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Gokhan Kul, PhD

gokhan kul phdAssistant Professor
334C, Science Center North
Division of Physical and Computational Sciences
Delaware State University
1200 N DuPont Hwy, Dover, DE 19901
302.857.6648
gkul [at] desu.edu

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science, University at Buffalo, SUNY, June 2018

M.S., Computer Engineering, METU, August 2012

B.A., Business Administration, Anadolu University, May 2012

B.S., Computer Engineering, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, August 2010

Research Interests/Area

  • Cybersecurity
  • Computer Systems
  • Database Systems

Professional Memberships

  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Publications

  • G. Kul, D. T. A. Luong, T. Xie, V. Chandola, O. Kennedy and S. Upadhyaya. 2018. Similarity Metrics for SQL Query Clustering. In IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 30, no. 12, pp. 2408-2420, 1 Dec. 2018.
  • Gokhan Kul, Shambhu Upadhyaya and Varun Chandola. 2018. Detecting Data Leakage from Databases on Android Apps with Concept Drift. In Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom 18), New York, NY
  • Gokhan Kul, Shambhu Upadhyaya and Andrew Hughes. 2017. Complexity of Insider Attacks to Databases. In Proceedings of the 9th ACM CCS International Workshop on Managing Insider Security Threats (ACM CCS MIST’17), Dallas, TX
  • Vishal Sharma, Ilsun You and Gokhan Kul. 2017. Socializing Drones for Inter-Service Operability in Ultra-Dense Wireless Networks using Blockchain. In Proceedings of the 9th ACM CCS International Workshop on Managing Insider Security Threats (ACM CCS MIST’17), Dallas, TX
  • Gokhan Kul, Duc Luong, Ting Xie, Patrick Coonan, Varun Chandola, Oliver Kennedy and Shambhu Upadhyaya. 2016. Ettu: Analyzing Query Intents in Corporate Databases. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web (WWW ’16 Companion), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • Gokhan Kul, Duc Luong, Ting Xie, Patrick Coonan, Varun Chandola, Oliver Kennedy and Shambhu Upadhyaya. 2016. Summarizing Large Query Logs in Ettu. eprint arXiv:1608.01013
  • Gokhan Kul and Shambhu Upadhyaya. 2016. Towards Cyber Ontology for Insider Threats in the Financial Sector. Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications (JoWUA). 6(4), 64-85
  • Gokhan Kul and Shambhu Upadhyaya. 2015. A Preliminary Cyber Ontology for Insider Threats in the Financial Sector. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM CCS International Workshop on Managing Insider Security Threats (ACM CCS MIST ’15). ACM, New York, NY, USA
  • Gokhan Kul, Tansel Ozyer, Bulent Tavli. 2014. IEEE 802.11 WLAN based Real Time Indoor Positioning: Literature Survey and Experimental Investigations. Procedia Computer Science, 34, 157-164, ISSN 1877-0509
  • Deniz Iren, Gokhan Kul, and Semih Bilgen. 2014. Utilization of synergetic human-machine clouds: a big data cleaning case. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on CrowdSourcing in Software Engineering (CSI–SE 2014). ACM, New York, NY

Teaching

  • CSCI 320, Operating Systems
  • INFO 340, Introduction to Information Security
  • CSCI 510, Advanced Operating Systems
  • CSCI 520, Advanced Computer Networking and Communications

Additional Information

  • Reproducibility Committee Member for VLDB 2018, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
  • External Reviewer for VLDB 2018, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
  • Reproducibility Committee Member for SIGMOD 2017, Chicago, IL
  • Program Committee Member for ACM CCS MIST 2017, Dallas, TX
  • Shadow Program Committee Member for IEEE Security and Privacy 2017, San Jose, CA
  • Reproducibility Committee Member for SIGMOD 2016, San Francisco, CA
  • Program Committee Member for ACM CCS MIST 2016, Vienna, Austria
  • Reviewer for ACM Computing Reviews, December 2014 - Present