Felix Mächtle
Felix Mächtle

Research Assistant/PhD Student

About Me

I am a research assistant/PhD student at the Institute for IT-Security at the University of Lübeck. I am intrigued by the intersection of machine learning and code analysis.

Interests
  • Machine Learning
  • Adversarial Attacks
  • Code Analysis
Education
  • PhD Student

    University of Lübeck

  • MSc in Computer Science

    University of Lübeck

  • BSc in Computer Science

    University of Lübeck

About Me

I’m using advanced natural language processing (NLP) to improve software security by identifying vulnerabilities, detecting malicious patterns, inferring authorship, or adding context-aware components to traditional analysis. To this end, I’m exploring optimized code representations to improve the performance of these models. By integrating machine learning and large language models (LLMs) into software engineering, I aim to create more efficient security tools. Currently, I’m developing a multi-agent framework for automated program repair and investigating adversarial attacks on AI systems, such as prompt stealing in generative models like stable diffusion.

Please reach out to collaborate 😃

Recent Publications
(2025). AutoStub: Genetic Programming-Based Stub Creation for Symbolic Execution. To be published at SBFT 2025.
(2025). OCEAN: Open-World Contrastive Authorship Identification. To be published at ACNS 2025.
(2025). Trace Gadgets: Minimizing Code Context for Machine Learning-Based Vulnerability Prediction. arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.13676.
(2024). SWAT: Modular dynamic symbolic execution for java applications using dynamic instrumentation (competition contribution). International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems.
(2023). Madvex: Instrumentation-Based Adversarial Attacks on Machine Learning Malware Detection. International Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment.