Projects

Funding, in motion.

Where the research pillars turn into funded work — fellowships, grants, and industry-facing pilots.

zk-ScalHard: Security & Privacy in Common European Mobility Data Space (EMDS)

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MSCA Seal of Excellence Inria · SERENDIPITY Team Score 88/100

A Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence fellowship hosted at Inria, Lille, investigating how sovereign, privacy-preserving data spaces can underpin trusted mobility, specifically focusing on Secure OTA Updates for SDVs — connecting directly to the lab's Stateless Authentication (ZKP–PUF) and Data Sovereignty pillars.

Lead Dr. Shrikant Tangade
Supervisors Dr. Valeria Loscri
Research Director, Head of SERENDIPITY Team

Prof. Mauro Conti
Full Professor (Univ. of Padua, Italy & Orebro Univ., Sweden)
Host Inria Lille – Nord Europe, France
Duration 8 Months (Dec. 2025 - Jul. 2026)
Funded by University of Lille (France)
Amount €80,000

Stateless Resilience: Secure & Autonomous Rollback for Post-Quantum SDV OTA Updates

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MSCA Seal of Excellence Inria · SERENDIPITY Team SPRITZ · Univ. of Padua

A MSCA SoE funding extended work in collaboration with SERENDIPITY team, Inria, Lille and SPRITZ Security & Privacy Research Group, Univ. of Padua. The objective is to design a hardware-anchored, constant-time O(1) protocol for fleet-wide version integrity and recovery — it contributes to the lab's Autonomous Rollback & State Integrity pillar.

Lead Dr. Shrikant Tangade
Supervisors Dr. Valeria Loscri
Head of SERENDIPITY Team (Inria Lille, France)

Prof. Mauro Conti
Full Professor (Univ. of Padua, Italy & Orebro Univ., Sweden)
Host Inria Lille – Nord Europe, France
Duration 4 Months (Aug. 2027 - Dec. 2027)