Sylvain Guilley

Sylvain Guilley is a Fellow at Cadence, within the Silicon Solutions Group. Prior to this position, he was co-founder and CTO at Secure-IC, a company acquired by Cadence in 2025. Sylvain is also an adjunct professor at Telecom Paris and a research associate at Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS). He is lead editor of international standards such as ISO/IEC 20897 (Physically Unclonable Functions), ISO/IEC 20085 (Calibration of non-invasive testing tools) and ISO/IEC TR 24485 (White Box Cryptography). As an administrator of the Embedded France professional association, he leads its cybersecurity working group. Sylvain has co-authored 350+ research papers and filed 40+ invention patents. He is a member of the IACR, a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the CryptArchi club. He is an alumnus of Ecole Polytechnique and Telecom Paris.