Ph.D. Researcher in Security & Decentralized Systems
Blockchain Security Privacy Programmable Accounts Zero-Knowledge Systems
I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Wayne State University, researching security and privacy in decentralized and programmable systems. Before beginning my Ph.D., I spent five years in industry as a software engineer, building production web applications, backend systems, and APIs.
My research sits at the intersection of security, decentralized systems, protocol design, and cryptographic systems. I am interested in what happens when a guarantee that holds on paper meets real blockchain state, real transactions, and real software.
Industry experience shapes how I work. Having built and maintained production systems, I pay close attention to how designs are actually implemented and deployed, and I build prototypes to test ideas rather than stopping at the model.
Security and privacy in decentralized, programmable, and zero-knowledge systems.
Blockchain-assisted collaborative misbehavior detection in vehicular networks
A blockchain-assisted protocol for detecting malicious Basic Safety Messages in connected-vehicle (V2X) networks, combining collaborative consensus with smart-contract-enforced rate limiting.
Details about Secure-BSMFunding–spending decoupling for anonymous stealth-address gas sponsorship
Gas sponsorship for stealth-address transactions that decouples how gas is funded from how funds are spent, so that paying for gas does not undermine stealth-address privacy.
Details about PrivGasAuthorization and delegation security of programmable EOAs
A study of the authorization and delegation security risks introduced when EIP-7702 lets externally owned accounts delegate to smart-contract code.
Details about EIP-7702 Authorization SecurityBinding proofs to the state and context they authorize
Investigating security failures that can occur when a valid zero-knowledge proof is not correctly bound to the blockchain state, execution context, or application semantics it is meant to authorize.
Details about Zero-Knowledge Application SecuritySoftware I have built: web tools people use, installable utilities, and smart-contract and full-stack systems.
Web app
Quran web app with all 114 surahs, Arabic text, Bangla translation and tafsir, audio recitation, search, bookmarks, reading modes, and PWA support.
Solidity protocol
Solidity protocol for renting and selling NFTs with ERC-4907 time-bound user rights, ERC-2981 royalties, conflict-free rental scheduling, escrowed pull-payments, and reentrancy protection.
Full-stack app
Knowledge workspace with rich-text notes, notebook organization, source ingestion, password-protected sharing, and notebook-scoped retrieval chat with cited answers.
Web tool
Analyze GitHub profiles, repositories, languages, stars, forks, and activity through a visual dashboard.
Solidity protocol
Stablecoin protocol backed by WETH and WBTC collateral, with Chainlink price feeds, health-factor checks, liquidations, and minting and redemption flows.
CLI · npm
A lightweight command-line note manager for creating, searching, editing, and organizing notes from the terminal.
npm install -g node-note-cli Five years of professional software engineering before beginning my Ph.D., building and running production systems.
Sep 2019 – Jul 2021
Worked on an internal data-collection framework, client web projects, and the cloud infrastructure behind them.
May 2018 – Sep 2019
Developed and maintained the SeeBiz inventory management platform, used by multiple businesses and handling 50K+ requests per day.
Nov 2016 – Apr 2018
Built product prototypes, including a school management system later used by 20+ institutions in Bangladesh.
Wayne State University
Graduate Teaching Assistant · Aug 2021 – Present
Courses
Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science
Wayne State University · 2021 – Present
I'm glad to hear about research collaborations, academic positions, and industry research or engineering roles.
mmimran@wayne.edu