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I am currently assistant professor* in Technical University Berlin EECS department (Faculty IV) leading the Autonomous Security (aSec) group as well as affiliated with Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-labs) in Berlin, Germany (* official title is Juniorprofessur in German system). 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 one opening for a PhD student. All details are in this document [Pdf].
- The preprint of my upcoming book "Network Security: A Decision and Game Theoretic Approach" co-authored with Tamer Başar is available for download for a limited time! The hardcopy version will be published by Cambridge University Press at end of this year or early 2011.
- I act as steering board member and general chair of Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security - GameSec 2010.
- 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 "Decision making for security" 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 results are now available under the AGPL open source license!
- 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.
