Faculty Profile

Cihan Tunc

Title
Assistant Professor
Department
Computer Science and Engineering
College
College of Engineering

    

    

      


                          

            
Curriculum Vitae

            

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Education

            



  

  


  
PhD, University of Arizona, 2015. 
Major: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Dissertation Title: Autonomic cloud resource management
MSc, Northeastern University, 2010. 
Major: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Dissertation Title: Variation and defect tolerance for nano crossbars
BS, Bahcesehir University, 2008. 
Major: Electrical & Electronics Engineering





          

        
                

          
Current Scheduled Teaching*


          
CSCE 6933.002, Advanced Topics in Computer Science and Engineering, Spring 2024 Syllabus
CSCE 3560.001, Cloud Security, Spring 2024 Syllabus
CSCE 5562.001, Cloud Security, Spring 2024 Syllabus
CSCE 6950.948, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2024 
CSCE 6940.948, Individual Research, Spring 2024 
CSCE 5950.848, Master's Thesis, Spring 2024 


          
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Previous Scheduled Teaching*


            
                    

                    CSCE 6950.848, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2023 
                    

                    CSCE 6940.848, Individual Research, Fall 2023 
                    

                    CSCE 5550.003, Introduction to Computer Security, Fall 2023  SPOT
                    

                    CSCE 5950.848, Master's Thesis, Fall 2023 
                    

                    CSCE 3560.001, Computer Systems Security, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    CSCE 6940.748, Individual Research, Spring 2023 
                    

                    CSCE 5950.748, Master's Thesis, Spring 2023 
                    

                    CSCE 5933.002, Topics in Computer Science and Engineering, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    CSCE 6940.848, Individual Research, Fall 2022 
                    

                    CSCE 5550.003, Introduction to Computer Security, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    CSCE 3560.001, Computer Systems Security, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    CSCE 6950.748, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2022 
                    

                    CSCE 6940.748, Individual Research, Spring 2022 
                    

                    CSCE 5950.748, Master's Thesis, Spring 2022 
                    

                    CSCE 5933.002, Topics in Computer Science and Engineering, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    CSCE 6940.762, Individual Research, Fall 2021 
                    

                    CSCE 3600.002, Principles of Systems Programming, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    CSCE 3600.201, Principles of Systems Programming, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    CSCE 3600.202, Principles of Systems Programming, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    CSCE 3600.203, Principles of Systems Programming, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    CSCE 3600.204, Principles of Systems Programming, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    CSCE 5550.001, Introduction to Computer Security, Spring 2021  SPOT
                    

                    CSCE 5550.004, Introduction to Computer Security, Spring 2021  SPOT
                    

                    CSCE 5550.008, Introduction to Computer Security, Spring 2021  SPOT
                    

                    CSCE 5550.600, Introduction to Computer Security, Spring 2021  SPOT
                    

                    CSCE 5550.001, Introduction to Computer Security, Fall 2020  SPOT
                    

                    CSCE 5550.600, Introduction to Computer Security, Fall 2020  SPOT

          


          
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  higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for
  undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.
  

        

      

    

  

  
  	

	

	  

		

		   
Published Publications



  

