Mohsen Minaei

Staff Research Scientist

Research areas: Security and Privacy, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Mohsen Minaei, Visa Research scientist.

Biography

Dr. Mohsen Minaei joined Visa Research as a Staff Research Scientist in September 2020. Mohsen received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University in August 2020 and May 2019. During his Ph.D., his research focused on designing and implementing better privacy-enhancing mechanisms for content deletion on social and archival platforms. He has also worked on obfuscating censored messages using various cryptocurrencies and blockchains. While at Purdue, he completed three internships at Microsoft with Data Scientist, Program Manager, and Software Engineer roles. His last internship in 2019 was with the Blockchain team at Visa Research.

As a member of the Blockchain team, his research interests are in computer security and privacy, blockchain, cryptocurrency, and secure computation, in particular, implementing privacy-preserving smart contracts and designing fair protocols for cryptocurrencies and blockchains. He has published papers in several international conferences, including Computer and Communications Security (CCS), USENIX Security, Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), and others.

Thesis

  • M. Minaei, (2020). Privacy Preserving Systems With Crowd Blending. Purdue University.

Conferences

  • M Hue, J Debnath, K Leung, L Li, M Minaei, M H Mazhar, K Xian, E Hoque, O Chowdhury, S Chau. All your credentials are belong to us: On Insecure WPA2-Enterprise Configurations. CCS 2021.
  • M Minaei, SC Mouli, M. Mondal, B Ribeiro, A Kate. Deceptive Deletions for Protecting Withdrawn Posts on Social Media Platforms. NDSS 2021.
  • M Minaei, P Moreno-Sanchez, A Kate. MoneyMorph: Censorship Resistant Rendezvous using Permissionless Cryptocurrencies. PETS 2020.
  • DV Le, LT Hurtado, A Ahmad, M Minaei, B Lee, A Kate. A Tale of Two Trees: One Writes, and Other Reads: Optimized Oblivious Accesses to Bitcoin and other UTXO-based Blockchains. PETS 2020.
  • M Minaei, M Mondal, P Loiseau, K Gummadi, A Kate. Forgetting the Forgotten with Lethe: Conceal Content Deletion from Persistent Observers. PETS 2019.

Patents

  • M Minaei, R Kumaresan, M Zamani, S Gaddam. Universal payment channels. US Patent App. 16/834,954, (2020).
  • JN Nanduri, SJ Wang, M Minaei. Accounting for uncertainty when calculating profit efficiency. US Patent App. 15/655,452, (2019).