Research Interests

Information-Theoretic Foundations of Digital Privacy

Related work:

• Database Matching Under Column Deletions
  S. Bakirtas, E. Erkip  —  ISIT 2021
  arXiv | IEEE Xplore | Slides

• Database Matching Under Column Deletions (Poster)
  S. Bakirtas, E. Erkip  —  NASIT 2021
  Poster

• Seeded Database Matching Under Noisy Column Repetitions
  S. Bakirtas, E. Erkip  —  ITW 2022
  arXiv | IEEE Xplore | Slides

• Seeded Database Matching Under Noisy Column Repetitions (Poster)
  S. Bakirtas, E. Erkip  —  NASIT 2022
  Poster

• Matching of Markov Databases Under Random Column Repetitions
  S. Bakirtas, E. Erkip  —  Asilomar 2022
  arXiv | IEEE Xplore |Slides | Poster

• Database Matching Under Adversarial Column Deletions
  S. Bakirtas, E. Erkip  —  ITW 2023.
  arXiv | IEEE Xplore | Slides

• Distribution-Agnostic Database De-Anonymization Under Synchronization Errors
  S. Bakirtas, E. Erkip  —  WIFS 2023.
  arXiv

• Database Matching Under Noisy Synchronization Errors
  S. Bakirtas, E. Erkip  —  accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
  arXiv | IEEE Xplore

• Distribution-Agnostic Database De-Anonymization Under Obfuscation And Synchronization Errors
  S. Bakirtas, E. Erkip  —  under review for journal publication.
  arXiv

Wireless Communications in the Presence of Hardware Trojans

Related work:

• Pilot-Attacks Can Enable Positive-Rate Covert Communications of Wireless Hardware Trojans
  S. Bakirtas, Matthieu R. Bloch, E. Erkip  —  under review for conference publication.
  arXiv

Information-Theoretic Analysis of Learned Protein Embeddings

Related work:

• Meta-Embedding Generation for Unsupervised Protein Models
  T. Dimlioglu, S. Bakirtas, B. McMinn
  Paper