Under Construction due to Recent Move!
I am currently senior lecturer in The University of Melbourne (Australia), Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Formerly, I was asst. professor in Technical University of Berlin for two years until October 2011 and senior research scientist in Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-labs), Berlin, Germany. I have received my MS and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC). My research involves applications of distributed decision making, game theory, and control to various security and resource allocation problems in complex and networked systems. >> more
Research interests
- Security and risk management.
- Game, control, and optimization theories.
- Mechanism design, pricing, and decision making under limited information.
- Spectrum and various resource allocation problems in wired and wireless networks.
- Distributed machine learning and social networking.
News
- I have moved to Melbourne, Australia and joined the Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering as senior lecturer. The website will be under construction in the next couple of months.
- I have now one hundred publications (books, book chapters, journal and conference articles)! It is a nice milestone.
- I act as steering board member and general chair of Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security - GameSec 2010.
- Information about my book "Network Security: A Decision and Game Theoretic Approach" co-authored with Tamer Başar is available here.
- I act as the chair of the IEEE ComSoc MMTC Interest Group on "Media Processing and Communications Security (SecIG)" for 2010-2012.
- Our paper "Dynamic control and mitigation of interdependent IT security risks" by J. Mounzer, T. Alpcan, and N. Bambos, has received the Best Paper Award in IEEE Intl. Conf. on Communications (ICC), Comm. and Info. System Security Symposium (CIS), South Africa, May 2010.
- Our paper "Coalitional game theory for security risk management" by W. Saad, T. Alpcan, T. Başar, and A. Hjorungnes has received the Best Paper Award in the 5th Intl. Conf. on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP), Barcelona, Spain, May 2010.
- I offer the seminar course "Analytical Methods for Security and Risk Management" this semester in TU-Berlin. Please check the link for further details.
- I was honored to (co-)host John F. Nash, who received the Nobel Prize for his famous work on game theory, in Deutsche Telekom Laboratories on January 22nd, 2010.
- SPREE project prototype is available under the AGPL open source license! A version has been recently used in the 60th Intl. meeting of Nobel laureates in Lindau, Germany.
- All of my professional activities are listed here.
- A complete list of my conference and journal articles. Most of them are downloadable.
- Bibtex file of my publications for your convenience.
