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Cybersecurity researcher · CyberMACS scholar

I build and defend systems that don't fail quietly.

Cybersecurity researcher and incoming Erasmus Mundus Scholar (MSc in Applied Cybersecurity) with hands-on experience in network administration, system deployment, and threat discovery. I run critical IT infrastructure and software rollouts under high-pressure conditions and focus on Zero Trust, Cloud Security, and SASE.

01 — Focus
  1. 01

    Threat hunting & forensics

    Memory forensics on Volatility3, OSINT-driven threat discovery, anomaly detection on SCADA testbeds and power distribution networks.

  2. 02

    Applied AI & agents

    Agentic AI, retrieval-augmented generation, ETL and time-series pipelines for energy, sports analytics, and BCI signal processing.

  3. 03

    Infrastructure

    Linux administration on Debian and Red Hat, Docker and Kubernetes, QEMU+KVM virtualization, GPU-accelerated research clusters.

02 — Stack

Security

5 items
  • Threat Hunting
  • Memory Forensics
  • OSINT Analysis
  • Anomaly Detection
  • Network Security

AI & Data

6 items
  • Agentic AI
  • RAG
  • ETL Pipelines
  • Time-Series Analysis
  • NLP
  • Predictive Modeling

Infrastructure

5 items
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • QEMU + KVM
  • Linux (Debian, Red Hat)
  • Network Administration

Tooling

5 items
  • Python
  • Shell Scripting
  • Git
  • LaTeX
  • Microsoft Office
03 — Selected work
№ 01

09/2024 — Present

EnerjiVeri — 100 Years of Turkish Energy Data

TUBITAK 1001 — Sole web developer for the national strategic project (No. 323K520)

Problem.A century of national energy production, consumption, and policy data sat fragmented across CSVs and PDFs, unusable for evidence-based policy analysis.

Approach.Built a dynamic Turkish-language data portal consolidating 100 years of quantitative and qualitative energy data with time-series charts, sectoral distribution models, and interactive dashboards.

Result.Live national portal used by researchers and policy stakeholders under the project "Energy Strategies in the Second Century of the Republic".

Stack

  • Python
  • Data Visualization
  • Time-Series
  • Web Portal
  • ETL
№ 02

2024 — 2025

Tune2Travel — Music Videos & Destination Marketing

TUBITAK 1001 — Data infrastructure & NLP pipeline

Problem.Quantifying how music videos shape tourism perception requires large-scale, multi-language social media data plus cultural NLP processing.

Approach.Engineered the data infrastructure: YouTube API ingestion, ETL pipelines, NLP and ML models surfacing cultural and sociological signals about destination marketing on social platforms.

Result.National research project deliverable enabling marketing & sociology researchers to query patterns across thousands of cross-language music videos.

Stack

  • Python
  • NLP
  • spaCy
  • Gensim
  • YouTube API
  • ETL
  • Selenium
№ 03

2025 — 2026

Unsupervised Memory Forensics Triage

Volatility3 + Isolation Forest for fileless malware

Problem.Zero-day and fileless malware evade signature-based detection and overwhelm analysts with raw memory artefacts.

Approach.Designed an automated memory forensics triage system on top of Volatility3 with unsupervised ML (Isolation Forest) over behavioural and graph-theoretic features to surface anomalous processes.

Result.Manuscript under review (Texas, USA). Co-authored with H. Coskun and R. Creutzburg.

Stack

  • Volatility3
  • Memory Forensics
  • Isolation Forest
  • Graph Analysis
  • Python
04 — Recent papers
  1. 2026

    A Bibliometric & Neurobiological Synthesis of the Brainrot Phenomenon

    Özgenç, G., Biricik, M.

    In preparation
  2. 2026

    Visualizing Process Anomalies in Memory Forensics: An Unsupervised Triage System

    Coskun, H., Biricik, M., Creutzburg, R.

    Under review
  3. 2026

    Asynchronous EEG-BCI via Change Point Detection Algorithms

    Biricik, M., Ballı, T., Yetkin, E. F.

    Ready
  4. 2025
    Published · IEEE UPEC 2025

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