Blockchain Security Researcher · UIT · VNU-HCM
Huynh Phan Gia Bao · Ho Chi Minh City, VN
Researching smart contract security
The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work.
Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age.
Blockchains automate away the center.
Security is a process, not a product.
Don't trust. Verify.
I am Huynh Phan Gia Bao, an Information Security undergraduate researcher at the University of Information Technology (UIT), VNU-HCM. I study how independent blockchains can interoperate without handing trust to a single bridge, relay or operator.
My work combines zero-knowledge proofs, market-based relaying and formal verification to fix concrete weaknesses in cross-chain systems, and extends to decentralized identity and reputation: soulbound credentials, reputation-weighted consensus and evidence-driven trust.
Trust-minimized bridges, multi-relay markets, unlinkable swaps.
Private verification across consortium and public chains.
Finding and formally ruling out exploitable bugs.
Soulbound credentials and evidence-driven trust.
Bold is me · underlined is my advisor · full list on Google Scholar ↗
Computer Networks, 112780
Information Sciences, 123323
Intl. Conf. on Multimedia Analysis and Pattern Recognition (MAPR 2026)
Internet of Things, 101836
Journal of Information Security and Applications 94, 104238
RIVF Intl. Conf. on Computing and Communication Technologies (IEEE)
24th Intl. Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT, IEEE)
Research advisor
M.Sc. · Lecturer · PI of Blockchainist
School of Computer Networks and Communications, UIT · VNU-HCM
My research advisor. His research spans blockchain and smart contracts, network security, IoT and edge computing with digital twins, and AI for security and privacy.
8/8 of my papers are co-authored with him
Research group
Advancing blockchain research for trustworthy digital systems.
School of Computer Networks and Communications, UIT
blockchainist.id.vnOpen to collaboration on cross-chain security, zero-knowledge systems and decentralized identity.