Hi. I'm Turan, a third-year PhD student working with Dr. Rafail Ostrovsky at UCLA. I'm interested in cryptography. My research focuses on multiparty computation, blockchain, and zero-knowledge.

Previously, I earned a Master's in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University, where I wrote my thesis on Chinese tech policy as a Schwarzman Scholar, and a B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a B.A. in German from The University of Texas at Austin.

I also conduct research with Fenbushi in collaboration with our protfolio companies. Recently, I've been fortunate enough to investigate SVM execution with Eclipse and data availability on Filecoin.

Publications

• MuFuzz: Sequence-Aware Mutation and Seed Mask Guidance for Blockchain Smart Contract Fuzzing Peng Qian, Hanjie Wu, Zeren Du, Turan Vural, Dazhong Rong, Zheng Cao, Lun Zhang, Yanbin Wang, Jianhai Chen, Qinming He. 2024 IEEE ICDE
• STFN: Spatio-Temporal Fusion Network to Detect Ethereum Phishing Scams Xu Yufeng, Lun Zhang, Turan Vural, Peng Qian, Yanbin Wang, Yuqing Fan, Ming Li, Xueyan Tang, Zheng Cao. 2023 EITCE
• Blockchain’s Role in Metaverse Trust and Transactions R. Can Aygun, Turan Vural, Lixia Zhang. 2023 IEEE MetaCom.

Teaching

• CS 32 Intro to Computer Science II Summer 2024, Spring 2025. TA, UCLA
• CS M 151 B Computer Architecture Winter 2024, Winter 2025. TA, UCLA
• CS 181 Algorithms & Complexity Theory Fall 2024. TA, UCLA
• CS 111 Operating Systems Spring 2024. TA, UCLA
• CS M 238 Quantum Programming Fall 2023. TA, UCLA