Research

Internships Supervision

  • Yves Sidi (February-August 2026)

    Efficient and secure application of the first-order masking countermeasure on embedded deep neural networks.

  • Antoine Plin (February-August 2025)

    Rowhammer attacks on embedded systems.

  • Antoine Doglioli (February-August 2025)

    Physical side-channel security of embedded deep neural networks.

Publications and Dissemination

Journals
A Tale of Resilience: On the Practical Security of Masked Software Implementations

L. Casalino, N. Belleville, D. Couroussé and K. Heydemann.

IEEE ACCESS,

2023,

DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3298436

International Conferences
Double Strike: Breaking Approximation-based Side-Channel Countermeasures for DNNs

L. Casalino, M. M. Real, J.-C. Prévotet and R. Salvador.

IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST),

May 4-7, 2026,

Washington, USA,

DOI: 10.1109/HOST68814.2026.11604810

Knock-Knock: Black-Box, Platform-Agnostic DRAM Address-Mapping Reverse Engineering

A. Plin, L. Casalino, T. Rokicki and R. Salvador.

uASC'26 - 2nd Microarchitecture Security Conference,

Feb. 3, 2026,

Leuven, Belgium.

Posters
ATTILA: Addressing securiTy Threats to artIficiaL intelligence in Approximate computing systems

L. Casalino, M. M. Real, J.-C. Prévotet and R. Salvador.

Workshop interdisciplinaire sur la sécurité globale,

Mar. 26-27, 2025,

Paris, France.

A Tale of Resilience: On the Practical Security of Masked Software Implementations

L. Casalino, N. Belleville, D. Couroussé and K. Heydemann.

IACR CHES,

Sept. 10-14, 2023,

Prague, Czech Republic.

Presentations
Hey, Where is Blue Team?! - How We are Defending AI against Side-Channel Attacks

L. Casalino.

Journées Nationales GDR Sécurité Informatique,

Jun. 9-11, 2026,

Lille, France.

Double Strike: Breaking Approximation-Based Side-Channel Countermeasures for DNNs

L. Casalino.

Creac'h Labs Seminar,

Mar. 20, 2026,

Rennes, France.

Side Channels and Deep Neural Network Weights: Attacks, Defences and the Future to Come

L. Casalino.

Journées SSLR

Oct. 8-9, 2025

Paris, France

(On) The Impact of the Micro-architecture on the Masking Countermeasure against Side-Channel Attacks

L. Casalino.

Creac'h Labs Seminar

Oct. 18, 2024

Rennes, France

Ph.D. Thesis
(On) The Impact of the Micro-architecture on Countermeasures against Side-Channel Attacks

L. Casalino.

Sorbonne Universite,

2024.

M.Sc. Thesis
Devil is in the Detail: A compiler based solution to microarchitecture-induced side channel leakages

L. Casalino.

Politecnico di Milano

2020