Bio

I am a second year Computer Science PhD student in the Information Security Group at UCL (University College London). Researching Cryptocurrencies and Underground Markets under the supervision of Dr Sarah Meiklejohn and Professor Jens Groth, supported by the EU 2020 project. I am also apart of the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3).

My history is as follows, I completed a Masters of Philosophy (MPhil) in Advanced Computer Science at the University of Cambridge under supervision of Dr Richard Clayton. My project was on “Discerning Patterns in the Compromise of Websites”. I completed an undergraduate degree in Computer Science with Industrial Expereince at Queen Mary, University of London. With my thesis under the supervision of Dr Paulo Oliva.

For my industrial year I worked as a full time technical analyst at Goldman Sachs.

Publications

• Tracing Transaction Across Cryptocurrency Ledgers
  Haaroon Yousaf, George Kappos and Sarah Meiklejohn
  

• Why is a Ravencoin Like a TokenDesk? An Exploration of Code Diversity in the Cryptocurrency Landscape (arxiv - long version, short version)
  Pierre Reibel, Haaroon Yousaf, and Sarah Meiklejohn
  Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2019
  

• An Empirical Analysis of Anonymity in Zcash (arxiv, blogpost, Coindesk, Vice, Motherboard, Bitcoin Exchange Guide )
  George Kappos, Haaroon Yousaf, Mary Maller, and Sarah Meiklejohn
  27th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX ‘18)

Other research papers done by my colleagues can be found here http://blockchains.cs.ucl.ac.uk/

Teaching

TA unless otherwise stated

• 2019
  • Cryptocurrencies, University College London
  • System Engineering, University College London
• 2018
  • System Engineering, University College London
  • C Programming, University College London
• 2017
  • Introduction to Programming, University College London
  • Demonstrator, Interaction Design, University of Cambridge
• 2016
  • Operating Systems, Queen Mary University of London
• 2015
  • Peer Assisted Student Support, Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London

Events

A list of some of the events I've been to in reverse chronological order.

• 35th Chaos Communication Congress (35c3)
• 27th USENIX Security Symposium - USENIX ‘18
• The 18th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium - 2018 (presented a short poster on privacy in cryptocurrencies)
• Google Web Security Summit 2018 (presented a paper on Zcash research)
• Summer school on real-world crypto and privacy
• 3rd IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P)
• 34th Chaos Communication Congress (34c3)
• 2nd London Cryptoday 2017
• MWR HackFu 2016

Consulting

If you have any projects that I may be intested in and you'd like advise on, Please get in contact. If I have the time (and interest) we may be able to work something out.

Contact

Address
University College London
Dept. of Computer Science
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom

Desk Phone: +44 (0)2 7679 3495

Email: h[dot]yousaf[at]ucl[dot]ac[dot]uk

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