Hey there! I'm Oluwole

Security Engineer & Researcher

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I am a Security Engineer and a Researcher studying how security systems break down between design and deployment. My work spans usable security, adversarial systems, and agentic AI for security operations. You can find me on LinkedIn, shoot me an email, or use the Contact Me form below 👇 .

Current Affiliation:  Research Associate at University of Chicago (SUPERgroup)

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Oluwole Adewusi

A Bit About Me

I am a Security Researcher and Engineer focused on the gap between how security systems are designed and how they behave once deployed: how users interact with them, how attackers exploit them, and how operational constraints shape both. I work across usable security, adversarial systems, agentic AI for security operations, and open-source security infrastructure, combining empirical study of real-world deployments with adversarial proof-of-concept development and the engineering of systems that are deployed in production.

I am currently a Research Associate with the University of Chicago's SUPERgroup, led by Blase Ur. My recent work has focused on:

  1. Studying how Rwandan merchants verify mobile money payments through a qualitative interview study, characterising a systematic gap between the operator's intended confirmation workflow and merchants' actual verification behaviour, with the authenticity of proof-of-payment as the security property under threat. Conducted under both institutional IRB and Rwanda National Ethics Committee approval, and accepted to USENIX Security 2026.
  2. Building a proof-of-concept Android attack that exploits that gap, replicating the mobile money payment workflow, enumerating merchants via AccessibilityService, monitoring SMS through regular-expression filtering, and dispatching forged confirmation messages through a third-party gateway, then evaluating whether merchants can detect forgeries in a controlled user study. This work is in draft, co-authored with Blase Ur, with responsible disclosure coordinated to MTN Rwanda and Airtel Rwanda.
  3. Designing an independent multi-agent security operations system with a coordinator-worker architecture and cost guardrails.

Alongside this, I build and operate an open-source DFIR pipeline integrating ten specialist forensic tools across a multi-server architecture, orchestrated through continuous integration.

I hold a Master of Science in Information Technology from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Kwara State University, Nigeria . I bring hands-on experience across DFIR, SOC engineering, penetration testing, cloud infrastructure, and agentic AI systems.

Research Interests

Security of agentic and multi-agent AI systems; trust boundaries and structural guarantees in agent architectures; usable security and privacy in low- and middle-income contexts; AI-driven security operations; security of critical digital infrastructure; digital forensics automation.

Certifications

In progress: CISSP, CISM, ISO 27001 Lead Implementer, CKA/CKAD/CKS