Organizers
Marc-Oliver Pahl, Ph.D., IMT Atlantique, France (Expert Cybersecurity)
Prof. Dr. Marc-Oliver Pahl heads the industrial Chair Cybersecurity for Critical Networked Infrastructures (cyberCNI.fr) at IMT Atlantique Rennes, France. The chair hosts 18 professors, 9 PhDs, 4 PostDocs, and multiple engineers and interns. Marc-Oliver is an adjunct professor of Carleton University in Canada. Marc-Oliver is Vice President of the German Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (germany.acm.org). He heads the Future Education activities of the German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future (future-industry.org). Marc-Oliver’s research focuses on a holistic approach to cybersecurity with an emphasis on collaborative approaches including VR-based cybersecurity interfaces and federated learning. He is an experienced teacher and an eLearning pioneer, holding several teaching awards. He continuously hosts events for larger audience such as the TALK.CYBERcni.fr speaker series and the future-iot.org PhD school series.
(Foto: Andreas Heddergott)
Sebastian Steinhorst, PhD, Technical University Munich (TUM), Germany
Sebastian Steinhorst is professor for Embedded Systems and Internet of Things at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of TUM. The research of Prof. Steinhorst centers around design methodology and the hardware/software co-design of distributed embedded systems for use in Internet of Things, automotive and smart energy applications.
Rodrigue Germany, Deputy Head of the Cybersecurity Program and in charge of coordinating the PTCC (Programme de transfert au Campus Cyber) at Inria, France
Olivia Pahl, Head of Education Projects at the German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future (GFA) at IMT, France
Olivia Pahl is Head of the Education Projects at the German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future (GFA) at IMT. Before moving to France she was heading the communications department at the Institute for Societal Development (FGW) in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Speakers and Challenge Providers (alphabetical given name)
Karthik Bhargavan, Chief Research Scientist at Cryspen
Karthik is co-founder and chief research scientist at Cryspen, a company that develops verification tools and high-assurance security-critical software and helps companies to deploy them. He has contributed to the design and formal security analysis of cryptographic standards like TLS 1.3, HPKE, and MLS, and to the deployment of formally verified high-performance cryptographic code in projects like Firefox, Linux, Python, WireGuard, mbedTLS, etc. He is currently on leave from Inria Paris, where he led a team called Prosecco that specialized in formal verification for real-world cryptographic systems.
Andreas Finkenzeller, Technical University of Munich
Andreas Finkenzeller is a PhD at the Embedded Systems and IoT group at TUM since 2021. He already did several industrial internships in companies including Bertrandt, Rohde&Schwarz, and Airbus.
Mohammad Hamad, Technical University of Munich
Mohammad Hamad is a Research Group Leader for Security for IoT and Automotive Systems at the Associate Professorship of Embedded Systems and Internet of Things at the Technical University of Munich.
Filip Maksimovic, Inria
Filip Maksimovic received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering and in aerospace engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA. He is currently pursuing the graduation degree at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center, University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley), Berkeley, CA, USA, and the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center, UC Berkeley. His current research interests include low-power RF and mm-wave wireless transceivers.
Mina Marmpena, Head of AI/ML at ITML (Greece)
Mina Marmpena is a technical project manager at ITML in Greece, where she also leads the AI/ML Team. She oversees several EU projects focused on developing AI-based systems across various domains, including cybersecurity, automotive, energy sustainability, and mobility as a service. Her responsibilities include AI solutions design, MLOps, data management pipelines, streaming applications, and microservices architecture. Mina holds a PhD in robotics, specializing in generative models for social robotics, affective computing, and human-robot interaction, as well as a Master’s degree in neuroinformatics. Her main interests include sequential and generative models, federated learning, edge computing, and distributed architectures.
Gael Musquet, Hacking Specialist
Marc-Oliver Pahl, Ph.D., IMT Atlantique, France (Expert Cybersecurity)
Prof. Dr. Marc-Oliver Pahl heads the industrial Chair Cybersecurity for Critical Networked Infrastructures (cyberCNI.fr) at IMT Atlantique Rennes, France. The chair hosts 18 professors, 9 PhDs, 4 PostDocs, and multiple engineers and interns. Marc-Oliver is an adjunct professor of Carleton University in Canada. Marc-Oliver is Vice President of the German Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (germany.acm.org). He heads the Future Education activities of the German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future (future-industry.org). Marc-Oliver’s research focuses on a holistic approach to cybersecurity with an emphasis on collaborative approaches including VR-based cybersecurity interfaces and federated learning. He is an experienced teacher and an eLearning pioneer, holding several teaching awards. He continuously hosts events for larger audience such as the TALK.CYBERcni.fr speaker series and the future-iot.org PhD school series.
Servann Pigault, Framatome
Servann Pigault is a Cybersecurity Control Engineer at Framatome.
Sevi Politi, Machine Learning Engineer at ITML (Greece)
Sevi Politi is a machine learning engineer at ITML in Greece, where she works on multiple EU projects aimed at developing AI-based systems across various domains, such as cybersecurity, automotive, energy sustainability, and mobility as a service. Her responsibilities encompass MLOps, data management pipelines, streaming data pipelines, and model development and optimization. Sevi holds a Master’s degree in Informatics, focusing on business computing and big data analytics, in addition to an Integrated Master’s degree in Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences. Her primary interests lie in data management, machine learning, federated learning, edge computing, and code optimization for performance and scalability.
Laurent Toutain, IMT Atlantique and Co-Founder of Acklio, France
Laurent Toutain is a Professor with the IMT Atlantique Graduate Engineering School and a Co-founder and a Scientific Advisor of Acklio. He worked for several years on IPv6 and participated in the creation of the G6 group, which has been gathering researchers and industrialists around IPv6 since 1995. His current research focuses on protocols and architectures specific to IoT’s needs. From 2011 to 2015, he managed the Smart Grid competence center shared by Télécom Bretagne, Texas Instruments, and ITRON. He is the author of several books on networks.
Communication
Marla Da Silva, Comunication & Event Manager at Software Heritage and launch of the PTCC (Programme de Transfert au Campus Cyber), France
Samira Franzel, Science Communication Specialist at Einstein Center Digital Future, Germany
Samira Franzel has been responsible for science communication at the Einstein Center Digital Future since 2021. She studied American Studies and Political Science at the University of Mannheim, the Free University of Berlin, and the University of Copenhagen. In recent years, she has worked at the Graduate School for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin, the Goethe Institute, and the Sarah Wiener Foundation, among others.
Staff
Aline Becq, LabCyber Coordinator at PTCC (Programme de Transfert au Campus Cyber), France
Sandrine Frouin, Assistante du Département SRCD at IMT Atlantique, France
Erkin Kirdan, M.Sc., TU München, Germany
Research Associate at the IOT Smart Space Team at TU München.
Christian Lübben, M.Sc., TU München, Germany (Expert IoT)
Christian Lübben is a research associate and PhD student at the chair of Network Architectures and Services at Technical University of Munich. Within the Internet of Things (IoT) Smart Space Orchestration (S2O) team his research focus lies on optimizing IoT smart spaces using Artificial Intelligence (AI) based advanced data analytics. The S2O team works on new ways of taming the complexity of the IoT. The goal is making a joint orchestration as simple as writing a smartphone App. Challenges include security, usability, resilience, scalability, and performance.