Gilles Barthe

Gilles Barthe is Research Professor (part-time) at IMDEA Software Institute and Director at Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy. His research develops programming language techniques and verification methods for security applications, particularly cryptographic implementations and differentially private computations.

Research focuses on formal methods for security proofs, including relational program verification, cryptographic protocol analysis, and privacy-enhancing technologies. Key areas include automated proofs for lattice-based cryptography, secure compilation techniques, and verifying constant-time properties against side-channel vulnerabilities.

Barthe leads projects on formal verification of cryptographic standards including AES-GCM and SHA-3, and develops tools like EasyCrypt for computer-aided cryptographic proofs. Recent work addresses Spectre vulnerability mitigations and quantum program verification.