Muoi Tran

Hej! My full Vietnamese name is Tran Duc Muoi.

I am an Assistant Professor at Chalmers University of Technology and the director of Secura Lab. My research lies at the intersection of networking and security. I am fascinated by attacks that exploit the design of large networked systems and by defenses that make them harder to carry out. My work has spanned Internet routing security (BGP), peer-to-peer network security (Bitcoin, Lightning Network), and in-network defenses against DDoS. In the long run, I want to understand and narrow the gap between how networks are designed to work and how adversaries can make them fail.

I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore in 2022, advised by Zhenkai Liang and Min Suk Kang. My thesis, “Handling network attacks exploiting routing information asymmetries,” introduced new classes of routing-based attacks against Bitcoin and studied the feasibility of rerouting-based DDoS defenses. I then spent 2.5 years as a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich with Laurent Vanbever, where I extended this line of work to cryptocurrency mining pools and the Lightning Network privacy. I joined Chalmers in March 2025 to start Secura Lab.

My work has been recognized with the Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship (2019), the President’s Graduate Fellowship and the Dean’s Research Excellence Award at NUS, and the Rising Stars in Cybersecurity award from CyberSweden (2025).

If you are interested in joining the lab, please see our open positions.

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