Ihsen Alouani received his Ph.D. from Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France in 2016. Following his Ph.D., he undertook a postdoctoral position at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Since 2018, he has been an Associate Professor at the IEMN Laboratory (CNRS) at INSA Hauts-de-France. In 2022, he joined the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) at Queen’s University Belfast. His research focuses on trustworthy AI, adversarial machine learning, and hardware-software security co-design, occupying a distinctive cross-layer position from silicon-level properties through to application-level AI systems, with work recognised at top-tier venues including CVPR, EMNLP, ASPLOS, DAC, and IEEE TIFS/TCAD. He leads a research group of 4 PhD students and multiple postdoctoral researchers, and has graduated 9 PhDs now at institutions including NYU, CNRS, Thales UK, and Airbus. He leads several projects funded by UKRI (EPSRC), Horizon Europe, the NCSC’s Laboratory for AI Security Research (LASR), and others, including as coordinator of the EU Horizon CHISTERA TruBrain project with EPFL, Sorbonne, and TUBITAK. He serves on program committees of major AI and cybersecurity venues, contributes to the ETSI’s “Securing AI” (SAI) Technical Committee, and advises DSIT and the Alan Turing Institute on AI security.
