Computer Scientist & Cyber Security Researcher

Dr. Enes ALTUNCU

Researching the Human and Societal Dimensions of Cyber Security

My research focuses on misinformation, digital deception, human-centred cyber security, and AI-driven approaches for improving online safety and information integrity.

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Latest News

Jul 9, 2026

Paper titled 'Triple Trouble: Rethinking the Framing of Problematic Information' accepted for Journal of Documentation

Jul 7, 2026

New dataset FACTurk presented at SIU 2026 Computational Social Sciences Special Session

Latest Publications

All Publications

2026 · Journal Article

Triple Trouble: Rethinking the Framing of Problematic Information

Enes Altuncu

Journal of Documentation · SSCI · IF 1.8 · Q2

2026 · Conference Paper

FACTurk: Insights into the Turkish Fact-Checking Ecosystem via a New Dataset

Enes Altuncu

Proceedings of the 34th Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications (SIU '26)

2025 · Journal Article

Improving Performance of Automatic Keyword Extraction (AKE) Methods Using PoS Tagging and Enhanced Semantic-Awareness

Enes Altuncu, Jason R. C. Nurse, Yang Xu, et al.

Information · ESCI · IF 2.9

2025 · Conference Paper

FACTors: A New Dataset for Studying Fact-checking Ecosystem

Enes Altuncu, Can Başkent, Sanjay Bhattacherjee, et al.

Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '25), July 13–18, 2025, Padua, Italy

Selected Projects

2020-2022

Digital Data Deception Techwatch Newsletters

Regular newsletters on digital data deception technologies.

Status: Completed

Funder: Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), UK Ministry of Defence

Principal Investigators: Virginia Franqueira, Sanjay Bhattacherjee, Shujun Li

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Previous Institutions

PhD

University of Kent Computer Science 2019-2025 MSc

TOBB University of Economics and Technology Computer Engineering 2017-2019 BSc

Middle East Technical University Computer Engineering 2012-2017