Résumé
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Mohammad Raouf Abedini
AI Security Research · LLM Agent Red-Teaming · Offensive & Defensive Security Engineering
- Sydney, Australia · Ready to relocate now to San Francisco, CA · Travel-ready (Washington, DC) · Visa sponsorship required
- [email protected]
About
I build systems to measure and contain the cyber capabilities of frontier AI. I created Project Simurgh, a provider-agnostic framework that red-teams LLM agents under a dishonest-producer threat model and produces Ed25519-signed, offline-verifiable evidence after a guardrail miss. In reported tests, it contained 138/138 classifier-missed cases and reduced AgentDojo attack success from 9/140 to 0/140; five Lean theorems are machine-checked. Via Alignerr, I evaluated Claude outputs for exploitable code and guardrail circumvention in Anthropic's safety-evaluation program. Simurgh complements inline classifiers by recording what an agent was allowed to do. My detection work includes on-device phishing ML at 87% F1 and intrusion detection at 500K+ packets/sec. I co-founded an incubator-backed campus AI startup and have shipped 70+ projects.
Security Research
Project Simurgh
2026Project Simurgh: Verifiable Containment Attestation for Agentic AI (Creator · AGPL-3.0)
- Built a provider-agnostic framework that produces Ed25519-signed, offline-reproducible evidence of what an AI agent did after a guardrail miss across four containment boundaries: input firewall, context-provenance guard, tool-invocation gate, and output-leakage firewall. The threat model assumes an adversarial, dishonest producer.
- Guardrail-miss containment: captured a real Llama Guard 4 (12B) input classifier over a 180-case run-set and contained 138/138 malicious cases the classifier missed (120 downstream-injection cases an input-only classifier structurally cannot see, 18 direct-input misses); combined targeted attack-success 0/150, with zero unsafe tool executions or exports
- Live-agent containment: drove a self-hosted Llama-3.3-70B through AgentDojo's workspace suite (140 pre-registered injection cases); the tool-authority gate cut targeted attack success from 9/140 to 0/140 with benign utility held
- Complements Anthropic's inline classifier: the classifier governs what a model may say, while the attestation records what an agent was allowed to do. The signed non-claims state that Simurgh would not have caught the June 2026 content-generation bypass itself.
- Attacked its own proof (red-team sweep across eight attack classes → detector-v2) and formally checked oversight with five machine-checked Lean theorems; one-command offline reproduction of a 12-rung signed release ladder; 3,057 automated tests
Technical Proficiencies
Languages
Python (primary), C, C++, TypeScript, JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin, Bash, SQL, Go (familiar)
Security & Offensive
Vulnerability research, cross-platform exploit development (Win32 API, macOS ScreenCaptureKit), threat modelling, secure code review, penetration testing, responsible disclosure (OWASP/FIRST/CISA), Wireshark, Nmap, Burp Suite
AI & ML
Large Language Model (LLM) integration & evaluation, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) evaluation, citation-faithfulness benchmarking, AI-assisted vulnerability research, Natural Language Processing (NLP), generative AI tooling, ML model evaluation, dual-use risk assessment
Systems & Tools
Linux (Ubuntu/Kali), CMake, Docker, Git/GitHub, GitHub Actions CI/CD, Google Test, FastAPI, Cloudflare Workers, libpcap
Frameworks
Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top 10, MITRE ATT&CK, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Framework, W3C Screen Capture Specification
Education
Bachelor of Cyber Security
Diploma of Information Technology
Selected Research & Engineering Projects
The Invisible WindowDisclosure
2026IEEE-format vulnerability research: independently discovered and responsibly disclosed a screen-capture evasion class using documented Windows/macOS display APIs. Achieved 100% evasion in tested laboratory configurations with zero visual artefacts over 10,000+ analysed frames. Commercial proctoring products and Linux were not tested; macOS 26 used native capture tools rather than browser getDisplayMedia(). Findings reflect software versions tested as of March 2026. Coordinated disclosure to OS vendors. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20376495.