  
Published Intellectual Contributions


  
Book Chapter
Pacheco, J., Tunc, C., Hariri, S.  (2019). Smart Cities. Cyber Resilience of Systems and Networks. 403--423. Springer, Cham. 
Tunc, C., Hariri, S., Battou, A.  (2017). A design methodology for developing resilient cloud services. Handbook of System Safety and Security. 177--197. Syngress. 
Conference Proceeding
Petrou, D., Martinez-Gil, V., Castillo, F., Tunc, C., Bryce, R. C. (2023). Twitter Account Analysis for Drug Involvement Detection. 2023 3rd Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC). 9--16. 
Blake Putnam, E., Nihal Senarath, D., Ramirez Urquijo, G., Tunc, C., Bryce, R. C. (2023). A Lightweight Drone Simulator. 2023 10th International Conference on Software Defined Systems, SDS 2023. 52-59. https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85180368674
Tufekci, B., Tunc, C., Dantu, R.  (2023). Efficient Motion Control Strategy for Drone Swarms. Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Recent Advances in Air and Space Technologies, RAST 2023. https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85168418183
Namdari, H., Tunc, C., Dantu, R.  (2023). Phoenix: IoT Trust Evaluation Using Game Theory with Second Chance Protocol. 2023 10th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security, IOTSMS 2023. 117-124. https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85179621350
Tunc, C., Durflinger, J., Mahmoudi, C., Formicola, V.  (2022). Autonomic ZTA-based Network Management Engine (AZNME). 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops (ISSREW). 25--30. 
Tunc, C., Hariri, S.  (2022). Self-Protection for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (SP-UAV): Design Overview and Evaluation. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems Companion (ACSOS-C). 128--132. 
Shao, S., Satam, P., Satam, S., Al-Awady, K., Ditzler, G., Hariri, S., Tunc, C.  (2021). Multi-Layer Mapping of Cyberspace for Intrusion Detection. 2021 IEEE/ACS 18th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA). 1--8. 
Namdari, H., Tunc, C.  (2021). Toward Resilience Methods in Cloud Computing. 2021 IEEE/ACS 18th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA). 1--2. 
Tufekci, B., Tunc, C.  (2021). Vulnerability and Threat Analysis of UAVs. 2021 IEEE/ACS 18th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA). 1--2. 
Yao, L., Tunc, C., Satam, P., Hariri, S.  (2020). Resilient Machine Learning (rML) Ensemble Against Adversarial Machine Learning Attacks. International Conference on Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems. 274--282. 
Wu, C., Shao, S., Tunc, C., Hariri, S.  (2020). Video anomaly detection using pre-trained deep convolutional neural nets and context mining. 2020 IEEE/ACS 17th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA). 1--8. 
Fargo, F., Franza, O., Tunc, C., Hariri, S.  (2020). VM Introspection-based Allowlisting for IaaS. 2020 7th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS). 1--4. 
Pacheco, J., Benitez, V. H., Tunc, C., Grijalva, C.  (2019). Anomaly behavior analysis for fog nodes availability assurance in IoT applications. 2019 IEEE/ACS 16th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA). 1--6. 
Shao, S., Tunc, C., Al-Shawi, A., Hariri, S.  (2019). Automated Twitter Author Clustering with Unsupervised Learning for Social Media Forensics. 2019 IEEE/ACS 16th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA). 1--8. 
Fargo, F., Franza, O., Tunc, C., Hariri, S.  (2019). Autonomic Resource Management for Power, Performance, and Security in Cloud Environment. 2019 IEEE/ACS 16th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA). 1--4. 
Shao, S., Tunc, C., Al-Shawi, A., Hariri, S.  (2019). One-Class Classification with Deep Autoencoder Neural Networks for Author Verification in Internet Relay Chat. 2019 IEEE/ACS 16th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA). 1--8. 
Merzouki, M., Mahmoudi, C., Bohn, R., Tunc, C.  (2019). Security Automation for Cloud-Based IoT Platforms. 2019 International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings) and IEEE Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom) and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom) and IEEE Smart Data (SmartData). 1185--1191. 
Shao, S., Tunc, C., Al-Shawi, A., Hariri, S.  (2018). Autonomic Author Identification in Internet Relay Chat (IRC). 2018 IEEE/ACS 15th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA). 1--8. 
