Umut Uludag, PhD

Umut Uludag, PhD

I am a chief researcher at National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (NRIEC-UEKAE), Turkey. I got my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering, at Michigan State University, USA (2006).

Bioelectronics Systems Laboratory

LightSec 2011: Workshop on Lightweight Security and Privacy

My resume: in pdf format.

Ozgecmis (pdf) .

Research Interests:

Biometrics
Pattern Recognition
Watermarking
Multimedia
Image & Signal Processing
Computer Vision
Digital Security
Cryptography

Education:

Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering Department , Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA, 2006.
Courses: Computer Vision, Algorithmic Graph Theory, Computability and Languages, Pattern Recognition and Analysis, Design and Theory of Algorithms, Advanced Computer Networks and Communications, Advanced Software Engineering, Selected Topics: Recognition by Machine, Cryptography and Network Security.

M.Sc. (Honors), Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2001.
Courses: Computer Vision, Artificial Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition, Advanced Topics in Speech Processing, Speech Processing, Data Compression, Digital Signal Processing, Statistical Signal Analysis.

B.Sc. (Honors), Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1999.
Courses: Image Processing, Computer Communication Networks, Mobile Communication, Information Theory, Digital Communication, Communication Engineering, Signals & Systems, Electronics I – II, Microprocessors, Robotics, Electromagnetic Waves, Electrotechnology, Digital Systems, System Dynamics & Control, Electrical Networks I-II, Electromechanical Energy Conversion, Electronics Laboratory...

Research Experience:

Chief Researcher / Biometrics R&D Unit Manager, TUBITAK, National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (NRIEC-UEKAE), August 2012 - present.
Working on: biometric systems, signal processing, imaging & pattern recognition systems.
Senior Researcher / Biometrics R&D Unit Manager, TUBITAK, National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (NRIEC-UEKAE), February 2012 - August 2012.
Worked on: biometric systems.
Senior Researcher, TUBITAK, National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (NRIEC), May 2009 - February 2012.
Worked on: digital security, digital watermarking, cryptography, biometric systems.
Scientist, Lumidigm, Inc., NM, USA, April 2006 - January 2009.
Worked on: biometrics, pattern recognition.
Research Assistant, Computer Science and Engineering Department, MSU, MI, USA, August 2001 - March 2006.
Worked on: biometrics, pattern recognition, watermarking, digital security.
Researcher, TUBITAK, Marmara Research Center, Information Technologies Institute, Turkey, July 1999 - July 2001.
Worked on: object / target recognition, watermarking, biometrics.
Intern/guest researcher ... : Symbol Technologies, Siemens Corporate Research, NIST, Intel ... (details are provided below)

Teaching Experience:

Guest Lecturer, Fall 2017, BIL 620: Biometric Systems and Identity Verification (in Turkish), Maltepe University, Department of Computer Engineering.
Guest Lecturer, Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, BGM 545: Biometric Systems and Identity Verification (in Turkish), Sehir University, Information Security Engineering.
Guest Lecturer, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, CS 583: Biometric Systems, Ozyegin University, Computer Science.
Guest Lecturer, Fall 2013, CSE 669: Special Topics in Computer Vision: Biometric Systems, Gebze Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Engineering.

Publications:

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Book Chapters:

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A.K. Jain and U. Uludag, "Biometrics in Digital Rights Management", in Multimedia Security Technologies for Digital Rights Management, W. Zeng, H. Yu, and C-Y. Lin (Eds.), pp. 197-218, Academic Press, 2006.
A.K. Jain, K. Nandakumar, U. Uludag and X. Lu, "Multimodal Biometrics: Augmenting Face With Other Cues", in Face Processing: Advanced Modeling and Methods, R. Chellappa and W. Zhao (Eds.), pp. 679-705, Academic Press, 2006.

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Journal Articles:

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M.S. Sadak, N. Kahraman and U. Uludag, "Dynamic and Static Feature Fusion for Increased Accuracy in Signature Verification", Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 108, 116823, October 2022.
M. Kavakli, H. Yetik, and U. Uludag, "FOTAS Project: Seismic Analysis with Fiber Optic Cables", BILGEM Technology Journal, no. 12, pp. 98-101, September 2021 (in Turkish).
M. Pakyurek, M. Atmis, S. Kulac, and U. Uludag, "Extraction of Novel Features Based on Histograms of MFCCs Used in Emotion Classification from Generated Original Speech Dataset", Elektronika ir Elektrotechnika, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 46-51, February 2020.
M. Yildiz, B. Yanikoglu, A. Kholmatov, A. Kanak, U. Uludag, and H. Erdogan, "Biometric Layering with Fingerprints: Template Security and Privacy through Multi-biometric Template Fusion", The Computer Journal, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 573-587, March 2017.
U. Uludag, "Digital Watermarking I: Fundamental Properties", BILGEM Journal , vol. 3, no. 7, pp. 76-81, September-December 2011 (in Turkish).
M. S. Kiraz, F. Birinci, U. Uludag, "Electronic Voting: Methods, Applications, Cryptology Infrastructure and Beyond", UEKAE Dergisi-NRIEC Journal , vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 74-87, September-December 2010 (in Turkish).
R. Snelick, U. Uludag, A. Mink, M. Indovina, and A. Jain, "Large Scale Evaluation of Multimodal Biometric Authentication Using State-of-the-Art Systems", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 450-455, March 2005. (abstract)
U. Uludag, S. Pankanti, S. Prabhakar and A. K. Jain, "Biometric Cryptosystems: Issues and Challenges", Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Multimedia Security for Digital Rights Management, vol. 92, no. 6, pp. 948-960, June 2004. (abstract)
U. Uludag, A. Ross and A. K. Jain, "Biometric Template Selection and Update: A Case Study in Fingerprints", Pattern Recognition , vol. 37, no. 7, pp. 1533-1542, July 2004. (abstract)
A. K. Jain and U. Uludag, "Hiding Biometric Data", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 25, no. 11, pp. 1494-1498, November 2003. (abstract)
B. Gunsel, U. Uludag and A. M. Tekalp, "Robust Watermarking of Fingerprint Images", Pattern Recognition, vol. 35, no. 12, pp. 2739-2747, December 2002. (abstract)

