Pascal Cotret
Pascal Cotret

Associate Professor

About Me

Blog with some technical notes: https://pcotret.gitlab.io/blog/

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Interests
  • Embedded systems
  • Security
  • Hardware/software co-design
  • Microarchitecture
Education
  • PhD in embedded security

    Université de Bretagne-Sud

  • MEng Optoelectronic

    Télécom Saint-Etienne

  • BEng Computer Science

    University of South Wales

📚 My Research

🔭 I’m currently working on CVA6 and other RISC-V cores and low-level security (involving software and hardware)

🌱 Micro-architectural issues (cache-based attacks, Trusted Execution Environments), trace mechanisms in embedded processors and VMs (JIT and so on)

Please reach out to collaborate 😃

Recent Publications
(2025). A Survey on Versatile Embedded Machine Learning Hardware Acceleration. In Elsevier JSA.
(2025). Enhancing Keystone Security Against Cache Timing Attacks: A Modular Approach. In GDR SoC².
(2025). Security of Dynamically Reconfigurable RISC-V Systems: I/O Attack Focus. In GDR SoC².
(2025). Enforcing RISC-V TEE Security Against Cache Timing Attacks. In Cryptarchi.
(2025). Security of Dynamically Reconfigurable RISC-V Systems: I/O Attack Focus. In 32nd RAW.