Mathias Payer

EPFL IC IINFCOM HEXHIVE
BC 160 (Bâtiment BC)
Station 14
1015 Lausanne

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.

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

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

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.