Ersin Uzun

• Position: PhD Candidate
• Reserch Interests: Network Security & Privacy, Usable Security, Computer Networks
• Advisor: Gene Tsudik
• Office: ICS 458B
• Fax: +1(801) 927-9821
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Research Groups

• SCONCE: Secure Computing and Networking Center
  
  
• SPROUT: Security and Privacy Research OUTfit

Recent Professional Activities

• Program Committee Member, International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Spontaneous Interaction and Mobile Device Use 2009
• Program Committee Member,  International Workshop on Contactless Security 2009
• Program Committee Member,  Workshop on Security and Privacy Issues in Mobile Phone Use 2008
• External Reviewer, ICNP 2009
• External Reviewer, Ubicomp 2009 
• External Reviewer, ICNP 2008
• External Reviewer, Ubicomp 2008 
• External Reviewer, WiOpt 2008
• External Reviewer, PETS 2008
• External Reviewer, MCN 2008
• External Reviewer, HealthNet 2007

Selected Publications

• Alfred Kobsa, Rahim Sonawalla, Gene Tsudik, Ersin Uzun, Yang Wang. “Serial Hook-Ups: A Comparative Usability Study of Secure Device Pairing Methods”.  To appear in The Fifth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS’09).
  
  
• Arun Kumar, Nitesh Saxena, Gene Tsudik, Ersin Uzun. “Caveat Emptor: A Comparative Study of Secure Device Pairing Methods”, in proceedings of the 7th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (IEEE PerCom’09).
  
  
• Claudio Soriente, Gene Tsudik, Ersin Uzun, “Secure Pairing of Interface constrained Devices”, International Journal on Security and Networks, Vol.4 No.1, 2009.
  
  
• M.T. Goodrich, M. Sirivianos, J. Solis, C. Soriente, G. Tsudik, E. Uzun, “Using Audio in Secure Device Pairing”, International Journal on Security and Networks, Vol.4 No.1, 2009.
  
  
• Claudio Soriente, Gene Tsudik, Ersin Uzun. “HAPADEP: Human-Assisted Pure Audio (Secure) Device Pairing”, in proceedings of the 11th international conference on Information Security (ISC’08).
  
  
• Ersin Uzun, Bryan Stephenson. “Security of Relational Databases in Business Outsourcing”. Technical Report, HP Labs 2008).
  
  
• Ali Aydın Selçuk, Ersin Uzun, and Mark Reşat Pariente, "A Reputation-based Trust Management System for P2P networks", International Journal of Network Security, Vol.6, No.2, PP.227-237, March 2008.
  
  
• Claudio Soriente, Gene Tsudik, Ersin Uzun. “BEDA: Button-Enabled Device Association”, International Workshop on Security for Spontaneous Interaction (IWSSI 2007) and UBICOMP 2007 workshop proceedings.
  
  
• Kari Kostiainen, Ersin Uzun, N. Asokan, Philip Ginzboorg, "Framework For Comparative Usability Testing of Distributed Applications", Technical Report, Nokia Research Center 2007. Extended abstract appeared in Security User Studies: Methodologies and Best Practices Workshop in CHI'07.
  
  
• Ersin Uzun, Kristiina Karvonen, N. Asokan, "Usability Analysis of Secure Pairing Methods", in proceedings of Financial Cryptography and Data Security. (also available as Technical Report, Nokia Research 2007) 
  
  
• Michael T. Goodrich, Michael Sirivianos, John Solis, Gene Tsudik, and Ersin Uzun, "Loud And Clear Human-Verifiable Authentication Based on Audio", in proceedings of IEEE ICDCS'06.
  
  
• A.A. Selçuk, E. Uzun, M.R. Pariente, “A Reputation Based Trust Management System for P2P networks", in proceedings of  IEEE/ACM CCGRID 2004. (Technical Report, Bilkent University 2004)
  

Teaching

• Winter 05: ICS 51 Computer Organization
• Spring 05: ICS 22 Introduction to Computer Science 2
• Fall     05: ICS 23 Fundamental Data Structures
• Winter 06: ICS 168 Computer and Network Security 
• Spring 06: ICS 148 Distributed Systems

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