Teaching

• CPE 400/600 Computer Communication Networks
• CS 450/650 Fundamentals of Integrated Computer Security

• CPE 400/600 Computer Communication Networks Fall 2008, Fall 2011, Fall 2012
• CPE 401/601 Computer Network Systems Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012
• CS 302 Data Structures Fall 2012, Spring 2013
• CS 446/646 Principles of Operating Systems Spring 2009
• CS 450/650 Fundamentals of Integrated Computer Security Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012
• CS 765 Complex Networks Fall 2011, Spring 2013
• CS 790g Seminar: Complex Networks Fall 2009, Fall 2010

Research

Mehmet Hadi Gunes is currently and Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. He received M.S. degree from Computer Science and Engineering Department of Southern Methodist University in 2004 and Ph.D. degree from Computer Science Department of the University of Texas at Dallas in 2008. His research has been funded by National Science Foundation and National Institute of Justice. He has published about 50 papers at peer-reviewed journals and conference/workshop proceedings. He has served on the program committees of several international conferences and NSF panels.

Interests:

• Communications: network protocols, health systems, smart grid communications;
• Complex networks: biological networks, social networks, information networks, graph data mining, network visualization;
• Internet measurements: Internet topology, Internet modeling, network sampling, synthetic graph generation;
• Network security: anonymizer technologies, communication privacy, secure cloud, smart grid security.

Labs: Computer Networking Lab (CNL), Reconfigurable Network Lab (RNL)

Students Currently Mentoring:

• Ph.D.
  1. Esra Erdin, (start: Fall 12, expected: Summer 14)
  2. Mehmet Burak Akgun, Subnet Oriented Internet Topology Modeling and Generation, (start: Fall 10, PhD Candidate, expected: Summer 13)
  3. BingDong Li, A Distributed Real Time Network Security Analysis System, (start: Spring 10, PhD Candidate, co-advisor Dr Bebis, expected: Summer 13)
• M.S.
  1. Hayrettin Ceker, Secure Communication in the Smart Grid (start: Fall 11, expected: Summer 13)
• B.S.
  1. James Bridegum
  2. Eric Klukovich

Graduated Students:

• Ph.D.
  1. Hakan Kardes, A Graph Theoretic Perspective on Internet Topology Mapping, Dec 2012, (first employment Intelius)
• M.S.
  1. Christopher Zachor, An Assessment of Current Attacks on Anonymous Networks, May 2012, (co-advised with Dr Bebis, first employment Vere Software)
  2. Esra Erdin, Anonymous Communication Systems: Usage Analysis and Attack Mechanisms, May 2012, (co-advised with Dr Bebis, continuing PhD)
  3. Guoxun Tian, Complex Network Analysis of Ozone Transport, May 2012, (researcher at Colorado State University)
  4. Engin Arslan, Network Management Game, Aug 2011, (co-advised with Dr Yuksel, continuing PhD at University of Buffalo)
  5. Jeffrey Naruchitparames, Enhancing the Privacy of Data Communications within Information-Sensitive Systems, May 2011, (first employment mobsmith)
  6. Hema Andal Jayaprakash Narayanan, Ensuring Access Control in Cloud Provisioned Healthcare Systems, Dec 2010
  7. Hakan Kardes, Graph Data Mining to Construct Sampled Internet Topology Maps, Dec 2010, (completed PhD)
  8. David Shelley, Interactive Internet Visualization from the Inside of a Sphere, Dec 2010, (first employment PC-Doctor)
  9. Talha Oz, Cheleby: Internet Topology Collection System, Dec 2010, (first employment University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences)

Academic Ancestors: Kamil Sarac < Kevin Christopher Almeroth < Mostafa Hamed Ammar < Johnny Wai-Nang Wong < Richard Robert Muntz < Edward Grady Coffman, Jr. < Leonard Kleinrock < rest.

Select Publications (all publications and Google scholar)

