Simon Abelard

Associate Professor

Team

Security and Systems

Campus

Paris

Contact

simon.abelard@epita.fr

Website

https://sabelard-research.github.io/

Research Area

Computer Algebra
Cryptology

Me in brief:

With experience in both research and engineering, I strive to power the transition to postquantum cryptography by addressing the following challenges: designing cryptographic primitives, assessing their security through cryptanalysis and supporting SDOs & industry regarding organisational aspects.

Short Bio

I am an associate professor at EPITA since September 2025.

From January 2021 to August 2025, I have been an engineer at Thales Group.

From October 2019 to December 2020, I have been a postdoctoral researcher at LIX (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Ecole Polytechnique) and from September 2018 to September 2019 in the Symbolic Computation group at the University of Waterloo (Ontario).

From September 2015 to September 2018, I have been a Ph.D. student at Université de Lorraine. Meanwhile, I have also been a teaching assistant at Mines Nancy.

Research Interests

Currently, my work is divided into two main topics: applied (post)quantum cryptography with a view towards space applications, as well as the cryptanalysis (both classical and quantum) of multivariate signature schemes. More generally, my work aims at solving algorithmic problems for a variety of applications in Cryptology and Coding theory.

Teaching

For the year 2025-2026 I will be teaching cryptology, operations research and lending a hand in other Mathematics courses.