Greetings 👋
I am an Associate Professor at CentraleSupélec in the PIRAT team (IRISA, Inria). My current research focuses on the intersection of Web privacy, tracking, and energy consumption. I started exploring these topics during my postdoctoral fellowship in the DiverSE team (IRISA, Inria) along with Walter Rudametkin.
I defended my PhD titled "Privacy-preserving communications for the IoT" in Sepember 2024 at INSA-Lyon / Inria as part of the Privatics Team, under the supervision of Mathieu Cunche and Vincent Roca. My doctoral research explored privacy in wireless IoT networks, with a particular focus on LoRaWAN, using both offensive and defensive techniques based on machine learning processes.
You can find a list of publications I've contributed to here.
Before my PhD, I graduated in 2021 from ENSIBS, a cyber-security-focused engineering school. As part of a work-study program during my studies, I worked as a pentester at Acceis.
Teaching
I am currently teaching at CentraleSupélec, mainly on the Rennes' campus. Class materials can be found here.
Academic community service
PC member:
- ACM Web Conference (WWW), Security&Privacy track
Occasional reviewer / sub-reviewer:
Artifact Evaluation:
- 18th USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies (WOOT, 2024).
Organization committee:
- 16e Atelier sur la Protection de la Vie Privée (APVP, 2026).
- 14e Atelier sur la Protection de la Vie Privée (APVP, 2024).
Previous talks & resources
- "Privacy-Preserving Pseudonyms for LoRaWAN", 17th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec; May 2024): slides
- "Introducing privacy-preserving identifiers in LoRaWAN", LPWAN days (July 2023): poster
- "Device re-identification in LoRaWAN through messages linkage", 15th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec; May 2023): slides
Recent Posts
Notes au sujet de la qualification MCF 2025 - CNU 27 Informatique
Samuel Pélissier
Quelques notes presque en vrac au sujet de la qualification au poste de Maître de Conférences pour la section 27 Informatique du CNU, obtenue en 2025. De base Le dossier prend du temps à réaliser Si...
read articleEnhancing IoT Privacy: Why DNS-over-HTTPS Alone Falls Short?
Samuel Pélissier, Gianluca Anselmi, Abhishek Kumar, Anna Maria Mandalari, Mathieu Cunche
Recent years have seen widespread adoption of consumer Internet of Things (IoT) devices, offering diverse benefits to end-users, from smart homes to healthcare monitoring, but raising serious privacy...
read articleFingerprinting connected Wi-Fi devices using per-network MAC addresses
Abhishek Kumar Mishra, Samuel Pélissier, Mathieu Cunche
Wi-Fi stands out as one of the most prominent and widespread wireless technologies in use today. Smartphones and various other Wi-Fi-enabled devices employ management frames called probe-requests to...
read articlePrivacy-preserving pseudonyms for LoRaWAN
Samuel Pélissier, Jan Aalmoes, Abhishek Kumar Mishra, Mathieu Cunche, Vincent Roca, Didier Donsez
LoRaWAN, a widely deployed LPWAN protocol, raises privacy concerns due to metadata exposure, particularly concerning the exploitation of stable device identifiers. For the first time in literature, we...
read articleDevice re-identification in LoRaWAN through messages linkage
Samuel Pélissier, Mathieu Cunche, Vincent Roca, Didier Donsez
In LoRaWAN networks, devices are identified by two identifiers: a globally unique and stable one called DevEUI, and an ephemeral and randomly assigned pseudonym called DevAddr. The association between...
read articleShadow Banning in Browser-based Volunteering Computing
Samuel Pélissier, Lucas Dupont, Dorian Lefeuvre, Nicolas Guillois
Browser-based volunteering computing projects are mainly used to perform scientific computations in heterogeneous clusters at a low cost. As for every community-driven approach, saboteurs can try to...
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