Research Interests

My research interests relate to computer science, cybersecurity, networked & distributed systems.

Biographical Summary

Francoise Sailhan is professor at IMT-Altantique and head of the CYR cluster. Her research interest involves cybersecurity, networked and distributed systems. Prior, she was associate professor at CNAM and external collaborator of the Mimove research team at INRIA. She was a visiting researcher at SRI during summer 2012 and prior she spent one year in the University of Franche Comté and 2 years (2005-2007) in the Ericsson Ireland Research Center (EIRC) as a Marie Curie fellow; her work including the chair of the invention disclosure board of Ericsson Ireland.  

Current PhD students  

Pierre Charreaux "Moving target defense" since 09/2023

Nesrine Khamar "Crypto tatouage et tracabilité" since 12/2023 

Rémy Barbier : "Improving the qualities of blockchain within a dynamic network for Industry 4.0" since 2024

Louis Poidevin "Towards a new generation of probes for monitoring encrypted traffic" since 09/2024

Bavhani Sulina "Towards Explainable Intrusion Detection with the Human in the Loop" 02/2025 

Awards, Prices

• Maître de conférences, hors classe, 2020.

• Marie curie reintegration grant, 2008.

• Celtic excellence Award (collective price) - EU Madeira project, 2007.

News

• The International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security  FPS'25  hosted by IMT Atlantique, November 25-27, 2025. Submission deadline : September 15th, 2025. 

• October 2022: CFP  of the ICIN conference is available 

• September 2022: Recent publication on Container placement  and migration strategy for cloud, fog, edge datacenter - a survey   

• March 2022 - The ANR PARFAIT project (Planning And Learning For AI-Edge compuTing) is starting soon.

• February 2022 - Smartcomp'22 conference: deadline for paper registration.

• May 2021 - I am keynote speaker at 6th International Conference on Business Intelligence (CBI'21).