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United States Patent:

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U. Uludag, R. K. Rowe, K. A. Nixon, and M. S. Ennis, Multibiometric Multispectral Imager, Patent Number: 7,899,217, Issue Date: March 1, 2011, (Patent Application Publication Date: August 14, 2008), Lumidigm, Inc.

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Conference Papers:

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H. Yetik, M. Kavakli, U. Uludag, A. Eksim and S. Paker, "Earthquake Epicenter Localization Using Fiber Optic Distributed Acoustic Sensing", Proc. URSI AT-AP-RASC 2022, Gran Canaria, Spain, May-June 2022.
H. Yetik, M. Kavakli, U. Uludag, A. Eksim and S. Paker, "Earthquake Detection Using Fiber Optic Distributed Acoustic Sensing", 13th Int. Conf. Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bursa, Turkey, November 2021.
E. Ozkan, T. Erkorkmaz, B. Cesur, H. Yetik, U. Uludag and I. Olcer, "FOTAS (Fiber Optic Based Acoustic Sensing System): requirements, design, implementation, tests and results", Proc. SPIE 11525, SPIE Future Sensing Technologies 2020 (Online), November 2020.
M.S. Sadak, N. Kahraman and U. Uludag, "Handwritten Signature Verification System Using Sound as a Feature", Proc. 43rd International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP 2020), Milan, Italy, July 2020.
M. Pakyurek, M. Atmis, S. Kulac, and U. Uludag, "Extraction of Novel Features Based on Histograms of MFCCs Used in Emotion Classification from Generated Original Speech Dataset", Proc. 23. International Conference ELECTRONICS 2019, Palanga, Lithuania, June 2019.
N. Celenli, K.N. Sevis, M.F. Esgin, K. Altundag and U. Uludag, "An Unconstrained Activity Recognition Method Using Smart Phones", Proc. 13. International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG 2014), pp. 219-226, Darmstadt, Germany, September 2014.
S. Karahan, A. Karaoz, O.F. Ozdemir, A.G. Gul and U. Uludag, "On Identification From Periocular Region Utilizing SIFT and SURF", Proc. 22nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2014), pp. 1392-1396, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2014.
B. Topcu, M. Kayaoglu and U. Uludag, "Fingerprint Phalanx-Based Score Fusion", Proc. IEEE SIU-2013, Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conf., Girne, North Cyprus, April 2013 (in Turkish).
B. Topcu, M. Kayaoglu, M. Kilinc Yildirim and U. Uludag, "Fingerprint Matching Utilizing Non-Distal Phalanges", Proc. ICPR-2012, 21. International Conference on Pattern Recognition , pp. 2400-2403, Tsukuba Science City, Japan, November 2012.
M. Kilinc and U. Uludag, "Gender Identification from Face Images", Proc. IEEE SIU-2012, Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conf., Mugla, Turkey, April 2012 (in Turkish).
R. K. Rowe , U. Uludag, M. Demirkus , S. Parthasaradhi , and A. Jain , "A Multispectral Whole-hand Biometric Authentication System", Proc. Biometrics Symposium 2007 , Baltimore, MD, September 2007.
R. K. Rowe , K. A. Nixon , S. Parthasaradhi , and U. Uludag, "Robust Fingerprint Acquisition", Proc. SPIE Defense & Security Symposium, Biometric Technology for Human Identification IV, vol. 6539, Orlando, FL, April 2007.
U. Uludag and A. Jain, "Securing Fingerprint Template: Fuzzy Vault with Helper Data", Proc. IEEE Workshop on Privacy Research In Vision (PRIV) , New York City, NY, June 2006.
A. Jain, A. Ross and U. Uludag, "Biometric Template Security: Challenges and Solutions", Proc. 13th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2005) , Antalya, Turkey, September 2005.
U. Uludag, S. Pankanti and A. Jain, "Fuzzy Vault for Fingerprints", Proc. AVBPA 2005, 5. International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication, pp. 310-319, Rye Brook, NY, July 2005, (in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3546, Springer, 2005). This paper received the Best Student Paper Award sponsored by Identix Incorporated.
J. Reisman, U. Uludag and A. Ross, "Secure Fingerprint Matching with External Registration", Proc. AVBPA 2005, 5. International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication, pp. 720-729, Rye Brook, NY, July 2005, (in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3546, Springer, 2005).
U. Uludag and A.K. Jain, "Fingerprint Minutiae Attack System", The Biometric Consortium Conference, Arlington, VA, September 2004.
U. Uludag and A.K. Jain, "Fuzzy Fingerprint Vault", Proc. Workshop: Biometrics: Challenges Arising from Theory to Practice, pp. 13-16, Cambridge, UK, August 2004.
U. Uludag and A.K. Jain, "Attacks on Biometric Systems: A Case Study in Fingerprints," Proc. SPIE-EI 2004, Security, Steganography and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VI, vol. 5306, pp. 622-633, San Jose, CA, January 2004.
M. Indovina, U. Uludag, R. Snelick, A. Mink and A. Jain, " Multimodal Biometric Authentication Methods: A COTS Approach," Proc. MMUA 2003, Workshop on Multimodal User Authentication, pp. 99-106, Santa Barbara, CA, December 2003.
U. Uludag and A. K. Jain, "Multimedia Content Protection via Biometrics-based Encryption," Proc. ICME 2003, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, vol. III, pp. 237-240, Baltimore, MD, July 2003.
A. K. Jain, U. Uludag and A. Ross, "Biometric Template Selection: A Case Study in Fingerprints," Proc. AVBPA 2003, 4. International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication, pp. 335-342, Guildford, UK, June 2003, (in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2688, Springer, 2003).
A. K. Jain, U. Uludag and R. L. Hsu, "Hiding a Face in a Fingerprint Image," Proc. ICPR 2002, 16. International Conference on Pattern Recognition, vol. 3, pp. 756-759, Quebec, Canada, August 2002.
A. K. Jain and U. Uludag, "Hiding Fingerprint Minutiae in Images," Proc. AutoID 2002, 3. Workshop on Automatic Identification Advanced Technologies, pp. 97-102, Tarrytown, NY, March 2002.
U. Uludag, B. Gunsel and M. Ballan, "A Spatial Method for Watermarking of Fingerprint Images," Proc. 1st International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems, PRIS 2001, pp. 26-33, Setubal, Portugal, July 2001.
U. Uludag and B. Sankur, "Sinusoidal Image Watermarking," Proc. IEEE SIU-2001, 9. Signal Processing and Applications Conference, pp. 51-55, Gazi Magusa, North Cyprus, April 2001, (in Turkish).
U. Uludag, B. Gunsel and A. M. Tekalp, "Robust Watermarking of Busy Images," Proc. SPIE-EI 2001, Security and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents III, vol. 4314, pp. 18-25, San Jose, CA, January 2001. (abstract)
U. Uludag, B. Gunsel and A. M. Tekalp, "An Amplitude Modulation based Watermarking Method for Multimedia Data," Proc. IEEE SIU-2000, 8. Signal Processing and Applications Conference, pp. 518-523, Antalya, Turkey, June 2000 (in Turkish).