AionBible RAG
2026Built an AI-powered Bible companion and authored Aion-BibleQA, an 8-page preprint introducing a 40-question benchmark for citation faithfulness and false-premise robustness. Results: R@5 = 0.941, mean citation_support = 0.978, zero unsupported citations, and 6/6 false-premise refusals. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20522874.
NanoMatchSystems
2026Engineered a matching engine that processed 1M+ orders/second with sub-microsecond latency. Implemented red-black tree price levels, a custom memory-pool allocator, and a test suite with p50/p99 latency benchmarks.
SentinelFlowIDS
2026Built a real-time network packet-processing engine that parsed 500K+ packets/second. It dissects Ethernet/IPv4/TCP/UDP/ICMP/DNS, detects signature matches, and analyses stateful patterns such as port scans and SYN floods.
Nexus ArchiveFull-Stack
2025Built a full-stack data platform with an AI recommendation engine, event-driven APIs, rate limiting, and automated security scanning. I handled the work from database schema through deployment.
Mehr GuardKotlinConf
2024Built a cross-platform offline threat-detection tool with local ML classification. Submitted it to the KotlinConf global developer conference.
70+ additional public projects on GitHub covering vulnerability research, systems programming, AI/ML tooling, and cloud infrastructure: github.com/Raoof128(opens in a new tab)
Professional Experience
Freelance Security Engineer & Full-Stack Developer
- Architected security backends for production, multi-frontend platforms on Supabase: WebAuthn passkeys, TOTP/SMS MFA, zero-trust edge middleware, distributed rate limiting, strict Postgres Row-Level Security, and tamper-resistant audit logging via SECURITY DEFINER RPCs
- Engineered CI/CD with 500+ automated security tests (GitHub Actions), cutting deployment vulnerabilities ~40%; shipped security-first apps for 1,000+ users with OWASP Top 10 controls and OAuth 2.0
- Sustained a 5.0-star rating across 31 client reviews and 35 completed tasks (95% completion, ID-verified) on Airtasker, delivering web development, Python, API integration, and IT/security work for paying clients
IT Manager
- Managed technology infrastructure across a multi-site organisation for five years. Maintained 99% system uptime, enforced role-based access control (RBAC), and automated workflows with Python and Bash, reducing manual tasks by about 30%.
AI Safety, Leadership & Community
- AI Safety Evaluator, Claude (Alignerr, Anthropic AI safety-evaluation program, 2026): assessed Claude outputs for exploitable code and analysed how safety guardrails can be circumvented, delivering structured, rubric-based findings (continues earlier 2024 Claude Code evaluation work)
Co-Founder · Macquarie Persian Students Society
2026 – PresentI founded and help run the university's Persian student community, organising events, peer support, and cultural programming.
Licences & Certifications
Certificate titles are shown in their original English for verification.
Anthropic (20)
AI Fluency for Builders
AI Fluency for Small Businesses
AI Capabilities and Limitations
Introduction to Subagents
Introduction to Agent Skills
AI Fluency for Nonprofits
Teaching the AI Fluency Framework
Claude on Google Cloud
Claude with Amazon Bedrock
Model Context Protocol: Advanced Topics
AI Fluency for Students
AI Fluency for Educators
Introduction to Model Context Protocol
Building with the Claude API
AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations
Claude Code in Action
Introduction to Claude Cowork
Claude Platform 101
Claude Code 101
Claude 101
Macquarie University (13)
Cyber Security: GRC Part 2 — Risk Management and Compliance
99.20%Cyber Security: GRC Part 1 — Governance
95%Cyber Security: Mobile Security
99.28%Cyber Security: Applied Cryptography
98.56%Cyber Security: Data Security and Information Privacy
97.84%Cyber Security: Digital Forensics
95%Cyber Security: Identity Access Management and Authentication
100%Cyber Security: DevSecOps
99.10%Cyber Security: Application of AI
99.20%Cyber Security: Security of AI
95.50%Cyber Security: Essentials for Managers and Leaders
99.40%Cyber Security: Essentials for Workplace
92.80%Cyber Security: Essentials
96%Additional Information
- Ready to relocate now to San Francisco; available to start immediately (final semester completed online). Visa sponsorship required.
- English (Professional Working) · Persian / Farsi (Native) · Japanese (Elementary)