The 2025 Graduate Class was awarded their master degree in a ceremony at Cnam on Nov. 13, 2025. The class is named after Hedy Lamarr.
Students:
- CHREIF Hassan
continuing as a Ph.D. student at Institut Polytechnique de Paris. - BALAMURUGAN Akash
- JABER Ahmad
- SANJAKDAR Amir
- ZOLFAGHARI MOGHADDAM Karaneh
continuing as a Ph.D. student at Sorbonne Université - XU Jiajie
- RAZZAQ Amir
- PANCHENKO Kristina
- IBRAIMO Nacir
- MAOUCHE Naim (major)
- ZHONG Yufei
About Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr (Vienna, 1914) developed, as a self-taught learner, a strong scientific culture nurtured by her immersion in European technical circles.
Alongside her acting career, she devised a way to secure network links against jamming: frequency hopping, in which transmitter and receiver switch channels simultaneously according to a shared sequence. With the composer George Antheil, she built a prototype synchronized by clockwork mechanisms and perforated rolls, resulting in a 1942 patent for a “secret communication system” assigned to the U.S. Navy. Too far ahead of its time for the Second World War, the idea would be revisited during the Cold War and would become a pillar of spread-spectrum techniques.
A major legacy: building blocks of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and modern location systems rely on these principles. Lamarr thus remains a little-known paragon of ingenuity who profoundly shaped secure communications.
