Biography

Dr. Ali Tekeoglu received his BS degree in Computer Engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2007. He earned Master’s degree in Computer Science from University of Texas at San Antonio, in 2009. Subsequently, in 2015 he earned PhD from the UTSA, and his dissertation thesis was “Security Analysis of Multimedia Communication Protocols in Traditional and Emerging Models”. During his graduate studies he interned with Intel, Hewlett-Packard and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX). Upon graduating from UTSA, he started to work for a cloud security start-up company HyTrust, in Silicon Valley area, as a Software Security Engineer. He worked for Rackspace, as a Vulnerability Analyst and Penetration Test Engineer briefly, before joining SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Fall 2016. Since 2016, he is teaching in Network Computer Security Department at SUNY Poly. He has been teaching Network Forensics, Internet of Things Security, Information Assurance Fundamentals, Penetration Testing, Introduction to Linux and Linux Networking courses. During summer of 2018, he was a visiting postdoctoral researcher at University of Victoria, in Victoria B.C. Canada. He worked in Information Security and Object Technology Lab, with Dr. Issa Traore, on Cloud Intrusion Detection technology project. His research interests include network security and multimedia security; specifically focusing on cloud based IoT devices and more recently on Security and Privacy of Blockchain technologies. He is co-chairing two upcoming conference workshops; SimBig’18, PSCBig: Privacy and Security Challenges on Big Data Workshop, and Blockchain Track for the 13th International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing. He has served in the Technical Program Committee member for ICACCI’2018, EECSI’18, CoCoNet’18, SCS-NCC’18, ICACCI’17, WSTA’17, SAI’17, CITS’17, SoftCOM’16, CITS’16, CoCoNet’15, ICACCI Special Session on Malware Analysis and Forensics in Smart Phones, ICACCI’15 and GSCIT’14. He is a member of the IEEE.