About
Florentin Rochet is an Assistant Professor at the University of Namur's Faculty of Computer Science. His research focuses on anonymous communication, network security, and encrypted transport protocols, with a particular emphasis on improving privacy-enhancing technologies and protocol design. He holds a PhD in Applied Cryptography and has contributed to projects like TCPLS (TCP/TLS integration) and CLAPS (Tor path selection).
Key academic milestones include joining UNamur in 2022 as an Assistant Professor, completing a postdoc at the University of Edinburgh (2021), and serving on program committees for Usenix Security, ACM CCS, and PoPETs. He has received the Usenix Security Noteworthy Reviewer Award (2023) and the 2020 Alan Berman Research Publication Award.
His research spans flexible anonymous networks, secure transport protocols, and authentication technologies, with notable work on improving Tor's resilience against attacks through location-aware path selection and enhancing TLS/TCP integration for modern networks. He also leads a research group exploring eBPF security and WebAssembly runtime protections.
Teaching responsibilities include computer security and privacy courses, with a 6-year teaching assistant position involving bachelor's/master's instruction and PhD supervision. His lab focuses on applied cybersecurity, network protocol innovation, and privacy-preserving systems design.
