Huseyin DEMIRCI
Belvaux,LU
Summary
Experienced information security expert with more than 20 years hands-on experience leading the design and analysis of IT security systems in Life Sciences context, managing IT risk analysis and security system in line with ISO 27000 standards. My objective is to contribute to the development of secure and compliant research-based methods to improve our lives.
Overview
31
31
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior R & D Engineer in Cybersecurity
Cognifinity
02.2024 - Current
- Development of ML Intrusion Detection systems (Granted by Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity)
- Writing and executing Horizon, EU and FNR projects
Research Associate
University of Luxembourg, SnT
02.2020 - 02.2024
- STRUNEE-Industrial partnership project with Huawei Research Munich
- Developing a Trust Evaluation software system for autonomous driving and other zero trust systems such as automated driving
- Preparing project deliverables
- NoFakes - FNR PoC- Project
- Project Co-PI
- Developing novel authentication systems for Jewelry market against anti-counterfeiting using image processing
- Medical and Genomics privacy
- Developing novel applications for medical and genomic data privacy
- Project proposals and research on genomics privacy
- Education of students and internal staff
- Key Achievements:
- Development of novel algorithms for privacy preserving Copy Number Variation and Polygenic Disease Risk Scoring analysis
- Developed image processing algorithms to authenticate microscopic tags
- The approval of the PoC project which aims to build a start-up using developed tools
Post-doc Researcher
University of Minho, Centre of Biological Engineering
06.2017 - 12.2019
- DD-DeCaF (Bioinformatics Services for Data-Driven Design of Cell Factories and Communities) project.
- Main task:
- Analysis of bacterial mutants from adaptive laboratory evolution experiments.
- Developing an NGS analysis pipeline from raw data to mutations
- Education of students and internal staff
- Biodata.pt project
- Main task:
- Reconstruction of the genome scale metabolic model of Quercus suber (Cork oak tree)
- Analysis of cancer metabolic models using Machine Learning Techniques
- Key Achievements:
- Bacterial resequencing pipeline establishment and identification of mutations
- Metabolic model reconstruction and RNA-seq analysis of cork-oak tree
- Metabolic model analysis of TCGA cancer patients using ML techniques
Senior Researcher, Group Leader
TUBITAK BILGEM, Informatics and Information Security Institute
01.1998 - 01.2016
- Company Overview: http://bilgem.tubitak.gov.tr/en
- 2013-2016, Advanced Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Center
- Main tasks:
- Establishing the pipeline considering the Quality requirement for NGS data
- Developing and using computational tools for analyzing NGS data
- Identifying disease causing mutations from Mendelian and rare diseases
- Performing the interaction between the clinicians and bioinformatics developers to achieve project goals
- Developing genomic privacy solutions
- Key Achievements:
- Construction of the first NGS and Bioinformatics center of Turkey
- Established the pipeline for genome sequencing and developed novel computational tools and identified novel gene-disease associations
- Demonstrated the usability of sequencing technologies in diagnosis
Researcher, Expert Researcher, Senior Researcher, Group Leader of the Crypto Group
TUBITAK BILGEM, Informatics and Information Security Institute
01.1998 - 01.2016
- Company Overview: http://bilgem.tubitak.gov.tr/en
- 1998 - 2008 - Researcher
- 2003 - 2008 - Expert Researcher
- 2008 - 2013 - Senior Researcher, Group Leader of the crypto group
- Main task: Design and analysis of cryptographic algorithms using mathematical and computational methods
- Key Achievements:
- R&D management of the crypto group
- ISO 27001 evaluation of the inner group
- Best mathematical analysis on widely used ciphers such as AES and RC4
- FP7 Regpot project ICE on wireless security: 2008-2011, Preparation and WP leader of the project (1.3 Million budget)
- Https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/206546
- Establishment of the Cyber Security program at Istanbul Sehir University, 2013
Research Assistant
Mathematics Department, METU
01.1995 - 01.1998
Education
Ph. D. - Industrial Engineering
Marmara University
01.2004
M.Sc. - Mathematics
METU
01.1998
B.Sc. - Mathematics
METU
01.1995
Skills
- Programming Languages: Python, R, Matlab, C
- Data Analysis Tools: Pandas, Scikit-learn, Seaborn, TensorFlow, Keras, Open CV
- Operating System: Linux Ubuntu, familiar with HPC cluster systems
Certification
- Full stack Data Science Program, Techproed, July 2021
- Deep Learning AI, Coursera September 2019
- Machine Learning, Stanford Online, Coursera, April 2019
LANGUAGE
English: Advanced
German: B1
Portuguese: A2
Luxembourgish: B1
Turkish: Native Language
Timeline
Senior R & D Engineer in Cybersecurity
Cognifinity
02.2024 - Current
Research Associate
University of Luxembourg, SnT
02.2020 - 02.2024
Post-doc Researcher
University of Minho, Centre of Biological Engineering
06.2017 - 12.2019
Senior Researcher, Group Leader
TUBITAK BILGEM, Informatics and Information Security Institute
01.1998 - 01.2016
Researcher, Expert Researcher, Senior Researcher, Group Leader of the Crypto Group
TUBITAK BILGEM, Informatics and Information Security Institute
01.1998 - 01.2016
Research Assistant
Mathematics Department, METU
01.1995 - 01.1998
M.Sc. - Mathematics
METU
B.Sc. - Mathematics
METU
Ph. D. - Industrial Engineering
Marmara University
OTHER EXPERIENCE
- PM² project management training, September 2021
- Co Advisor of the Ph.D. Thesis by Ferhat Karakoç, on the design of cipher ITUBee, 2014 (Most Successful Ph.D.Thesis Award at Istanbul Technical University).
- Organized Fast Software Encryption, FSE 2015 Workshop as general chair
- Organization of LightSec 2014, RfidSec 2010 workshops on security
- Organization of the Open Problems in Mathematical and Computational Sciences Workshop invating Alfred Menezes, Bart Preneel, Antonie Joux, and David Naccache.
- Organization of summer schools for Crypto and Bioinformatics for high school students
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
- Design and analysis of IT security systems in Life Sciences context
- IT risk analysis and security system approach including ISO 27001
- Using Privacy Enhancing Technologies such as Federated Learning and Homomorphic Encryption to analyze genomic and medical data
- FP7 Regpot project ICE on wireless security: 2008-2011, Preparation and WP leader of the project (1.3 Million budget)
- Establishment of the Cyber Security program at Istanbul Sehir University, 2013
- Construction of the first NGS sequencing and bioinformatics infrastructure in Turkey. (About 3 million USD budget national infrastructure project)
QUALIFICATIONS
- R & D project management in IT security
- Holistic system security approach
- Risk analysis and risk management using Security Engineering
- Following standards and regulations such as ISO27001, NIST and GDPR for developing IT security solutions
- Interdisciplinary team player with collaborators from IT, Life Sciences and Industry executives
- Experience in medical research data analysis pipe lines and software
- Data science and Machine Learning
- Lifelong learner for continuous improvement in process efficiency
Awards
Grant for the first NGS Infrastructure of Turkey (About 3 million USD budget), Grant for the EU FP7 Project on Wireless Security (1,3 million Euro budget), Published more than 40 publications in IT Security and Bioinformatics including peer reviewed journal, conference papers and thesis with more than 1050 citations: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xvNFa6oAAAAJ&hl=en, Fast Software Encryption Workshop 2023 Test of Time Award: https://fse.iacr.org/2023/testoftime.php
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