Ersin Uzun
Katherine Johnson Endowed Executive Director
Ersin Uzun
Katherine Johnson Endowed Executive Director
Bio
Ersin Uzun is the Katherine Johnson Endowed Executive Director of the Global Cybersecurity Institute and a Professor in the Department of Cybersecurity. He received his MS, PhD degrees from the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests include Usable Security/Privacy, Applied Cryptography and IoT/Networking Security. Dr. Uzun has over 150 patents and publications in the fields of networking, security and privacy.
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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 .
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In the News
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October 6, 2023
RIT becomes one of the first universities to receive support from Google’s Cybersecurity Clinics Fund
RIT is receiving $500,000 from the Google Cybersecurity Clinics Fund to train new cybersecurity professionals, while providing services for public good at the same time. The funding from Google.org, the company’s philanthropic arm, is part of a $20 million collaboration with the Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics that Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, announced in June.
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January 17, 2023
RIT and Alstom Signaling collaborate to advance transportation cybersecurity
RIT and Alstom are coming together to help advance cybersecurity education, development, and research in the transportation industry. Through a new collaboration, the French mobility technology company will provide RIT students with educational, research, and career opportunities. Alstom has also been named theme-sponsor for RIT’s next Global Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) in 2023-2024.
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March 10, 2022
RIT expert offers tips on staying safe with increased cybersecurity threats
WXXI talks to Ersin Uzun, the Katherine Johnson Endowed Executive Director of the RIT ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute.