Publications

@inproceedings{arslan2026single,
  title={Can a Single Character Change Save Your Account? Heatmap-Based Password Strength Feedback Against AI-Generated Guessing},
  author={Arslan, Ali and Xiao, Youzhen and Goyal, Aarav and Akkas, Emre and Bisgin, Halil and Uludag, Suleyman},
  booktitle={IEEE Consumer Communications \& Networking Conference (CCNC)},
  year={2026},
  note={Accepted}
}

@inproceedings{goyal2026scaling,
  title={Scaling PassGAN Password Guessing: A Multi-Dataset Study of Coverage, Repetition, and Password Strength},
  author={Goyal, Aarav and Arslan, Ali and Uludag, Suleyman},
  booktitle={IEEE ICDM MLC Workshop},
  year={2026},
  note={Accepted}
}

@inproceedings{labelle2026game,
  title={GAME Lab: A Gamified, Generative AI-Based Cybersecurity Laboratory for Password Security Education},
  author={LaBelle, Grace and Kagnici, Oguz and Judd, Tyler and Arslan, Ali and Huseinovic, Alvin and Bisgin, Halil and Uludag, Suleyman},
  booktitle={FIE 2026 Annual Conference},
  year={2026},
  note={Accepted}
}

@inproceedings{arslan2026training,
  title={From Training Data to Generator Output: A Task-Aware Framework for Auditing Representativeness in Synthetic Password Corpora},
  author={Arslan, Ali and Xiao, Youzhen and Bisgin, Halil and Uludag, Suleyman},
  booktitle={CSNET 2026 Annual Conference},
  year={2026},
  note={Accepted}
}

@inproceedings{arslan2026session,
  title={Does Session Invariance Actually Erase Session Information? A Diagnostic Study of EEG-Based Secure Authentication},
  author={Arslan, Ali and Sholiyi, Moyinoluwalogo and Burdukovskaia, Alina and Bisgin, Halil and Uludag, Suleyman},
  booktitle={CSNET 2026 Annual Conference},
  year={2026},
  note={Accepted}
}

@article{jafarli2026false,
  title={False-CSI Attacks in Power-Domain NOMA for 6G: A Threat Taxonomy and System-Level Impacts},
  author={Jafarli, Samira and Ebrahim, Aysha and Uludag, Suleyman},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.28351},
  year={2026}
}

@inproceedings{jindal2026energy,
  title={The Energy Cost of Post-Quantum Transition: Benchmarking PQC Algorithms on Commodity Hardware},
  author={Jindal, Krish and Judd, Tyler and Uludag, Suleyman},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2026 The 35th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing},
  pages={675--682},
  year={2026}
}

@inproceedings{judd2026scalability,
  title={Scalability Bottlenecks in Quantum-Resilient Distributed Ledgers: A Comparative Analysis of Post-Quantum Blockchain Implementations},
  author={Judd, Tyler Earl and Jindal, Krish and Uludag, Suleyman},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2026 The 35th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing},
  pages={714--721},
  year={2026}
}

@inproceedings{uludag2026minimum,
  title={Minimum Viable Assessment: A Faculty-Centered Framework for Sustainable Program Assessment},
  author={Uludag, Suleyman and Turner, Stephen Walter and Judd, Tyler Earl and LaBelle, Grace},
  booktitle={2026 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition},
  year={2026}
}

@inproceedings{judd2026genai,
  title={GenAI-PassLab: Advancing Password Security Learning Through Generative AI},
  author={Judd, Tyler Earl and Kagnici, Oguz and Arslan, Ali and Huseinovic, Alvin and LaBelle, Grace and Bisgin, Halil and Uludag, Suleyman},
  booktitle={2026 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition},
  year={2026}
}

@article{mohsen2026validated,
  title={Validated and enriched Android application dataset: integration of VirusTotal and Quark-Engine intelligence},
  author={Mohsen, Fadi and Zhang, Yulin and Gultekin, Ali Murat and Bisgin, Halil and Buchta, Koerner},
  journal={Data in Brief},
  pages={113152},
  year={2026},
  publisher={Elsevier}
}

