Cédrick De Pauw was awarded the Master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering, and the Master’s degree in Cybersecurity, from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He is a PhD student from the « Embedded Systems Design and Security » department, under the supervision of Professor Jean-Michel Dricot, at the ULB.

The first part of Cédrick’s research was on physically unclonable functions, related protocols and applications. For this research topic, he proposed improvements for an existing privacy-preserving cloud storage protocol from the literature. As a second part of his research, Cédrick is exploring the side-channel analysis (SCA) research field to propose SCA-resilient RISC-V-based systems and trusted execution environments (TEEs). Both hardware-based or software-based SCA methods might be explored during his research.