Mehmet Gunes (mgunes)

Mehmet Gunes

Associate Professor

School of Systems and Enterprises

(201) 216-5682
Website

Education

  • PhD (2008) The University of Texas at Dallas (Computer Science)
  • MS (2004) Southern Methodist University (Computer Science and Engineering )

Research

Big Data: big data analytics, Internet measurements, Social network modeling and analysis, and high performance computing.

Data Science: Machine learning, graph data mining, synthetic graph generation, recommender systems, epidemic modeling, and complex networks of Internet, transportation, migration, protein interaction, etc.

Network Systems: Internet backbone, Internet topology modeling, edge computing, decentralized OSNs, flow analysis, IoT identification, and traffic fingerprinting.

Cyber Security: access control, anomaly detection, anonymizer technologies, digital currencies, forensics, privacy, trusted computing, and security of cyber physical systems such as cloud, edge, healthcare and smart grid.

General Information

Mehmet Hadi Gunes is an associate professor at the School of Systems and Enterprises. Before joining SSE, he was an associate professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on network systems, network science, data science and cybersecurity. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Justice, Department of Defense, Amazon AWS, Cincinnati Children's Center for Pediatric Genomics, Argonne ALCF, and the Nevada Homeland Security Grant Program.

Professional Service

  • PLOS ONE Academic Editor
  • The 29th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols Publication Co-chair
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) Panel

Professional Societies

  • IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Senior member

Selected Publications

Book Chapter

  1. Charyyev, B.; Solmaz, M.; Gunes, M. (2020). Dynamic Network of United States Air Transportation at Multiple Levels. Complex Networks XI (pp. 282--293). Springer, Cham.
  2. Erdin, E.; Klukovich, E.; Gunes, M. H. (2018). Cloud Assisted Personal Online Social Network. Machine Learning Techniques for Online Social Networks (pp. 195--218). Springer, Cham.
  3. Popuri, M. K.; Gunes, M. H. (2016). Empirical analysis of crypto currencies. Complex Networks VII (pp. 281--292). Springer, Cham.
  4. Tian, G.; Gunes, M. H. (2014). Complex Network Analysis of Ozone Transport. Complex Networks V (pp. 87--96). Springer International Publishing.
  5. Kardes, H.; Sevincer, A.; Gunes, M. H.; Yuksel, M. (2014). Complex Network Analysis of Research Funding: A Case Study of NSF Grants. State of the Art Applications of Social Network Analysis (pp. 163--187). Springer, Cham.
  6. Crosley, G.; Gunes, M. H. (2014). Using Complex Network Representation to Identify Important Structural Components of Chinese Characters. Complex Networks V (pp. 319--328). Springer International Publishing.
  7. Ramos, D.; Gunes, M. H.; Mensing, D.; Ryfe, D. M. (2013). Mapping emerging news networks: a case study of the San Francisco bay area. Complex networks (pp. 237--244). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
  8. Dittrich, A.; Gunes, M. H.; Dascalu, S. (2013). Network analysis of software repositories: identifying subject matter experts. Complex Networks (pp. 187--198). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
  9. Zachor, C.; Gunes, M. H. (2013). Software collaboration networks. Complex Networks (pp. 257--264). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