@inproceedings{refaie2026predicting,
  title={Predicting PPGL Risk from Clinical Case Reports Using Automated Text Extraction and Machine Learning},
  author={Refaie, Hossam Hesham Moustafa Allam and Erdem, Zeki and Bisgin, Halil and Erenler, Feyza},
  booktitle={2026 34th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU)},
  pages={1--4},
  year={2026},
  organization={IEEE}
}

@inproceedings{armah2026mental,
  title={Mental Health Disorder Detection in a Low-Resource Language: A Case Study on Turkish Social Media Text},
  author={Armah, Courage and Erdem, Zeki and Bisgin, Halil},
  booktitle={2026 34th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU)},
  pages={1--4},
  year={2026},
  organization={IEEE}
}

@article{topuz2026structural,
  title={Structural feature-based machine learning benchmarking for protein interface prediction},
  author={Topuz, Tayyip and Erdem, Zeki and Bisgin, Halil and Akten, E Demet},
  journal={Scientific Reports},
  year={2026},
  publisher={Nature Publishing Group UK London}
}

@inproceedings{bisgin2026deep,
  title={Deep Learning--Driven Data Fusion of NMR and Mass Spectrometry for Disease Prediction},
  author={Bisgin, Halil and Sun, Frank and Ashrafi, Nadia and Akyol, Sumeyya and Monacelli, Nicolette and Osentoski, Tammy and Pai, Amita and Khaled, Imam and Maddens, Michael E and Yilmaz, Ali and others},
  booktitle={2026 IEEE 14th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI)},
  pages={1397--1399},
  year={2026},
  organization={IEEE}
}

@article{topuz2026feature,
  title={Feature-Optimized Machine Learning Benchmarking for Protein Interface Prediction in Permanent Homodimer Complexes with Distinct Structural Features},
  author={Topuz, Tayyip and Erdem, Zeki and Bisgin, Halil and Akten, E Demet},
  year={2026}
}

@article{kamali2025smart,
  title={Smart parking optimization with software defined networking and blockchain: SPOSChain},
  author={Kamali, Huseyin Ozgur and Gorgulu, Ali Berkay and Karakus, Murat and Guler, Evrim and Uludag, Suleyman},
  journal={Journal of Network and Computer Applications},
  pages={104414},
  year={2025},
  publisher={Elsevier}
}

@inproceedings{huseinovic2025using,
  title={Using Deep Learning Approach to Detect Mixed-Rate Data Spoofing in PMUs},
  author={Huseinovic, Alvin and Bisgin, Halil and Korkmaz, Yusuf and Uludag, Suleyman},
  booktitle={2025 33rd Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR)},
  pages={1--4},
  year={2025},
  organization={IEEE}
}

@inproceedings{kagnici2025comparative,
  title={A Comparative Study of Large Language Models for Human-Like Password Generation and Predictability},
  author={Kagnici, Oguz and Bisgin, Halil and Uludag, Suleyman},
  booktitle={2025 9th Cyber Security in Networking Conference (CSNet)},
  pages={1--8},
  year={2025},
  organization={IEEE}
}

@article{sahin2025leveraging,
  title={Leveraging inter-arrival time for efficient threat filtering: A parsimonious approach},
  author={Sahin, Onur and Uludag, Suleyman},
  journal={Computers \& Security},
  volume={154},
  pages={104471},
  year={2025},
  publisher={Elsevier}
}

@inproceedings{kamali2025solving,
  title={Solving urban parking inefficiency through blockchain and SDN: From formulation to implementation},
  author={Kamali, Huseyin Ozgur and Gorgulu, Ali Berkay and Karakus, Murat and Guler, Evrim and Uludag, Suleyman},
  booktitle={2025 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom)},
  pages={1--6},
  year={2025},
  organization={IEEE}
}

@inproceedings{kagnici2025evaluating,
  title={Evaluating the Efficacy of GPT-based Password Generation on Real World Data},
  author={Kagnici, Oguz and Bisgin, Halil and Uludag, Suleyman},
  booktitle={2025 1st International Conference on Secure IoT, Assured and Trusted Computing (SATC)},
  pages={1--5},
  year={2025},
  organization={IEEE}
}

@inproceedings{judd2025performance,
  title={A Performance Evaluation of Post Quantum Digital Signatures for Proof of Stake Consensus},
  author={Judd, Tyler and Uludag, Suleyman},
  booktitle={2025 1st International Conference on Secure IoT, Assured and Trusted Computing (SATC)},
  pages={1--5},
  year={2025},
  organization={IEEE}
}

