Mobile Platform Security
Analyzing mobile platform mechanisms — attestation, authorization, and the APIs apps rely on — to expose weaknesses and design safer defaults.
Research Scientist
Muhammad Ibrahim
I work on system and application security — with an emphasis on mobile platforms, AI, and IoT devices — and on how end-users and developers interact with the systems they rely on.
Research Scientist II at the CyFI Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology. Open to collaboration on cybersecurity, AI, trust, privacy, and policy.
Research
I build tools and conduct analyses to understand — and improve — the security of the devices people use every day.
IoT & Firmware Security
Studying how connected devices ship, update, and verify firmware — and the attack surface that opens when those pipelines go wrong.
AI & Security
Studying the security of AI-driven systems and using learning-based techniques to analyze software and its behavior at scale.
Human Factors in Security
Understanding how developers and end-users interact with mobile technology, and how those interactions can be leveraged to improve security.
Experience
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Research Scientist II Jan 2025 – PresentCyFI Lab · Georgia Institute of Technology
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Research Assistant 2019 – 2024PurSec Lab · Purdue University
Education
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Ph.D. in Computer Science 2019 – 2024Purdue University · Advised by Dr. Antonio Bianchi
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B.S. in Computer Science 2015 – 2019Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan
Publications
Peer-reviewed work at top security and mobile systems venues. Full list on Google Scholar.
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2024
Wear's My Data? Understanding the Cross-Device Runtime Permission Model in Wearables
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2023
AoT — Attack on Things: A Security Analysis of IoT Firmware Updates
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2022
SARA: Secure Android Remote Authorization
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2021
SafetyNOT: On the Usage of the SafetyNet Attestation API in Android
Security Disclosures
Vulnerabilities I've discovered and responsibly disclosed.
- CVE-2023-33768 Denial of Service against Belkin smart plugs
Get in touch
Always happy to talk about security research, AI, and potential collaborations.
mibrahim@gatech.edu