Recent News

  • July 2022: I joined to Computer Science and Engineering Department of University of Nevada Reno as tenure-track Assistant Professor.
  • Apr 2022: I defended my dissertation and now I am a PhD.
  • Apr 2022: I received Exceptional Achievement Award from School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens.
  • Oct 2021: I received IEEE ICNP 2021 registration award.
  • Sep 2021: I defended my Phd. dissertation proposal.
  • Jul 2021: Paper on modeling IoT adoption in healthcare with systems approach accepted at IEEE ISSE.
  • Jul 2021: Chameleon Cloud featured my research, learn more here.
  • Jun 2021: Paper on misactivation detection of smart speakers accepted at ACM WiSec 2021.
  • May 2021: I received Fabrycky-Blanchard Award from School of Systems Enterprises, Stevens Institute of Technology, learn more here.
  • Nov 2020: LSIF is accepted at IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ).
  • Aug 2020: A measurement paper on the latency characteristics of edge computing is accepted at IEEE Globecom 2020.
  • Aug 2020: Paper on anomalous IoT traffic detection is accepted at IEEE Globecom 2020.
  • May 2020: I received Academic Achievement Award in a Doctoral Program for outstanding academic achievement and professional promise in the School of Systems and Enterprises doctoral programs, Stevens Institute of Technology, learn more here.
  • Jan 2020: Paper on IoT device identification is accepted at IEEE ICC 2020.
  • Jan 2020: RIVA is accepted at IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS).
  • Aug 2019: Started my Ph.D. in Systems Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, NJ, USA).
  • Jul 2019: Finished my Masters at UNR. I obtained my M.S. from the Computer Science and Engineering department of the University of Nevada Reno. My dissertation title is "Protecting File Transfers Against Silent Data Corruption with Robust End-to-End Integrity Verification."
  • Mar 2019: Our work on increasing the resilience of file transfers against silent data corruption is accepted at IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2019.
  • Jan 2019: Published my first journal article on "Complex network of United States migration" at Computational Social Networks.
  • Nov 2017: Published my first paper on "Network analysis of migration patterns in the United States" which will be presented in International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, Lyon, France.
  • Aug 2017: Started my graduate studies at University of Nevada Reno (NV, USA).
  • Jun 2017: I obtained my bachelor's degree as an Honor student from the Computer Engineering Department of Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey).

Education

PhD in Systems Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology (NJ, US) 2019 - 2022
MS in Computer Science & Engineering at University of Nevada Reno (NV, US) 2017 - 2019
BS in Computer Engineering at Middle East Technical University (Ank, Turkey) 2013 - 2017

Publications

Journals

  1. B. Charyyev and M. H. Gunes, "Locality-Sensitive IoT Network Traffic Fingerprinting for Device Identification," in IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ), vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 1272-1281, 1 Feb.1, 2021, doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2020.3035087.
  2. B. Charyyev and E. Arslan, "RIVA: Robust Integrity Verification Algorithm for High-Speed File Transfers," in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 1387-1399, 1 June 2020, doi: 10.1109/TPDS.2020.2966616.
  3. B. Charyyev and M. H. Gunes, "Complex network of United States migration," Computational Social Networks 6, 1 (2019). doi.org/10.1186/s40649-019-0061-6.

Book Chapters

  1. Charyyev B., Solmaz M., Gunes M.H. (2020) "Dynamic Network of United States Air Transportation at Multiple Levels." In: Barbosa H., Gomez-Gardenes J., Gonçalves B., Mangioni G., Menezes R., Oliveira M. (eds) Complex Networks XI. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40943-2_24.
  2. Goldade T., Charyyev B., Gunes M.H. (2018) "Network Analysis of Migration Patterns in the United States." In: Cherifi C., Cherifi H., Karsai M., Musolesi M. (eds) Complex Networks & Their Applications VI. COMPLEX NETWORKS 2017. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 689. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72150-7_62.