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Technical Reports:

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A. Khodabakhsh, S. S. Sarfjoo, U. Uludag, O. Soyyigit and C. Demiroglu, "Incorporation of Speech Duration Information in Score Fusion of Speaker Recognition Systems", arXiv:1608.02272 [cs.SD], August 2016.
M. Kayaoglu, B. Topcu and U. Uludag, "Biometric Matching and Fusion System for Fingerprints from Non-Distal Phalanges", arXiv:1505.04028 [cs.CV], May 2015.
M. Kayaoglu, B. Topcu and U. Uludag, "Standard Fingerprint Databases: Manual Minutiae Labeling and Matcher Performance Analyses", arXiv:1305.1443 [cs.CV], May 2013.
U. Uludag and L. M. Arslan, "Audio Watermarking Using DC Level Shifting," Project Technical Report, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, January 2001.

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Theses:

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U. Uludag, "Secure Biometric Systems," Ph.D. Thesis, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA, 2006. (Advisor: Prof. Anil Jain, Thesis Committee: Prof. Anil Jain, Prof. Sarat Dass, Prof. Abdol-Hossein Esfahanian, Prof. George Stockman)
U. Uludag, " Visual Data Watermarking based on Sinusoidal Signal Embedding," M.Sc. Thesis, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2001. (Advisor: Prof. Bulent Sankur)
U. Uludag, "Document Image Segmentation by the Method of White Tiles," B.Sc. Thesis , Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1999. (Advisor: Prof. Bulent Sankur)

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Books (for researchers of 2023):

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S. Kulekci, M. S. Kiraz and U. Uludag, Crypto Kids-1: Numbers & Cryptology , August 2011 (in Turkish).