Conference Proceeding

  1. Charyyev, B.; Mansouri, M. N.; Gunes, M. N. (2021). Modeling the Adoption of Internet of Things in Healthcare: A Systems Approach. IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering.
  2. Charyyev, B.; Gunes, M. N. (2021). Misactivation Detection and User Identification in Smart Home Speakers using Traffic Flow Features (pp. 135-146). WiSec '21: Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks.
  3. Charryev, B.; Gunes, M. (2020). Detecting Anomalous IoT Traffic Flow with Locality Sensitive Hashes. IEEE Global Communications Conference.
  4. Charyyev, B.; Gunes, M. N. (2020). Latency Characteristics of Edge and Cloud. Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference.
  5. Charryev, B.; Arslan, E.; Gunes, M. (2020). Latency Comparison of Cloud Datacenters and Edge Servers. IEEE Global Communications Conference.
  6. Charyyev, B.; Gunes, M. N. (2020). Voice Command Fingerprinting with Locality Sensitive Hashes. Proceedings of the 2020 Joint Workshop on CPS\&IoT Security and Privacy (pp. 87--92).
  7. Charryev, B.; Gunes, M. (2020). Detecting Anomalous IoT Traffic Flow with Locality Sensitive Hashes. ACM The Joint Workshop on CPS & IoT Security and Privacy.
  8. Charyyev, B.; Gunes, M. (2020). IoT Event Classification Based on Network Traffic. IEEE INFOCOM 2020 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops.
  9. Charyyev, B.; Gunes, M. (2020). IoT Traffic Flow Identification using Locality Sensitive Hashes. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
  10. Aksoy, A.; Gunes, M. (2019). Automated iot device identification using network traffic. ICC 2019-2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) (pp. 1--7).
  11. Charyyev, B.; Alhussen, A.; Sapkota, H.; Pouyoul, E.; Gunes, M.; Arslan, E. (2019). Towards Securing Data Transfers Against Silent Data Corruption. CCGRID (pp. 262--271).
  12. Dey, P. K.; Canbaz, M. A.; Yuksel, M.; Gunes, M. H. (2018). On correlating ISP topologies to their businesses. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) (pp. 1--7).
  13. Canbaz, M. A.; Bakhshaliyev, K.; Gunes, M. H. (2018). Router-level topologies of autonomous systems. International Workshop on Complex Networks (pp. 243--257).
  14. Canbaz, M. A.; Bakhshaliyev, K.; Gunes, M. H. (2017). Analysis of path stability within autonomous systems. 2017 IEEE International Workshop on Measurement and Networking (M\&N) (pp. 1--6).
  15. Al Zayer, M.; Gunes, M. H. (2017). Analyzing the use of twitter to disseminate visual impairments awareness information. Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2017 (pp. 187--194).
  16. Canbaz, M. A.; Thom, J.; Gunes, M. H. (2017). Comparative analysis of internet topology data sets. 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS) (pp. 635--640).
  17. Erdin, E.; Gunes, M. H. (2017). Efficient Data Dissemination in Distributed Social Networks. 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) (pp. 990--997).
  18. Soran, A.; Yuksel, M.; Gunes, M. H. (2017). Multiple graph abstractions for parallel routing over virtual topologies. 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS) (pp. 904--909).
  19. Goldade, T.; Charyyev, B.; Gunes, M. H. (2017). Network analysis of migration patterns in the united states. International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications (pp. 770--783).
  20. Behzadan, V.; Nourmohammadi, A.; Gunes, M.; Yuksel, M. (2017). On fighting fire with fire: strategic destabilization of terrorist networks. Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2017 (pp. 1120--1127).
  21. Aksoy, A.; Louis, S.; Gunes, M. H. (2017). Operating system fingerprinting via automated network traffic analysis. 2017 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) (pp. 2502--2509).
  22. Klukovich, E.; Gunes, M. H.; Barford, L.; Harris, F. C. (2016). Accelerating BFS shortest paths calculations using CUDA for Internet topology measurements. 2016 International Conference on High Performance Computing \& Simulation (HPCS) (pp. 66--73).
