Mathias Josef Payer

Mathias Payer is a security researcher and professor at the EPFL school of computer and communication sciences (IC), leading the HexHive group. His research focuses on protecting applications in the presence of vulnerabilities, with a focus on memory corruption and type violations. He is interested in software security, system security, binary exploitation, effective mitigations, fault isolation/privilege separation, strong sanitization, and software testing (fuzzing) using a combination of binary analysis and compiler-based techniques. More details are available in his CV. Enseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Eduard Vlad, Florian Hofhammer, Han Zheng, Zhiyao Feng, Philipp Yuxiang Mao, Rafaila Galanopoulou, Tao Lyu, Chibin Zhang, Claudio Migliorelli, Luca Di Bartolomeo A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Atri Bhattacharyya, Ahmad Hazimeh, Nicolas Badoux Cours Information security and privacy COM-402 Software security CS-412 Ce cours porte sur les principes fondamentaux de la sécurité, les directives et principes de programmation sécurisée et les concepts avancés en sécurité des logiciels. Les étudiants apprennent à évaluer et à comprendre les menaces à travers des travaux pratiques. Prix et distinctions Distinguished Member of ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2024 Usenix Security '24 distinguished paper award for Usenix Association 2024 Usenix WOOT '24 best paper award for Usenix Association 2024 RAID '24 best paper award for Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2024 BAR '24 best paper award for Internet Society (ISOC) 2024 NDSS '25 distinguished paper award for Internet Society (ISOC) 2025 NDSS '25 distinguished paper award for Internet Society (ISOC) 2025