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Novelette:

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U. Uludag, Istanbul Cipher , July 2013 (in Turkish).

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Short Story:

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U. Uludag, Blackboard Mystery , September 2014 (in Turkish).

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Poems:

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U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 1, January 2015.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 2, February 2015.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 3, March 2015.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 4, March 2015.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 5, April 2015.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 6, April 2015.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 7, April 2015.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 8, April 2015.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 9, May 2015.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 10, December 2015.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 11, February 2016.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 12, June 2016.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 13, January 2017.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 14, January 2017.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 15, July 2017.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 16, August 2017.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 17, August 2017.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 18, March 2018.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 19, March 2018.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 20, May 2018.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 21, May 2018.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 22, December 2018.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 23, December 2018.
U. Uludag, From A to Z, March 2019.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 24, April 2019.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 25, April 2019.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 26, August 2019.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 27, August 2019.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 28, December 2019.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 29, December 2019.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 30, July 2020.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 31, July 2020.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 32, October 2020.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 33, October 2020.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 34, February 2021.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 35, February 2021.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 36, September 2021.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 37, September 2021.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 38, December 2021.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 39, December 2021.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 40, February 2022.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 41, February 2022.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 42, August 2022.
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher 43, August 2022.

U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher, April 2016 (Russian translation: D. Tanriverdi).
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher II, June 2018 (Russian translation: D. Tanriverdi).
U. Uludag, The Lost Calligrapher III, February 2021 (Russian translation: D. Tanriverdi).

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Audio Poems:

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The Lost Calligrapher, April 2018 (Reading: Ecem Onol, Music: Dr. Arif Emre Yarimbiyik).

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Essays:

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U. Uludag, Essays I, April 2023 (in Turkish).

Professional
Activities:

