Karim M. Abdellatif

Karim M. Abdellatif is a highly experienced Senior Staff Hardware Security Engineer at Ledger, with a focus on evaluating hardware wallets against various attack vectors and conducting scientific research. Prior roles include HW Security Engineer at Safran Identity & Security, where security evaluations of smart card components were conducted, and HW Security Engineer at CEA, where side-channel attack methodologies and cryptographic hardware designs were developed. Karim also served as a Hardware Security Engineer at ARMINES, specializing in hardware design and Trojan detection. An academic background includes a Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Security from Pierre and Marie Curie University, where the development of a library for Authenticated Encryption schemes was achieved, targeting high-speed VPN applications and secure FPGA reconfiguration.