Bernard, J., Shao, S., Tunc, C., Kheddouci, H., Hariri, S.  (2018). Quasi-cliques analysis for IRC channel thread detection. International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications. 578--589. 
Pacheco, J., Tunc, C., Hariri, S.  (2018). Security framework for IoT cloud services. 2018 IEEE/ACS 15th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA). 1--6. 
Yang, M., Djordjevic, I. B., Tunc, C., Hariri, S., Akoglu, A.  (2017). An optical interconnect network design for dynamically composable data centers. 2017 IEEE 19th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; IEEE 15th International Conference on Smart City; IEEE 3rd International Conference on Data Science and Systems (HPCC/SmartCity/DSS). 299--302. 
Tunc, C., Fargo, F., Al-Nashif, Y., Hariri, S.  (2017). Autonomic Cross-Layer Management of Cloud Systems. 2017 IEEE 2nd International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS* W). 160--165. 
Ozdemir, A. T., Tunc, C., Hariri, S.  (2017). Autonomic fall detection system. 2017 IEEE 2nd International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS* W). 166--170. 
Tunc, C., Hariri, S., Merzouki, M., Mahmoudi, C., De Vaulx, F. J., Chbili, J., Bohn, R., Battou, A.  (2017). Cloud security automation framework. 2017 IEEE 2nd International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS* W). 307--312. 
Shao, S., Tunc, C., Satam, P., Hariri, S.  (2017). Real-time irc threat detection framework. 2017 IEEE 2nd International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS* W). 318--323. 
Hariri, S., Tunc, C., Badr, Y.  (2017). Resilient Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems as a Service (rDaaS): A Design Overview. 2017 IEEE 2nd International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS* W). 352--356. 
Kumbhare, N., Tunc, C., Machovec, D., Akoglu, A., Hariri, S., Siegel, H. J. (2017). Value based scheduling for oversubscribed power-constrained homogeneous HPC systems. 2017 International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (ICCAC). 120--130. 
Gu, S., Yao, L., Tunc, C., Akoglu, A., Hariri, S., Ritchie, E.  (2016). An autonomic workflow performance manager for weather research and forecast workflows. 2016 International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (ICCAC). 111--114. 
Yu, J., Tunc, C., Hariri, S.  (2016). Automated Framework for Scalable Collection and Intelligent Analytics of Hacker IRC Information. 2016 International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (ICCAC). 33--39. 
Pacheco, J., Tunc, C., Hariri, S.  (2016). Design and evaluation of resilient infrastructures systems for smart cities. 2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2). 1--6. 
Kumbhare, N., Tunc, C., Hariri, S., Djordjevic, I., Akoglu, A., Siegel, H. J. (2016). Just in time architecture (jita) for dynamically composable data centers. 2016 IEEE/ACS 13th International Conference of Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA). 1--8. 
Tunc, C., Kumbhare, N., Akoglu, A., Hariri, S., Machovec, D., Siegel, H. J. (2016). Value of service based task scheduling for cloud computing systems. 2016 International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (ICCAC). 1--11. 
Machovec, D., Tunc, C., Kumbhare, N., Khemka, B., Akoglu, A., Hariri, S., Siegel, H. J. (2016). Value-based resource management in high-performance computing systems. Proceedings of the ACM 7th Workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing. 19--26. 
Al Baalbaki, B., Pacheco, J., Tunc, C., Hariri, S., Al-Nashif, Y.  (2015). Anomaly behavior analysis system for ZigBee in smart buildings. 2015 IEEE/ACS 12th International Conference of Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA). 1--4. 
Tunc, C., Hariri, S., Montero, Fabian De La Pe\~na,, Fargo, F., Satam, P.  (2015). CLaaS: Cybersecurity Lab as a Service--design, analysis, and evaluation. 2015 International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing. 224--227. 
Hariri, S., Tunc, C., Satam, P., Al-Moualem, F., Blasch, E.  (2015). Dddas-based resilient cyber battle management services (d-rcbms). Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE 22nd International Conference on High Performance Computing Workshops (HiPCW). 65--65. 
