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Research Engineer
I research and build trustworthy AI, smart-contract and networked systems, with an emphasis on security, verification and reproducible evaluation.
My work spans verifiable machine learning, blockchain auditability, research software and distributed systems.
Master of Engineering in IT Convergence Engineering. Incoming PhD researcher in the Networked Systems Laboratory (NSL) at Kumoh National Institute of Technology.
Evaluation, reproducibility and cryptographic approaches for making model behaviour and AI-generated results more accountable.
Protocol design, provenance, authentication, testing and evidence for security-relevant blockchain systems.
Implementing and benchmarking technical ideas in Python, Solidity and related research tooling.
Dong-Seong Kim, Ikechi Saviour Igboanusi, George Chidera Akor
A permissioned, EVM-compatible network whose Proof-of-Authority Association consensus replaces inactive or underperforming validators and whose Smart Auto Mining algorithm pauses mining when there is no transaction load, reported at an average above 2,300 TPS.
George Chidera Akor, Love Allen Chijioke Ahakonye, Jae Min Lee, Dong-Seong Kim
Measures proving time, memory use and deployment cost layer by layer for CNN components compiled through EZKL, to inform EVM-compatible zkML deployment.
George Chidera Akor, Love Allen Chijioke Ahakonye, Jae Min Lee, Dong-Seong Kim
Aligns Halo2 circuits, KZG commitments and lookup tables with 4-bit transformer quantization to reduce the overhead of proving INT4 LLM inference.
George Chidera Akor, Love Allen Chijioke Ahakonye, Jae Min Lee, Dong-Seong Kim
Anchors cryptographically signed audit-report hashes on an L2 chain with the reports themselves on IPFS, then benchmarks gas, latency and throughput over 600 audit cycles on the Arbitrum Sepolia testnet.
George Chidera Akor is a research engineer working on trustworthy AI, smart-contract security, blockchain auditability and networked systems. He completed a Master of Engineering in IT Convergence Engineering at Kumoh National Institute of Technology and is preparing to begin doctoral research in the Networked Systems Laboratory.
His work combines research design, implementation and empirical evaluation. He has contributed to peer-reviewed work on verifiable machine learning, on-chain provenance, generative-agent simulation and networked systems.
Master of Engineering, IT Convergence Engineering
Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gumi-si, South Korea
September 2024 – August 2026
Graduate research on verifiable AI and blockchain-based auditability for smart-contract security.
B.Eng, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria
November 2016 – June 2023
Second Class Honours (Upper Division); majored in electronics and computing.
Graduate Student Researcher
Networked Systems Laboratory, Kumoh National Institute of Technology
October 2024 – present
Research on automated and verifiable smart-contract auditing; contributions to the PureChain and BridgeSync research systems.
Service Solutions Engineering Graduate Intern
Huawei Technologies Nigeria Co., Ltd., Lagos
December 2023 – September 2024
Graduate internship (NYSC): technical support for telecommunication services, service-project coordination and technical documentation.
I occasionally work with researchers, engineering teams and technical founders on bounded research-engineering problems.
Engagements begin with a clearly defined technical question, deliverable and evidence standard.