Sébastien Canard is a Professor at Télécom Paris since 2023.
He obtained his PhD thesis at Orange in 2003 under the supervision of Marc Girault. He then became a research engineer and security expert from 2003 to 2023 for the telecommunication operator Orange. He obtained his Habilitation thesis at the University of Caen Normandy in 2009, under the supervision of Brigitte Vallée on the topic of « cryptography for privacy ».