Güliz Seray Tuncay

Senior Research Scientist

Android Security and Privacy, Google

Biography

I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I was a part of the Illinois Security Lab and advised by Carl Gunter. My Ph.D. thesis was selected as the runner up for the ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2021. I was named a Rising Star in EECS in 2019.

I have been a security researcher at Android Security and Privacy (ASAP) at Google since 2019. My research interests include mobile security and mobile computing.

Interests

Mobile Security
Usable Security
Mobile Computing

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2019
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.Sc. in Computer Engineering, 2013
University of Florida
B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (Ranked first), 2010
Middle East Technical University

Recent & Upcoming Talks

Android Security 101

My topic preview talk on mobile security at MobiCom 2020.

Sep 1, 2020 12:00 AM London, The United Kingdom

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See No Evil: Phishing for Permissions with False Transparency on Android

My conference talk on Permission Phishing on Android.

Aug 1, 2020 12:00 AM Boston, The United States of America

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See No Evil: Phishing for Permissions with False Transparency on Android

Draco: A System for Uniform and Fine-grained Access Control for Web Code on Android

My conference talk on Access Control on Android WebViews.

Oct 1, 2016 12:00 AM Vienna, Austria

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Draco: A System for Uniform and Fine-grained Access Control for Web Code on Android

Selected Publications

Güliz Seray Tuncay, Jinyu Qian, Carl A. Gunter. See No Evil: Phishing for Permissions with False Transparency. In USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2020.

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Hsiao-Ying Huang, Soteris Demetriou, Rini Banerjee, Güliz Seray Tuncay, Carl A. Gunter, Masooda Bashir. Smartphone Security Behavioral Scale: A New Psychometric Measurement for Smartphone Security. 2020.

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Güliz Seray Tuncay, Soteris Demetriou, Karan Ganju, Carl A. Gunter. Resolving the Predicament of Android Custom Permissions. In Networked and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS). Distinguished Paper Award, 2018.

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Güliz Seray Tuncay, Soteris Demetriou, Carl A. Gunter. Draco: A System for Uniform and Fine-grained Access Control for Web Code on Android. In Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2016.

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Albert F. Harris III, Vansh Khanna, Güliz Seray Tuncay, Roy Wants, Robin Kravets. Bluetooth Low Energy in Dense IoT Environments. In IEEE Communications Magazine, 2016.

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Robin Kravets, Güliz Seray Tuncay, Hari Sundaram. For Your Eyes Only. In Mobile Cloud Computing and Services, 2015.

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Albert F. Harris III, Vansh Khanna, Güliz Seray Tuncay, Robin Kravets. Smart LaBLEs: Proximity, Autoconfiguration, and a Constant Supply of Gatorade (TM). In IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC), 2015.

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Güliz Seray Tuncay, Giacomo Benincasa, Ahmed Helmy. Participant Recruitment and Data Collection Framework for Opportunistic Sensing: A Comparative Analysis. In Challenged Networks (CHANTS), 2013.

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Güliz Seray Tuncay, Giacomo Benincasa, Ahmed Helmy. Autonomous and Distributed Recruitment and Data Collection Framework for Opportunistic Sensing. In SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R), 2013.

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