I am mostly working for two R&D teams, one of them focusing on air quality measurements and the other one on a secure distance bounding protocol using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). My main achievements were:- building a firmware over-the-air update solution via BLE for a STM32 board- coordinating the preparation of a demo for IMEC’s biggest event showing a potential applications for that updater solution- taking over the task lead from a former colleague in a EU funded project on short notice and giving good quality deliverables on time- reaching a better than state-of-the-art performance for an authenticated key exchange protocol on an ARM Cortex-M0 by selecting a fast elliptic curve and optimizing its implementation Show less

I worked on building embedded Linux distributions and on building architectures based on Trusted Platform Modules in a research lab of the Dept of Electrical Engineering.

400h project, group of 4 students, working directly for the company. We built a modular website dedicated to television by using the Symfony framework. The company later abandoned the project but was satisfied with our result and received several purchase proposals for our solution.

I was paid by the school for one year. I had to build a new students’ website, manage the student’s server, control the school’s computers and help to manage the school’s intranet network.

I worked on upgrading Corellis’ “Hotels” application for Android.

PhD thesis, supervised by Emmanuelle Encrenaz, Bruno Robisson and Karine Heydemann Joint research lab CEA / Mines St-Etienne on Secure Architectures and SystemsMy research works focused on performing fault injection attacks on microcontrollers, on identifying their effect on embedded programs and on designing assembly-level countermeasures. I also conducted practical experiments on electromagnetic fault injection on an ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller. These activities led to four publications in international peer-reviewed conferences with proceedings and one journal article, and these articles have been cited in many recent research papers (cf. Google Scholar). A detailed list is available on www.nicolasmoro.net/my-publications.I also attended some extra classes (on strategic management, management of technology projects, competitive intelligence, European Union funded research projects), and gave a course for 2 years on ‘Cryptography & introduction to embedded systems security’ course for 2 years (21h/year) to 1st year MSc students from Mines St-Etienne. Show less

Innovation Center Crypto & Security, member of the Crypto Software teamI worked first as a developer and later as a component owner for the NXP Cryptographic Library. The library provides several cryptographic functions hardened against fault attacks and side-channel analysis for NXP’s secure microcontrollers. It is split in several components, and each of them has an owner who coordinates the activities (software design, task planning, implementation, adaptations for new platforms, test specifications, security evaluation and technical documentation). My main achievements were: - implementing a complex proprietary function which gave a key performance advantage to the library- proposing a code compression solution which became used for code size reduction- reorganizing the code in my component to improve its modularity and adaptability- designing a masking scheme for a proprietary 3G cryptographic primitive. Show less