Albert Levi
Affiliation
2002 (February) - now: Faculty Member, Faculty of Engineering and Natural
Sciences (Computer Science
Program), Sabanci University,
Istanbul,
Turkey
Education
- PhD in Computer
Engineering, Bogazici University
, Istanbul, Türkiye, 1999
- MS in Computer
Engineering, Bogazici University,
Istanbul, Türkiye,
1993
- BS in Computer
Engineering, Bogazici University,
Istanbul, Türkiye,
1991
Research Interests
- Computer and Network Security
- Wireless, ad hoc and sensor networks security
- Authentication, Digital Signatures
- Digital Certificates and Public Key Infrastructures (PKIs)
- Electronic Commerce and Electronic Payment Systems
- Cryptography
- Computer Networks and Communications
Courses Taught
- CS432/532, Computer and Network Security, Spring
2008, Sabanci University
-
CS535, Wireless Network Security, Fall 2007,
Sabanci University
- CS201, Introduction to Computing, Summer 2002, Fall 2002, Fall
2003, Fall 2004,Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall
2007,
Sabanci
University
- CS532, Computer and Network Security, Spring 2003, Spring 2004,
Spring 2006, Spring 2007 Sabanci University
- CS408, Computer Networks, Fall 2002, Spring
2004, Fall 2004, Spring 2006, Sabanci
University
- CS533, Computer Networks, Spring
2002, in Sabanci University
- CS680, Selected Topics in CS: Wireless, Ad Hoc and Sensor
Networks Security, Fall 2003, Fall 2005, Sabanci
University
- CS681, Selected Topics in CS: privacy Preserved Data Management,
Spring 2005, Spring 2007, Sabanci University
- ECE 473/573, Microprocessor Based System Design: Fall 1999,
Winter 2000, Winter 2001, in Oregon State University (Web page of this
course has been removed by OSU, sorry)
- ECE 375, Computer Architecture and Assembly Programming:
Winter 2000, Spring 2000, Spring 2001, in Oregon State University (Web
page of this course has been removed by OSU, sorry)
- CmpE 150, Pascal Programming Language: More than 10 times
between 1993 and 1999, in Bogazici University
Work Experience
- 2002 (February) - now: Faculty Member (Asst. Prof.) , Faculty of Engineering and Natural
Sciences (Computer Science
Program), Sabanci University,
Istanbul, Turkey
- 2001 (October) - 2002 (January): Consultant and Security
Architect, rTrust Technologies,
Corvallis, Oregon, USA
- 1999 (September) - 2002 (January): Visiting Faculty, Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Oregon State University,
Corvallis, Oregon, USA
- 1999 (September) - 2002 (January): Post-doc Research Associate, Information Security Lab, Oregon State University,Corvallis, Oregon, USA
- 1999 (July) - 2000 (July): Instructor, Department of Computer Engineering,
Bogazici University, Istanbul, Türkiye
- 1991 (Oct)-1999 (Jun): Teaching and Research Assistant., NETLAB, Department of Computer Engineering,
Bogazici University, Istanbul, Türkiye
Current Funded Projects
- Secure and Scalable Key Distribution in Ad Hoc and Sensor
Networks, TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technical Research Council of
Turkey) CAREER Grant, 2005 - 2009
- Design and Realization of Secure Sensor Network Prototype on a
Programmable Logic Device (FPGA), supported by TÜBİTAK, 2004 - 2007.
- Broadband Service Manager, supported by local industry, 2003 -
2005
Publications
Theses
- "Design and Performance Evaluation of
the Nested Certification Scheme and its Applications in Public Key
Infrastructures", PhD Thesis, Bogazici University, Dept. of
Computer Engineering, May 1999.
- "Development of Frame Relay Software for High Speed Packet
Switched Networks", MS Thesis, Bogazici University, Istanbul, 1993, (Abstract of the MS Thesis).
Refereed Journal Papers and Book Chapters
- "Privacy Preserving Clustering on Horizontally Partitioned Data",
Data
and Knowledge Engineering (Elsevier), accepted for publication, 2007,
with A. Inan, S. V. Kaya, Y. Saygin, E. Savaş, and A. A. Hintoglu.
- "Digital Certificates", (book chapter), The Handbook of
Information Security, vol 1, pp. 823 - 835, Hossein Bidgoli
(Editor-in-Chief), Wiley, 2006.
- “Quarantine
Region Scheme to Mitigate Spam Attacks in Wireless
Sensor Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 5,
no. 8, pp.1074 – 1086, August 2006, with V. Coskun, E. Cayirci and S.
Sancak.
- "Use of nested certificates for
efficient, dynamic and trust
preserving public key infrastructure", ACM TISSEC
Transactions on Information and System Security, vol. 7, no. 1,
February 2004, pp. 21 - 59, with M. Ufuk Caglayan and Cetin K. Koc.
- "How Secure Is Secure Web Browsing",
Communications of the ACM, 46(7), 152-152, July 2003.
- "Risks
in email
security", Communications of the ACM, 44(8):112-112, August 2001,
with
Cetin K. Koc.
