Secura Lab is a research group in the Network and Systems (NS) unit within the Computer and Network Systems (CnS) division at the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department. We are affiliated to Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg. We also have an organic connection with other security researchers via the Chalmers Security & Privacy Lab.
Secura Lab is led by Assistant Professor, Dr. Muoi Tran. We aim to enhance the security of computer systems, particularly those that are networked. Our security research has been focusing on Internet routing, blockchain peer-to-peer networks, and network infrastructures.
News
We are now looking for strongly motivated candidates to join our lab as a PhD student! This position is planned to work specifically on securing the network infrastructures of AI training. The hired candidate must start in early 2026 at the latest. The application deadline is 15 May, 2025.
Together with other supervisors at CSE department, we have created a joint call for PhD applications. To apply to our lab, please mark Bifröst: Secure Networks for Distributed AI Training project as the first choice.
For more information about our lab, refer to our open letter to prospective PhD students.
Together with our collaborators at NTU (Taiwan) and ETH Zurich (Switzerland), we just published
a paper on finding function and storage collisions in proxy smart contracts at IEEE ICDCS 2025!
We present Proxion, an automated cross-contract analyzer that identifies all proxy smart contracts in Ethereum, including the hidden ones that lack both source code and past transactions. This allows us to identify millions more proxy contracts and thousands of unreported collisions, compared to previous works.
See you soon too, Glasgow!
We are thrilled to share that we just secured a funding from WASP Academic Doctoral Student Projects! Thanks to this, we will have another opening position for PhD student. This position will start in late 2025, and will focus on combining network security and AI training.
As part of our blog, we just published an open letter to those considering joining our lab as PhD students.
This letter, in the form of a marriage proposal, describes our lab culture, our expectations, and the next steps.
(Committing to a PhD is surprisingly similar to committing to a marriage!)
We welcome Adrià Torralba-Agell as the first student in the lab.
Adrià is a final-year Ph.D. student from UOC under the supervision of Cristina Pérez-Solà.
Adrià joins us on a three-month research exchange, focusing on network security issues of ZK-Rollups.
Welcome!