Member: IEEE
Reviewer: IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence; Pattern Recognition; IEEE Trans. on Image Processing; International Journal of Computer Vision; Machine Vision and Applications; Signal Processing Letters; IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics; Image and Vision Computing; IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics; IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security; IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems; IEEE Trans. on Fuzzy Systems; Signal, Image and Video Processing; Journal of Information Security and Applications; EURASIP Journal on Information Security; Industrial Electronics Magazine (Journals) and numerous conferences.
Presented posters at CITeR, West Virginia, meetings: "Biometric Template Selection and Update: A Case Study in Fingerprints", "Multimedia Content Protection via Biometrics-based Encryption", November 2003.
Presented poster at MSU CyberSecurity Initiative Workshop: "Multimedia Content Security", November 2003.
Participated in Research Open House, CSE, MSU, 2001-2005.
Participated in Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) Day, MSU, 2001-2003.
Participated in Alumni Distinguished Scholars (ADS) Presentations, MSU, 2004.
Program Committee Member: International Conference on Informatics (ICI-2004).
Presented paper at The Biometric Consortium Conference 2004: "Fingerprint Minutiae Attack System", Arlington, VA, September 2004. (Featured in the WAVE Report's BC Issue).
Presented poster at Poster Workshop for SPC Meeting, CSE, MSU: "FFV: Fingerprint-based Fuzzy Vault", April 2005. Won 2. place among 14 entries in IS1 (Intelligent Systems Work in Biometrics, Computer Vision or Robotics) Category).
Web Support Coordinator: AVBPA 2005, 5. International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication
Presented paper at The Biometric Consortium Conference 2005: "Fingerprint-based Fuzzy Vault", Arlington, VA, September 2005.
Program Committee Member: Biometric Technology for Human Identification IV (DS36), 2007.
Program Committee Member: Biometric Technology for Human Identification V (DS26) , 2008.
Program Committee Member: Biometrics Symposium 2007.
Author: OEIS (The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences), http://oeis.org, 19 sequences: A165401 , A172195 , A173426 , A173427 , A173586 , A179394 , A179395 , A179396 , A179397 , A179398 , A179399 , A179852, A194947, A196147, A205955, A228239, A231325, A261135, A261138, September 2009 - present.
Speaker: EuroForensics , Istanbul, March 2010.
Affiliated Researcher: Sabanci University, Biometrics Research Group , 2010 - present.
External Reviewer: Turkish Standards Institution (TSE) , July 2010 - present.
Program Co-Chair (with E. Savas and A. A. Selcuk ): LightSec 2011, Workshop on Lightweight Security & Privacy: Devices, Protocols, and Applications, Istanbul, March 2011.
Author/Puzzlemaster: Online Cryptology Puzzles: 06.2010 , 07.2010 , 08.2010 , 09.2010 , 10.2010 , 11.2010 , 12.2010 , 01.2011 , 02.2011 , 03.2011 , 04.2011 , 05.2011 , 06.2011 , 07.2011 , 08.2011 , 09.2011 , 10.2011 , 11.2011 , 12.2011 , 01.2012 , 02.2012 , 03.2012 , 04.2012 , 05.2012 , 06.2012 , 07.2012 , 08.2012 , 09.2012 , 10.2012 , 11.2012 , 12.2012 , 01.2013 , 02.2013 , 03.2013 , 04.2013 , 05.2013 , 06.2013 , 07.2013 , 08.2013 , 09.2013 , 10.2013 , 11.2013 , 12.2013 , 01.2014 , 02.2014 , 03.2014 , 04.2014 , 05.2014 , 06.2014 , 07.2014 , 08.2014 , 09.2014 , 10.2014 , 11.2014 , 12.2014 , 01.2015 , 02.2015 , 03.2015 , 04.2015 , 05.2015 , 06.2015 , 07.2015 , 08.2015 , 09.2015 , 10.2015 , 11.2015 , 12.2015 , 01.2016 , 02.2016 , 03.2016 , 04.2016 , 05.2016 , 06.2016 , 07.2016 , 08.2016 , 09.2016 , 10.2016 , 11.2016 , 12.2016 , 01.2017 , 02.2017 , 03.2017 , 04.2017 , 05.2017 , 06.2017 , 07.2017 , 08.2017 , 09.2017 , 10.2017 , 11.2017 , 12.2017 , 01.2018 , 02.2018 , 03.2018 , 04.2018 , 05.2018 , 06.2018 , 07.2018 , 08.2018 , 09.2018 , 10.2018 , 11.2018 , 12.2018 , 01.2019 , 02.2019 , 03.2019 , 04.2019 , 05.2019 , 06.2019 , 07.2019 , 08.2019 , 09.2019 , 10.2019 , 11.2019 , 12.2019 , 01.2020 , 02.2020 , 03.2020 , 04.2020 , 05.2020 , 06.2020 , 07.2020 , 08.2020 , 09.2020 , 10.2020 , 11.2020 , 12.2020 , 01.2021 , 02.2021 , 03.2021 , 04.2021 , 05.2021 , 06.2021 , 07.2021 , 08.2021 , 09.2021 , 10.2021 , 11.2021 , 12.2021 , 01.2022 , 02.2022 , 03.2022 , 04.2022 , 05.2022 , 06.2022 , 07.2022 , 08.2022 , 09.2022 , 10.2022 , 11.2022 , 12.2022 , 01.2023 , 02.2023 , 03.2023 , June 2010 - present (in Turkish).