- "Artificial
Intelligence Search Techniques for Discrete Link Capacity Assignment
in Prioritized Multiservice Networks," International Journal of
Computer System Science and Engineering, Vol.15, No:3, pp. 191-197, May
2000, with Cem Ersoy and Okan Gumrah.
- "Analytical Performance Evaluation of
Nested Certificates", Performance Evaluation,vol. 36-37, pp. 213 -
232, August 1999, with M. Ufuk Caglayan.
Refereed Conference Papers in English
- "Privacy-Aware Multi-Context RFID Infrastructure using Public Key
Cryptography," IFIP/TC6 Networking 2007, LNCS 4479, Atlanta GA, USA,
May 2007, with S. V. Kaya, E. Savaş, and Ö. Erçetin, .
- "Key Predistribution Schemes for Sensor Networks for Continuous
Deployment Scenario," IFIP/TC6 Networking 2007, LNCS 4479, Atlanta GA,
USA, May 2007, with A. Ünlü, Ö. Armağan, E. Savaş and Ö. Erçetin.
- "An Optimistic Fair E-commerce Protocol for Large E-goods,"
Proceedings of Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Computer
Networks (ISCN' 06), pp.214 – 219, June 2006, with C. C. Öniz , and E.
Savaş.
- "Privacy Preserving Clustering on Horizontally Partitioned Data,"
IEEE Intenational Workshop on Privacy Data Management in 22nd
International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops (ICDEW'06),
Atlanta, GA, USA, April 2006, with A. Inan, Y. Saygın, E. Savaş, and A.
A. Hintoğlu.
- "Secret sharing using biometric traits," Proc. SPIE Vol. 6202,
62020W, Biometric Technology for Human Identification III; Patrick J.
Flynn, Sharath Pankanti; Eds. Orlando, FL, USA, April 2006, with A.
Kholmatov, B. Yanikoğlu, and E. Savaş.
- “A Fair Multimedia Exchange Protocol”, 20th International
Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences - ISCIS 2005, Istanbul,
Turkey, Springer-Velag, LNCS 3733, pp. 342 – 351, October 2005, with C.
C. Oniz and E. Savas.
- “Performance Evaluation of End-to-End Security in Wireless
Applications using WTLS Handshake Protocol”, 20th International
Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences - ISCIS 2005, Istanbul,
Turkey, Imperial College Press, pp. 211 – 221, October 2005, with B.
Bayoglu and E. Savas.
- "SeFER: A Secure, Flexible and Efficient
Routing Protocol for
Distributed Sensor Networks", accepted to EWSN 2005, 2nd European
Workshop on Sensor Networks, with Cagil Can Oniz, Sinan
Emre Tasci,
Erkay Savas and Ozgur Ercetin, February 2005.
- "Relay
Attacks on Bluetooth Authentication and Solutions", ISCIS 2004 -
The 19th International Symposium on Computer
and Information Sciences, Antalya, Turkey, Springer-Verlag, LNCS 3280,
pp. 278 - 289, October 2004,
with Erhan Cetintas, Murat
Aydos, Cetin K.
Koc and M. U. Caglayan.
- "Practical and
Secure E-Mail System (PractiSES)", ADVIS 2004 - Third
Biennial International Conference on Advances in Information Systems,
Izmir, Turkey, Springer-Verlag, LNCS 3261, pp. 410 - 419, October
2004, with Mahmut
Ozcan.
- "A
Probabilistic Routing
Disruption Attack on DSR and Its Analysis", Med-Hoc-Net
2004 - Third Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop, pages 300
- 306, Bodrum, Turkey, June 2004, with Ozleyis Ocakoglu, Burak Bayoglu,
Ozgur Ercetin and Erkay Savas.
- "Sensor Wars: Detecting and
Defending Against Spam Attacks in
Tactical AdHoc Sensor Networks", ICC 2004 - IEEE International
Conference on Communications, Paris,
France, vol. 27,
no. 1, June 2004, pp. 3668 - 3672, with Serdar Sancak, Erdal
Cayirci and
Vedat Coskun.
- "Performance Evaluation of
Public-Key Cryptosystem Operations in WTLS Protocol",
Proceedings, The 8th IEEE
Symposium on Computers and Communications - ISCC 2003, pages 1245 -
1250,
Kemer-Antalya, Turkey, IEEE Computer Society Press, June 30 - July 3,
2003,
with Erkay Savas.
- "CONSEPP:
CONvenient and Secure Electronic Payment Protocol based on X9.59",
Proceedings, The 17th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference,
pages 286-295, New Orleans, Louisiana, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los
Alamitos, California, December 10-14, 2001, with Cetin K. Koc. (abstract)
- "Reducing
Certificate Revocation Cost using NPKI", Trusted Information, The
New Decade
Challenge, IFIP TC11 16th International Conference on Information
Security,
pages 51-59, M. Dupuy and P. Paradinas, editors, Kluwer Academic
Publishers,
Boston, MA, June 11-13, 2001.with Cetin K. Koc. (abstract)
- "An Efficient, Dynamic and Trust
Preserving Public Key Infrastructure", Proceedings of 2000 IEEE
Symposium on Security and Privacy, pp. 203 - 214, Oakland, CA, USA, May
2000, with M. Ufuk Caglayan.
