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Ersin Uzun

Katherine Johnson Endowed Executive Director

ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
Professor
ersin.uzun@rit.edu
585-475-5142
Office Hours
By Appointment
Office Location
GOL-1787
Office Mailing Address
20 Lomb Memorial Dr, GCI 70-1787, Rochester NY 14623

Ersin Uzun

Katherine Johnson Endowed Executive Director

ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
Professor

Bio

Dr. Ersin Uzun is the Katherine Johnson Endowed Executive Director of the ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute (ESL-GCI) and a Professor in the Department of Cybersecurity. His current research interests include Usable Security/Privacy, misinformation/deepfake detection and IoT/Networking Security. 

Prior to joining RIT in 2022,  Dr. Uzun's professional experiences include leading innovation/incubation organizations, establishing technology and open innovation partnerships across public and private sectors, and co-founding, advising and investing in technology startups. In his last role in Silicon Valley, he was the Vice President of Research and the Head of New Ventures at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). 

In his career, Dr. Uzun has served in advisory and review boards of Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, Research Council of Canada, U.S. National Science Foundation, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, in program committees of 50+ conferences as well as on the management and advisory boards of various technology startups.

Dr. Uzun received his M.S. and PhD from University of California and has over 100 global patents and 50+ publications in the fields of networking, security and privacy. He is also an alum of the Executive Ignite Program of Stanford Graduate School of Business and inductee of University of California Information and Computer Sciences Hall of Fame.

ersin.uzun@rit.edu
585-475-5142
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Areas of Expertise
Usable Security and Privacy
Network and IoT Security
Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Applied Cryptography

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Publications:

SJ Sohrawardi, C Schwartz, E Uzun, M Wright; DeFake: Developing a Usable Tool for Deepfake Awareness and Identification; Human Computer Interaction Consortium 2023

C Ghali, G Tsudik, E Uzun; In Content We Trust: Network-Layer Trust in Content-Centric Networking; IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2019

V Bindschaedler, S Rane, AE Brito, V Rao, E Uzun; Achieving differential privacy in secure multiparty data aggregation protocols on star networks; ACM on Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy 2017

E Ngai, B Ohlman, G Tsudik, E Uzun, M Wählisch, CA Wood; Can we make a cake and eat it too? A discussion of ICN security and privacy; ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review 2017

C Ghali, G Tsudik, E Uzun, CA Wood; Closing the floodgate with stateless content-centric networking; International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks 2017

M Mosko, E Uzun, CA Wood; Mobile sessions in content-centric networks; IFIP Networking Conference 2017

G Tsudik, E Uzun, CA Wood; Ac3n: Anonymous communication in content-centric networking; IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference 2016

E Ngai, B Ohlman, G Tsudik, E Uzun; Information-centric Networking and Security (Dagstuhl Seminar 16251)  Dagstuhl Reports 2016

C Tschudin, E Uzun, CA Wood; Trust in information-centric networking: From theory to practice; International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks 2016

J Kuriharay, E Uzun, CA Wood; An encryption-based access control framework for content centric networking; IFIP networking conference 2015

C Ghali, G Tsudik, E Uzun, CA Wood; Living in a PIT-less World: A Case against Stateful Forwarding in Content-Centric Networking; The Computing Research Repository abs/1512.07755 2015

S Rane, J Freudiger, AE Brito, E Uzun; Privacy, efficiency & fault tolerance in aggregate computations on massive star networks; IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security 2015

S Rane, E Uzun; A fuzzy commitment approach to privacy preserving behavioral targeting; ACM MobiCom workshop on Security and privacy 2014

P Mahadevan, E Uzun, S Sevilla, JJ Garcia-Luna-Aceves CCN-krs: A key resolution service for CCN; Proceedings of the 1st ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking 2014

CA Wood, E Uzun; Flexible end-to-end content security in CCN; IEEE 11th Consumer Communications and Networking Conference 2014

C Ghali, G Tsudik, E Uzun; Needle in a haystack: Mitigating content poisoning in named-data networking; NDSS Workshop on Security of Emerging Networking Technologies 2014

C Ghali, G Tsudik, E Uzun; Network-layer trust in named-data networking; ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review 2014

J Freudiger, S Rane, AE Brito, E Uzun; Privacy preserving data quality assessment for high-fidelity data sharing; ACM Workshop on Information Sharing & Collaboration 2014

I Bilogrevic, J Freudiger, E De Dristofaro, E Uzun; What’s the gist? Privacy-preserving aggregation of user profiles; European Symposium on Research in Computer Security 2014

A Kobsa, R Nithyanand, G Tsudik, E Uzun; Can Jannie verify? Usability of display-equipped RFID tags for security purposes; Journal of computer security 2013

C Bian, Z Zhu, A Afanasyev, E Uzun, L Zhang; Deploying key management on NDN testbed; UCLA, Peking University and PARC, Tech Report 2013

Patents:

The list of 100+ patents can be found here .

Currently Teaching

CSEC-759
Graduate Seminar in Computing Security
3 Credits
This course explores current topics in Computing Security. It is intended as a place holder course for faculty to experiment new course offerings in Computing Security undergraduate program. Course specific details change with respect to each specific focal area proposed by faculty.

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