Binghamton University student receives Graduate Excellence Award

BINGHAMTON, NY (04/01/2014)(readMedia)-- Each year, Binghamton University recognizes research excellence by graduate students with a set of awards designed to recognize the wide variety of approaches to the advancement of knowledge on the Binghamton campus and the important role played by graduate students in research at the University.

Mehmet Kayaalp from Vestal, NY has recently received a Graduate Student Excellence in Research award from Binghamton University, State University of New York:

Mehmet Kayaalp has made significant contributions to the field of architectural and hardware support for computer security, Specifically, he proposed two hardware-based techniques for protecting computer systems against an emerging class of code reuse attacks. He is the lead author on 10 publications in the most selective and prestigious journals and co-author on two more. He has also given four conference and seminar presentations. He has served as a journal and conference review for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Transactions on Computers, International Symposium on Computer Architecture and International Conference on Computer Design. For the past three-and-a-half years, he has been a research assistant on National Science Foundation- and Air Force-funded research projects. His nominator writes that he is a talented researcher whose study of attacks against computer systems will have a long-term impact and "the quality of the work and the significance of his contributions are remarkable."

Binghamton University is one of the four university centers of the State University of New York. Known for the excellence of its students, faculty, staff and programs, Binghamton enrolls close to 15,000 students in programs leading to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. Its curriculum, founded in the liberal arts, has expanded to include selected professional and graduate programs.