Conferences (Full Paper Review)

  1. B. Charyyev, M. Mansouri, and M. H. Gunes, "Modeling the Adoption of Internet of Things in Healthcare: A Systems Approach," IEEE ISSE 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering (ISSE).
  2. B. Charyyev and M. H. Gunes, "Misactivation Detection and User Identification in Smart Home Speakers using Traffic Flow Features," ACM WiSec 2021 - In Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 135–146. pp. 1-6, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3448300.3468289.
  3. B. Charyyev and M. H. Gunes, "Detecting Anomalous IoT Traffic Flow with Locality Sensitive Hashes," IEEE GLOBECOM 2020 - IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/GLOBECOM42002.2020.9322559.
  4. B. Charyyev, E. Arslan and M. H. Gunes, "Latency Comparison of Cloud Datacenters and Edge Servers," IEEE GLOBECOM 2020 - IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/GLOBECOM42002.2020.9322406.
  5. B. Charyyev and M. H. Gunes, "Voice Command Fingerprinting with Locality Sensitive Hashes," CPSIOTSEC'20 - In Proceedings of the 2020 Joint Workshop on CPS&IoT Security and Privacy (CPSIOTSEC'20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 87–92. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3411498.3419963.
  6. B. Charyyev and M. H. Gunes, "IoT Event Classification Based on Network Traffic," IEEE INFOCOM 2020 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), 2020, pp. 854-859, doi: 10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS50562.2020.9162885.
  7. B. Charyyev and M. H. Gunes, "IoT Traffic Flow Identification using Locality Sensitive Hashes," IEEE ICC 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICC40277.2020.9148743.
  8. B. Charyyev, A. Alhussen, H. Sapkota, E. Pouyoul, M. H. Gunes and E. Arslan, "Towards Securing Data Transfers Against Silent Data Corruption," 2019 19th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (IEEE/ACM CCGRID 2019), pp. 262-271, doi: 10.1109/CCGRID.2019.00040.

Conferences (Abstract Review)

  1. B. Charyyev and M. H. Gunes, "Latency Characteristics of Edge and Cloud," In Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA 2020) Lightning Talks Session
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  2. B. Charyyev and M. H. Gunes, "Temporal Network Analysis of United States Migration," In The International School and Conference on Network Science, (NetSci 2019) Burlington VT USA
  3. A. Alhussen, B. Charyyev and E. Arslan, "Is End-to-End Integrity Verification Really End-to-End?," PDSW-DISCS 2018 In Workshop On Parallel Data Storage & Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (co-located with IEEE/ACM Supercomputing)

Professional Experience

2022 - Current: Assistant Professor in CSE department of University of Nevada Reno.

2019 - 2022: Research Assistant in Netlab at Stevens Institute of Technology
* Conduct research on Network Traffic Fingerprinting of IoT devices with Machine Learning, to protect the privacy of users and security of the network and prevent cyber-attacks.
* Developed a novel fingerprinting technique that does not require feature selection/extraction from data, tuning the parameters of the model, and retraining the model.

2017 - 2019: Research Assistant in HPCLab and CNLab at University of Nevada Reno
* Conducted research in both HPCLab (High-Performance Computing Laboratory) and CNLab (Computer Networks Laboratory).
* Conducted research on protecting file transfers against Silent Data Corruption on HPC platforms.
* Developed RIVA a robust integrity verification algorithm for high-speed networking that ensures the end-to-end integrity of data transfers by invalidating the cache and keeping overhead below 10% compared to state-of-the-art solution Globus.
* Conducted research on network analysis of internal migration and air transportation system of the US with Complex Network Analysis.
* Developed a Trusted Computing environment with TPM (Trusted Platform Module) and Intel SGX (Software Guard Extensions) on C++ for NSF project CYBEX-P.

2017 - 2019: Teaching Assistant at University of Nevada Reno
* Assisted "Introduction to Computer Science" course, conducted lab sessions and graded assignments, exams.

