Ceren Kocaoğullar

King's College, University of Cambridge

I'm a final-year PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Prof. Alastair Beresford. My research focuses on using cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies to improve trust in confidential communication, computation, and machine learning systems.

Prior to my PhD, I earned an MPhil in Advanced Computer Science, also from Cambridge and under Prof. Beresford's supervision. You can view my MPhil dissertation.

Contact me: ceren.kocaogullar@cl.cam.ac.uk

Experience

• AWS Research | New York City, NY, USA | 2024 (4 months):
  Protecting training and inference data through format-preserving encryption.
• Google Research / DeepMind | London, UK | 2023 (8 months):
  Reducing user trust requirements in confidential machine learning platforms.
• Google SWE | London, UK | 2022 (3 months):
  Benchmarking Android test clustering systems.
• ARM Research | Cambridge, UK | 2022 (3 months):
  Implementing peer-to-peer attestation for distributed Confidential Computing systems.
• Imperial College London with Ben Livshits | London, UK | 2021 (3 months):
  Blockchain privacy research.

Publications

• Pudding: Private User Discovery in Anonymity Networks (2024). First author, IEEE Security and Privacy (Oakland). arXiv | IEEE
• A Confidential Computing Framework for a Comprehensive Trust Chain (2024). First author, arXiv preprint. arXiv
• Choosing Your Friends: Shaping Ethical Use of Anonymity Networks (2023). International Workshop on Security Protocols (SPW). Springer
• Towards Private On-Chain Algorithmic Trading (2021). First author, arXiv preprint. arXiv
• LogDoS: A Novel Logging-based DDoS Prevention Mechanism in PID-Based Information Centric Networks (2020). Computers & Security. IEEE | arXiv