@inproceedings{getty2025leveraging,
  title={Leveraging Learning Management Systems for Academic Risk Prediction Using Machine Learning: A Computer Science and Engineering Perspective},
  author={Getty, Daniel and Turner, Mason and Nickols, Matthew and Bisgin, Halil},
  booktitle={2025 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)},
  pages={1--6},
  year={2025},
  organization={IEEE}
}

@article{bisgin2025deep,
  title={A Deep Learning-based Data Fusion Approach for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry Towards Disease Prediction},
  author={Bisgin, Halil and Sun, Frank and Ashrafi, Nadia and Akyol, Sumeyya and Osentoski, Tammy and Yilmaz, Ali and Graham, Stewart},
  year={2025},
  publisher={TechRxiv}
}

@inproceedings{hayyolalam2024synergistic,
  title={Synergistic integration of blockchain and software-defined networking in the internet of energy systems},
  author={Hayyolalam, Vahideh and Zekiye, Abdulrezzak and Abuzahra, Hamza and {\"O}zkasap, {\"O}znur and Karakus, Murat and Guler, Evrim and Uludag, Suleyman},
  booktitle={2024 6th International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA)},
  pages={420--427},
  year={2024},
  organization={IEEE}
}

@inproceedings{uludag2024adaptive,
  title={Adaptive Mitigation of Blackhole Attacks in Blockchain-Enhanced Software Defined Networks},
  author={Uludag, Mehmed K and Karakus, Murat and Guler, Evrim and Uludag, Suleyman},
  booktitle={2024 IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC)},
  pages={1--8},
  year={2024},
  organization={IEEE}
}

@inproceedings{zhang2024poisoning,
  title={Poisoning Attacks Against Non-IID Federated Learning with Mixed-Data Calibration},
  author={Zhang, Xufei and Uludag, Suleyman},
  booktitle={2024 7th International Conference on Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (MLNLP)},
  pages={1--5},
  year={2024},
  organization={IEEE}
}

@article{karakucsqoscape,
  title={QoSCAPE: QoS-Centric Adaptive Path Engineering with Blockchain-Enabled Reinforcement Learning},
  author={KARAKU{\c{S}}, MURAT and G{\"U}LER, EVR{\.I}M and AYAZ, FURKAN and Uludag, Suleyman}
}

@inproceedings{knox2024understanding,
  title={Understanding the Transfer of Knowledge in Introductory Programming Classes},
  author={Knox, Michael and Tang, Charlotte and Bisgin, Halil and Mani, Murali and Uludag, Suleyman},
  booktitle={2024 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)},
  pages={1--9},
  year={2024},
  organization={IEEE}
}

@inproceedings{turner2024experience,
  title={Experience Implementing an Automated Assessment System for Accreditation},
  author={Turner, Stephen W and Judd, Tyler and Uludag, Suleyman},
  booktitle={2024 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)},
  pages={1--9},
  year={2024},
  organization={Ieee}
}

@inproceedings{judd2024coalescing,
  title={Coalescing Research into Modular and Safe Educational Cybersecurity Labs with AI Solutions},
  author={Judd, Tyler and Bisgin, Halil and Huseinovic, Alvin and Derani, Mohammad and Uludag, Suleyman},
  booktitle={2024 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)},
  pages={1--9},
  year={2024},
  organization={IEEE}
}

@inproceedings{gorgulu2024proof,
  title={A proof of concept for Blockchain-Enhanced smart parking system with SDN: BePaS},
  author={Gorgulu, Ali Berkay and Kamali, Huseyin Ozgur and Karakus, Murat and Guler, Evrim and Uludag, Suleyman},
  booktitle={2024 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom)},
  pages={316--319},
  year={2024},
  organization={Ieee}
}

@inproceedings{dai2024performance,
  title={Performance Tradeoff in ML-Based Intrusion Detection Systems: Efficacy vs. Resource Usage},
  author={Dai, Nathan and Uludag, Suleyman},
  booktitle={2024 IEEE 21st Consumer Communications \& Networking Conference (CCNC)},
  pages={1030--1031},
  year={2024},
  organization={IEEE}
}

