Prof. Dr. Hartwig Mayer
Professor of B.Sc. Computer Science & M.Sc. Computer Science
Profile
Prof. Dr. Hartwig Mayer is Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at IU International University of Applied Sciences, teaching applied mathematics and statistics to Bachelor and Master students in IT and Technology on the Campus Studies English programme in Berlin. He studied mathematics with a minor in philosophy at Humboldt University Berlin, completed his doctorate in 2012 within an international graduate programme run jointly with ETH Zurich, and then held a post at the University of Regensburg's Chair of Number Theory. He spent more than ten years in industrial research, leading work on cryptographic algorithms for distributed ledger technologies at Randlabs Inc. and Nektra S.A., and as lead investigator for risk analysis at the FinTech start-up C3 Protocol. His current research covers modern cryptography and applied statistics in the social sciences.
Research Areas
Modern cryptography
Applied statistics in the social sciences
Distributed ledger technologies
Number theory and arithmetic geometry
Alternative economic models
Publications and Presentations
Mayer, H., Bejarano, I., Fernandez, D., Ajzenman, G., Ayala, N., Santoalla, N., Sarraute, C., & Futoransky, A. (2020). BatPay: A gas efficient protocol for the recurrent micropayment of ERC20 tokens [Preprint]. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02316
Mayer, H. (2016). zk-SNARKs technically explained: Basic principles [Preprint]. ResearchGate. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.20887.68007
Mayer, H. (2016). Quantum resistant public key exchange: Supersingular isogenous DH protocol [Preprint]. ResearchGate. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.24880.21768
Mayer, H. (2014). Self-intersection of the dualizing sheaf of modular curves X1(N). Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux, 26, 111-161.
Mayer, H. (2012). Bücher aus Oberwolfach [Book reviews]. DMV-Mitteilungen, 20(4), 13.