Nico Schiller

Founding Compiler Engineer

Nico Schiller is a founding compiler engineer at Variant Security and a co-author of ExploitGym, the benchmark this page reports on. He holds a PhD from Ruhr University Bochum, where he worked on software security and fuzzing, and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy. His research has been published at NDSS, USENIX Security, IEEE S&P and ACM CCS, with several papers receiving Distinguished Paper Awards, and his security analysis of DJI's DroneID protocol was featured in WIRED.