POPPY: Scalable and Secure Spectral Centrality for Distributed Graphs via Homomorphic Encryption
Sofiane Azogagh, Claire Guichemerre, Tristan Allard, Sébastien Gambs, Marc-Olivier Killijian, Amr El Abbadi
Postdoctoral Researcher · EURECOM
Security · Applied Cryptography · Machine Learning
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at EURECOM, working with Melek Önen on security and privacy in the context of Machine Learning. My current research centers on prompt injection attacks and defenses for LLMs, alongside a range of privacy-enhancing technologies such as Federated Learning, Homomorphic Encryption, and Private Set Intersection.
In 2026, I completed my PhD at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) under the supervision of Marc-Olivier Killijian and Sébastien Gambs. My thesis focused on the design of oblivious algorithms on encrypted data using homomorphic encryption to enhance data privacy in machine learning. I also worked on privacy-preserving graph analysis (PageRank, Common Neighbors, etc.).
Research
Sofiane Azogagh, Claire Guichemerre, Tristan Allard, Sébastien Gambs, Marc-Olivier Killijian, Amr El Abbadi
Sofiane Azogagh, Zelma Aubin Birba, Sébastien Gambs, Marc-Olivier Killijian
Sofiane Azogagh, Marc-Olivier Killijian, Félix Larose-Gervais
Sofiane Azogagh, Zelma Aubin Birba, Josée Desharnais, Sébastien Gambs, Marc-Olivier Killijian, Nadia Tawbi
KDD '25 — 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Sofiane Azogagh, Zelma Aubin Birba, Sébastien Gambs, Marc-Olivier Killijian, Félix Larose-Gervais
Sofiane Azogagh, Zelma Aubin Birba, Sébastien Gambs, Marc-Olivier Killijian
CODASPY 2024 — 14th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy
Sofiane Azogagh, Victor Delfour, Marc-Olivier Killijian
Sofiane Azogagh, Victor Delfour, Sébastien Gambs, Marc-Olivier Killijian
WAHC 2022 — 10th Workshop on Encrypted Computing & Applied Homomorphic Cryptography
Sofiane Azogagh
Master's thesis — Orange Labs, Cesson-Sévigné, France (supervised by R. Clarisse)
Education
2024 – 2026
2021 – 2023
Presentations
2026
Munich, Germany
2025
Toronto, Canada
Washington, DC, USA · Rennes, France · Poitiers, France
Sofia, Bulgaria
Rennes, France · Montreal, Canada
2023
Toulouse, France
2022
Los Angeles, USA
Writing