Khaoula Sghaier

PhD Student

Team

Security and Systems

Campus

Paris

Contact

khaoula.sghaier@epita.fr

Research Area

Software-Defined Vehicles
Over-The-Air Updates
Cybersecurity

Me in brief:

Telecommunications Engineer, PhD Candidate within the Security and Systems Team at the LRE (Laboratoire de Recherche de l’EPITA, https://www.lre.epita.fr/) since February 2024.

Short Bio

I am a Telecommunications Engineer graduated from SUP'COM (University of University of Carthage, Tunisia). I began my research experience during my engineering internship at Télécom Paris. I later worked as a cybersecurity researcher at Ericsson, focusing on decentralized architectures and federated learning.

I am currently a Ph.D. candidate working on the cybersecurity of Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs) and vulnerability analysis to secure Over-The-Air (OTA) updates. My doctoral research is conducted in collaboration with the research laboratory of EPITA (LRE,Sorbonne University), VEDECOM Institute and Télécom SudParis.

My research focuses on automated vulnerability analysis in OTA update systems, secure-by-design architectures, and AI-driven decision mechanisms for connected vehicles.

Research Interests

Software-Defined Vehicles Over-The-Air Updates Security-by-design

Teaching

At EPITA, I teach Data Structures course to ING1 and AppING1 students and mentor project-based learning through coaching on the 42sh Unix shell development project.