Berk Gulmezoglu

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Education: Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (2020), M.S. Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University (2014), B.S. Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University (2012)

Research Areas Core Areas: Secure and Reliable Computer, Information Assurance, Microarchitectural Attacks, Hardware Security, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Cryptography

Department’s Strategic Area(s): Cyber Infrastructure

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Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HmndSmcAAAAJ&hl=en

Research Lab Website: https://www.ece.iastate.edu/bgulmez/

• Seonghun Son, Chandrika Mukherjee, Reham Mohamed Aburas, Berk Gulmezoglu, Z. Berkay Celik “Side-channel Inference of User Activities in AR/VR Using GPU Profiling“, NDSS 2026.
• Jordan McGhee, Nayra Lujano, Aiden Petersen, Henry Duwe, Akhilesh Tyagi, Berk Gulmezoglu “Microarchitecture Evaluation Framework for Transient Execution Attack Vulnerability: Metrics, Fuzzing, and Sensitivity Analysis“, GLSVLSI 2025.
• Seonghun Son, Daniel Moghimi, Berk Gulmezoglu “SMaCk: Efficient Instruction Cache Attacks via Self-Modifying Code Conflicts“, ASPLOS 2025.
• Rajrup Mitra, Md. Abdullah All Sourav, Sunghwan Kim, Berk Gulmezoglu, and Halil Ceylan “Comparative Case Study: Traffic Monitoring Using YOLOv11-Based Object Detection andTwo Tracking Algorithms with Small Uncrewed Aerial Systems” ASCE 2025.
• Debopriya Roy Dipta, Jonathan Tan, Berk Gulmezoglu “Systematical Evasion from Learning-based Microarchitectural Attack Detection Tools”, IEEE JETCAS 2024
• Debopriya Roy Dipta, Thore Tiemann, Berk Gulmezoglu, Eduard Marin, Thomas Eisenbarth “Dynamic Frequency-based Fingerprinting Attacks against Modern Sandbox Environments”, Euro S&P 2024
• Seonghun Son, Debopriya Roy Dipta, Berk Gulmezoglu “DefWeb: Defending User Privacy against Cache-based Website Fingerprinting Attacks with Intelligent Noise Injection”, ACSAC 2023
• Debopriya Roy Dipta, Berk Gulmezoglu “MAD-EN: Microarchitectural Attack Detection through System-wide Energy Consumption”, IEEE TIFS 2023
• Claudius Pott, Berk Gulmezoglu, Thomas Eisenbarth “Overcoming the Pitfalls of HPC-based Cryptojacking Detection in Presence of GPUs”, CODASPY 2023
• Debopriya Roy Dipta, Berk Gulmezoglu “DF-SCA: Dynamic Frequency Side Channel Attacks are Practical”, ACSAC 2022
• B Gulmezoglu “XAI-based Microarchitectural Side-Channel Analysis for Website Fingerprinting Attacks and Defenses” IEEE TDSC 2021
• C Tol, B Gulmezoglu, K Yurtseven, B Sunar “FastSpec: Scalable Generation and Detection of Spectre Gadgets Using Neural Embeddings” IEEE Euro S&P 2021
• Andreas Zankl, Hermann Seuschek, Gorka Irazoqui, Berk Gulmezoglu “Side-channel attacks in the Internet of Things: threats and challenges” Research Anthology on Artificial Intelligence Applications in Security 2021

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Secure Cyberspace & Autonomy

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