- "Verification of Classical Certificates
via Nested Certificates and Nested Certificate Paths", Proceedings
of the Eighth International Conference on Computer Communications and
Networks (ICCCN'99), pp. 242 – 247, Boston, MA, USA, October 1999, with
M. Ufuk
Caglayan.
- "Integrity Control In Nested Certificates",
in the proceedings of BAS'99, The Fourth Symposium on Computer
Networks, 20-21 May 1999, Istanbul, Türkiye, pp. 149 –157 with M. Ufuk
Caglayan.
- "NPKI: Nested Certificate Based Public
Key Infrastructure", in the Advances in Computer and Information
Sciences '98 - Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Symposium on
Computer
and Information Sciences - ISCIS XIII, IOS Press, Concurrent Systems
Engineering Series, vol. 53, pp. 397 – 404, October 1998, Türkiye, with
M. Ufuk Caglayan.
- "A Multiple Signature Based Certificate
Verification Scheme", in the proceedings of BAS'98, The Third
Symposium on Computer Networks, 25-26 June 1998, Ýzmir, Türkiye, pp. 1
–10, with M. Ufuk Caglayan.
- "The Problem of Trusted Third Party in
Authentication and Digital Signature Protocols", ISCIS-XII, The
Twelfth International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences,
27 - 29 October 1997, Antalya, Turkiye, with M. Ufuk Caglayan.
- Discrete Link Capacity Assignment in Prioritized Computer
Networks: 2 Approaches", in the Proceedings of the Ninth International
Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS IX), Antalya,
November 1994, pp. 408-415, with Cem Ersoy.
Manuscripts (Research In Progress)
- "Think twice while sending and accepting a digitally signed
e-mail".
Papers in Turkish
- "Güvenli E-Posta İçin Anahtar Yönetim Protokolleri", Bilişim
2003, TBD 20. Bilişim Kurultayı, 2 - 6 Eylül 2003, Istanbul,
in Turkish., with Mahmut Ozcan.
- "Nasıl bir e-posta güvenliği",
Bilişim Güvenlik, Mart/Nisan 2003, in Turkish, sayfa 38 - 40.
- "Açık Anahtar Tabanlı Şifreleme Neden
Zordur?", Bilişim 2002, TBD 19. Bilişim Kurultayı, 3 - 6 Eylül
2002, Istanbul, sayfa 41 – 45, in Turkish., with Mahmut Ozcan.
- "Elektronik Ticaret Gosterileri", Bilisim 99, TBD 16. Bilisim
Kurultayi, Aralik, 1999. Also appeared in IGEME'den Bakis, sayi 11, pp.
65-71, Ankara, 1999. with Selahattin Kuru, H. Levent Akin, Olcay
Kursun,
Olcay Taner Yildiz.
- "Türkiye için bir Açık Anahtar Altyapısı
Modeli", Bilişim 98, TBD 15. Bilişim Kurultayı, 2 - 6 Eylül 1998,
Istanbul, sayfa 354 – 361, in Turkish., with M. Ufuk Caglayan.
- "Elektronik Posta Güvenliği ve Açık Anahtar
Sunucuları", Bilişim 97, TBD 14. Bilişim Kurultayı, 3 - 6
Eylül 1997, Istanbul, sayfa 114 -117, in Turkish, with M. Ufuk Caglayan.
- "Elektronik Posta Güvenliği için PGP kullanımı",
Açýk Sistem '97, 7. Açık Sistem Sempozyumu, 19 -21 Mart 1997,
Istanbul, sayfa 39 -46, in Turkish, with M. Ufuk Caglayan.
- "Bilgisayar İletişiminde Kimlik Kanıtlama ve Güvenli Üçüncü Kişi
Sorunları", 4. Bilgisayar - Haberleşme Sempozyumu, Bursa, 11 - 15
Aralýk 1996, sayfa 85 -88, in Turkish, with M. Ufuk Caglayan.
On the web
- teknoTurk
- Olympos
Security
- Siyah
Sapka
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- ek$isözlük
Technical Reports
- "Nested Certificates and Their Applications in Public Key
Infrastructures," Technical Report FBE/CmpE-02/98-13, Bogaziçi
University, 1998, with M. Ufuk Caglayan.
Scholarship and Honors
- Sabancı Univesity, Graduating Class Award 2007.
- TÜBİTAK Kariyer Award, 2004.
- TÜBİTAK (Turkiye
Scientific and Technical Research Association) PhD Scholarship (1994 -
1997)
- Graduation High Honour degree (top 4th of the department)
Other
Supporter of Galatasaray
Was born in Istanbul on August
28th, 1969
Married, father of Deniz and Selin
Contact
- Address: Sabanci University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural
Sciences, Orhanli, Tuzla 34956 Istanbul, TURKEY
- Tel: +90 (216) 483 9563
- Fax: +90 (216) 483 9550
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