Biography
Olivier Potin holds a MBA and a PhD in Microlectronics. He started his career as a software engineer. Then he was co-founder and technical manager of Oridao with the aim of developping cryptographic embedded RFID solutions before turning to research in test domain. In 2014, he joined the École des Mines de Saint-Étienne as Associate Professor.
His research interests include side-channel attacks and hardware countermeasures development, error-detecting code against fault injection and CoDesign approach to improve security.
Research topics
Side-channel attacks, Hardware countermeasures, Error-detecting codes, Hardware implementation, Security by CoDesign, Embedded systems
Teaching areas
Dr Potin coordinates the teaching activities in Embedded Systems and Industrial Computing Systems. He also teaches the basis of Digital Electronic, C, Hardware Description Language, Processor architecture and FPGA CoDesign.
Education
1999. 11. PhD in Microelectronics / Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics and Microelectronics (LIRMM)
2008. 9. MBA in business management / University School of Management, Montpellier
Career
1999 – 2007 Software Engineer at Temento Systems
2008 – 2009 Technical Manager at Oridao
2009 – 2014 Research Engineer at LIRMM
2014 – Present Associate Professor at Mines Saint-Étienne