About Me

Tamer Abdelaziz, Ph.D
Google Scholar, ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6356-4749

I am a postdoctoral associate at New York University, working under the guidance of Professor Karim Ali.
Prior to this, I earned my doctoral degree from the National University of Singapore, supervised by Professors Khoo Siau Cheng and Aquinas Hobor.
I earned both my Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science from Helwan University in Cairo.


My academic journey also included teaching as a Lecturer at Helwan University in Cairo and conducting research as a Research Assistant at the National University of Singapore.


My research centers on leveraging deep learning techniques to identify and mitigate security threats within smart contract source code, bytecode, and transactions. I possess a deep-rooted interest in security, privacy, distributed ledgers, programming languages, and software engineering.


My current research endeavors explore the application of blockchain verification and the analysis of smart contract vulnerabilities. I am particularly focused on investigating how deep learning can be harnessed to enhance these domains.

Publications

  • Where Do Smart Contract Security Analyzers Fall Short?
    Tamer Abdelaziz, Salma Alsaghir, and Karim Ali
    23rd International Mining Software Repositories Conference (MSR 2026), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 13-14, 2026 ( MSR 26, PDF )
  • Proactive Defense: Real-Time Detection of Malicious Ethereum Transactions
    Tamer Abdelaziz and Karim Ali
    Poster, Research Institute Day @ NYUAD, 2025. ( PDF )
  • Towards secure smart contracts: A deep learning approach for detecting security threats
    Tamer Abdelaziz (National University of Singapore) supervised by Associate Professor Khoo Siau Cheng and Associate Professor Aquinas Hobor
    Ph.D Thesis, ScholarBank@NUS Repository, National University of Singapore, 2023. ( ScholarBank@NUS, PDF )
  • Smart Learning to Find Dumb Contracts
    Tamer Abdelaziz and Aquinas Hobor
    32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 23), Anaheim, CA, August 9-11, 2023, pp.1775-1792. ( USENIX Security 23, PDF, Slides, Artifact )
  • Smart Learning to Find Dumb Contracts (Extended Version)
    Tamer Abdelaziz and Aquinas Hobor
    32nd USENIX Security Symposium (arXiv preprint 2304.10726), 2023. (PDF)
  • Schooling to Exploit Foolish Contracts
    Tamer Abdelaziz and Aquinas Hobor
    2023 Fifth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA). (BCCA 2023, PDF)
  • Identification and Assessment of Software Design Pattern Violations
    Tamer Abdelaziz, Aya Sedky Adly, Bruno Rossi, and Mostafa-Sami M. Mostafa
    FCAI Informatics Bulletin Journal, Volume 1, Issue 2 - Serial Number 20190102, Cairo, Egypt, July 2019, pp. 6-13. (FCAI Informatics Bulletin, PDF)

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Contact Information

Location:

PL&SE Research Lab B36 (COM3)
NUS COM3, 11 Research Link, Singapore 119391