About

I am currently a third-year Ph.D. candidate advised by Professor Nick Nikiforakis in the Pragsec Lab at Stony Brook University. I study the security and privacy issues related to Web3 technologies through conducting large-scale studies.
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Education

• Stony Brook University
  PhD in Computer Science (focus in Web Security)
  2022-Present

• Lahore University of Management Sciences
  Bachelors in Computer Science
  2018-2022

Work Experience

• Stony Brook University
  Research Assistant
  Aug 2022—Present
  Stony Brook, NY

• Infoblox
  Data Science/Web Security Intern
  June 2024—August 2024
  Tacoma, WA

• Lahore University of Management Sciences
  Research Assistant
  Aug 2020—May 2022
  Lahore, Pakistan

Publications

• The Poorest Man in Babylon: A Longitudinal Study of Cryptocurrency Investment Scams
  Muhammad Muzammil, Abisheka Pitumpe, Xigao Li, Amir Rahmati, and Nick Nikiforakis
  ACM The Web Conference (WWW). Sydney, Australia. 2025

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  @inproceedings{muzammil2025babylon,
    title={{The Poorest Man in Babylon: A Longitudinal Study of Cryptocurrency Investment Scams}},
    author={Muhammad Muzammil and Abisheka Pitumpe and Xigao Li and Amir Rahmati and Nick Nikiforakis},
    booktitle={Proceedings of The Web Conference (WWW)},
    year={2025}
  }

• Panning for gold.eth: Understanding and Analyzing ENS Domain Dropcatching
  Muhammad Muzammil, Zhengyu Wu, Aruna Balasubramanian, and Nick Nikiforakis
  ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC). Madrid, Spain. 2024

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  @inproceedings{muzammil2024ens,
    title={{Panning for gold.eth: Understanding and Analyzing ENS Domain Dropcatching}},
    author={Muhammad Muzammil and Zhengyu Wu and Aruna Balasubramanian and Nick Nikiforakis},
    booktitle={ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)},
    year={2024}
  }

• Typosquatting 3.0: Characterizing Squatting in Blockchain Naming Systems
  Muhammad Muzammil, ZhengYu Wu, Lalith Harisha, Brian Kondracki, and Nick Nikiforakis
  Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime). Boston, MA, USA. 2024
  Awarded Bronze Medal 🥉
  Media Coverage: Fast Company, Science X, The Debrief, CoinTrust, Stony Brook University News

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  @inproceedings{muzammil2024typosquatting,
    title={{Typosquatting 3.0: Characterizing Squatting in Blockchain Naming Systems}},
    author={Muhammad Muzammil and ZhengYu Wu and Lalith Harisha and Brian Kondracki and Nick Nikiforakis},
    booktitle={APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime)},
    year={2024}
  }

• SoK: A Tale of Reduction, Security and Correctness - Evaluating Program Debloating Paradigms and Their Compositions
  Muaz Ali, Muhammad Muzammil, Faraz Karim, Ayesha Naeem, Rukhshan Haroon, Muhammad Haris, Huzaifa Nadeem, Waseem Sabir, Fahad Shaon, Fareed Zaffar, Vinod Yegneswaran, Ashish Gehani, and Sazzadur Rahaman
  European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS). Hague, Netherlands. 2023

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  @inproceedings{ali2023debloating,
    title={{SoK: A Tale of Reduction, Security and Correctness - Evaluating Program Debloating Paradigms and Their Compositions}},
    author={Muaz Ali and Muhammad Muzammil and Faraz Karim and Ayesha Naeem and Rukhshan Haroon and Muhammad Haris and Huzaifa Nadeem and Waseem Sabir and Fahad Shaon and Fareed Zaffar and Vinod Yegneswaran and Ashish Gehani and and Sazzadur Rahaman},
    booktitle={European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS)},
    year={2023}
  }

Teaching

Instructor

• Fall 2024 - WISE380: Honeypots and Intrusion Detection

Teaching Assistant

• Spring 2023 - CSE331: System Fundamentals II

• Fall 2022 - CSE360: Software Security

• Spring 2022 - CS100: Computational Problem Solving

• Spring 2021 - CS331: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

• Fall 2020 + 2021 - CS200: Introduction to Programming

Contact

Email: mmuzammil[AT]cs.stonybrook.edu

Office: Room #344, New Computer Science Building, Stony Brook, NY 11790