Summary
Gwendal Patat is an Enseignant-Chercheur in Cybersecurity at Université de Rennes with a PhD focused on software security and reverse engineering and nine years of hands-on research experience. He blends academic rigor with practical vulnerability discovery, having been recognized by Google, Netflix and Mozilla for impactful bug bounty findings. His expertise spans static and dynamic analysis, cryptographic and DRM research, and embedded security from time at IRISA and Fraunhofer SIT. Based in Rennes, he routinely translates deep technical investigation into teachable insights and tooling, and his background suggests a knack for turning obscure protocol or DRM weaknesses into reproducible research.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III)
Introductory course in Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics and Computer Science, Introductory course in Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics and Computer Science at Centre International de Mathématiques et d'Informatique de Toulouse
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cybersecurity, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cybersecurity at Université de Rennes
French, English, Chinese, German