Khemka, B., Machovec, D., Blandin, C., Siegel, H. J., Hariri, S., Louri, A., Tunc, C., Fargo, F., Maciejewski, A. A. (2015). Resource management in heterogeneous parallel computing environments with soft and hard deadlines. 11th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2015). 10. 
Tunc, C., Hariri, S., Montero, Fabian De La Pe\~na,, Fargo, F., Satam, P., Al-Nashif, Y.  (2015). Teaching and Training Cybersecurity as a Cloud Service. 2015 International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing. 302--308. 
Tunc, C., Fargo, F., Al-Nashif, Y., Hariri, S., Hughes, J.  (2014). Autonomic resilient cloud management (arcm) design and evaluation. 2014 International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing. 44--49. 
Fargo, F., Tunc, C., Al-Nashif, Y., Akoglu, A., Hariri, S.  (2014). Autonomic workload and resources management of cloud computing services. 2014 International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing. 101--110. 
Fargo, F., Tunc, C., Al-Nashif, Y., Hariri, S.  (2013). Autonomic performance-per-watt management (APM) of cloud resources and services. Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Cloud and Autonomic Computing Conference. 1--10. 
Yuce, B., Korkmaz, S., Esen, V. B., Temizkan, F., Tunc, C., Guner, G., Baskaya, I. F., Agi, I., Dundar, G., Ugurdag, H. F. (2013). Synthesis of clock trees for Sampled-Data Analog IC blocks. East-West Design \& Test Symposium (EWDTS 2013). 1--4. 
Ugurdag, F., Keskin, O., Tunc, C., Temizkan, F., Fici, G., Dedeoglu, S.  (2011). RoCoCo: Row and Column Compression for high-performance multiplication on FPGAs. 2011 9th East-West Design \& Test Symposium (EWDTS). 98--101. 
U\ugurda\ug, Hasan Fatih,, Keskin, O., Tun\cc, Cihan,, Temizkan, F., Fici, G., Dedeo\uglu, S,  (2011). RoCoCo: row and column compression for high-performance multiplication on FPGAs. Design \& Test Symposium (EWDTS), 2011 9th East-West. 
Tunc, C., Tahoori, M. B. (2010). On-the-fly variation tolerant mapping in crossbar nano-architectures. 2010 28th VLSI Test Symposium (VTS). 105--110. 
Tunc, C., Tahoori, M. B. (2010). Variation tolerant logic mapping for crossbar array nano architectures. 2010 15th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC). 855--860. 
Journal Article
Wu, C., Shao, S., Tunc, C., Satam, P., Hariri, S.  (2021). An explainable and efficient deep learning framework for video anomaly detection. Other. 1--23. Springer US. 
Shao, S., Tunc, C., Al-Shawi, A., Hariri, S.  (2020). An Ensemble of Ensembles Approach to Author Attribution for Internet Relay Chat Forensics. Other. 11(4), 1--25. ACM New York, NY, USA. 
Machovec, D., Khemka, B., Kumbhare, N., Pasricha, S., Maciejewski, A. A., Siegel, H. J., Akoglu, A., Koenig, G. A., Hariri, S., Tunc, C., others,  (2019). Utility-based resource management in an oversubscribed energy-constrained heterogeneous environment executing parallel applications. Parallel Computing. 83, 48--72. North-Holland. 
Tunc, C., Machovec, D., Kumbhare, N., Akoglu, A., Hariri, S., Khemka, B., Siegel, H. J. (2017). Value of service based resource management for large-scale computing systems. Other. 20(3), 2013--2030. Springer US. 
Pacheco, J., Tunc, C., Satam, P., Hariri, S.  (2016). Secure and resilient cloud services for enhanced living environments. Other. 3(6), 44--52. IEEE. 
Other
Hariri, S., Pacheco, J., Tunc, C., Al-Nashif, Y.  (2017). A Methodolgy for Designing Resilient and Smart Critical Infrastructures. Retrieved. 
Ph.D. Thesis
Tunc, C.  (2015). Autonomic cloud resource management. The University of Arizona. 



	
		
		
	  

	

	

  
    
	

	

	  

		

		   
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Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research  

 	 
	 	 
  
Grant - Research   
Bryce, R. (Principal), Tunc, C. (Co-Principal), "REU Site: TaMaLe - Testing and Machine Learning for Context-Driven Systems," Sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, $404957 Funded. (2021 – February 2025).
Tunc, C., "Faculty First Flight," University of North Texas, $500 Funded. (June 1, 2021 – December 31, 2021).
Tunc, C., "Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant," University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (June 1, 2021 – August 31, 2021).
Sponsored Research   
Tunc, C., "Autonomic Protection for UMAA service," Sponsored by Avirtek through "Naval Air Warfare Center (Aircraft Division)", Federal, $40000 Funded. (2021 – October 2022).



	
		
		
	  

	

	

	
	

  
  
  

  	

		

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