1. Hakan Kardes, Abdullah Sevincer, Mehmet Hadi Gunes and Murat Yuksel "Complex Network Analysis of Research Funding: A Case Study of NSF Grants", Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM) (to appear). (earlier version presented at IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2012), Istanbul, Turkey, 26-29 Aug, 2012 - acceptance rate: ~25%)
2. BingDong Li, Esra Erdin, Mehmet Hadi Gunes, George Bebis, and Todd Shipley, "An Overview of Anonymity Technology Usage", Computer Communications, (to appear). (earlier version presented at 3rd COST TMA International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis, Vienna, Austria, April 27, 2011 - acceptance rate: 34.4%)
3. Andrew Dittrich, Mehmet Hadi Gunes and Sergiu Dascalu "Network Analysis of Software Repositories: Identifying Subject Matter Experts", Studies in Computational Intelligence: Complex Networks 424:187-198, 2013. (presented at 3rd Workshop on Complex Networks, Melbourne, FL, Mar 7-9, 2012 - acceptance rate: 25%)
4. Daniel Ramos, Mehmet Hadi Gunes, Donica Mensing and David M. Ryfe "Mapping Emerging News Networks: A Case Study of the San Francisco Bay Area", Studies in Computational Intelligence: Complex Networks 424:237-244, 2013. (presented at 3rd Workshop on Complex Networks, Melbourne, FL, Mar 7-9, 2012)
5. Mehmet Burak Akgun and Mehmet Hadi Gunes "Impact of Multi-Access Links on the Internet Topology Modeling", IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2013), San Francisco, CA, Aug 14-16, 2013.
6. BingDong Li, Mehmet Hadi Gunes, George Bebis and Jeff Springer, "A Supervised Machine Learning Approach to Classify Host Roles Using sFlow", ACM HPDC Workshop on High Performance and Programmable Networking (HPPN) , New York City, NY, June 18, 2013.
7. Mehmet Burak Akgun and Mehmet Hadi Gunes "Bipartite Internet Topology at the Subnet-level", IEEE International Workshop on Network Science (NSW 2013), West Point, NY, 29 Apr - 1 May 2013.
8. Hasan Tarik Karaoglu, Mehmet Burak Akgun, Mehmet Hadi Gunes, and Murat Yuksel "Multi Path Considerations for Anonymized Routing: Challenges and Opportunities", IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security, Istanbul, Turkey, May 7-10, 2012.
9. David Shelley and Mehmet Hadi Gunes, "GerbilSphere: Inner Sphere Network Visualization", ComNet Complex Dynamic Networks: Tools and Methods, 56(3):1016–1028, Feb 2012.
10. Hakan Kardes, Talha Oz, and Mehmet Hadi Gunes "Cheleby: A Subnet-level Internet Topology Mapping System", 4th International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS), Banglore, India, Jan 3-7, 2012 (acceptance rate: 27.9%).
11. Jeffrey Naruchitparames, Mehmet Hadi Gunes and Sushil Louis, "Friend Recommendations in Social Networks using Genetic Algorithms and Network Topology", IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, New Orleans, LA, June 5-8, 2011.
12. Jeffrey Naruchitparames, Mehmet Hadi Gunes and Cansin Y. Evrenosoglu, "Secure Communications in the Smart Grid", IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference Session on Smart Grids, Las Vegas, NV, Jan 9-12, 2011 (acceptance rate: 31.1%).
13. Hema Andal Jayaprakash Narayanan and Mehmet Hadi Gunes, "Ensuring Access Control in Cloud Provisioned Healthcare Systems", IEEE International Workshop on Consumer eHealth Platforms, Services and Applications, Las Vegas, NV, Jan 8, 2011.
14. Hakan Kardes and Mehmet Hadi Gunes "Structural Graph Indexing for Mining Complex Networks", ICDCS Workshop on Simplifying Complex Networks for Practitioners, Genoa, Italy, June 21, 2010.
15. Adrienne E. Breland, Mehmet Hadi Gunes, Karen A. Schlauch, and Frederick C. Harris "Mixing Patterns in a Global Influenza A Virus Network Using Whole Genome Comparisons", IEEE Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB 2010), Montreal, Canada, May 2-5, 2010.
16. Mehmet Hadi Gunes and Cansin Y. Evrenosoglu, "Blind Processing: Securing Data Against System Administrators", IFIP/IEEE NOMS International Workshop on Management of Smart Grids, Osaka, Japan, April 23, 2010.
17. Mehmet Hadi Gunes and Kamil Sarac, "Resolving IP aliases in Building Traceroute-Based Internet Maps", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 17(6):1738-1751, Dec 2009. (earlier version presented at IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2006), Istanbul, TURKEY, 11-15 June 2006 - acceptance rate: 39.0%)
18. Kakajan Komurov, Mehmet Hadi Gunes, and Michael A. White, "Fine-scale dissection of functional protein network organization by statistical network analysis", PLoS ONE 4(6), June 2009.
19. Mehmet Hadi Gunes and Kamil Sarac, "Resolving Anonymous Routers in Internet Topology Measurement Studies", IEEE INFOCOM, Phoenix, AZ, April 15-17 2008 (acceptance rate: 20.3%).
20. Mehmet Hadi Gunes and Kamil Sarac, "Inferring Subnets in Router-level Topology Collection Studies", ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement conference (IMC 2007), San Diego, CA, Oct 24-26 2007 (acceptance rate: 24.4%).

Service

• CSE Colloquia co-chair
• IEEE Northern Nevada Section Secretary

Publication Chair:

• IEEE International Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN) 2013
• IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) 2010

Program Committee Member:

• 5th Workshop on Complex Networks (CompleNet) 2014
• IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) 2013
• IEEE LCN Workshop on Network Measurements (WNM) 2013 (2011)
• IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS) 2013, (2012)
• IEEE GlobeCom Communications QoS, Reliability and Modeling Symposium 2013, (2012)
• International Conference on Computer Communication Networks (ICCCN), 2013, (2012, 2010)
• Traffic Monitoring and Analysis Workshop (TMA) 2013, (2012)
• ACM/IEEE/IFAB/TRB International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo (ICCVE) 2012
• Passive and Active Measurement conference (PAM) 2011
• IEEE INFOCOM 2011
• IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) 2010
• International Conference on Data Communication NETworking (DCNET) 2010
• IEEE LCN Workshop on Smart Grid Networking Infrastructure (SGNI) 2010
• IEEE INFOCOM Work in Progress (WiP) 2010

• PhD. on Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX (2008)
• M.S. on Computer Science and Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX (2004)
• B.S. on Computer Science & Engineering, ISIK University, Istanbul, Turkey (2002)
• B.S. on Electronics Engineering, ISIK University, Istanbul, Turkey (2002)

Last Updated on Jun 17, 2013.