Open Associate Professor position in Cybersecurity
The SOTERN team is pleased to announce one permanent position as Maître de conférences (Associate Professor): Associate Professor in CybersecurityIRISA/Sotern Team, SRCD Department, Rennes Campus
Newcomer to the team
The SOTERN team welcomes its newest associate researcher: Yann Busnel, Senior Vice-President for Research of the Institut Mines-Télécom. His research will reinforce SOTERN’s activities on collaborative security, federated learning for intrusion detection and the analysis of large-scale distributed data streams.
SOTERN annual seminar 2026
Last week, the SOTERN team gathered in Pleumeur-Bodou (22) for its annual seminar. The two-day program included scientific presentations by all non-permanent members, a keynote from a permanent member, and two workshops: one about the PhD-supervisor relationship and the use of generative AI in research. In addition to the scientific…
TMA 2026 Best Paper Award Announced at TU Delft
The SOTERN Team is honored to share the winner of the Best Paper Award at the Traffic Measurement and Analysis (TMA) Conference 2026: “A Longitudinal Study of IPv4 Fragmentation Characteristics in Internet Traffic,” authored by: The paper offers a long-term look at how IPv4 packet fragmentation behaves across real Internet…
Thesis Award – GDR RSD 2025
On 07/10/2024, Léo LAVAUR, PhD candidate at the IMT Atlantique and member of the SOTERN team defended his PhD thesis. On 03/02/2025, Léo LAVAUR won the GDR RSD 2025 thesis award for his thesis entitled “Improving Intrusion Detection in Distributed Systems with Federated Learning,” completed at IRISA and supervised by…
Two upcoming PhD theses
SOTERN is proud to announce the imminent arrival of two new PhD students to the team. Daisy Munson, a Master’s graduate from EUR Cyberschool who completed her end-of-study internship with the team, will begin her PhD in spring 2025 on the topic of “Intention Control in Intent-Based Security Systems.” Mikhael…
RESSI 2025 : 10e édition à Lanniron
L’équipe SOTERN a le plaisir d’organiser la 10e édition de RESSI (Rendez-Vous de la Recherche et de l’Enseignement de la Sécurité des Systèmes d’Information). Cet événement phare pour la communauté francophone de la sécurité des systèmes d’information se tiendra cette année au Domaine de l’Orangerie à Lanniron (Finistère). L’équipe SOTERN…
Newcomers to the team
SOTERN is delighted to welcome Fabien Eyssartier as Research Engineer and Elie Chedemail as Postdoctoral Researcher in the team. Research Engineer Fabien Eyssartier will be working mainly on software platforms and production for the team, and scientifically on policies and intents for security. Young researcher Elie Chedemail’s postdoc will focus…
PhD Defense of Léo LAVAUR
On 07/10/2024, Léo LAVAUR, PhD candidate at the IMT Atlantique and member of the SOTERN team defended his PhD thesis. The team congratulates Léo LAVAUR on his serious work, which was appreciated by his peers, and wishes him all the best for the future at the University of Luxembourg and…
Newcomers to the team
For this new academic year, SOTERN is delighted to welcome two permanents and five young researchers. Permanent researchers Gilles Guette (Professor) Mohammed Nafi (Associate Professor) Young researchers Gabriel Bourgeois (PhD student): “Exploring the impact of time-sensitive network misconfiguration on cybersecurity” Issam Ikhelef (Postdoctoral researcher): “5G Network Security Slices” Yohann Morel…