Prof. Dr. Pascal Urien

Dr. Pascal Urien is full professor at Telecom ParisTech. He graduated from Ecole Centrale de Lyon, and received a PHD in computer science. His main research interests include security and smart cards, especially for wireless networks and distributed computing architectures. He holds 15 patents and about one hundred publications in these domains. He is the father of the internet smart card technology, which won two industrial awards, Best Technological Innovation at cartes'2000 (Paris) and Most Innovative Product of Year at the Advanced Card Award 2001 (London).He invented the EAP smart card, that won two industrial awards, Best Technological Innovation at cartes'2003 (Paris), and Breakthrough Innovation Award at CardTech/SecureTech 2004 (Washington DC). In June 2007 Pascal was one of the winners of French 9th national contest, for the support of innovative start-ups. He founded the EtherTrust Company in 2007. He participated in various French (ANR) and European (IST) research projects.