Gaetan Bisson

Biography

Dr. Gaetan Bisson is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of French Polynesia and was previously a researcher at Microsoft and Macquarie University. He is an alumnus of ENS Ulm, holds the French agrégation and a doctoral degree from TU Eindhoven and INPL Nancy.

His research interests are mathematical aspects of computer science, particularly applications of number theory to cryptography.

See Dr. Bisson's vita for further information.

Responsibilities

• principal investigator of the MELODIA project funded by ANR
• deputy director of the department of mathematics
• director of the CUPGE elite curriculum

See also: past responsibilities.

Research

• Constructing Permutation Rational Functions From Isogenies (with Mehdi Tibouchi)
• On polarised class groups of orders in quartic CM-fields (with Marco Streng)
• Computing endomorphism rings of abelian varieties of dimension two
• Computing endomorphism rings of elliptic curves under the GRH
• A low-memory algorithm for finding short product representations in finite groups (with Andrew V. Sutherland)

See also: full list of publications.

Teaching

• MP 1.2, logic and foundations
• MP 1.5–2.4–3.4–4.5, computer science
• MATH 6.2, symbolic computation

See also: older teaching materials.