Onur Günlü
Senior Associate Visiting Professor, Docent
Onur's current research focuses on distributed function computation, privacy for machine learning, information-theoretic security, coding theory, biometric and hardware-intrinsic security, etc.
Publication list
Recent preprints
2026
Ruiqi Liu, Beixiong Zheng, Jemin Lee, Si-Hyeon Lee, Georges Kaddoum, Onur Günlü, Deniz Gündüz, Secure Communications, Sensing, and Computing Towards Next-Generation Networks (2026) 
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.19942
2025
Asaf Cohen, Onur Günlü, Secure Best Arm Identification in the Presence of a Copycat (2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18975
Daniel Seifert, Onur Günlü, Rafael F. Schaefer, Forward-Forward Autoencoder Architectures for Energy-Efficient Wireless Communications (2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11418
Didrik Bergström, Deniz Gündüz, Onur Günlü, Multi-hop Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding with Deep Hash Distillation for Semantically Aligned Image Recovery (2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06868
Maciej Skorski, Francisco-Javier Soto, Onur Günlü, Exact Bias of Linear TRNG Correctors – Spectral Approach (2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26393
Muhammad Umar Farooq Qaisar, Weijie Yuan, Onur Günlü, Taneli Riihonen, Yuanhao Cui, Lin Zhang, Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic, Marco Di Renzo, Zhu Han, The Role of ISAC in 6G Networks: Enabling Next-Generation Wireless Systems (2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04413
Musa Furkan Keskin, Muralikrishnan Srinivasan, Onur Gunlu, Hui Chen, Panagiotis Papadimitratos, Magnus Almgren, Zhongxia Simon He, Henk Wymeersch, Multi-Domain Security for 6G ISAC: Challenges and Opportunities in Transportation (2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16316
Shanuja Sasi, Onur Günlü, Communication-Efficient Distributed Computing Through Combinatorial Multi-Access Models (2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05426
Shanuja Sasi, Onur Günlü, Novel Constructions for Computation and Communication Trade-offs in Private Coded Distributed Computing (2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17195
Yingyao Zhou, Natasha Devroye, Onur Günlü, Feedback Lunch: Deep Feedback Codes for Wiretap Channels (2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.16620
Journal papers
Onur Günlü, Maciej Skorski, H. Vincent Poor, 
Low-Latency Realism Through Randomized Distributed Function Computations: A Shannon Theoretic Approach, Entropy 28:86 (2026) 
https://doi.org/10.3390/e28010086
Shanuja Sasi, Onur Günlü, Novel Constructions for Computation and Communication Trade-Offs in Private Coded Distributed Computing, IEEE Transactions on Communications 74:971-986 (2026) https://doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2025.3631533
Martin Mittelbach, Rafael F. Schaefer, Matthieu Bloch, Aylin Yener, Onur Günlü, Sensing-Assisted Secure Communications over Correlated Rayleigh Fading Channels, Entropy 27:225 (2025) https://doi.org/10.3390/e27030225
Shanuja Sasi, Onur Günlü, Secure Coded Distributed Computing and Extensions to Multiple Access Setting, IEEE Transactions on Communications 73:10961-10975 (2025) https://doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2025.3569733
Shanuja Sasi, Onur Günlü, B. Sundar Rajan, Topologies for Multi-Access Distributed Computing Models, IEEE Internet of Things Journal 12:46708-46722 (2025) https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2025.3612732
Yuchen Liu, Onur Günlü, Yuanming Shi, Youlong Wu, Utility-Leakage Trade-Off for Federated Representation Learning, Entropy 27:1163 (2025) https://doi.org/10.3390/e27111163
Yuzhou Gu, Ziqi Zhou, Onur Günlü, Rafael G. L. D’Oliveira, Parastoo Sadeghi, Muriel Médard, Rafael F. Schaefer, Generalized Rainbow Differential Privacy, Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality 14 (2024) https://doi.org/10.29012/jpc.896
Onur Günlü, Matthieu R. Bloch, Rafael F. Schaefer, Aylin Yener, Secure Integrated Sensing and Communication, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory 4:40-53 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1109/jsait.2023.3275048
Onur Günlü, Rafael F. Schaefer, H. Vincent Poor, Quality of Security Guarantees for and with Physical Unclonable Functions and Biometric Secrecy Systems, Entropy 25:1243 (2023) https://doi.org/10.3390/e25081243
Onur Günlü, Rafael F. Schaefer, Holger Boche, H. Vincent Poor, Information Theoretic Methods for Future Communication Systems, Entropy 25:392 (2023) https://doi.org/10.3390/e25030392
Onur Günlü, Rafael F. Schaefer, Holger Boche, H. Vincent Poor, Secure and Private Distributed Source Coding With Private Keys and Decoder Side Information, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 18:3803-3816 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1109/TIFS.2023.3286285
Onur Günlü, Matthieu Bloch, Rafael F. Schaefer, Private Remote Sources for Secure Multi-Function Computation, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 68:6826-6841 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1109/tit.2022.3182416
Onur Günlü, Rafael F. Schaefer, Holger Boche, Harold Vincent Poor, Private Key and Decoder Side Information for Secure and Private Source Coding, Entropy 24:1716 (2022) https://doi.org/10.3390/e24121716
