Güliz Seray Tuncay

Dr. Güliz Seray Tuncay is a Senior Research Scientist in the Platforms Security and Privacy team at Google. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2019. Her Ph.D. thesis titled "Practical least privilege for cross-origin interactions on mobile operating systems" was the runner up of the ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award. Güliz was selected as a Rising Star in EECS in 2019.

Güliz's research interests include mobile and IoT security, usable security, web security, and mobile computing. She has published her academic work in top-tier venues, including ACM Computer and Communications Security (CCS), IEEE Security & Privacy, USENIX Security, and ISOC Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium. In 2018, her work on Android permissions received the Distinguished Paper Award at the NDSS Symposium.

Güliz is an active member of the research community. She has served as a technical program committee member for several prestigious venues, including ACM CCS, NDSS, USENIX Security, as well as several prestigious IEEE workshops and competitions such as the CSAW Applied research competition.

Güliz is passionate about using her research to make mobile devices more secure and private. She believes that everyone should be able to use mobile devices without fear of being hacked or having their privacy violated.

For more information, please visit www.gulizseray.com