Güliz Seray Tuncay

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
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    Ransomware over Modern Web Browsers: A Novel Strain and A New Defense Mechanism
    Harun Oz
    Ahmet Aris
    Leonardo Babun
    Selcuk Uluagac
    Abbas Acar
    ACM Transactions on the Web (2025)
    Wear's my Data? Understanding the Cross-Device Runtime Permission Model in Wearables
    Doguhan Yeke
    Muhammad Ibrahim
    Habiba Farukh
    Abdullah Imran
    Antonio Bianchi
    Z. Berkay Celik
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (2024)
    (In)Security of File Uploads in Node.js
    Harun Oz
    Abbas Acar
    Ahmet Aris
    Amin Kharraz
    Selcuk Uluagac
    The Web conference (WWW) (2024)
    On the Robustness of Image-based Malware Detection against Adversarial Attacks
    Yassine Mekdad
    Harun Oz
    Ahmet Aris
    Leonardo Babun
    Faraz Naseem
    Selcuk Uluagac
    Nasir Ghani
    Abbas Acar
    Network Security Empowered by Artificial Intelligence, Springer (2024)
    50 Shades of Support: A Device-Centric Analysis of Android Security Updates
    Abbas Acar
    Esteban Luques
    Harun Oz
    Ahmet Aris
    Selcuk Uluagac
    Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium (2024)
    With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Security and Privacy Issues of Modern Browser APIs
    Harun Oz
    Daniele Cono D’Elia
    Abbas Acar
    Riccardo Lazzeretti
    Selcuk Uluagac
    IEEE Security and Privacy (2024)
    RøB: Ransomware over Modern Web Browsers
    Harun Oz
    Ahmet Aris
    Abbas Acar
    Leonardo Babun
    Selcuk Uluagac
    USENIX Security (2023)
    Evaluating User Behavior in Smartphone Security: A Psychometric Perspective
    Hsiao-Ying Huang
    Soteris Demetriou
    Muhammad Hassan
    Carl A. Gunter
    Masooda Bashir
    USENIX SOUPS (2023)