I am an associate professor at CentraleSupélec (Rennes, France) in the CIDRE research team since October 2020. I did my PhD in artificial intelligence at IRIT (Toulouse, France) under the supervision of Hélène Fargier and Jérôme Mengin.

Interests

I mainly work on intrusion detection, where I apply various machine learning techniques. Here are a few recent projects:

• Intrusion detection in IoT networks by analyzing with deep learning the raw radio communication captured with SDR (software-defined radio). Our solution can monitor wide radio bands and detect low-level attack in proprietary and undocumented protocols. PDF
• Intrusion detection in a fleet of IoT devices without any model learning, by detecting anomalous devices by its deviation to the rest of the population (collaboration with EDF). PDF
• Intrusion detection and explanation in avionics systems based on bigram timing analysis (collaboration with Thalès AVS). PDF

I also work on the security of formal languages and more specifically on injection attacks.

Doctoral advisor

I am currently supervising three PhD students:

• Maxime Lanvin on unsupervised intrusion detection in networks
• Vincent Raulin on malware dynamic analysis
• Adrien Schoen on network packets generation for IDS evaluation

I was also involved in various PhD:

• Malcolm Bourdon, defended in 2021
• Aliénor Damien, defended in 2020
• Jonathan Roux, defended in 2020

Teacher

I am teaching various topics at CentraleSupélec, notably:

• Network and security (L3)
• Intrusion detection system (M2)
• System programming (M1 and M2)

PC member and reviewer

Security conferences

• DSN 2022
• THCon 2022
• EICC 2021
• Doctoral Forum of DSN 2020
• ISSRE 2020

Artificial intelligence conferences

• AAAI 2021, 2022
• IJCAI 2020
• RJCIA (Rencontres des Jeunes Chercheurs en Intelligence Artificielle) 2019, 2020

Journals

• Transactions on Computers
• International Journal of Information Security
• Computers & Security

Contact

Bureau 506
CentraleSupélec – Campus de Rennes
Avenue de la Boulaie
35510 Cesson-Sévigné – France
pierre-francois.gimenez@centralesupelec.fr