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About me:

I'm a 22 year-old French student, working at ENSI of Bourges in computer security and technologies, and at the University of Rennes I (through INSA Rennes) in computer science research. I'm mostly interested in systems security, distributed systems, machine learning, linguistics, algorithmic and fundamental computer science.

I've been contributing to free software for about a year, by working on the Xubuntu Linux distribution, as well as several pieces of software (Exaile and tiny bits of Xfce, mostly). Unfortunately, I can't seem to find the time to do it any more, so I merely contribute some patches to the bugs in my own pieces of software.

If there is anything you want to know about me, please contact me directly.

Involvement:

I am nowadays interested in research, most specifically in computer systems security, security policies, distributed systems, parallel programming, some fields of natural language processing and machine learning. Feel free to contact me if you want to talk about research, in this field or another. I usually like to chat about state of the art in most fields of computer science, be it only to improve my knowledge of the existing and stimulate my creativity.

The main topics that interest me at the moment are:

• How to automatically learn what an application or service needs in order to be able to run in a system, and how to express these needs in a policy efficiently and accordingly to the principle of least privilege.
• How to find a link between security constraints in a security policy and the requirements of an application as expressed in terms of system interactions after a dynamic analysis or behaviour profiles after a static analysis.
• How to allow easy management of data confidentiality and application rights from the user's point of view, how to easily let the user visualize conflicts or risks related to the use of an application or service with regard to a given security policy.

I have contributed to the following projects in the past:

• Xubuntu, an XFCE based GNU/Linux distribution, contributing to various ways, by reviewing applications for use in Xubuntu, writing software meant to improve user experience, translating apps and documentation, and mostly by pissing the Xubuntu developers off all day long with my opinions.
• Exaile, a python music player, as an external developer proposing feature- and bugfix- patches as a consequence for it's use in Xubuntu – I'm very likely to keep working on Exaile when I find time for it

I also wrote (and am meant to maintain) the following software:

• RezTorrent, a CLI bittorrent client with very little dependencies, as it's lead developer. RZ was meant to evolve as the most interesting choice for seeding servers, but is currently not maintained since neither I nor the other developer can't find the time to do the code re-factoring it requires.
• Xfce4 Volume Daemon, as it's developer and maintainer. XVD is used to control the volume keys and show synchronous volume notifications in Xubuntu. Nothing extraordinary here, though...
• Context-Editor, an application for editing, visualizing and checking basic properties on the security properties used by Contextd, an application firewall written by Martin Peres, for the research team Security and Distributed Systems of the Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orléans (LIFO). Both pieces of software are part of the PIGA-SYSTRANS software suite.

I am currently mostly reading papers, learning chinese, playing guitar and ice hockey, but I don't have any public project keeping me busy. If you are interested in software and OS interface design, please check out the Shimmer Project.

Interests:

Computer science, cooking, playing ice hockey, geopolitics and social science, research, contemporary art, reading books