Awards, Recognitions and Mentions,  Dr. Burak Kantarci                                                                                        

George S. Glinski Award for Excellence in Research

Faculty of Engineering, University of Ottawa (2024-2025)

2025

 

 

IEEE ComSoc Communications Systems Integration and Modeling (CSIM) TC Best Journal Paper Award

M. A. Ferrag, O. Friha, B. Kantarci, N. Tihanyi, L. Cordeiro, M. Debbah, D. Hamouda, M. Al-Hawawreh, K-K. Raymond Choo, "Edge Learning for 6G-enabled Internet of Things: A Comprehensive Survey of Vulnerabilities, Datasets, and Defenses," IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, vol, 25, issue 4, pp. 2654 2713, Fourth Quarter 2023

2024

 

 

IEEE Globecom 2024 Best Paper Award

M. A. Onsu, P. Lohan, B. Kantarci, E. Janulewicz, S. Slobodrian, "A New Realistic Platform for Benchmarking and Performance Evaluation of DRL-Driven and Reconfigurable SFC Provisioning Solutions," IEEE Globecom 2024

2024

 

 

IEEE Communications Software Technical Committee

2023 Technical Achievement Award

“for contributions to AI/ML-enabled communication network security and trustworthy sensing systems for the Internet of Things”

2024

 

 

IEEE VCC 2023 Best Student Paper Award

A. Omara, B. Kantarci,  "Generative Adversarial Networks to Secure Vehicle-to-Microgrid Services," IEEE Virtual Conference on Communications (VCC), Nov. 2023

 

2023

IEEE ICC 2023 Best Paper Award

P. E. Itturria Rivera, M. Chenier, B. Herscovici, B. Kantarci, M. Erol-Kantarci, "RL meets Multi-Link Operation in IEEE 802.11be: Multi-Headed Recurrent Soft-Actor Critic-based Traffic Allocation," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2023

2023

 

 

IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer

2023-2024

 

 

48th WWRF Best Paper Award

O. M. Gul, M. Kulhandjian, B. Kantarci, A. Touazi, C. D’Amours, C. Ellement, “On the Impact of CDL and TDL Augmentation for RF Fingerprinting under Impaired Channels” 48th Wireless World Research Forum

2022

 

IEEE Systems Council Distinguished Lecturer

2022-2024

 

 

Ontario Minister of Colleges and Universities’ Award of Excellence Category: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in 2020-2021

2022

 

 

Full Member, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society (∑Ξ)

2022

IEEE Globecom 2021 Best Paper Award

Z. Chen, M. Simsek, B. Kantarci, P. Djukic, "All Predict Wisest Decides: A Novel Ensemble Method to Detect Intrusive Traffic in IoT Networks” IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom 2021) –Communication QoS and Reliability Modeling Symposium.

2021

Featured Profile (Ottawa Business Journal), “Creating ‘water cooler moments’ to drive connected car innovation in Kanata North” 27 September 2021

2021

ACM Senior Membership

2020

Awardee of John Evans Leader’s Fund by Canada Foundation for Innovation

2020

Outstanding  Thesis Prize Nomination: Graduate student Ji Chu Jiang

Supervised Thesis Title: High Precision Deep Learning-based Tabular Data Extraction

2020

Outstanding Leadership Award from IEEE ICNC as Symposium Co-Chair: Machine Learning for Communications and Networking

2020

ACM Distinguished Speaker

2019-2021

Featured Profile (Ottawa Business Journal) , “uOttawa Kanata North ramping up Smart Connected Vehicles Innovation Lab”18 Dec. 2020

2019

Fall Cognos Prize (2nd Place) won by Student: Xuankai Chen.

Supervised Project: Artificial Neural Networks-assisted Data Acquisition in Mobile Crowdsensing Systems

2019

Certificate of Appreciation for IEEE 7th IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments as Publicity Co-Chair

2019

Winter Cognos Prize won by Student: Mark Traquair

Supervised Project: Feasibility Study of Methods in Content Extraction From Tabular Data in Digitized Documents

2019

Featured Profile (Ottawa Business Journal)  In search of safer cities, University of Ottawa researchers eye new uses for big data and vehicular crowd-sensing” 24 June 2019

2019

Outstanding Master’s Thesis Prize Nomination: Graduate student Cem Kaptan

Supervised Thesis Title: Data Analytics-backed Vehicular Crowd-sensing for GPS-less Tracking in Public Transportation

2018

Appreciation Award from IEEE ComSoc as Technical Program Co-Chair of IEEE BlackSeaCom 2020

2020

Certificate of Appreciation from IEEE Access as Guest editor of Special Section on Advances in Vehicular Clouds

2017

Appreciation from IEEE Computer Society as Technical Program Co-Chair ISCC 2016

2016

Appreciation from IEEE ComSoc as General Co-Chair IEEE CAMAD 2016

2016

Best Paper Award at 12th HONET Conference

2015

Certificate of Appreciation from IEEE International Cloud Networking (CLOUDNET) Conference as Technical Program Co-Chair

2015

Certificate of Appreciation from IEEE International Cloud Networking (CLOUDNET) Conference as Publicity Co-Chair

2014

IEEE Senior Membership

2012

 

 

 

 

 

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