2016 (Jun - Aug): Software Engineer Intern at Middle East Technical University (Ank, Turkey)
* Developed a software in Python that finds Neutral Value of a search problem using Reinforcement Learning and Hill Climbing.

2015 (Sep - Dec): Tutor at Mengutash Language Education Center (Ank, Turkey)
* Gave in-person instruction to high school students, prepared activities, assignments, and exams.

2015 (Jun - Aug): Software Engineer Intern in Modeling and Simulation Research and Development Center (Ank, Turkey)
* Developed a software for Kinect on Java which extracts data of the Depth-Frame Video.

Awards and Honors

  1. Exceptional Achievement Award: I received Exceptional Achievement Award for demonstrating exceptional academic achievement and outstanding contributions beyond the classroom in the School of Systems and Enterprises, Stevens Institute of Technology.
  2. IEEE ICNP Registration Award: I received a registration award to IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) 2021. (Oct 2021)
  3. Chameleon Cloud featured my research, learn more here. (Jul 2021)
  4. Fabrycky-Blanchard Award: for exemplary academic performance, excellence in research, and promise in the study and practice of systems engineering. School of Systems Enterprises, Stevens Institute of Technology. (May 2021 - Grant: $1,500)
  5. Academic Achievement Award in a Doctoral Program: for outstanding academic achievement and professional promise in the School of Systems and Enterprises doctoral program, Stevens Institute of Technology. (May 2020 - Grant: $250)
  6. Graduate Student Association (GSA) travel award: received travel award from GSA University of Nevada Reno to present my work on International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci) in Burlington, Vermont USA. (May 2019 - Grant: $500)
  7. Graduate Student Association (GSA) travel award: received travel award from GSA University of Nevada Reno to present my work at International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, Lyon, France. (Oct 2017 - Grant: $500)
  8. Runner-up, Senior Design Project: "CT Scan Viewer" was awarded 2nd place among 27 projects in the annual METU (Middle East Technical University) Demo Day competition. (Jun 2017 - Grant: $1,000)
  9. Success and Support Scholarship: Scholarship awarded by "Turkiye Scholarships" organization to students that demonstrated success in their education in Turkey. (2015, 2016 - Grant: $1,500)
  10. METU Tuition Fee Discount / Exemption: Scholarship awarded to top 10% students of Computer Engineering department of Middle East Technical University. (2015 - 2017)

Services and Voluntary Activities

Academic Services

  • TPC member, IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC 2023).
  • Reviewer, Elsevier Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier ComNet 2022).
  • Reviewer, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (IEEE Wireless Commun. Lett. 2021).
  • Reviewer, IEEE Communications Letters (IEEE Commun. Lett. 2021).
  • Reviewer, IEEE Internet of Thing Journal (IEEE IoTJ 2020-22).
  • Contributor to Times Higher Education World University Rankings (THE 2021).
  • Member of Reviewer Committee of Twentieth International Conference on Networks (ICN 2021).
  • Member of Reviewer Committee, of Twelfth International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization (CLOUD COMPUTING 2021).
  • Member of Reviewer Committee, IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE Globecom 2020).
  • Reviewer, IEEE/ACM International Symposium in Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2020).
  • Reviewer, Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA 2019).

Memberships

  • Member of IEEE, IEEE Communications Society, and IEEE Young Professionals since 2019.
  • Member of Astronomy club at University of Nevada Reno since fall 2017.
  • Member of Modelling and Simulation Society at Middle East Technical University since 2012.
  • Member of Magtymguly Youth Organization of Turkmenistan since 2009.

Other

  • Served as Mentor and Judge for Technovation Pitch Event (Technovation 2022).
  • Volunteered as a judge in high school science competition, Reno Nevada, USA (2018, 2019).
  • Volunteered as an advisor and guide to freshmen at Middle East Technical University under the welcome program "El Ele ODTU" Ankara Turkey (2017).
  • Volunteered as a tutor to teach math and geometry to students from an underserved population in Atamyrat, Turkmenistan (2012).