Author/Puzzlemaster: Sifresayar (CipherCounter): Journal Cryptology Puzzles Section, UEKAE Dergisi-NRIEC Journal , September 2010 - December 2011 (in Turkish).
Coordinator: TUBITAK Cryptology Info Day 2010, Ankara, October 2010; TUBITAK Cryptology Info Day 2011, Ankara, October 2011.
Speaker: TUBITAK Cryptology Info Day 2010, Ankara, October 2010; TUBITAK Cryptology Info Day 2011, Ankara, October 2011.
Program Committee Member: Communications and Multimedia Security (CMS) 2011 , Belgium.
Speaker: "Biometric Systems & Security", December 2010, Sabanci University , Computer Science and Engineering .
Speaker: EMEA Intelligence 2011, Istanbul, March 2011.
Editorial Board Member: UEKAE Dergisi-NRIEC Journal , May 2011 - December 2011.
Author: Kripkatur (CrypCature): Journal Caricature Section, UEKAE Dergisi-NRIEC Journal , May 2011 - December 2011; January 2020 - present.
Game Designer (with Y. Uludag): ASATO , June 2011; DOSA , July 2011; KOTA , July 2011; FAZ , July 2011; STAR , August 2011; PAS , September 2011; DAHA , January 2012; AKAT , January 2012; BEHA , February 2012; KEA , December 2012; 76K , January 2013; KEY , January 2013; KRIKART , April 2013; RAY , April 2013; KARBON , September 2013; PARKA , October 2013; 4K1M , December 2013; 106K , February 2014; ADRES , September 2014; KARA , January 2015; SAKA , August 2016; KH , March 2018, (Documents in Turkish, English versions in preparation).
Advisory Board Member: Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Telecommunications Engineering Program, Istanbul, June 2011 - present.
Specialist & Instructor: Cryptology Summer School 2011 (7th Grade Students), Kocaeli, July 2011; Cryptology Summer School 2012 (7th Grade Students), Kocaeli, July 2012; Cryptology Summer School 2013 (7th Grade Students), Kocaeli, June 2013.
Specialist & Instructor: Cryptology Summer School 2011 (University Junior-Seniors), Kocaeli, September 2011 ; Cryptology Summer School 2012 (University Junior-Seniors), Kocaeli, September 2012; Cryptology Summer School 2013 (University Junior-Seniors), Kocaeli, August 2013; Cryptology Summer School 2015 (University Junior-Seniors), Kocaeli, August 2015; Cryptology Summer School 2016 (University Junior-Seniors), Kocaeli, August 2016; Cryptology Summer School 2017 (University Junior-Seniors), Kocaeli, August 2017; Cryptology Summer School 2018 (University Junior-Seniors), Kocaeli, September 2018; Cryptology Summer School 2019 (University Junior-Seniors), Kocaeli, June 2019.
Technical Program Committee Member: International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2011 , Spain.
Institute Academic Advisor: 2 Ph.D. & 4 M.Sc. students, TUBITAK-BILGEM-UEKAE, September 2011 - December 2012.
Specialist & Instructor: Cryptology Winter School 2012 (High School Students), Kocaeli, January 2012 ; Cryptology Summer School 2012 (High School Students), Kocaeli, June 2012; Cryptology Summer School 2013 (High School Students), Kocaeli, September 2013; Cryptology Summer School 2015 (High School Students), Kocaeli, September 2015; Cryptology Summer School 2016 (High School Students), Kocaeli, August 2016; Cryptology Summer School 2017 (High School Students), Kocaeli, August 2017; Cryptology Summer School 2018 (High School Students), Kocaeli, September 2018; Cryptology Summer School 2019 (High School Students), Kocaeli, July 2019.
Specialist & Instructor: Cryptology Winter School 2013 (High School Mathematics Teachers), Kocaeli, February 2013.
Monthly Problem/Puzzle Solver: IBM Research Ponder This (June 2011, August 2011, December 2012, April 2013, October 2013, December 2013, November 2015, January 2016, May 2017) ; Bilkent University Math Problem of the Month (February 2004, May 2006, September 2011, October 2013) ; Math Magic (November 2013)
Program Committee Member: Communications and Multimedia Security (CMS) 2012 , UK.
Program Committee Member: Communications and Multimedia Security (CMS) 2013 , Germany.
Program Committee Member: International Conference on Biometrics (ICB) 2013 , Spain.
Program Committee Member: Ubiquitous Security and Privacy Solutions @ EUSPN 2013 , Canada.
Organizational Committee Member & Speaker: Istanbul Biometrics Conference , May 2013, Istanbul.
Database Publisher: Fingerprint Manual Minutiae Marker (FM3) Databases , June 2013.
Speaker: "Biometric Systems: Security Considerations, Whole Hand Sensor Development & Fingerprint Processing", June 2013, Bogazici University , Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering .
Speaker: "Biometric Systems: Security Considerations, Whole Hand Sensor Development & Fingerprint Processing", July 2013, Gebze Institute of Technology , Department of Computer Engineering .
Program Committee Member: Workshop in Information Security Theory and Practice (WISTP) 2014 , Greece.
Speaker: "Biometric Systems: Security Considerations, Whole Hand Sensor Development & Fingerprint Processing", December 2013, Dogus University , Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering .
Speaker: "Biometric Systems: Security Considerations, Whole Hand Sensor Development & Fingerprint Processing", December 2013, Ozyegin University , Faculty of Engineering .
Program Committee Member: Communications and Multimedia Security (CMS) 2014 , Portugal.
Speaker: "Biometric Systems: Security Considerations, Whole Hand Sensor Development & Fingerprint Processing", April 2014, Istanbul Medipol University , Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences.
Program Committee Member: Security, Privacy and Trust @ EUSPN 2014 , Canada.
Program Committee Member: 9th WISTP International Conference on Information Security Theory and Practice 2015 , Greece.
Panelist: Biometrics Workshop, Cyber Security and Biometric Research Counseling and Testing Center, Yildiz Technical University, June 2015.
MSc Thesis Advisor: At Sehir University: K.N. Sevis, E.O. Sozeri, September 2015 - September 2016.
MSc Graduation Project Advisor: At Sehir University: M. Pesen (2015), H. Ocak (2015), S.H. Yildirim (2016).
Interviewee: Bogazici Dergisi, September 2015 (link).
Program Committee Member: 7th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies 2016 , Spain.
Panelist: 11. ILTEK Days, Yildiz Technical University, March 2016.
Advisor: Cyber Security and Biometric Research Counseling and Testing Center, Yildiz Technical University, March 2016 - present.
Instructor: International Children�s Festival, Kocaeli Science Center, April 2016.
Program Committee Member: 8th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies 2017 , Portugal.
Speaker: "Biometric Systems", February 2017, Maltepe University , Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, (photos).
Program Committee Member: 11th WISTP International Conference on Information Security Theory and Practice 2017, Greece.
Exhibitor: IDEF International Defense Industry Fair, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2017, (photos).
Program Committee Member: 9th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies 2018 , Portugal.
Program Committee Member: 12th WISTP International Conference on Information Security Theory and Practice 2018, Belgium.
Speaker: "Biometric Systems", March 2019, Istanbul Science and Art Center , Atasehir, Istanbul.
Speaker: "Digital Watermarking and Steganography", May 2019, Istanbul Science and Art Center , Atasehir, Istanbul.
Speaker: "FOTAS: Fiber Optic Based Acoustic Sensor System", TUBITAK-TCDD Collaboration Workshop, June 2019, Turkish Management Sciences Institute (TUSSIDE), Kocaeli.
Program Committee Member: 13th WISTP International Conference on Information Security Theory and Practice 2019, France.
Certificate of Training: Systems Engineering Fundamentals, PSConsultech (O. Ertekin), July 2019.
Program Committee Member: 11th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies 2020, Poland.
Author/Puzzlemaster: Cryptology Puzzle of the Month, TUBITAK Bilim Genc Website : 03.2020 , 04.2020 , 05.2020 , 06.2020 , 07.2020 , 08.2020 , 09.2020 , 10.2020 , 11.2020 , 12.2020 , 01.2021 , 02.2021 , 03.2021 , 04.2021 , 05.2021 , 06.2021 , 07.2021 , 08.2021 , 09.2021 , 10.2021 , 11.2021 , 12.2021 , 01.2022 , 02.2022 , 03.2022 , 04.2022 , 05.2022 , 06.2022 , 07.2022 , 08.2022 , 09.2022 , 10.2022 , 11.2022 , 12.2022 , 01.2023 , 02.2023 , 03.2023 , 04.2023 , March 2020 - present (in Turkish).
Interviewee: "Dr. Umut Uludag", BILGEM Technology Journal , September 2021.
Author/Puzzlemaster: BILGEM Puzzle Activity (22 Questions), TEKNOFEST 2021, Istanbul.
PhD Thesis Co-Advisor: "Fusion of Dynamic and Static Features in Signature Verification", M.S. Sadak, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, 2021 � 2022 (Thesis defense succesfully completed in Nov. 2022).
Rapporteur: Earthquake Technologies Working Group, Presidency of the Republic of T�rkiye, Science, Technology and Innovation Policies Council, August � December 2021.
Author/Puzzlemaster: BILGEM Puzzle Activity (21 Questions), BilimFest 2022, Antalya.
Speaker: "Digital Watermarking and Biometric Systems", June 2022, BILGEM TechTalks, Kocaeli.
Author/Puzzlemaster: BILGEM Puzzle Activity (42 Questions), TEKNOFEST 2022, Samsun.