@article{bisgin2024large,
  title={Large-scale evaluation of open-set image classification techniques},
  author={Bisgin, Halil and Palechor, Andres and Suter, Mike and G{\"u}nther, Manuel},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.09112},
  year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{turner2023framework,
  title={A framework for an automated assessment system},
  author={Turner, Stephen W and Judd, Tyler and Moore, Aaron and Uludag, Suleyman},
  booktitle={2023 International Symposium on Accreditation of Engineering and Computing Education (ICACIT)},
  pages={1--6},
  year={2023},
  organization={IEEE}
}

@article{karakus2023smartcontractchain,
  title={Smartcontractchain (sc 2): Cross-isp qos traffic management framework with sdn and blockchain},
  author={Karakus, Murat and Guler, Evrim and Uludag, Suleyman},
  journal={Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications},
  volume={16},
  number={6},
  pages={3003--3020},
  year={2023},
  publisher={Springer}
}

@inproceedings{poke2023empirical,
  title={Empirical Evaluation of a LoRa Mesh Network for Emergency Communication Systems},
  author={Poke, Brenton and Uludag, Suleyman},
  booktitle={2023 IEEE 14th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics \& Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON)},
  pages={0637--0646},
  year={2023},
  organization={IEEE}
}

@article{sahin2023advancing,
  title={Advancing intrusion detection efficiency: A’less is more’approach via feature selection},
  author={Sahin, Onur and Uludag, Suleyman},
  year={2023}
}

@article{turner2023promising,
  title={A promising integration of sdn and blockchain for iot networks: A survey},
  author={Turner, Stephen W and Karakus, Murat and Guler, Evrim and Uludag, Suleyman},
  journal={IEEE Access},
  volume={11},
  pages={29800--29822},
  year={2023},
  publisher={IEEE}
}

@article{bisgin2023did,
  title={Did the public attribute the Flint Water Crisis to racism as it was happening? Text analysis of Twitter data to examine causal attributions to racism during a public health crisis},
  author={Bisgin, Neslihan and Bisgin, Halil and Hummel, Daniel and Zelner, Jon and Needham, Belinda L},
  journal={Journal of computational social science},
  volume={6},
  number={1},
  pages={165--190},
  year={2023},
  publisher={Springer}
}

@misc{orellana2023using,
  title={Using Natural Language Processing to analyze political party manifestos from New Zealand. Information, 14 (3), 152},
  author={Orellana, S and Bisgin, H},
  year={2023}
}

@inproceedings{korkmaz2022using,
  title={Using deep learning for detecting mirroring attacks on smart grid PMU networks},
  author={Korkmaz, Yusuf and Huseinovic, Alvin and Bisgin, Halil and Mrdovi{\'c}, Sa{\v{s}}a and Uludag, Suleyman},
  booktitle={2022 International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking (BalkanCom)},
  pages={84--89},
  year={2022},
  organization={IEEE}
}

@article{bisgin2022accurate,
  title={Accurate species identification of food-contaminating beetles with quality-improved elytral images and deep learning},
  author={Bisgin, Halil and Bera, Tanmay and Wu, Leihong and Ding, Hongjian and Bisgin, Neslihan and Liu, Zhichao and Pava-Ripoll, Monica and Barnes, Amy and Campbell, James F and Vyas, Himansi and others},
  journal={Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence},
  volume={5},
  pages={952424},
  year={2022},
  publisher={Frontiers Media SA}
}

@article{mohsen2022security,
  title={Security-centric ranking algorithm and two privacy scores to mitigate intrusive apps},
  author={Mohsen, Fadi and Abdelhaq, Hamed and Bisgin, Halil},
  journal={Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience},
  volume={34},
  number={14},
  pages={e6571},
  year={2022},
  publisher={Wiley Online Library}
}

@inproceedings{huseinovic2022pmu,
  title={PMU Spoof Detection via Image Classification Methodology against Repeated Value Attacks by using Deep Learning},
  author={Huseinovic, Alvin and Korkmaz, Yusuf and Bisgin, Halil and Mrdovi{\'c}, Sa{\v{s}}a and Uludag, Suleyman},
  booktitle={2022 XXVIII International Conference on Information, Communication and Automation Technologies (ICAT)},
  pages={1--6},
  year={2022},
  organization={IEEE}
}