  23. Cherifi, H.; Gon\ccalves, Bruno; Menezes, R.; Sinatra, R. (2016). Complex networks VII. Proceedings of the 7th workshop on complex networks (CompleNet 2016). Studies in computational intelligence (vol. 644).
  24. Coskun, I. E.; Canbaz, M. A.; Gunes, M. H. (2016). Efficient AS Network Topology Measurement Based on Ingress to Subnet Reachability. Local Computer Networks Workshops (LCN Workshops), 2016 IEEE 41st Conference on (pp. 87--95).
  25. Gossi, D.; Gunes, M. H. (2016). Lyric-based Recommendation of Music. 7th Workshop on Complex Networks (CompleNet).
  26. Aksoy, A.; Gunes, M. H. (2016). Operating system classification performance of tcp/ip protocol headers. 2016 IEEE 41st Conference on Local Computer Networks Workshops (LCN Workshops) (pp. 112--120).
  27. Klukovich, E.; Erdin, E.; Gunes, M. H. (2016). Posn: A privacy preserving decentralized social network app for mobile devices. 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) (pp. 1426--1429).
  28. Aksoy, A.; Gunes, M. H. (2016). Silea: A system for inductive learning. 2016 7th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems \& Applications (IISA) (pp. 1--8).
  29. Erdin, E.; Klukovich, E.; Gunes, M. H. (2015). An Analysis of Friend Circles of Facebook Users. The 9th IEEE Workshop on Network Measurements (WNM).
  30. Erdin, E.; Klukovich, E.; Gunduz, G.; Gunes, M. H. (2015). Posn: A personal online social network. IFIP International Information Security and Privacy Conference (pp. 51--66).
  31. BingDong Li, Mehmet Hadi Gunes, George Bebis; Springer, J. (2013). A Supervised Machine Learning Approach to Classify Host Roles Using sFlow. HPDC - Workshop on High Performance and Programmable Networking (HPPN).
  32. Suat Mercan, Ufuk Ozkanli,; Gunes, M. H. (2013). Analyzing Funding Network in Turkey. 2nd International Symposium on Computing in Informatics and Mathematics (ISCIM 2013).
  33. Andrew Dittrich, Sergiu Dascalu,; Gunes, M. H. (2013). ATMOS: A Data Collection and Presentation Toolkit for the Nevada Climate Change Portal. International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications.
  34. Akgun, M. B.; Gunes, M. H. (2013). Bipartite internet topology at the subnet-level. 2013 IEEE 2nd Network Science Workshop (NSW) (pp. 94--97).
  35. Akgun, M. B.; Gunes, M. H. (2013). Impact of multi-access links on the internet topology modeling. 2013 IEEE 21st International Symposium on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (pp. 399--403).
  36. Cheung, D. P.; Gunes, M. H. (2012). A complex network analysis of the United States air transportation. 2012 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (pp. 699--701).
  37. Kardes, H.; Gunes, M.; Oz, T. (2012). Cheleby: A subnet-level internet topology mapping system. 2012 Fourth International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2012) (pp. 1--10).
  38. Karaoglu, H. T.; Akgun, M. B.; Gunes, M. H.; Yuksel, M. (2012). Multi path considerations for anonymized routing: Challenges and opportunities. 2012 5th International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS) (pp. 1--5).
  39. Ryfe, D.; Mensing, D.; Ceker, H.; Gunes, M. (2012). Popularity is not the same thing as influence: A study of the bay area news system. Journal of the international symposium of online journalism (\# ISOJ) (2 ed., vol. 2).
  40. Kardes, H.; Sevincer, A.; Gunes, M. H.; Yuksel, M. (2012). Six degrees of separation among US researchers. 2012 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (pp. 654--659).
  41. Morelli, T.; Gunes, M. H. (2012). Video Game Industry as a Social Network. 2012 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (pp. 1183--1188).
  42. Arslan, E.; Gunes, M. H.; Yuksel, M. (2011). Analysis of academic ties: a case study of mathematics genealogy. 2011 IEEE GLOBECOM Workshops (GC Wkshps) (pp. 125--129).
  43. Naruchitparames, J.; Gunes, M. N. (2011). Enhancing data privacy and integrity in the cloud. 2011 International Conference on High Performance Computing \& Simulation (pp. 427--434).
