Bülent Yener


Bulent Yener is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering, and the founding Director of Data Science Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.
Before joining RPI, he was a Member of the Technical Staff at the Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey.
Yener received his MS. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, both from Columbia University, in 1987 and 1994, respectively. His Ph.D. advisers were Terrance E. Boult and Moti Yung.
Yener has worked primarily on:
His work in various domains has followed the pattern of problem modeling, data analysis, followed by optimization, with the goal of reaching new
insights into traditional subjects by employing combinatorics and machine learning techniques. For example, Yener has developed the "cell-graphs" approach to model and interpret structure-function relationships which is widely applied in digital pathology area; he also developed cryptographic key pre-distribution system from Combinatorial design and BIBD in particular.
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Dr. Yener was a Marie Curie Fellow 2009-2010.
In 2015 he was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for contributions to network design optimization and security.
WWW cs.rpi.edu/~yener

Selected publications

  • 2020: "Adaptive Sketching for Fast and Convergent Canonical Polyadic Decomposition.", ICML 2020: 3566-3575
  • 2019: "Cybersecurity in the Era of Data Science: Examining New Adversarial Models.", IEEE Secur. Priv. 17: 46-53
  • 2018: "Accelerating a Distributed CPD Algorithm for Large Dense, Skewed Tensors.", IEEE BigData 2018: 408-417
  • 2016: "Prediction of Growth Factor-Dependent Cleft Formation During Branching Morphogenesis Using A Dynamic Graph-Based Growth Model.", IEEE ACM Trans. Comput. Biol. Bioinform. 13: 350-364
  • 2016: "A Formal Framework for Environmentally Sensitive Malware.", RAID 2016: 211-229
  • 2013: "Biologically-driven cell-graphs for breast tissue grading.", ISBI 2013: 137-140
  • 2012: "Effective graph classification based on topological and label attributes.", Stat. Anal. Data Min. 5: 265-283
  • 2011: "On passive inference attacks against physical-layer key extraction.", EUROSEC 2011: 8
  • 2009: "Privacy-Preserving Information Markets for Computing Statistical Data.", Financial Cryptography 2009: 32-50
  • 2007: "Robust key generation from signal envelopes in wireless networks.", ACM's CCS 2007: 401-410
  • 2004: "Combinatorial Design of Key Distribution Mechanisms for Wireless Sensor Networks., ESORICS 2004: 293-308
  • 2001: "Provisioning a virtual private network: a network design problem for multicommodity flow.", STOC 2001: 389-398