Onur Günlü, Tasnad Kernetzky, Onurcan İşcan, Vladimir Sidorenko, Gerhard Kramer, Rafael F. Schaefer, Secure and Reliable Key Agreement with Physical Unclonable Functions, MDPI Entropy Journal 20 (2018) 340:1-340:19 (2020) https://doi.org/10.3390/e20050340 https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11687
Onur Günlü, Rafael F. Schaefer, Gerhard Kramer, Private Authentication with Physical Identifiers Through Broadcast Channel Measurements, IEEE Information Theory Workshop (2019) 1-5 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1109/ITW44776.2019.8989327 https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.01081
Onur Günlü, Kittipong Kittichokechai, Rafael F. Schaefer, Giuseppe Caire, Controllable Identifier Measurements for Private Authentication with Secret Keys, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 13, no. 8, pp. 1945-1959 (Aug (2018) https://doi.org/10.1109/TIFS.2018.2806937 https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01430
Conference papers
2025
Onur Günlü, Maciej Skorski, H. Vincent Poor, Low-Latency Rate-Distortion-Perception Trade-off: A Randomized Distributed Function Computation Application, 2025 JOINT EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON NETWORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS & 6G SUMMIT, EUCNC/6G SUMMIT, European Conference on Networks and Communications, pp. 560-565, IEEE (2025) https://doi.org/10.1109/EUCNC/6GSUMMIT63408.2025.11037206
2024
Onur Günlü, Randomized Distributed Function Computation with Semantic Communications: Applications to Privacy, 2024 IEEE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY, WIFS 2024, IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE (2024) https://doi.org/10.1109/WIFS61860.2024.10810724
Onur Günlü, Matthieu Bloch, Rafael F. Schaefer, Aylin Yener, Nonasymptotic Performance Limits of Low-Latency Secure Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems, ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 12971-12975, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2024) https://doi.org/10.1109/icassp48485.2024.10448166
Shanuja Sasi, Onur Günlü, Rate-Limited Shuffling for Distributed Computing, 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, pp. 2778-2783, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2024) https://doi.org/10.1109/isit57864.2024.10619554
Shanuja Sasi, Onur Günlü, Secure Coded Distributed Computing, 2024 IEEE 25th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), pp. 811-815, IEEE (2024) https://doi.org/10.1109/spawc60668.2024.10694545
Shanuja Sasi, Onur Günlü, B. Sundar Rajan, Multi-access Distributed Computing Models using Map-Reduce Arrays, 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, pp. 1355-1360, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2024) https://doi.org/10.1109/isit57864.2024.10619355
Truman Welling, Onur Günlü, Aylin Yener, Low-latency Secure Integrated Sensing and Communication with Transmitter Actions, 2024 IEEE 25th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), pp. 351-355, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2024) https://doi.org/10.1109/spawc60668.2024.10694269
Truman Welling, Onur Günlü, Aylin Yener, Transmitter Actions for Secure Integrated Sensing and Communication, 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, pp. 2580-2585, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2024) https://doi.org/10.1109/isit57864.2024.10619448 https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13635
2023
Onur Günlü, Matthieu Bloch, Rafael F. Schaefer, Aylin Yener, Secure Integrated Sensing and Communication for Binary Input Additive White Gaussian Noise Channels, 2023 IEEE 3RD INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON JOINT COMMUNICATIONS & SENSING, JC&S, IEEE (2023) https://doi.org/10.1109/JCS57290.2023.10107461
Onur Günlü, Rick Fritschek, Rafael F. Schaefer, Concatenated Classic and Neural (CCN) Codes: ConcatenatedAE, 2023 IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING CONFERENCE, WCNC, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, IEEE (2023) https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC55385.2023.10118867
2022
Onur Günlü, Rafael F. Schaefer, Holger Boche, H. Vincent Poor, Secure and Private Source Coding with Private Key and Decoder Side Information, 2022 IEEE INFORMATION THEORY WORKSHOP (ITW), Information Theory Workshop, pp. 226-231, IEEE (2022) https://doi.org/10.1109/ITW54588.2022.9965840
Muah Kim, Onur Günlü, Rafael F. Schaefer, Effects of Quantization on Federated Learning with Local Differential Privacy, 2022 IEEE GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE (GLOBECOM 2022), IEEE Global Communications Conference, pp. 921-926, IEEE (2022) https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOBECOM48099.2022.10000632
Preprints
2024
Daniel Seifert, Onur Günlü, Rafael F. Schaefer, Modular Neural Wiretap Codes for Fading Channels (2024) https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08786
Martin Mittelbach, Rafael F. Schaefer, Matthieu Bloch, Aylin Yener, Onur Günlü, Secure Integrated Sensing and Communication Under Correlated Rayleigh Fading (2024) https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.17050
Shanuja Sasi, Onur Günlü, B. Sundar Rajan, Multi-access Distributed Computing Models from Map-Reduce Arrays (2024) https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16140