  44. Narayanan, H. A.; Gunes, M. N. (2011). Ensuring access control in cloud provisioned healthcare systems. 2011 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC) (pp. 247--251).
  45. Naruchitparames, J.; Gunes, M.; Louis, S. J. (2011). Friend recommendations in social networks using genetic algorithms and network topology. Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2011 IEEE Congress on (pp. 2207--2214).
  46. Akgun, M. B.; Gunes, M. H. (2011). Link-level network topology generation. 2011 31st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (pp. 140--145).
  47. Arslan, E.; Yuksel, M.; Gunes, M. H. (2011). Network management game. 2011 18th IEEE Workshop on Local \& Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN) (pp. 1--6).
  48. Karaoglu, H. T.; Yuksel, M.; Gunes, M. H. (2011). On the scalability of path exploration using opportunistic path-vector routing. 2011 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) (pp. 1--5).
  49. Naruchitparames, J.; Gunes, M. N.; Evrenosoglu, C. Y. (2011). Secure communications in the smart grid. 2011 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC) (pp. 1171--1175).
  50. G\"unes, Mehmet Hadi; Evrenosoglu, C. Y. (2010). Blind processing: Securing data against system administrators. 2010 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium Workshops (pp. 304--311).
  51. Breland, A.; Schlauch, K.; Gunes, M.; Harris, Jr, F. C. (2010). Fast graph approaches to measure influenza transmission across geographically distributed host types. Proceedings of the First ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (pp. 594--601).
  52. Breland, A. E.; Gunes, M. H.; Schlauch, K. A.; Harris, F. C. (2010). Mixing patterns in a global influenza a virus network using whole genome comparisons. 2010 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (pp. 1--8).
  53. Yuksel, M.; Bekris, K.; Evrenosoglu, C. Y.; Gunes, M. H.; Fadali, S.; Etezadi-Amoli, M.; Harris, F. (2010). Open cyber-architecture for electrical energy markets. IEEE Local Computer Network Conference (pp. 1024--1031).
  54. Karde\cs, Hakan; G\"une\cs, Mehmet Hadi (2010). Structural graph indexing for mining complex networks. 2010 IEEE 30th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (pp. 99--104).
  55. Gunes, M. H.; Sarac, K. (2009). Analyzing router responsiveness to active measurement probes. International Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement (pp. 23--32).
  56. Gunes, M. H.; Sarac, K. (2008). Resolving anonymous routers in Internet topology measurement studies. IEEE INFOCOM 2008-The 27th Conference on Computer Communications (pp. 1076--1084).
  57. Gunes, M. H.; Nielsen, N. S.; Sarac, K. (2007). Impact of alias resolution on traceroute-based sample network topologies. International Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement (pp. 260--264).
  58. Gunes, M. H.; Sarac, K. (2007). Importance of IP alias resolution in sampling Internet topologies. 2007 IEEE Global Internet Symposium (pp. 19--24).
  59. Gunes, M. H.; Sarac, K. (2007). Inferring subnets in router-level topology collection studies. Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement (pp. 203--208).
  60. Gunes, M. H.; Sarac, K. (2006). Analytical IP alias resolution. 2006 IEEE International Conference on Communications (vol. 1, pp. 459--464).
  61. Gunes, M.; Thornton, M.; Kocan, F.; Szygenda, S. (2005). A survey and comparison of digital logic simulators. Circuits and Systems, 2005. 48th Midwest Symposium on (pp. 744--749).
  62. Kocan, F.; Gunes, M. (2005). Acyclic circuit partitioning for path delay fault emulation. The 3rd ACS/IEEE International Conference onComputer Systems and Applications, 2005. (pp. 22).
  63. Kocan, F.; Gunes, M.; Thornton, M. A. (2004). Static variable ordering in zbdds for path delay fault coverage calculation. Circuits and Systems, 2004. MWSCAS'04. The 2004 47th Midwest Symposium on (vol. 1, pp. I--497).
  64. Tursem, M Erdem; Gunes, M.; Yildiz, M.; Kuru, S. (2003). Performance analysis of mobile agents using simulation. Proceedings of the Advanced Engineering Design Conference (AED2003), Prague, Czech Republic.

