> whoami

I am a Fifth Year Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland in College Park, advised by Prof. Tudor Dumitraș. I received my B.S. in Computer Science(CS) from Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey), in 2018. I got my Master of Science (MSc diploma) in Electrical Engineering in 2024

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My broad research interests cover data-driven malware analysis and automatic exploit generation. I'm currently more focused in automatic exploit generation for the Linux kernel. Specifically, in my recent PhD work I have developed a tool (called SCAVY ) to automatically find kernel objects that when overwritten by memory corruptions bugs can reach privilege escalation. My participation in various CTF competitions and my internship work at Meta have been major influences in this new research direction.

I have been awarded the Clark Doctoral Fellowship(2018) which includes and $2000 of travel grant for 4 years, along with guaranteed GRA/GTA for 4 years.

Talks

  • When malware changed it's mind[...] [link] - Usenix 2021
  • When malware changed it's mind[...] [link] - vblocalhost 2021

Professional Services

  • Reviewer
    • Computer Science Review (link) [2022]
  • Artifact Evaluation Comitee
    • USENIX Security Symposium (Usenix) [2021, 2022, 2023, 2024]
    • PETS Accepted papers (PoPETS) [2021, 2022]
  • External Reviewer
    • IEEE Security and Privacy (S & P) [2022,2023]
    • ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) [2018, 2019]
    • Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) [2019, 2020]
    • USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX) [2018, 2019, 2024]
    • International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID) [2018, 2019]
    • ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) [2018, 2019]