Serhat Bakirtas

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Serhat Bakirtas
PhD Candidate in Electrical Engineering
Tandon School of Engineering, New York University

CommIT Research Group
NYU WIRELESS Research Center

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Brooklyn, NY 11201

Email: serhat.bakirtas@nyu.edu

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News

04/2024: I have successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis titled "Information-Theoretic Foundations of Database De-Anonymization."

04/2024: Our work on Database Matching Under Noisy Synchronization Errors (arXiv) was accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

09/2023: Our work on Distribution-Agnostic Database De-Anonymization Under Synchronization Errors (arXiv) was accepted to 2023 IEEE Workshop on Information Forensics and Security.

09/2023: I concluded my 13-week internship as Interim Engineering Intern at Qualcomm New England in Boxborough, MA. During this internship, I worked on Channel Quality Indicator Alignment for 5G New Radio.

04/2023: I presented our work on Database Matching Under Adversarial Column Deletions (arXiv) in person in Saint-Malo, France during 2023 IEEE Information Theory Workshop.

02/2023: Our work on Database Matching Under Adversarial Column Deletions (arXiv) was accepted to 2023 IEEE Information Theory Workshop.

11/2022: I presented our work on Seeded Database Matching Under Noisy Column Repetitions (arXiv) at ITW 2022.

11/2022: I presented our work on Matching of Markov Databases Under Random Column Repetitions (arXiv) at Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers 2022.

08/2022: Our work on Matching of Markov Databases Under Random Column Repetitions (arXiv) was accepted to Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers 2022.

08/2022: Our work on Seeded Database Matching Under Noisy Column Repetitions (arXiv) was accepted to 2022 IEEE Information Theory Workshop.

04/2022: I will present our work on Seeded Database Matching Under Noisy Column Repetitions at NASIT 2022.

07/2021: I presented our work on Database Matching Under Column Deletions (arXiv),(IEEE Xplore) at ISIT 2021.

06/2021: I presented our work on Database Matching Under Column Deletions at NASIT 2021 (poster).

05/2021: I received my Master of Science Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NYU Tandon School of Engineering.

04/2021: Our work on Database Matching Under Column Deletions (arXiv) was accepted to ISIT 2021.

09/2019: I joined the NYU Tandon School of Engineering as a PhD student in Electrical Engineering.
I am being advised by Prof. Elza Erkip.

07/2019: I received my Bachelor's Degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (High Honors) and Mathematics (High Honors) from Bogazici University.