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

Open Positions

I am looking for 1-2 PhD students to start in Fall 2020. Strong mathematical background is required and strong computer programming skills is a big plus.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to statistical learning, network and data science, and privacy. Please contact me if you are interested.