Contact

Tristan Benoit
Maître de conférences (Assistant Professor) in Computer Science
ENSICAEN

Member of the SAFE team at the GREYC Lab
Researcher in AI-driven Binary Analysis and Cybersecurity

ENSICAEN, 6 Boulevard Maréchal Juin, Caen, France

+33 2 31 45 81 89

tristan.benoit@unicaen.fr

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Research

My research focuses on AI-driven cybersecurity with a focus on binary code understanding.

Main axes:

• Similarities between binary code or data
• Decompilation assisted by AI
• Machine learning on graphs
• Machine learning for forensics

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Publications

Publications:

• BLens: Contrastive Captioning of Binary Functions using Ensemble Embedding.
  USENIX Security Symposium, 2025. HAL
• Scalable Program Clone Search Through Spectral Analysis.
  ESEC/FSE, 2023. HAL
• Binary level toolchain provenance identification with graph neural networks.
  SANER, 2021. HAL

Full list:

• HAL
• Google Scholar
• dblp

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CV

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Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Université de Lorraine, 2023
• M.Sc. in Computer Science, ENS Lyon & Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 2019
• B.Sc. in Computer Science, UNICAEN, 2017

Work experience

• 2025– : Maître de conférences (Assistant Professor), ENSICAEN
  • Research: Binary program analysis, AI for security
  • Teaching: Computer Science with a focus on cybersecurity
• 2025: Postdoctoral Researcher on Software Composition Analysis after compilation, Telecom Paris
• 2023–2024: Postdoctoral Researcher, LMU Munich & Universität der Bundeswehr München (Germany)
  • Research: Binary function name generation on stripped binary code
  • Teaching & Supervision: Master and bachelor thesis
• 2022–2023: ATER as a doctoral student, Université de Lorraine
• 2019–2022: Doctoral contract, Loria, Université de Lorraine with teaching at IUT Nancy-Charlemagne

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Teaching

• Code security, third year at ENSICAEN
• Databases, second year at ENSICAEN
• Binary code reverse engineering, UNICAEN & ENSICAEN Cybersecurity Master
• Programming challenges with Eric Ziad-Forest, first year at ENSICAEN
• Master thesis supersion
• Master projet supersion with Emmanuel Giguet

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Outreach

• Seminar, Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich, Germany, 2024.
• Seminar, CentraleSupélec Rennes, France, 2024.
• Security & Cryptography Seminar, UNICAEN, France, 2023.
• PEPR DefMal Meeting, 2023, Paris Cyber Campus, France, 2023.
• 6^th French-German Day for Cybersecurity, CISPA, Germany, 2023.
• 6^th Franco-Japanese Cybersecurity Workshop, online, 2022.

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Software Artifacts

• Artifacts for BLens: Contrastive Captioning of Binary Functions using Ensemble Embedding. License: GPL.
• Artifacts for XFL: Naming Functions in Binaries with Extreme Multi-label Learning. License: GPL.
• Artifacts for Program Clone Search: a Python reimplementation of about a dozen methods along with our own method. License: CC BY-NC-SA.
• Artifacts for Binary Toolchain Provenance. License: Private but accessible.

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