Hi, I'm Adam.
I’m a PhD student in Hardware Security at Lab-STICC, Université Bretagne Sud, in Lorient. My research is about detecting attacks from inside the chip: watching what happens across a whole System-on-Chip to spot software and hardware attacks while they are running.
I came to hardware through Reverse Engineering: Game Hacking, CTFs and Windows internals first, then FPGAs, Fault Injection and Embedded Security during my master’s. This blog is where I share what I learn along the way, for anyone curious about how systems really work underneath.
Trajectory
Research, industry and education, most recent first.
PhD in Hardware Security
Detecting software and hardware attacks from inside the chip, using signals gathered across the whole System-on-Chip to tell normal behaviour from an attack in progress.
Master's Internship, Embedded Software on FPGA
Measuring and reducing the memory footprint of embedded software on a resource-constrained FPGA, bare-metal and on FreeRTOS.
Master CSSE, Cybersecurity of Embedded Systems
Hardware and software security side by side: HDL and FPGAs, exploit development, reverse engineering, and building and hardening Linux distributions.
Master's Internship, Fault Emulation on FPGA
A modular tool to emulate fault injection on SoCs running on FPGAs, with several fault models and a flexible trigger system, tested on bare-metal and Linux targets. It became LiteInjector.
Internship, C++ Developer
Extending a soil nitrogen-surplus model to phosphorus, and integrating new datasets.
Bachelor in Computer Science
Programming (Java, C++), databases and web development, then the low-level side: computer architecture and operating systems.
On GitHub
Open-source tools I built while learning security.
Windows Internals
Low-level Windows tooling, from overlays and hooks to DLL Injection, Process Hollowing and PE manipulation.
- ImGui-Standalone ↗★ 282
- Process-Hollowing ↗★ 201
- DLL-Injector ↗★ 192
Reverse & Game Hacking
Taking games and binaries apart, and the small tools that make it easier.
- Cube-World-Reversing ↗★ 14
- PE-Explorer ↗★ 84
- Cave-Finder ↗★ 80
Hardware & Embedded
Embedded and Hardware Hacking, SoC integration on FPGA and CTF write-ups.
- LiteX-CVA6 ↗★ 10
- TL-WR841N ↗★ 40
- CSAW-ESC-2023 ↗★ 5
Beyond the papers
What happens around the research: talks, CTFs and side projects.
Talks & Events
Paper presentations at conferences, plus talks that explain concepts and make hardware security accessible to a wider audience.
- 2026HS3 2026 · Rome, Italy
- 2025BTIFLIP · European Cyber Week, Rennes
- 2025DSD 2025 · Salerno, Italy
- 2025GDR SoC2 National Colloquium · Lorient
- 2024JAIF 2024 · Rennes
- 2024SSTIC 2024 · Rennes
Awards
First place internationally at the CSAW Embedded Security Challenge 2023, one of the few CTFs dedicated to hardware and embedded system security.
Open source
20+ open-source projects, mostly security: Windows internals and game hacking tools, embedded and hardware hacking, and FPGA frameworks. 1.5k+ stars on GitHub.
Teaching
- MScDefensive programming: reverse engineering & Exploit development · CSSE & CYBERUS Erasmus Mundus
- BScOperating systems · 3rd year
- Eng.Microprocessors · 3rd year of engineering school
- DUTIntroduction to Python · 2nd year
- FPGA · HDL
- LiteX · Migen
- STM32 · Embedded C
- FreeRTOS · Bare-metal
- Reverse Engineering
- Exploit Development
- Fault Injection Attacks
- Side-Channel Attacks
- C / C++
- Python
- Linux
- Windows Internals
Let's work on
something that leaks.
Got a question about a post, an idea to share, or just want to chat about hardware security? Drop me a line, I'd be glad to hear from you.