Shanuja Sasi, Onur Günlü, Rate-limited Shuffling for Distributed Computing (2024) https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01296
Shanuja Sasi, Onur Günlü, Secure Coded Distributed Computing (2024) https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16431
Truman Welling, Onur Günlü, Aylin Yener, Low-latency Secure Integrated Sensing and Communication with Transmitter Actions (2024) https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04619
2023
Onur Günlü, Matthieu R. Bloch, Rafael F. Schaefer, Aylin Yener, Secure Integrated Sensing and Communication (2023) https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11350
Yuzhou Gu, Ziqi Zhou, Onur Günlü, Rafael G. L. D’Oliveira, Parastoo Sadeghi, Muriel Médard, Rafael F. Schaefer, Generalized Rainbow Differential Privacy (2023) https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05871
2022
Onur Günlü, Function Computation Under Privacy, Secrecy, Distortion, and Communication Constraints (2022) https://doi.org/10.3390/e24010110 https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03948
Onur Günlü, Matthieu Bloch, Rafael F. Schaefer, Aylin Yener, Secure Joint Communication and Sensing (2022) https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.10790
Onur Günlü, Rafael F. Schaefer, Holger Boche, H. Vincent Poor, Secure and Private Source Coding with Private Key and Decoder Side Information (2022) https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.05068
Onur Günlü, Rick Fritschek, Rafael F. Schaefer, Concatenated Classic and Neural (CCN) Codes: ConcatenatedAE (2022) https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.01701
Ziqi Zhou, Onur Günlü, Rafael G. L. D’Oliveira, Muriel Médard, Parastoo Sadeghi, Rafael F. Schaefer, Rainbow Differential Privacy (2022) https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.03974
2021
Onur Günlü, Joerg Kliewer, Rafael F. Schaefer, Vladimir Sidorenko, Doubly-Exponential Identification via Channels: Code Constructions and Bounds (2021) https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.13495
Onur Günlü, Matthieu Bloch, Rafael F. Schaefer, Secure Multi-Function Computation with Private Remote Sources (2021) https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09485
Onur Günlü, Rafael F. Schaefer, H. Vincent Poor, Quality of Service Guarantees for Physical Unclonable Functions (2021) https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.05675
Onur Günlü, Ueli Maurer, João Ribeiro, Effects of Quantization on the Multiple-Round Secret-Key Capacity (2021) https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.01350
Muah Kim, Onur Günlü, Rafael F. Schaefer, Federated Learning with Local Differential Privacy: Trade-offs between Privacy, Utility, and Communication (2021) https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.04737
Rebekka Schulz, Onur Günlü, Robert Elschner, Rafael F. Schaefer, Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst, Colja Schubert, Robert F. H. Fischer, Semantic Security for Indoor THz-Wireless Communication (2021) https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09840
Vladimir Sidorenko, Wenhui Li, Onur Günlü, Gerhard Kramer, On Skew Convolutional and Trellis Codes (2021) https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01510
2020
Onur Günlü, Multi-Entity and Multi-Enrollment Key Agreement with Correlated Noise (2020) https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08210
Onur Günlü, Peter Trifonov, Muah Kim, Rafael F. Schaefer, Vladimir Sidorenko, Randomized Nested Polar Subcode Constructions for Privacy, Secrecy, and Storage (2020) https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12091
Onur Günlü, Rafael F. Schaefer, H. Vincent Poor, Biometric and Physical Identifiers with Correlated Noise for Controllable Private Authentication (2020) https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00847
Onur Günlü, Rafael F. Schaefer, Low-complexity and Reliable Transforms for Physical Unclonable Functions (2020) https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.01872
Onur Günlü, Rafael F. Schaefer, Secret Key Agreement with Physical Unclonable Functions: An Optimality Summary (2020) https://doi.org/10.3390/e23010016 https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08924
Efe Bozkir, Onur Günlü, Wolfgang Fuhl, Rafael F. Schaefer, Enkelejda Kasneci, Differential Privacy for Eye Tracking with Temporal Correlations (2020) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255979 https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08972
Thomas Jerkovits, Onur Günlü, Vladimir Sidorenko, Gerhard Kramer, Nested Tailbiting Convolutional Codes for Secrecy, Privacy, and Storage (2020) https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13095
2017
Onur Günlü, Onurcan İşcan, Vladimir Sidorenko, Gerhard Kramer, Code Constructions for Physical Unclonable Functions and Biometric Secrecy Systems (2017) https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.00275
Amin Gohari, Onur Günlü, Gerhard Kramer, Coding for Positive Rate in the Source Model Key Agreement Problem (2017) https://doi.org/10.1109/TIT.2020.2990750 https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.05174
2016
Onur Günlü, Gerhard Kramer, Privacy, Secrecy, and Storage with Multiple Noisy Measurements of Identifiers (2016) https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.06756