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Mathias Payer is a security researcher and an assistant professor in
computer science at Purdue university, leading the HexHive group. His
research focuses on protecting applications even in the presence of
vulnerabilities, with a focus on memory corruption. He is interested in
system security, binary exploitation, user-space software-based fault
isolation, binary translation/recompilation, and (application)
virtualization. Before joining Purdue in 2014, he spent two years as
PostDoc in Dawn Song's BitBlaze group at UC Berkeley. He graduated from
ETH Zurich with a Dr. sc. ETH in 2012. In 2014, he founded the b01lers
Purdue CTF team. All implementation prototypes from his group are
open-source.