16 April, 2025

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About Thales – Key Figures

83,000 68 countries €4 bn €20.6 bn

employees A global footprint per year in sales
Research &
Development

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Major player in Research & Development

Listed 11 times in the

More than 40% Intellectual property
portfolio including
of Thales employees
working in R&D 20,500 patents

Connectivity and 6G
Artificial
intelligence

R&D
Neuroscience

Open-source
Cloud & hardware
edge computing
Quantum

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Main activities in India

Defence and Aerospace Cyber and

Security and Space Digital

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 Thales in India
PRESENT SINCE 1953

2200 employees Joint Ventures

Noida
HQ in Noida (next to Delhi) BEL|Ground-based Radars
Other offices in Bengaluru, Mumbai… Reliance Aerostructure|EW & Airborne Radar
Gwalior

Nagpur Engineering Centres

Mumbai
Engineering Competence Centre (Cyber & Digital) – Noida
Engineering Competence Centre (Aerospace, Defence) – Bengaluru

Bangalore

Innovation
Innovationwith
withIndian
Indianuniversities
universities
 Thales has tie-ups with prestigious institutes in India – IIIT-Delhi & CMTI for open hardware R&D
 Campus connect with other universities including Amity, Bennett, GL Bajaj, Jaypee and more.

Go to India: Sourcing from India for the Group

 75 suppliers; ~250m€ worth of procurement from India (2024); Purchasing in last 5 years: Over 1b€ and growing
 Over 2000 indirect jobs created.

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Thales References in India

Supplied more than 800M SIM cards to

Member of the Rafale team; successful AVANT Up In-Flight Entertainment to Air various MNOs. Airtel, Vodafone Idea,
upgrade of Mirage 2000 along with India, and long-term repair by the hour BSNL & Reliance Jio have launched 4G
Dassault Aviation. contract. services in India with LTE SIM provided
by Thales.

Biometric products for UIDAI (authority

Supplier of radars, electronic warfare leading world’s largest identity project)
systems, rockets, optronics among enrolment and authentication across FLASH dipping sonars installed on MH-
others to the Indian Air Force, Army & India to various banking and 60R helicopters for Indian Navy.
Navy. government agencies. Data
protection solutions, including HSM.

Fly2Gate (Digiyatra) system in Critical Avionics, Electronic Flight Bag Navigational aids to Airports Authority
deployment at 7 airports in India. Aviobook to IndiGo. of India.

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Thales AcadX India (AI 2025) – Overview

Purpose : Target Audience :

➢ To increase interaction with
universities and Thales employees. B.Tech students (CS/IT/AI) students of below Format – Online (Spring Platform, MS teams
➢ To establish an open innovation Universities : for Pitch Day)
channel to solve business problems 1. Amity University Dates – Apr 15, 2025 – Jun 05, 2025
➢ Bring good ideas which can be 2. Bennett University Platform – Thales Innovation Platform
part of CDI innovation journey 3. GL Bajaj Institute of Technology & (Spring)
Management Sponsor – Gilles Durbec, CTO Noida
4. Jaypee Institute of Information Technology
Theme of the Event : AI

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Thales AcadX India (AI 2025) - Themes

Cyber for AI AI for Pentesting Deep Fake Detection AI for Code

Deobfuscation
Maintain integrity, confidentiality, Implement an AI-driven tool that can Identify manipulated images that
availability and reliability of have been altered or generated by AI Retrieve the secrets from an
assess the security of web applications
open-source techniques (deep learning). obfuscated Android application.
by testing for vulnerabilities
LLMs

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AI for Code
Deobfuscation
Retrieve the secrets from an
obfuscated Android application.

Thales Mentors/Coaches :

Vikas Gupta
Anurag Singh

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Are these expression same?

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What about these?

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Obfuscation

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Reverse Engineering

Backwards Engineering

Determining what a software is doing without having access to the source code.

Reasons:
 Interfacing
 Commercial Espionage
 Competitive tech intelligence
 Saving Money (wink wink)
 Security Analysis

Jailbreaking LLM chat agents also requires reverse engineering

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Simple Program

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Obfuscation

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Obfuscation Techniques

Renaming

Control Flow obfuscation

Instruction pattern transformation

Mixed Boolean arithmetics

Opaque predicates

Code duplication

Junk code insertion

String encryption

...

