Faculty & Staff Directory
Hamdi Kavak
- Assistant Professor
- Center for Social Complexity
Contact Info
- Name
- Dr. Hamdi Kavak
- Job Title
- Assistant ProfessorCenter for Social Complexity
- Website
- Phone Number
- Office Number
- Research Hall, Room 373, MSN 6A12Fridays 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Affiliations
Departments
- Computational & Data Sciences Department (Research Faculty)
- Computational & Data Sciences Department (Instructional Faculty)
Centers
- Center for Social Complexity
Research Areas
- Cybersecurity
- Data Sciences
- Geoinformation Science
- Modeling
- Simulation
Education
- Ph.D. in Modeling and Simulation, Old Dominion University, Virginia, 2019
- M.E. in Modeling and Simulation, Old Dominion University, Virginia, 2015
- B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey, 2008
About
I am an Assistant Professor at the Computational and Data Sciences department at George Mason University (GMU). I design data-driven computational models to tackle domain-specific problems in cybersecurity and urban systems. My primary research tools are modeling and simulation, machine/statistical learning, and network science or some combination of those.
I am currently working on a research project to investigate the relationship between cyber security threats and conflicts between nations. In addition to that, I am teaching CDS 230 - Modeling and Simulation I.
Current Research
I am currently working on a research project to investigate the relationship between cyber security threats and conflicts between nations. This research is conducted with cybersecurity and political science experts from the SUNY University at Albany.
I am affiliated with the Center for Social Complexity https://socialcomplexity.gmu.edu.
Teaching Focus
My research expertise heavily involves using data-driven methods to uncover real world problems of cybersecurity and urban systems. I am interested in teaching technique-related courses such as modeling and simulation and statistical modeling; and methodological courses such as engineering design.
Currently teaching: CDS 230 - Modeling and Simulation I.
Selected Publications
1. Temporal and Spatiotemporal Investigation of Tourist Attraction Visit Sentiment on Twitter
J.J. Padilla, H. Kavak, C.J. Lynch, S.Y. Diallo, R.J. Gore,
PLOS One, 2018, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0198857
2. Fine-Scale Prediction of People's Home Location using Social Media Footprints H. Kavak, Vernon-Bido and J.J. Padilla
SBP-BRIMS Conference 2018, Washington, DC, July 10-13, 2018 http://hamdikavak.com/download/home_location_prediction_sbp18.pdf
3. Big Data, Agents, and Machine Learning: towards A Data-Driven Agent-based Modeling Approach
H. Kavak, J.J. Padilla, C.J. Lynch, and S.Y. Diallo
51st Annual Simulation Symposium, Baltimore, MD, April 15-18, 2018, doi: 10.22360/SpringSim.2018.ANSS.021
4. The Spread of Wi-Fi Router Malware Revisited
H. Kavak, J.J. Padilla, D. Vernon-Bido, R.J. Gore, and S.Y. Diallo
20th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium, Virginia Beach, VA, April 23-26, 2017 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316527645_The_Spread_of_Wi-Fi_Router_Malware_Revisited
Awards
1. Best vision paper runner-up at 16th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (2019)
2. Best poster presentation at Spring Simulation Conference (2016)
Contact Info
- Name
- Dr. Hamdi Kavak
- Job Title
- Assistant ProfessorCenter for Social Complexity
- Website
- Phone Number
- Office Number
- Research Hall, Room 373, MSN 6A12Fridays 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.