Pierre-Yvan is the Chief Scientist at eShard, a company based in Pessac, France, where he coordinates the expertise projects of the IC Security activity. He is responsible for the R&D aspects and contributes to the development of tools for evaluating resistance to hardware attacks leveraging side-channels or perturbations. Before joining eShard, Pierre-Yvan spent 22 years at STMicroelectronics (STM), where he worked in the Secure Micro Division as a Cryptologist Expert. His contributions included specification, development, and validation of security for STM Secure ICs. His work mainly focused on the security of SoCs (System on Chip) and Cryptography applied to embedded systems.
Pierre-Yvan has a PhD in Computer Science and Microelectronics from the University of Montpellier (LIRM). In his thesis, he proposed innovative approaches to handle Side-Channel attacks at the hardware, mathematical, and algorithmic levels. He founded and directed the Cryptography and Security Laboratory (CSLab) within STMicroelectronics for almost 15 years.
In 2016, he was nominated by the European Patent Office, along with his teams, for their numerous contributions in the Industry category for the Inventor of the Year 2016 Award. During 2018 and 2019, involved in activities of the CooLab of STMicroelectronics, he supported business projects that resulted in the establishment of a brainstorming structure for innovation.
In the past, Pierre-Yvan spent four years in SOLAC Smartcard Industries and Schlumberger Card and System as a Cryptologist, where he developed cryptographic libraries for smartcard products.
LinkedIn : https://fr.linkedin.com/in/pierre-yvan-liardet-715bb6
Titre conférence : SOC: Spot the Odd Circuit
