Osman Yağan

Osman Yağan Associate Research Professor CIT Dean's Early Career Fellow Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering & CyLab Carnegie Mellon University email: oyagan@ece.cmu.edu office: HH A302 phone: 412-268-3976 web: http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~oyagan

Research Interests

• Network Science

  • Contagion processes (e.g., information/influence propagation, epidemic spread) in multi-layer and multiplex networks

  • Detection and mitigation of spread of misinformation

  • Social network modeling

• Cyber-Physical Systems, Internet of Things, and Ad-hoc Networks

  • Robustness and optimal design of interdependent cyber-physical systems

  • Applications of random graphs and stochastic geometry

  • Cybersecurity

  • Low-power wireless communications

• Machine Learning and Data Science

  • Privacy-preserving learning algorithms

  • Active Distribution Estimation and Testing

  • Multi-armed Bandits

Grants & Awards

• Carnegie Bosch Institute: Privacy-Preserving Inference and Decision-Making with IoT Data, PI: O. Yağan, Co-PI: G. Joshi, Amount: $125,000, Duration: 1/2019—1/2020.

• CyLab@IoT: Privacy-Preserving Learning with IoT Data, PI: G. Joshi, Co-PI: O. Yağan, Amount: $75,000, Duration: 3/2019—3/2020.

• National Science Foundation (NSF): CIF: Contagion Processes in Multi-layer and Multiplex Networks, PI: O. Yağan, Amount: $500,000, Duration: 10/2018—09/2021.

• National Science Foundation (NSF): CIF: EAGER: Statistical Inference and Decision-Making With Sequential Samples, PI: O. Yağan, Co-PI: G. Joshi, Amount: $100,527, Duration: 08/2018—07/2019.

• Siebel Energy Institute: Privacy-Preserving Data Analytics in Cloud-Based Cyber-Physical Systems, PI: G. Joshi, Co-PI: O. Yağan, Amount: $50,000, Duration: 10/2018—04/2019.

• CyLab Seed Fund: Detection and Mitigation of Spread of Fake News, PI: O. Yağan, Co-PI: S. Kumar, Amount: $125,000, Duration: 9/2018—08/2019.

• Richard King Mellon Foundation-Manufacturing Futures Initiative: Data-driven Fault Detection and Prediction in Advanced Manufacturing Systems, PI: G. Joshi, Co-PIs: O. Yağan and B. Ozdoganlar, Amount: $170,000, Duration: 8/2018—09/2019.

• CIT Dean's Early Career Fellowship, 2018-2021

• Army Research Office (ARO): Network Science: Data–driven Modeling of Information Propagation in Multi-layer and Multiplex Networks (Grant # W911NF-17-1-0587), PI: O. Yağan, Co-PI: V. Poor (Princeton University), Amount: $420,000, Duration: 09/2017—09/2020.

• National Science Foundation (NSF): CIF: Designing Secure, Reliable, and Resilient Wireless Sensor Networks, PI: O. Yağan, Co-PI: V. Gligor, Amount: $500,000, Duration: 07/2016—06/2020.

• National Science Foundation (NSF): NeTS: CIF: Robust and Optimal Design of Interdependent Networks, PI: O. Yağan, Amount: $467,000, Duration: 08/2014—07/2018.

• Department of Energy (DoE): Developing an Open Source, Scalable Distributed Energy Resource Management System (sub-contract through SLAC), PI: O. Yağan, Amount: $80,000.

• Persistent Sytems, Inc., Gift Funding, Amount: $50,000.

• Berkman Faculty Development Grant, CMU - Information and Influence Propagation in Multi-layer Networks: Modeling, Analysis, and Control, Amount: $6,000.