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Research Grants,  Dr. Burak Kantarci                                                                                        

Research GRANTS And Funded Projects

Ontario Research Fund-Research Excellence (ORF-RE) (PI, Total: $999,985)

SITE-CAV: Secure, Intelligent and Trustworthy Ecosystems for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (SITE-CAV)

2025-2029

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mitacs Accelerate (PI, Total: $165,000)

Traffic Estimation and Stable Resource Allocation Using Distributed Machine Learning

2024-2026

 

 

 

 

 

 

NSERC DISCOVERY (PI, Total: $230,000)

Building Reliable and Secure Networks Driven by the Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence for Smart and Connected Critical Infrastructures

2024-2029

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mitacs Accelerate (PI, Total: $90,000)

Improving Safety of The Intended Functionality (SOTIF) Analysis for Autonomous Vehicles

 

2024-2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mitacs Accelerate (PI, Total: $90,000)

Machine Learning-Driven Decision Support for Autonomous Services in Airport Operations

2024-2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

NSERC Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE), PI, Total: $1,650,000)

CREATE Program for Training and Research in Autonomous Vehicles for Reliable Services in the Air and on Land (TRAVERSAL)

 

2023-2029

 

 

 

 

 

 

NSERC Alliance Mitacs Accelerate (PI, Awarded, Total: $135,000)

Intelligent Strategies for Optimal Virtual Network Function Placement in 5G Core

2022-2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

UTFORSK-Norway [lead institution: Univ. of Agder] (Co-PI & uOttawa Project Coordinator, Total Budget: 3M NOK ~ $400,000 CAD)

2023-2026

 

 

Elevating the Quality of Education in ICT towards 2030 through Multilateral Collaborations (EQEI)

 

 

 

Department of National Defence –Innovation for National Defence and Security (IDEaS) (PI, Total: $1,486,375 )

Autonomous, Reliable, Scalable and Secure Resource Management in Multi-level 5G edge

2022-2025

 

 

Department of National Defence –Innovation for National Defence and Security (IDEaS) (PI, Total: $1,495,062 )

AI-Driven Situational-Aware Security and Performance Assurance for 5G-Enabled Critical Infrastructures

2022-2025

 

 

Mitacs Accelerate (PI Total: $40,000)

An End User-Centric Study of Autonomous Technology Adoption in Controlled Environments

2022-2023

 

 

Mitacs Business Strategy Internship (BSI) (Total: 40,000, PI)

Project Title: Food and Beverage Golf Course Drone Delivery

 

2022

 

 

Ontario Centre for Innovation - Voucher for Innovation Productivity (VIP) (PI, Total: $156,666)

Project Title: Deep Learning-Driven Integrated driver distraction detection system from multi-modal vehicular sensor data

 

2022-2023

 

 

NSERC-Ontario Centre of Innovation VIP Alliance

(Awarded: $90,000 PI, $75K In Cash)

Project Title: Security by Design via Radio Fingerprinting for Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Network

2021-2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mitacs Accelerate

Awarded ($225,000; co-PI share 50%)

Project Title: Machine Learning-Enhanced Anomaly Detection and Performance Optimization for Enterprise WiFi Networks

 

2021-2023

 

 

Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)- John R. Evans Leaders Fund (PI)+ Ontario Research Fund-Research Infrastructure  (Awarded: $650,574)

Project Title: AI-Backed Internet of Vehicles Laboratory: An Open Access Innovation Facility

2020-2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

NSERC Alliance (Total Amount: $50,000, PI)

Project Title: Artificial Intelligence-Based Decision Support System for COVID-19 Mobile Assessments and Optimal Supply Services During the Pandemic

 

2020-2021

 

 

Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) - 5G (ENCQOR) Academic Technology Development Program (Awarded, Total Amount: $150,000, PI)

Project Title: Machine Learning-based Firewall-less Security Automation for the Network Edge

2020-2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

MITACS Elevate (Awarded, Total Amount: $120,000, PI)

Project title: Meta-information Extraction from Large-scale Streaming News for Entity-level Media Intelligence and Reporting

2020-2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MITACS Accelerate (Cluster-Size; Awarded: $270,000 CAD in cash, PI)

2019-2022

 

 

Project Title: AI-Based Automated Methodologies for Supply Chains: High Precision Tabular Detection and Semantic Modeling of E-Components

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ontario Centres of Excellence-OCE AVIN TIP (Awarded $40,000CAD total $30,000CAD in cash, PI)

Project Title: Vehicular Sensor Fusion for Detection and Characterization of Significant Events

2019-2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ontario Centres of Excellence-OCE VIP 1 (Awarded $39,999CAD total $24,999CAD in cash, PI)

Project Title: Fine-grained continuous authentication accounting for multiple risk context factors

2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

NSERC ENGAGE (Awarded $25,000 CAD, PI)

Project Title: Semantic Modelling and Machine Learning Analysis of a Billion+ Electronic Components Products to Support Supply Chain Optimization

2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ontario Centres of Excellence-OCE VIP1 (Awarded $39,983 CAD total, $24,983CAD in cash, PI)

Project Title: Semantic Modelling and Machine Learning Analysis of a Billion+ Electronic Components Products to Support Supply Chain Optimization

2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

NSERC DISCOVERY  (Awarded $125,000 CAD in total, PI)

Project Title: Mobile social network analytics and mobile edge solutions for trustworthy and reliable urban sensing

 

2017-2022

 

 

Visiting Researcher Program- OVPR (Awarded, $6,000 CAD, PI)

Project Title: Empowering Smart Mobile Devices for Real-time Health Analytics

2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

NSF US-Ignite: (Awarded, $750,000CAD;  co-PI share: $137,788 CAD Subawarded to the University of Ottawa)

Project Title: An Integrated Reconfigurable Control and Self-Organizing Communication Framework for Advanced Community Resilience Microgrids

2017-2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

NSF-CRII: Secure Trustworthy Cyberspace Program (Awarded $225,000 CAD,  PI)

2015-2017

 

 

Project title: CRII: SaTC: Energy efficient participatory data collection and Context-Aware Incentives for Trustworthy Crowdsensing via Mobile Social Networks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CITeR: NSF-I/UCRC Cooperative Research Center (PI, Awarded $50,000 CAD)

 

 

 

Project Title: Context-aware Anomaly Detection in Internet of Biometric Things

2015-2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Qualcomm Inc., (PI, Awarded $20,000.00 )

2015-2017

 

 

Project Title: Wireless Internet of Things Lab for Sensor Networks, Localization, and Mobile Computing at Clarkson University

 

 

 

 

University of Ottawa Startup Grant

Project Title: Large scale sensing systems for smart cities

2016- Present

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clarkson University Startup Grant

2014-2016

 

 

Project Title: Clarkson University Research Startup

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Postdoctoral Research fellowship

2009-2014

 

 

Awarded at University of Ottawa by WiSense project at School of EECS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PhD Research Grant (funded PhD thesis study at the University of Ottawa)

2007-2008

 

 

TUBITAK-Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey