Pascal Cotret is an associate professor in Electronic Engineering at CentraleSupélecRennes. He received the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the University of South Brittany, France, in 2012. He holds a BEng of electronic engineering degree from the University of South Wales (Treforest, Wales, United Kingdom) obtained in 2008 and a MSc degreee in optical and electronic engineering from a French engineering school obtained in 2009. He was involved in projects related to security and cryptography of FPGAs at logic and system levels. His research interests include embedded systems, hardware/software security, signal/image processing, FPGA reconfiguration, software-defined radio, IoT security and chaotic cryptosystems.