Awards:

Biography included in: Marquis Who's Who in America, 60th Diamond Ed., 2006.
Success Award, TUBITAK, Marmara Research Center, 2005.
Best Student Paper, Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication Conference, 2005.
M.Sc. Honors, Bogazici University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2001.
B.Sc. Honors, Bogazici University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 1999.
University Scholarship, TUBITAK, The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, 1994-1995.

Internships:

Symbol Technologies, Holtsville, NY, USA, June 2005 - August 2005, worked on embedded fingerprint recognition.
Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, USA, May 2004 - August 2004, worked on smart-card based fingerprint recognition.
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, May 2003-August 2003, worked on multibiometrics system analysis and design.
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, USA, May 2002-August 2002, worked on biometrics workload analysis.
Nortel Networks-Netas A.S., Turkey, Summer 1998, worked on signaling in telecommunications networks & digital exchanges.
Turkish Telecommunications A.S., Turkey, Summer 1998 & 1997, worked on ISDN & SDL language of CCITT; PCM systems & DMS systems.

Links:

Biometrics: MSU, CSE Biometrics Research , Biometric Consortium , NIST-ITL , The Biometrics Catalog, CITeR, IBM ECVG , BioAPI Consortium , CBEFF , Yahoo! Groups: Biometrics , Sabanci University, Biometrics Research Group
Biometrics Competitions: FVC2004 , FVC2002 , FVC2000 , FRVT 2002
Watermarking: WatermarkingWorld, Multimedia & Security, Univ. Magdeburg
Conferences:
2002: ICPR 2002 , AutoID 2002 , PRIS 2002 , ICIP 2002 , EI 2002 , ICASSP 2002 , IH 2002 , 2. Intl. Conf. Development and Learning , ICVGIP 2002 , ACM MM 2002
2003: PRIS 2003 , ICIP 2003 , EI 2003 , ICASSP 2003 , CVPR 2003 , AVBPA 2003 , ICME 2003 , ICCV 2003 , ICANN/ICONIP 2003 , VCIP 2003 , MCS 2003 , EMMCVPR 2003 , BIOSIG 2003 , ICAPR 2003 , ICIAP 2003 , MMUA 2003 , ICMI-PUI 2003 , ACM MM 2003
2004: ICASSP 2004 , ICBA 2004 , ICPR 2004 , EUSIPCO 2004 , EI 2004 , PRIS 2004 , ICIP 2004 , ICVGIP 2004 , ICME 2004 , ECCV 2004 , SPIE-OR30 2004 , AAAI 2004 , ACCV 2004 , CVPR 2004 , ITCC-IAS 2004 , MMSP 2004 , BioAW 2004 , BCTP 2004 , ACM MM 2004
2005: ICASSP 2005 , ICIP 2005 , IJCAI 2005 , EUSIPCO 2005 , EI 2005 , CVPR 2005 , MVA 2005 , WACV 2005 , AVBPA 2005 , ICME 2005 , ICCV 2005 , PRIS 2005 , ACM MM&Security 2005 , ICAPR 2005 , IPC 2005 , IMSA 2005 , EMMCVPR 2005 , ICIAP 2005 , MLDM 2005 , MCS 2005 , IWBRS 2005
2006: ICPR 2006 , ICBA 2006 , ECCV 2006 , ACCV 2006 , ICIP 2006 , EUSIPCO 2006 , MRCS 2006 , CVPR 2006 , ICASSP 2006
2007: ICASSP 2007 , EUSIPCO 2007 , ICB 2007 , BSYM 2007 , CVPR 2007
2008: ICASSP 2008 , EUSIPCO 2008 , BSYM 2008 , ICPR 2008 , ECCV 2008 , ICIP 2008
2009: ICASSP 2009 , EUSIPCO 2009 , ICIP 2009 , ICB 2009 , CVPR 2009
2010: ICASSP 2010 , ICPR 2010 , ICIP 2010 , EuroForensics
2011: ICASSP 2011 , LightSec 2011 , ICME 2011 , EMEA Intelligence 2011 , CVPR 2011 , ICIP 2011 , IJCB 2011
2012: ICASSP 2012 , ICME 2012 , CVPR 2012 , ICIP 2012 , ICB 2012 , ICPR 2012 , WIFS 2012 , BTAS 2012
2013: ICASSP 2013 , ICME 2013 , CVPR 2013 , ICIP 2013 , ICB 2013 , MVA 2013 , EUSIPCO 2013 , BTAS 2013 , BIOSIG 2013 , Biometrics Workshop @ CVPR 2013
2014: ICPR 2014 , CVPR 2014 , IJCB 2014 , ICASSP 2014 , ICME 2014 , ICIP 2014 , EUSIPCO 2014 , BIOSIG 2014
2015: EUSIPCO 2015 , INTERSPEECH 2015 , GCPR 2015 , ACPR 2015 , ICB 2015 , CVPR 2015 , BIOSIG 2015 , ICASSP 2015 , ICME 2015 , ICIP 2015
2016: EUSIPCO 2016 , INTERSPEECH 2016 , GCPR 2016 , ICB 2016 , CVPR 2016 , BIOSIG 2016 , ICASSP 2016 , ICME 2016 , ICIP 2016
2017: EUSIPCO 2017 , INTERSPEECH 2017 , IJCB 2017 , CVPR 2017 , ICASSP 2017 , ICME 2017 , ICIP 2017
2018: EUSIPCO 2018 , INTERSPEECH 2018 , ICB 2018 , CVPR 2018 , ICASSP 2018 , ICME 2018 , ICIP 2018
2019: EUSIPCO 2019 , INTERSPEECH 2019 , ICB 2019 , CVPR 2019 , ICASSP 2019 , ICME 2019 , ICIP 2019
Conference Lists: IAPR Sponsored Conferences , Computer Vision Conferences List at USC , IACR Calendar of Events in Cryptology
Academic Journals: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence , Pattern Recognition , Pattern Recognition Letters , IEEE Transactions on Image Processing , IEEE Transactions on Multimedia , IEEE Computer , Communications of the ACM , IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine , IEEE Multimedia , IEEE Software , Proceedings of the IEEE
Academic Societies: IEEE , ACM , IAPR , SPIE , ASA , SIAM , AMS , TASSA
Databases: NIST Fingerprint Databases , FERET , NLPR Iris Database , USC-SIPI Database , UCI-ML Repository , CMU-CIL Links
Search: ResearchIndex , Google , IEEE Xplore , IEEE CS DL , ACM DL , CSB , DBLP , CompuScience , Scirus , HomePageSearch
MSU: CSE , College of Engineering , MSU Today Online , MSU Libraries , MSU Spartans Official Athletic Site , MSU IM Sports
UNM: CS , ECE , School of Engineering , UNM Libraries , Athletics
BU: EE , BUSIM , CmpE , Library
TUBITAK: TUBITAK , NRIEC , Bilim ve Teknik Dergisi , Populer Bilim Kitaplari , VIZYON 2023
Biographies: Prof. Cahit Arf , Prof. Masatoshi Gunduz Ikeda
Integer Sequences: OEIS , OEIS Wiki , OEIS WebCam
US Research: NSF , NIST
EU Research: FP7 , FP7-NCO
Michigan: Michigan.org
New Mexico: City of Albuquerque, University of New Mexico, NM Tourism Department
Weather: Lansing, Albuquerque, Istanbul
Photography: Photography Review
Formula 1: FIA Web site , F1-Live
Football: UEFA Champions League , FIFA 2002 , EURO 2004 , FIFA 2006 , EURO 2008 , FIFA 2010
Umut: http://www.umutuludag.com , http://tr.linkedin.com/pub/umut-uludag/10/388/b97 , Umut @ Google Scholar
Yesim: CNM , Yeditepe University

Hobbies:

Photography
Playing classical guitar
Formula 1
Football

Colorful Stuff:

Caricatures, books, poems, games, puzzles ...

Contact Information:

E-mail: umut.uludag@tubitak.gov.tr
uludagum@yahoo.com
T: +90-262-648-1713
Web: http://www.umutuludag.com
Address: TUBITAK-BILGEM-UEKAE, P.O. Box: 74, 41470, Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey