Organizing AdHocNets 2025 in Istanbul (December 2025); Talk at University of Milan (July 2025); New patent on Malicious Code Localization (May 2025); Keynote Speech at NLPAICS'24, Lancaster (July 2024); Invited talk at CBIoT 2023, London (July 2023); Information about 5G and Beyond Scholarship Program (March 2022); Invited talk at Mid Sweden University (September 2018); New Joint Project with Mid Sweden University (August 2018); New TUBITAK-1001 Project (August 2018).
Research Experience
Research visits to Eurecom Institute in France (2011) and the University of York, UK (2016 and 2022). Involved in multiple research projects, including a collaboration with Mid Sweden University on detecting intrusions in industrial IoT.
Education
PhD from the Department of Computer Science at the University of York, UK (completed in 2010), joined Hacettepe University as a lecturer afterwards.
Background
Currently a faculty member at the Department of Computer Engineering, Hacettepe University and the head of the WISE Lab. Research interests are centered around the development of intelligent secure systems, particularly in intrusion detection, trust management, and malware analysis. Also interested in wireless networks and IoT, focusing on enhancing routing protocols and strengthening the security of these networks. Additionally, interested in nature-inspired algorithms and evolutionary computation, and their application to solve hard problems in networking and security.