Olivier ZENDRA

Welcome to Olivier ZENDRA’s homepage at https://olivierzendra.github.io/. (work-in-progress)

I’m a full-time tenured Inria researcher (Chargé de Recherche, in French) at Inria Centre at Rennes University, France.

There, I’m currently a member of the DiverSE team (@ Inria @ IRISA). Previously I was team leader of the TAMIS team, and previously a member of said team.

I’m also Cybersecurity research delegate of the Inria Centre.

I hold a PhD in Computer Science, as well the HDR (Habilitation à Dirigier les Recherches) in Computer Science.

I used to be at Inria Nancy – Grand Est, France, as a member of the LORIA research center (UMR 7503), as member of of the project-teams ECOO, Miro, Design, and then TRIO.

Contact info:

Email: <firstname> dot <lastname> at inria.fr

Post: Inria Centre at Rennes University, Campus universitaire de Beaulieu, Avenue du Général Leclerc, 35042 Rennes Cedex, FRANCE

Networks:

  • I’m a member of HiPEAC since 2006, of the HiPEAC Steering Committee representing Inria since 2018, and member of the HiPEAC Vision Editorial Board since 2016.
  • I’m a member of GDR Sci-Log (formerly GDR GPL).
  • I’m a member of GDR Sécurité.
  • I’m a member of ECSO.
  • TBC

Current research projects:

  • SWH-Sec (SoftWare Heritage Security). todo

Former research projects:

  • The implementation and compilation of object-oriented languages, with a focus on optimizing for speed and memory. I’m one of the two people who created and implemented SmartEiffel, The GNU Eiffel Compiler (formerly SmallEiffel), during my PhD.
  • Low-power and low-energy, in the context of embedded systems. I lead the software part of the Open-PEOPLE (Open Power and Energy Optimization PLatform and Estimator) project.
  • Advanced visualization of software, with the VITRAIL (Advanced, Immersive and Real-Time Visualisation Software) project.
  • TeamPlay (Time, Energy and security Analysis for Multi/Many-core heterogenous PLAtforms) EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation project that I coordinated, with 6 academic and 4 industrial partners.
  • TBC

Supervisions / advising:

  • Valère BILLAUD (PhD student, 03/11/2025 - …): VulLLMGenCode: Vulnérabilités dans les codes générés par LLM.
  • Malvin CHEVALLIER (PhD student, 22/09/2025 - … ): VulDet: Modeling, classification, and detection of vulnerabilities and their variants in software code bases using AI
  • Lise LAHOCHE (PhD student, 11/09/2024 - …): Modeling, classification and detection of vulnerabilities and their variants in software code bases via Software Heritage
  • Camille MOLINIER (PhD student, 30/10/2024 - …): RSIA4FL: Reinforcement of the Security of embedded AI, distributed across a set of vehicles, against attacks disrupting Federated Learning
  • Alan PRADO (computer engineer, 01/12/2025 - …): Integration of project dependency information into Software Heritage, and qualification of SBOM generation tools.

Alumni:

  • George Aaron RANDRIANAINA (PhD, 01/10/2021 - 28/05/2025): Smart Building of Software Variants.
  • Cassius DE OLIVEIRA PUODZIUS (PhD, 01/02/2019 - 19/12/2022): Data-driven malware classification assisted by machine learning methods.
  • Duy-Phuc PHAM (PhD, 01/09/2019 - 16/12/2022): Leveraging side-channel signals for IoT malware classification and rootkit detection.
  • Lamine NOUREDDINE (Phd, 01/11/2017 - 21/12/2021): Packing detection and classification relying on machine learning to stop malware propagation.
  • TBC