Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand

Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand

Hi! I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where I am a member of the Security and Privacy Research Group, advised by Prof. Patrick McDaniel.

I have received my M.S. in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, my Diplôme d'Ingénieur (M.S. and B.S. in Engineering Sciences) from the French Engineering School École Centrale de Lyon, and my B.S. in General Mathematics and Applications from Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University.

Research Interests: I am interested in building more secure and trustworthy systems. My current research focuses on open source software security, program analysis, and trustworthy AI.

Email (Personal): contact@jcnf.meEmail (Academic): jcnf@cs.wisc.edu

Recent & Selected Publications

  • Longitudinal Analyses of SAST Tools: A CodeQL Case Study
    Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand, Kyle Domico, Yohan Beugin, Patrick McDaniel
    In Submission, 2026
    @misc{ferrand2026longitudinalanalysessasttools,
      archiveprefix = {arXiv},
      author = {Jean-Charles {Noirot Ferrand} and Kyle Domico and Yohan Beugin and Patrick McDaniel},
      doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2605.07900},
      eprint = {2605.07900},
      primaryclass = {cs.CR},
      title = {Longitudinal Analyses of SAST Tools: A CodeQL Case Study},
      year = {2026}
    }
  • Adversarial Agents: Black-Box Evasion Attacks with Reinforcement Learning
    Kyle Domico, Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand, Ryan Sheatsley, Eric Pauley, Josiah Hanna, Patrick McDaniel
    Findings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
    @inproceedings{domico2026adversarialagents,
      author = {Kyle Domico and Jean-Charles {Noirot Ferrand} and Ryan Sheatsley and Eric Pauley and Josiah Hanna and Patrick McDaniel},
      booktitle = {Findings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
      doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2503.01734},
      title = {Adversarial Agents: Black-Box Evasion Attacks with Reinforcement Learning},
      year = {2026}
    }
  • The Role of Learning in Attacking Intrusion Detection Systems
    Kyle Domico, Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand, Patrick McDaniel
    In Submission, 2026
    @misc{domico2026rolelearningattackingintrusion,
      archiveprefix = {arXiv},
      author = {Kyle Domico and Jean-Charles {Noirot Ferrand} and Patrick McDaniel},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.10299},
      eprint = {2602.10299},
      primaryclass = {cs.CR},
      title = {{The} {Role} of {Learning} in {Attacking} {Intrusion} {Detection} {Systems}},
      year = {2026}
    }
  • Targeting Alignment: Extracting Safety Classifiers of Aligned LLMs
    Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand, Yohan Beugin, Eric Pauley, Ryan Sheatsley, Patrick McDaniel
    IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SaTML), 2026
    @inproceedings{noirot_ferrand_targeting_2026,
      author = {Jean-Charles {Noirot Ferrand} and Yohan Beugin and Eric Pauley and Ryan Sheatsley and Patrick McDaniel},
      booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SaTML)},
      doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2501.16534},
      month = {March},
      title = {{Targeting} {Alignment}: {Extracting} {Safety} {Classifiers} of {Aligned} {LLMs}},
      year = {2026}
    }
For a complete list of publications, please refer to my publications page.