Ege Cem Kırcı

I’m Ege, a final-year Ph.D. candidate at the Networked Systems Group at ETH Zürich, working with Prof. Laurent Vanbever.

I study what we can’t see about the Internet—and figure out how to see it anyway.

My research tackles problems where the data you need simply doesn’t exist: How do you detect surveillance capabilities in network hardware? How do you measure Internet outages from the user’s perspective? How do you track global traffic trends and patterns without relying on proprietary reports? I build novel measurement systems that turn unconventional signals into actionable insights about network security, reliability, and performance.

Before my Ph.D., I received my M.Sc. from ETH Zürich and my B.Sc. from Koç University in Istanbul, Türkiye. I also spent a semester at Northwestern University.

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