Award & nomination

Congratulations to Florian Roudot, a PhD student in the SPICY research team Florian Roudot won the Honourable Mention Award at the 34th USENIX Security Symposium for his work in cybersecurity. His article, entitled “ Narrowbeer: A Practical Replay Attack Against the Widevine DRM”, was co-authored with Mohamed Sabt, professor at the University of Rennes and member of the SPICY team. The USENIX [..]

The Best Paper Award was presented to Adel Aly (PhD student in the Shaman team in Lannion) and his thesis supervisors Oliver Pivert and Virginie Thion * at the 19th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2025). They were recognized for their article entitled “A Flexible Framework for Transposition-Aware Querying of a Musical Score Database.” It proposes a new [..]

Congratulations to Léo Lavaur former doctoral student in the SOTERN research team, who received the GDR RSD 2025 thesis award for his thesis entitled « Improving Intrusion Detection in Distributed Systems with Federated Learning » supervised by Yann BUSNEL, Marc-Oliver PAHL and Fabien AUTREL, members of the SOTERN research team. The jury appreciated the very high quality of the manuscript, both in [..]

Congratulations to Nicolas Bailluet, a PhD student at the University of Rennes in the PACAP research team, who won the Distinguished Artifact Award at the USENIX Security 2025 For the article " Nothing is Unreachable: Automated Synthesis of Robust Code-Reuse Gadget Chains for Arbitrary Exploitation Primitives" Autors : Nicolas Bailluet, Univ Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA; Emmanuel Fleury, Univ [..]

At IRISA, several researchers have been honored with the "10 years Test of T ime Award " for their paper titled " Efficient key grouping: near-optimal load balancing in stream processing systems", originally published at ACM DEBS 2015 (ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event‐Based Systems. Congratulations to the authors! 🔹 Nicolo Rivetti et Leonardo Querzoni (La Sapienza University [..]

Within the DiverSE team, Théo Giraudet [PhD student at Cifre PME Obeo], Arnaud Blouin [Associate Professor at INSA Rennes] and Benoit Combemale [Full professor at the University of Rennes and Director of Research at Inria], along with Mélanie Bats and Pierre-Charles David [CPO Obeo], received the ‘best paper award’ at the EICS 2025 conference (The 17th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering [..]

Congratulations to Pierrick Philippe, doctoral student in the Spicy team, who was awarded the Distinguished Best Paper prize at the 55th annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on DSN for his paper “ GnuZero: A Compiler-Based Zeroization Static Detection Tool for the Masses”, co-authored with Mohamed Sabt (professor at the University of Rennes and member of the Spicy team) and Pierre-Alain [..]

Congratulations to the research team on winning this prestigious award at the ACM SIGPLAN international conference on software language engineering, A huge congratulations to Thomas Degueule (CNRS researcher at LaBRI) and our DIVERSE research team members, Benoît Combermale (Research Director at Inria), Arnaud Blouin (Associate Professor at INSA Rennes), Olivier Barais (Professor at the University [..]