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Mathias Payer

mathias.payer@epfl.ch https://hexhive.epfl.ch/

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.

Curriculum vitae

See: https://nebelwelt.net/cv-payerm.pdf

Awards

Distinguished Member of ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

2024

Usenix Security '24 distinguished paper award for HyperPill

Usenix Association

2024

Usenix WOOT '24 best paper award for "Exploiting Android's Hardened Memory Allocator"

Usenix Association

2024

RAID '24 best paper award for "Tango: Extracting Higher-Order Feedback through State Inference"

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

2024

BAR '24 best paper award for "SURGEON: Performant, Flexible and Accurate Re-Hosting via Transplantation"

Internet Society (ISOC)

2024

NDSS '25 distinguished paper award for DUMPLING

Internet Society (ISOC)

2025

NDSS '25 distinguished paper award for Type++

Internet Society (ISOC)

2025

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Eduard Vlad, Florian Hofhammer, Han Zheng, Zhiyao Feng, Philipp Yuxiang Mao, Sofiia Saltovskaia, Rafaila Galanopoulou, Tao Lyu, Chibin Zhang, Yiwen Xu, Claudio Migliorelli, Luca Di Bartolomeo

Past EPFL PhD Students

Atri Bhattacharyya (2024), Ahmad Hazimeh (2024), Nicolas Badoux (2025)