Emrah Akyol

Emrah Akyol is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Binghamton University (SUNY). He joined in 2017 after postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and the University of Southern California (USC). He holds a PhD from UC Santa Barbara (2011) and prior industry experience at HP and NTT Docomo.

Education:

• PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Santa Barbara (2011)
• Postdoctoral Researcher at USC (2013–2014) and UIUC (2014–2017)

Research: Focuses on game theory, control systems, and secure cyber-physical systems. Key areas include strategic communication, opinion dynamics in social networks, and stealthy attacks in multi-agent systems. Recent work addresses bounded rationality in data gathering and network topology inference.

Awards: NSF Career Award (communication over human networks), Binghamton's Interdisciplinary Collaboration Award (with Economics/Political Science), and CoCo Seed Grant (CPS security).

Advising & Grants: Supervised PhD/Master’s students Anju Anand, Xilin Zhang, and Griffin Rule (recipient of ECE MS Research Award). Active grants include NSF Career and CoCo Seed.

Labs/Teams: Leads research on secure cyber-physical systems and game theory applications. Collaborates with UIUC and organizes conferences like DSAA’20.