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Use of Obfuscation

Digital Rights management (DRM)

 Just dumping spotify or Netflix videos is not easy

Prevent cracking of games

Licensing

Protecting IP

Protecting Users
 Heavy usage in mobile applications - hint, check your bank app

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Deobfuscation

Simplify the code, revert the transformations*

Extensive research done on this topic

 Debuggers
 Instrumentation
 Emulation
 Symbolic Execution
 <New fancy tools named after Norsk gods and marvel characters>

* Its fun, but can be painful.

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AI for Deobfuscation

Can AI assist us??

Challenges
 Hallucinations
 Incorrect information

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The Challenge - Maya

Android application – a capture the flag (CTF) like challenge.

Objective
 Using AI, reverse and deobfuscate the application, find the secret flag
 1. Recover the symbols information
 2. Recover the logic using AI.

Can use traditional tools (debuggers, emulators) for assistance

 Maximum challenge to be solved using AI.

PLEASE HAVE INTERNET ENABLED

 App crashes otherwise. 

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Thales AcadX India (AI 2025)- Timelines

April 15/16 Apr 25 – May 20 May 20 – May 30 June 04 Jun 05

Kick-off Ideas Submissions Selection Final Selection Winners

Announcement
▪ Thales Innovation Platform ▪ First Assessment (University Pitch Day and
Thales AcadX India level) : Select Top 10
▪ Weekly mentor check-ins Final Selection
(AI 2025) Launch Ideas/University
will be scheduled during
Ideas Submission phase o May 19 – May 23
Team Registration
15th April – 25th April
▪ Second Assessment
(University + Thales Jury)
o Select Top 02
Ideas/University
o May 26 – May 30

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Evaluation Criteria
Parameters Poor Fair Great Qualitative remarks
(with + and - )
1. Level of Innovation 1 2 3 4 5

Measuring the creativity or uniqueness of the approach used to solve the

challenge.
2. SOLUTION FEASIBILITY & EASE OF EXECUTION 1 2 3 4 5

The team was able to demo something functional, the solution has a well-
defined user interface, the prototype can be turned into a solution that can
be adopted by the organization. Open-source software and libraries are used
well
3. DIFFERENTIATORS 1 2 3 4 5

Accuracy of AI Model and Scalability, Is the solution specifically applicable to

the challenge or can be applied in general to similar class of problems.

4. ADHERENCE TO RESPONSIBLE AI PRINCIPLES 1 2 3 4 5

Inclusivity & Non- Discrimination, Privacy & Security, Transparency,

Accountability, Protection & Reinforcement of positive human values
(ONLY TO BE FILLED BY FINAL JURY)

Is it YOUR FAVORITE project? Put OK only for one of the 08 presentations from
the participating universities.

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Other Guidelines
Eligibility Criteria:
B.Tech (CS/IT/AI) students at the Universities/Institution can register their
interest to participate in the event

Team Registration:
o Participants may participate as individuals or in groups of 2-5 members as
per the eligibility criteria. We encourage registering a diverse team with at
least one female participant.
o Each team must register themselves here to access the Thales Innovation
platform.
o After the initial registration, an email will be sent to the team members with
their login credentials to access the Ideas submissions page of Thales
Innovation platform
o The Ideas submission phase would take place virtually over 30 days from
the start of registration to the final date for submission of developed
prototypes/concepts.

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Expected Artifacts from Participants

Presentation Deck
o A concise pitch deck outlining the problem, approach, innovation,
and impact

Demo Video
o A short video (3-5 mins) demonstrating how the solution works.

Codebase & Implementation

o The working prototype, GitHub repository, or demo of the AI
solution.

Technical Documentation
o Explanation of architecture, models used, constraints considered,
and implementation details.

Optional but good to have:

o Dataset & Model Details – Information on the dataset used, model
architecture, performance metrics, and benchmarking.
o Deployment Instructions – Guidelines on how to run and test the
solution, including dependencies and configurations.

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Awards

▪ Winning Team/University: INR 50,000

▪ Special Prize of INR 50,000 for most liked idea

across universities

▪ Opportunity to Build for the Industry

Exposure and deep understanding of the real- world use
cases, enrichment of your profile and advancement in your
career.

▪ Global Recognition
Gain visibility and recognition from Global and Indian Thales
teams of AI and Cybersecurity experts for your contributions and
innovative ideas.

▪ Networking Opportunities
Connect with like-minded innovators, potential collaborators,
and key stakeholders in the tech and innovation ecosystem.

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Next steps

Join us for an exciting event!

Register here or use QR code

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Questions

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