About Me
I received my Master of Science degree in computer science from Oregon State University, USA and my Bachelor‘s degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the Bilkent University, Turkey. I am currently pursuing a PhD degree in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University under the supervision of Dr. Z. Berkay Celik. My research interests broadly lie in the area of systems security. Through systems design and formal verification, my research seeks to improve security and privacy guarantees in emerging computing platforms. My research approach is best illustrated by my work in IoT safety and security.
I will start as an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence at Arizona State University in Fall 2024!
Prospective Students
[Spring/Fall 25] I am looking for motivated Ph.D. students and research interns who are interested in security and privacy. If you are interested in working with me, please reach out to me through email.
News
- [Apr 2024] I received the Diamond Award for Academic excellence from the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University!
- [Mar 2024] Our work on physical side-channel attacks against intermittent (batteryless) devices is accepted to PoPETs 2024!
- [Mar 2024] I received Purdue CS Department's merit recognition award!
- [Sep 2023] I was invited to NSA’s Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity Research Symposium as a panelist!
- [May 2023] I am starting a research internship at Toyota Research Institute North America!
- [Nov 2022] Our work on secure group pairing of heterogeneous IoT devices is accepted to IEEE S&P 2023!
- [Oct 2022] Our work about evasion attacks and defenses on physical event verification systems is accepted to NDSS 2023!
- [Aug 2022] Our work on discovering IoT physical channel vulnerabilities is accepted to NDSS 2023!
Selected Publications
- Physical Side-Channel Attacks against Intermittent Devices
Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Habiba Farrukh and Z. Berkay Celik
PoPETs 2024 (Acceptance Rate: 19.5%) [Paper] - Evasion Attacks and Defenses on Smart Home Physical Event Verification
Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Ruoyu Song, Habiba Farrukh and Z. Berkay Celik
NDSS 2023 (Acceptance Rate: 16.2%) [Paper] - One Key to Rule Them All: Secure Group Pairing for Heterogeneous IoT Devices
Habiba Farrukh*, Muslum Ozgur Ozmen*, Kerem Ors and Z. Berkay Celik
IEEE S&P 2023 (* equal contribution, Acceptance Rate: 17%) [Paper] - Discovering Adversarial Driving Maneuvers against Autonomous Vehicles
Ruoyu Song, Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Hyungsub Kim, Raymond Muller, Z. Berkay Celik, and Antonio Bianchi
Usenix Security 2023 (Acceptance Rate: 29%) [Paper] - PatchVerif: Discovering Faulty Patches in Robotic Vehicles
Hyungsub Kim, Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Z. Berkay Celik, Antonio Bianchi and Dongyan Xu
Usenix Security 2023 (Acceptance Rate: 29%) [Paper] - Discovering IoT Physical Channel Vulnerabilities.
Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Xuansong Li, Andrew Chu, Z. Berkay Celik, Bardh Hoxha and Xiangyu Zhang
ACM CCS 2022 (Acceptance Rate: 22%) [Paper] - PGPATCH: Policy-Guided Logic Bug Patching for Robotic Vehicles
Hyungsub Kim, Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Z. Berkay Celik, Antonio Bianchi and Dongyan Xu
IEEE S&P 2022 (Acceptance Rate: 14.5%) [Paper] - Behind the Tube: Exploitative Monetization of Content on YouTube
Andrew Chu, Arjun Arunasalam, Muslum Ozgur Ozmen and Z. Berkay Celik
Usenix Security 2022 (Acceptance Rate: 17.2%) [Paper] - PGFUZZ: Policy-Guided Fuzzing for Robotic Vehicles
Hyungsub Kim, Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Antonio Bianchi, Z. Berkay Celik, and Dongyan Xu
NDSS 2021 (Acceptance Rate: 15.2%) [Paper] - Fast Authentication from Aggregate Signatures with Improved Security
Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Rouzbeh Behnia and Attila Yavuz
Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC) 2019 (Acceptance Rate: 21.9%) [Paper] - TACHYON: Fast Signatures from Compact Knapsack
Rouzbeh Behnia, Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Attila Yavuz and Mike Rosulek
ACM CCS 2018 (Acceptance Rate: 16.6%) [Paper]
Professional Activity
- Program Committee
- ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY) 2024
- Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (VehicleSec) 2024
- IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm) 2023
- Workshop on CPS&IoT Security and Privacy (CPSIoTSec) 2023
- IEEE/ACM Workshop on the Internet of Safe Things (SafeThings) 2023
- ICDM Machine Learning for Cybersecurity (MLC) 2023
- Workshop on Re-design Industrial Control Systems with Security (RICSS) 2023
- Reviewer
- ACM Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT/Ubicomp) 2023
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 2023
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 2023
- IEEE Internet of Things Journal 2022
- IEEE Transactions on Services Computing 2020
- IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) 2023, 2024
- Usenix Security 2022, 2023, 2024
- Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2022, 2023, 2024
- ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2021
Teaching
- Guest Lecturer, CS426 - Computer Security, Purdue University
- Guest Lecturer, CS590 - IoT & CPS Security, Purdue University
- Teaching Assistant, CS496 - Mobile and Cloud Software Development, Oregon State University
- Teaching Assistant, CS261 - Data Structures, CS/ECE578 - Cyber-security, Oregon State University
- Teaching Assistant, CS492 - Mobile Software Development, Oregon State University