Gokhan Kul
(716)243-1729 gokhanku@buffalo.edu
230 North Street Apt.B30, Buffalo, NY 14201
EDUCATION
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
PhD, Computer Science, Expected June 2018
METU (Top technical university in Turkey), Ankara
Master of Science, Computer Engineering, August 2012
TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, August 2010
INTERESTS AND SKILLS
Interests: Security, Cloud Computing and Database Systems
Programming languages: Java, C#, Python
Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL
Technologies: SOA, Android programming, Integration, etc…
Languages: English, Turkish, French.
PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant, January 2015 – current
The State University of New York at Buffalo , Buffalo, New York
• Created a preliminary insider threat ontology in financial domain
• Formulized activity recognition out of queries issued on a database to identify malicious intent
• Proposed a tree-based data structure optimized to represent SQL queries in object oriented systems
Ontology Consultant, August 2013 – July 2014
Ministry of Development of Turkey - Stratek , Ankara, Turkey
• Contributed to the creation of an information map of Ministry of Development
Research Assistant, February 2011 – July 2014
METU Computer Center , Ankara, Turkey
• Managed the open access institutional repository development phase of the integrated information system
• Assisted in the maintenance of the academic performance tracking system
Software Engineer, September 2010 – February 2011
Simsoft Computer Technologies , Ankara, Turkey
• Established the target manager module of a GIS based military system
• Completed development of known point manager module of a GIS based military system
INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE
R&D Engineer, April 2010 – August 2010
Anel Research and Development , Ankara, Turkey
• Researched mobility detection of mobile devices for GIS based augmented reality application running on Google Android
R&D Engineer, January 2009 – April 2009
Ericsson - Bizitek , Istanbul, Turkey
• Resolved open tasks and bugs of a framework called Tigris which was used as the main framework of all of the products developed in the company

Gokhan Kul
(716)243-1729 gokhanku@buffalo.edu
230 North Street Apt.B30, Buffalo, NY 14201
• Created the data security layer of the framework that encrypts data transfer between the server and the clients
Software Engineer, January 2008 – September 2008
Meteksan System and Computer Technologies, Mobile Systems Team , Ankara, Turkey
• Researched indoor positioning systems using the existing wireless infrastructure of the buildings
PROJECTS
Insider Threats in Financial Institutions, January 2015 – …
Focused on insider attacks on relational database management systems to keep the focus on a specific but important domain allows us to contain the scope of the model to a more manageable level and even though there are other data preservation techniques and systems, relational databases are heavily used in backend servers to store financial data, which consists of a lot of sensitive information.
Integrated Information System, January 2011 – July 2014
Programmed a system that integrated our legacy systems with DSpace institutional repository and initialized a web service engine that is a data bridge between VIVO and DSpace using Java
Preprocessing of RSSI Signal Strength Measurements for Indoor Localization, January 2012 – June
2012
Created a system that processes RSSI signal strength measurements to improve localization accuracy that was acquired from Indoor Positioning Systems Using Wi-Fi project
Indoor Positioning Systems Using Wi-Fi, September 2009 – August 2010
Researched indoor positioning systems that uses different methodologies and equipment to achieve sufficient accuracy in indoor environments and created a system that uses existing wireless infrastructure of the buildings
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Papers
Gokhan Kul and Shambhu Upadhyaya. 2016. Towards Cyber Ontology for Insider Threats in the
Financial Sector. Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable
Applications (JoWUA). 6(4), 64-85
Conference Papers
Gokhan Kul, Duc Luong, Ting Xie, Patrick Coonan, Varun Chandola, Oliver Kennedy and Shambhu
Upadhyaya. 2016. Ettu: Analyzing Query Intents in Corporate Databases. In Proceedings of the
WWW2016 Workshop on Empirical Research Methods in Information Security (ERMIS '16). to appear
Gokhan Kul and Shambhu Upadhyaya. 2015. A Preliminary Cyber Ontology for Insider Threats in the
Financial Sector. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM CCS International Workshop on Managing Insider
Security Threats (MIST '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 75-78. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/
10.1145/2808783.2808793
Gökhan Kul, Tansel Özyer, Bülent Tavli. 2014. IEEE 802.11 WLAN based Real Time Indoor Positioning:
Literature Survey and Experimental Investigations, Procedia Computer Science, Volume 34, 2014, Pages
157-164, ISSN 1877-0509, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2014.07.078

Gokhan Kul
(716)243-1729 gokhanku@buffalo.edu
230 North Street Apt.B30, Buffalo, NY 14201
Deniz Iren, Gokhan Kul, and Semih Bilgen. 2014. Utilization of synergetic human-machine clouds: a big data cleaning case. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on CrowdSourcing in Software
Engineering (CSI-SE 2014). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 15-18. DOI=10.1145/2593728.2593733
Deniz Iren, Gokhan Kul, and Semih Bilgen. 2014. İ nsan ve Makine Bulutları Sinerjisi: Kitle Kaynaklı
Çalı ş ma ile Veri Temizleme Örnek Uygulaması. In Proceedings of the 8th Turkish National Software
Engineering Symposium2014 (UYMS 2014). CEUR-WS, Germany, Vol-1221, 2014, Pages 571-579.
Technical Reports
Gokhan Kul, Shambhu Upadhyaya. 2015. Creating a Preliminary Cyber Ontology for Insider Threats in the Financial Sector, Technical Report 2015-03, The State University at Buffalo, July 29, 2015.
Gokhan Kul, Y. Deniz Iren, Ezgi Akkaya, Engin Bozkurt, Eylem Elif Mavis. 2014. Integration of DSpace with Computing Center Services. Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 2014
Poster Presentations
Gokhan Kul. 2012. Crowdsourcing Ontology Design. 4 th EURO-NF Summer School for Master and PhD
Students on Modelling and Analysis of Novel Mechanisms and Future Internet Applications, University of Wuerzburg, Germany, April 2012
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Reviewer for ACM Computing Reviews, December 2014 - …
Reviewer for Elsevier Journal of the International Measurement Confederation, November 2014 - …
COURSES AND CERTIFICATIONS
Project Management, Ministry of Development, Turkey, February 2013
4 th EURO-NF Summer School for Master and PhD Students on Modelling and Analysis of Novel
Mechanisms in Future Internet Applications, University of Wuerzburg, Germany, April 2012
Object Oriented Software Development Certificate Program, METU, Turkey, February 2012