Journal Article

  1. Bakhshaliyev, K.; Gunes, M. (2020). Generation of 2-mode Scale-Free Graphs for Link Level Internet Topology Modeling. PLOS ONE.
  2. Charyyev, B.; Gunes, M. N. (2020). Locality-Sensitive IoT Network Traffic Fingerprinting for Device Identification. IEEE Internet of Things Journal (3 ed., vol. 8, pp. 1272--1281). IEEE.
  3. Solmaz, M.; Lane, A.; Gonen, B.; Akmamedova, O.; Gunes, M.; Komurov, K. (2019). Graphical data mining of cancer mechanisms with SEMA. Bioinformatics (21 ed., vol. 35, pp. 4413--4418). Oxford University Press.
  4. Bakhshaliyev, K.; Canbaz, M. A.; Gunes, M. (2019). Investigating characteristics of internet paths. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (TOMPECS) (3 ed., vol. 4, pp. 1--24). ACM New York, NY, USA.
  5. Charyyev, B.; Gunes, M. (2019). Complex network of United States migration. Computational Social Networks (1 ed., vol. 6, pp. 1). Springer International Publishing.
  6. Al Zayer, M.; Gunes, M. (2018). Exploring visual impairment awareness campaigns on Twitter. Social Network Analysis and Mining (1 ed., vol. 8, pp. 40). Springer Vienna.
  7. Gunes, M. H.; Yuksel, M.; Ceker, H. (2015). A blind processing framework to facilitate openness in smart grid communications. Computer Networks (vol. 86, pp. 14--26). Elsevier.
  8. Kardes, H.; Gunes, M. H.; Sarac, K. (2015). Graph Based Induction of unresponsive routers in Internet topologies. Computer Networks (vol. 81, pp. 178--200). Elsevier.
  9. Erdin, E.; Zachor, C.; Gunes, M. (2015). How to Find Hidden Users: A Survey of Attacks on Anonymity Networks. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. IEEE.
  10. Arslan, E.; Yuksel, M.; Gunes, M. H. (2015). Training network administrators in a game-like environment. Journal of Network and Computer Applications (vol. 53, pp. 14--23). Academic Press.
  11. Li, B.; Springer, J.; Bebis, G.; Gunes, M. H. (2013). A survey of network flow applications. Journal of Network and Computer Applications (2 ed., vol. 36, pp. 567--581). Academic Press.
  12. Li, B.; Erdin, E.; Gunes, M. H.; Bebis, G.; Shipley, T. (2013). An overview of anonymity technology usage. Computer Communications (12 ed., vol. 36, pp. 1269--1283). Elsevier.
  13. Engin Arslan, Murat Yuksel,; Gunes, M. H. (2013). Network Management Game. Computer Communications Review (CCR) (1 ed., vol. 43, pp. 46--50). ACM.
  14. Shelley, D. S.; Gunes, M. H. (2012). GerbilSphere: Inner sphere network visualization. Computer Networks (3 ed., vol. 56, pp. 1016--1028). Elsevier.
  15. Li, B.; Erdin, E.; Gunes, M. N.; Bebis, G.; Shipley, T. (2011). An analysis of anonymity usage. Traffic monitoring and analysis. Traffic monitoring and analysis. Springer, Berlin (pp. 113--116).
  16. Komurov, K.; Gunes, M. H.; White, M. A. (2009). Fine-scale dissection of functional protein network organization by statistical network analysis. PloS one (6 ed., vol. 4, pp. e6017). Public Library of Science.
  17. Gunes, M. H.; Sarac, K. (2009). Resolving IP aliases in building traceroute-based Internet maps. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (6 ed., vol. 17, pp. 1738--1751). IEEE.
  18. Gunes, M. H.; Bilir, S.; Sarac, K.; Korkmaz, T. (2007). A measurement study on overhead distribution of value-added Internet services. Computer Networks (14 ed., vol. 51, pp. 4153--4173). Elsevier.
  19. Kocan, F.; Gunes, M. (2005). On the zbdd-based nonenumerative path delay fault coverage calculation. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (7 ed., vol. 24, pp. 1137--1143). IEEE.
  20. Kocan, F.; Gunes, M.; Kurt, A. (2005). On-line pruning of ZBDD for path delay fault coverage calculation. IEICE transactions on information and systems (7 ed., vol. 88, pp. 1381--1388). The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers.

Courses

EM/SYS 623 – Data Science and Knowledge Discovery
ISE 225 – Data Infrastructures
SSW 810 – Software Development Tools and Techniques