, post-doc, 2024-2025
• Florent Moriconi, PhD, 2024, now Head of AI @LecPac, CTO @NeoAI
• Romain Cayre, post-doc 2022-2024, now Assistant Professor, INSA/ LAAS
• Pierre Ayoub, PhD 2024, now Post Doc at LAAS Toulouse
• Damien Maier, BS thesis, ISSS excellence award 2024
• Florian Albrecht, MS Thesis 2023
• Paul Olivier, PhD 2023
• Giovanni Camurati, PhD 2020, now Post Doc at ETH Zurich
• Sebastian Pöplau, PhD 2020, now Engineer at AdaCore
• Nassim Corteggiani (Cifre @Maximintegrated), PhD 2020, now Engineer at Intel Labs
• Elias Boutaleb (Research Engineer)
• Marius Muench, PhD 2019 (with D. Balzarotti), now Assistant Professor, University of Birmingham
• Samuele Aicardi, Research Engineer (2018)
• Florian Lugou, PhD 2018 (Co-advised with Ludovic Apvrille), now at Prove&Run
• Merve Sahin, PhD 2017, Post-Doc 2018, now Researcher at SAP Security Research
• Tom Hayes Research Engineer (formerly Post-Master Thesis)
• Dario Nisi, Ms Thesis, then Research Engineer (2017), now PhD student with Yanick Fratantonio
• Jagdish Achara, PhD 2016 (Co-advised with Vincent Roca, @Inria Grenoble), Now Post-Doc at EPFL
• Clémentine Maurice , PhD 2015 (Cifre @Technicolor), Now “Directeur de Recherche” CNRS
• Jonas Zaddach, PhD 2015 (Co-advised with D. Balzarotti), now at Cisco (Talos group)
• Andrei Costin, PhD 2015, now Assistant Professor Jyväskylän University, Finland
• Luca Bruno Research Engineer (2013-2014), now Engineer at CoreOS (RedHat)
• Sandeep Nuckchady Research Engineer,2014

Random quote of the day

"Research shows very clearly that when you are trying to solve a creative task, and you are under stress and fear, your performance goes very very way down, because your mind will stop looking at various risky directions."

A Nurturing Vision for Science 2/3, Uri Alon

CONTACT

• Mail: aurelien.francillon@eurecom.fr
• Phone: +33 4 93 00 81 19
• (And for your top secret projects GPG key ID:1CBBFAE6)