About

I am a fourth-year Cybersecurity Ph.D. candidate at Northeastern University, where I work with Engin Kirda.

I am a researcher and engineer who solves problems. My current focus is on systems security, and these days, I am exploring the web security domain.

I hold a BS degree in Computer Science and Engineering and a BA degree in Economics from Sabanci University, Istanbul.

Publications

Untangle: Multi-Layer Web Server Fingerprinting
Cem Topcuoglu, Kaan Onarlioglu, Barhuz Jabiyev, Engin Kirda
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
San Diego, CA, USA, February 2024
MacOS versus Microsoft Windows: A Study on the Cybersecurity and Privacy User Perception of Two Popular Operating Systems
Cem Topcuoglu, Andrea Martinez, Abbas Acar, Selcuk Uluagac, Engin Kirda
Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (USEC) colocated with NDSS
San Diego, CA, USA, February 2024
Assessing the Feasibility of the Virtual Smartphone Paradigm in Countering Zero-Click Attacks
Narmeen Shafqat*, Cem Topcuoglu*, Engin Kirda, Aanjhan Ranganathan
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
Hawaii, USA, January 2024
A generic Private Information Retrieval scheme with parallel multi-exponentiations on multicore processors
Cem Topcuoglu, Kamer Kaya, Erkay Savas
Journal of Concurrency and Computation Practise and Experience
Wiley, April 2018