Fatih Turkmen
How to pronounce my name?Associate Professor
(Adjunct Hoogleraar)
University of Groningen
Fatih Turkmen is an Associate Professor at the University of Groningen working on security and privacy. He received his PhD degree from University of Trento (Italy), in 2012. Together with his team of brilliant, hardworking researchers, he works on hard security/privacy problems related to machine learning, privacy-enhancing technologies (PET) and empirical/formal analysis of software and systems.
Recent News
- [09.2025] 🚀 Our survey paper ("Beyond Reinforcement Learning for Network Security: A Comprehensive Survey and Tutorial", to appear at JISA) on the use of ML for security [PDF]!
- [09.2025] 💪 Marco Antonio Marques joined the group as a PhD student, welcome Marco!
- [09.2025] 🚀 Congrats to Ali Satvaty, for his paper on privacy related memorization in multi-lingual LLMs.
- [09.2025] 🚀 Two papers at SPAIML workshop on the use of ML for security.
- [7.2025] 🤝 I visited the group of Thuan Pham of University of Melbourne (Australia), for fuzz testing related research.
- [7.2025] 🤝 I visited the Cyber Security Hub, led by Dali Kaafar, of Macquarie University (Australia) for collaborations on privacy related topics.
- [3.2025] ❗ Joined the Editorial Board of International Journal of Information Security (IJIS)!
- [1.2025] ❗ Co-chairing ICT-Open (2025) Security and Trust Track, one of the largest ICT conferences in the NL!
- [6.2024] 🚀 New journal paper "Fuzzing Frameworks for Server-side Web Applications: A Survey", to be published by IJIS!
- [12.2024] 🚀 New preprint "Undesirable Memorization in Large Language Models: A Survey", well done Ali!
- [12.2024] 📄 New paper "Efficient Verifiable Differential Privacy with Input Authenticity in the Local and Shuffle Model", to appear at PETS 2025!
- [12.2024] 📄 New paper "Privacy-Preserving, Dropout-Resilient Aggregation in Decentralized Learning", appeared at NSS 2024!
- [5.2024] 🚀 New preprint "Privacy-Preserving Aggregation for Decentralized Learning with Byzantine-Robustness", well done Ali Reza!
- [5.2024] 🚀 New preprint "VPAS: Publicly Verifiable and Privacy-Preserving Aggregate Statistics on Distributed Datasets", well done to Mohammed!
PhD Applicants
- Please read the advice here first. For open positions in my group, keep an eye on my Web site.
- Are you looking for a PhD with your own funding? Our university provides top-ups in some cases. Send me an e-mail containing your PhD proposal, resume and the motivation why you want to work with me. I often don't respond to unsolicited emails. For open positions in my group, please keep an eye on my Web site.
- Are you looking for a PhD with your own funding? Our university provides top-ups in some cases. Send me an e-mail containing your PhD proposal, resume and the motivation why you want to work with me. I often don't respond to unsolicited emails. For open positions in my group, please keep an eye on my Web site.
Student Projects (RUG/Exchange Students)
Are you interested in security/privacy research during your MSc or BSc thesis work, Short Programming Projects or Research Internships? Send me an email!