Hakan Seyalioglu
Director of Technical Investigations DC
I received my Ph.D. in Mathematics from UCLA as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. Prior to that, I graduated summa cum laude with Highest Honors with a B.S. in Mathematics from William & Mary. I am currently the Director of Technical Investigations at Edelson PC.
Favorite Game
Disco Elysium
Favorite Animal
Mole Rat
Favorite Legal Show
Community S03E17
Cups of Coffee
3
Curriculum Vitae
HAKAN SEYALIOGLU is the Director of Technical Investigations at Edelson PC, where his work focuses on technology, data, and consumer protection.
Prior to joining the firm, Hakan served as Senior Technologist to the Enforcement Director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where he supervised a team of cross-disciplinary technologists working on investigations and litigation across all sectors under the Bureau’s authority, including payments, mortgages, banking, credit, and service providers to those covered entities. Before his time at the CFPB, Hakan was a Policy Advisor to Senator Ben Ray Luján, covering issues such as technology, telecommunications, consumer protection, banking, housing, intelligence, and animal welfare.
Before moving to Washington, DC, Hakan was a technical lead and manager on multiple projects at Google. He was part of the Video Inventory Analytics team at YouTube, which used Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to classify millions of videos daily, as well as the Android Framework and Google Play teams, which deploy tools for mobile development across the world.
- “Designing Game-Based Rehabilitation Experiences for People with Aphasia,” K Hymes, J Hammer, H Seyalioglu, C Dow-Richards, D Brown, T Hambridge, J Ventrice, M Baker, Y Julian Kim, T Hutchings, W S. Evans, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 5, Issue, CHI PLAY 2021
- “Dynamic credentials and ciphertext delegation for attribute-based encryption,” A Sahai, H Seyalioglu, B Waters, Advances in Cryptology, CRYPTO 2012
- “Identifying cheaters without an honest majority,” Y Ishai, R Ostrovsky, H Seyalioglu, Theory of Cryptography: 9th Theory of Cryptography Conference, TCC 2012
- “Worry-free encryption: functional encryption with public keys,” A Sahai, H Seyalioglu Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer and communications, CCS 2010
- “Fully secure accountable-authority identity-based encryption,” A Sahai, H Seyalioglu, International Workshop on Public Key Cryptography, 2011
- “On common invariant cones for families of matrices,” L Rodman, H Seyalioglu, IM Spitkovsky, Linear algebra and its applications, 2010
- “The Goldston-Pintz-Yıldırım sieve and maximal gaps,” H Seyalioglu, Acta Arithmetica 2009
- “On tweaking luby-rackoff blockciphers,” D Goldenberg, S Hohenberger, M Liskov, EC Schwartz, H Seyalioglu, Advances in Cryptology, ASIACRYPT 2007