CRITICS 2026: Workshop on Cyber Resilience of IT/OT Infrastructures and Complex Systems

SystemX is organizing the CRITICS 2026 Workshop on Cyber Resilience of IT/OT Infrastructures and Complex Systems, at Nano-INNOV (Palaiseau), on May 7th, 2026.

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Organizers

Romain Dagnas (Research-engineer and PhD student, Palaiseau, IRT SystemX)
Romain Dagnas received the License degree in mathematics, computer sciences, and physical sciences from the Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de Limoges, France, in 2017, the master diploma degree in computer sciences from 3iL Ingénieurs, France, in 2019, and the master diploma degree in mathematics, cryptology, application coding from CRYPTIS, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de Limoges, France, in 2019. He is currently a Research-Engineer of the Network and Cybersecurity team at the Technological Research Institute (IRT) SystemX, Palaiseau, France. He works on the Cybelia Programme which answers the resilience needs of industry to face the intensification and sophistication of cyber-attacks, and he is the holder of an exploratory research project launched by SystemX on quantifying the resilience of critical infrastructures. He is currently doing a PhD on the resilience of complex systems.

Michel Barbeau (Professor and Interim Director, School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada)
Michel Barbeau is a professor of Computer Science.  He got a Bachelor’s (Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada ’85), a master’s, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science (Universite de Montreal, Canada ’87 & ’91.  From ’91 to ’99, he was a professor at Universite de Sherbrooke.  During the ’98-’99 academic year, he was a visiting researcher at the University of Aizu, Japan.  Since 2000, he has worked at Carleton University, School of Computer Science, Canada.  His main topic of expertise is computer networks: architecture and protocols.  Specific research interests include underwater communications and networks, flying drone networks, quantum networks, and network control systems. Michel Barbeau is the director of the School of Computer Science at Carleton University.

Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Professor, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Télécom SudParis, Palaiseau, France)
Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro is Professor of Cybersecurity at Institut Polytechnique de Paris (Palaiseau, France), Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada) and head of the SCN (Sécurité and Confiance Num\’erique) research team of the SAMOVAR laboratory at Télécom SudParis (Institut Mines-Télécom). His research interests include a wide range of information security problems, with an emphasis on the management of security policies, analysis of vulnerabilities, and enforcement of countermeasures. He holds a double Ph.D. diploma in Computer Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of Rennes, and a research Habilitation from Université Sorbonne VI (Pierre et Marie Curie). He is involved in several research projects at National and European levels, related to cybersecurity.

Reda Yaich (Senior researcher, lead  cybersecurity and networks team, IRT SystemX)
Reda Yaich is a senior researcher and Cyberseurity Team Leader at IRT SystemX. Reda holds as Phd in Computer Science from the ENS Mines of Saint-Etienne with a focus on Trust Management using Artificial Intelligence technologies. He served as lecturer and/or research assistant in several universities (e.g. University of Saint-Etienne, University of Lyon) and engineering schools (ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, Telecom Bretagne, IMT Atlantique, ENSIBS, Telecom SudParis).  Reda has several publications in journals and conferences related to Decentralised Access authorisation and Digital Trust Management. He has also participated in numerous national (e.g. ANR FAROS, PIA IDOLE, Web Intelligence, WinPIC, etc.) and European projects (e.g. H2020 SeCoIIA, H2020 SUPERCLOUD, COST Action AT).

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