Engineering and mathematics student

Education and Diplomas

Exchange student in a master of mathematics at Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, the "Royal Institute of Technology" in Stockholm, Sweden. There I studied, among other things, applied numerical methods, complexity theory, discrete mathematics (algebra, combinatorics…), proof complexity and cryptography.

Multidisciplinary engineering student at the ECL. I followed specific lectures in algorithmic, mathematics (finite elements, functionnal analysis), computer science (constraint and logical programming), fluid mechanics (study of turbulences and unstabilities) and crisis management.

Classes preparing for Engineering Schools competitive examinations. Intensive lectures in math and physics as well as english, philosophy and theoretical computer science classes.

Scientific high school diploma with specialisation in mathematics obtained at Gabriel Fauré high school, Annecy (France).

Internships and Work Experience

Title: On the properties of S-boxes. Research in mathematics for cryptography, namely studying polynomials in finite fields of characteristic 2 well suited for use as S-boxes.

Development of a Java application allowing a huge number of people to the annotate media. Java programming (Eclipse), UML modelisation, use of CrowdSourcing (Amazon's Mechanical Turk via CrowdFlower), autonomous working.

Internship at the logistics department of a factory. Shelves labelling, stocktaking, handling.

Private lessons given to a student willing to attend the French competitive exam that used to be required for school teachers (IUFM).

Academic Projects and Associative Activity

Verificatum is an implementation of a mix-net, a cryptographical concept used to guaranty anonymity during an electronic vote. I am writing a C++ program parsing the output of Verificatum to check that it worked as intended. I also wrote a working verifier for the previous version of the protocol.

KTH's library organizes at luch time a meeting with student willing to practice a foreign language with native speakers. I was in charge of making students talk with each other in French once a week: meeting animation, multicultural context, etc.

Design and realisation of a system implementing the IEEE 802.1x network standard to allow the administration of the network of ECL's campus' residencies. In charge of the use of a LDAP.

Project Manager of a first year project. Design, realisation and test of a Human-computer Interaction (HCI) relying only on the user's gestures, without any mouse or keyboard. Team work, multicultural team management (four nationalities), C++ programming. This project was nominated by the school for the internal price of the best first year project.

"Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Amis de l'Informatique et des Réseaux" (ECL, Friends of IT and Networks) is a benevolent students association in charge, among other things, of the administration of the network of the residencies on ECL's campus (more than 700 users). GNU/Linux administration, public speech, network administration, realisation of the master of a USB stick given to each first year student.

Computer Literacy

• Use and administration of GNU/Linux based Operating Systems (OS) (especially Debian, Ubuntu and CentOS).
• C++, Java, Python, MATLAB (octave), bash programming; imperative and Object Oriented (POO) programming, basic knowledge of logical programming (I had Prolog lectures during my second year at the ECL). Samples of my code can be seen on my github repository.
• Use of the bash shell: command lines and scripting.
• Use of the office suites OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice and Microsoft Office…
• … Though I prefer LaTeX which I use almost every day.
• I use (gnu) Emacs whenever I need to edit text files, either when programming, writing reports (Latex) or modifying this very page.
• Use of version control systems: subversion and, mostly, git.
• Web programming: HTML/CSS and basic knowledge of PHP. I have written the content and the stylesheets of this website (except those of the "blog" section which uses wordpress).
• Graphics edition with The GIMP (raster) and InkScape (vectorial).