General information
Organisation
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.
Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.
The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
Reference
SL-DRT-24-0680
Direction
DRT
Thesis topic details
Category
Technological challenges
Thesis topics
Security-by-design for embedded deep neural network models on RISC-V
Contract
Thèse
Job description
With a strong context of regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the European scale, several requirements have been proposed for the 'cybersecurity of AI'. Among the most important concepts related to the security of the machine learning models and the AI-based systems, 'security-by-design' is mostly linked to model hardening approaches (e.g., adversarial training against evasion attacks, differential privacy against confidentiality-based attacks).
We propose to cover a wider panorama of 'security-by-design' by studying software (SW) and hardware (HW) mechanisms to strengthen the intrinsic reobustness of Embedded AI-based systems on RISC-V platforms.
Objectives are: (1) define and model SW and HW vulnerabilities of embedded models, (2) develop and evaluate protections (3) demonstrate the impact of SW and HW protections - and their combination - against state-of-the-art attacks such as weight-based adversarial attacks and model extraction.
University / doctoral school
Sciences, Ingénierie, Santé (EDSIS)
Université de Lyon
Thesis topic location
Site
Grenoble
Requester
Position start date
01/09/2024
Person to be contacted by the applicant
MOELLIC Pierre-Alain pierre-alain.moellic@cea.fr
CEA
DRT/DSYS//LSES
Centre de Microélectronique de Provence
880 route de Mimet
13120 Gardanne
0442616738
Tutor / Responsible thesis director
RIGAUD Jean-Baptiste rigaud@emse.fr
Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne
CMP/SAS
Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne,
Centre de Microélectronique de Provence,
Route de Mimet,
13120 GARDANNE
0442616733
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