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Burak Kantarci, PhD., P.Eng., SMIEEE, SM-ACM

Full Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer
IEEE Systems Council Distinguished Lecturer

 

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University of Ottawa

School of Electrical Eng. and Computer Science

Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N5
Phone: (613) 562-5800 ext 6955

Email: 
burak.kantarci@uOttawa.ca

v  Publication List

v  Curriculum Vitae (in pdf)

v  Research Grants & Projects

v  Awards, Recognitions & Mentions

v  SCVIC and NEXTCON Lab.

v  Service and Memberships

v  External:

Google Scholar, LinkedIn, ResearchGate

v  Teaching

v  Personal Notes

In SCVIC and NEXTCON Lab , my team and I are committed to creating an environment that is clearly supportive, diverse, gender-balanced, collegial and open to the researchers with strongest technical skills regardless of their background. I am looking for enthusiastic PhD students and Postdoctoral Fellows who will work on Applied Artificial Intelligence methodologies for IoT, connected vehicles, security, privacy and trust. Interested students or postdoc applicants may contact me via scvic-civic@uottawa.ca to inquire the possibility of joining my team.

 

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Short bio:

 

Dr. Burak Kantarci is a Full Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Ottawa. Prior to joining the uOttawa, he was an assistant professor at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York. Dr. Kantarci is the founding director of the Smart Connected Vehicles Innovation Centre (SCVIC) and Next Generation Communications and Computing Networks Lab (NEXTCON). In 2009-2014, he had also worked as a research fellow at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Ottawa.

 

Dr. Kantarci is a co-author of 250+ peer-reviewed publications in established journals and conference proceedings sponsored by established publishers such as IEEE, ACM, Elsevier, and Springer. He has been listed among the top-2% cited scientists in telecommunications and networking according to the "Science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators" data reported by Stanford University since 2020. Since 2021, based on data collected from Microsoft Academic Graph, research.com has listed Dr. Kantarci among Canada's top computer scientists. Dr. Kantarci holds an Exemplary Editor Award from IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (2021),and is a joint holder of multiple best paper awards from various conferences, most recently from IEEE Globecom2021, 48th Wireless World Research Forum 2022, IEEE ICC2023 and IEEE VCC2023. He is a recipient of the Minister's Award of Excellence from Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities (2021). Dr Kantarci is also the recipient of the 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.

 

He has been the PI/co-PI of several federally/provincially-funded research projects supported by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE), and Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (Mitacs). [Total external funding about $8.5M]

 

Dr. Kantarci is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society (2023-2024) and IEEE Systems Council (2022-2024), Distinguished Speaker of the ACM (2019-2021), Senior Member of the ACM and a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of the Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society (∑Ξ), an editor for IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, associate editor for IEEE Networking Letters, associate editor for IEEE Internet of Things Journal, associate editor for Vehicular Communications, associate editor for IEEE Access, area editor for IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. In 2019-2020, Dr. Kantarci served as the Chair of IEEE Communication Systems Integration and Modeling Technical Committee of IEEE Communications Society He has been serving as a TPC member of GLOBECOM (since 2011) and ICC (since 13) in various tracks. He is also co-chairing the Workshop on Management of Cloud and Smart City Systems (MoCS) since 2012, and is a Symposium co-chair in IEEE GLOBECOM'18-Symp on Communication Systems QoS and Reliability Modeling, and a symposium chair in ICC?22 Communication Systems QoS and Reliability Modeling Symposium. He served as the chair of two different tracks of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) in 2016 and 2019. He has also served as a symposium co-chair of IEEE International Conference on Communications and Networking in multiple symposia, most recently in 2021 as Cybersecurity track chair of IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Security and Privacy Track Chair of IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), and the general co-chair of IEEE BlackSeaCom 2021, and IEEE CAMAD 2021 conferences. In 2020, he served as the symposium chair for Machine Learning for Communications and Networking symposium. Previously, he had served as a TPC co-chair and a general co-chair of the IEEE International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD) in 2014 and 2016, respectively. Since December 2012, Dr. Kantarci also served as an area editor of the IEEE ComSoc Ad Hoc Sensor Networks Technical Committee (AHSN-TC) Newsletter.

Dr. Kantarci is a member of the Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Computer Science and Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Kantarci is a Professional Engineer (P.Eng) registered in the province of Ontario.

 

 

Current Research Interests: 

v Internet of Things / Internet of Vehicles

v AI-driven Security for Cyberphysical Systems, Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

v Machine Learning-driven Continuous Authentication

v AI-backed event detection, actuation and planning for Connected Vehicles

v Behavioral biometrics

v Crowdsensing and vehicular social networks

  Looking for our surveys or tutorials in these areas? Click here

 

Top-15: Latest news

During the fifth anniversary of the uOttawa-Kanata North campus, the Smart Connected Vehicles Innovation Centre welcomed guests and shared its vision and story.  Click to view Dr. Kantarci's welcome address.

28May2024

 

Dr. Kantarci has been selected for the IEEE Communications Software Technical Committee - 2023 Technical Achievement Award for contributions to "contributions to AI/ML-enabled communication network security and trustworthy sensing systems for the Internet of Things"

15Jan2024

 

Our paper entitled "Generative Adversarial Networks to Secure Vehicle-to-Microgrid Services" has received the Best Student Paper Award in IEEE Virtual Conference on Communications (VCC 2023). Congratulations to PhD student Ahmed Omara! Click to view the news release

1Dec2023

 

Our comprehensive survey on Edge Learning for 6G-Enabled Internet of Things in Communications Surveys and Tutorials is now available online. Have a look. Click to view.

19Sep2023

 

Our paper in colalboration with NETCORE Lab's Melike Erol-Kantarci and Pedro Ituria Rivera and NetExperience's Marcel Chenier and Berhard Herscovici ("RL meets Multi-Link Operation in IEEE 802.11be: Multi-Headed Recurrent Soft-Actor Critic-based Traffic Allocation") has received the Best Paper Award in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2023) NGNI symposium.

29May2023

 

Dr. Kantarci has been awarded -as the lead PI, NSERC CREATE grant to lead the project Training and Research in Autonomous Vehicles for Reliable Services in the Air and on Land (TRAVERSAL). Click to view the news release.

18Apr2023

 

Our article entitled "Secure Industrial IoT Systems via RF Fingerprinting Under Impaired Channels With Interference and Noise" is now available in IEEExplore. Congratulations to the team! Click to view the article.

14Mar2023

 

Our article entitled "A Continuous Actor-Critic Deep Q-Learning-Enabled Deployment of UAV Base Stations: Toward 6G Small Cells in the Skies of Smart Cities" is now available in IEEE O. Journal of the Communications Society. Congratulations Nahid! Click to view.

06Mar2023

 

Our article entitled "Distributed denial of service attack prediction: Challenges, open issues and opportunities" is now available in Elsevier Computer Networks. Thank you Prof. Michele Nogueira for this fruitful collaboration,and congrats Anderson de Neira! Click to view.

01Feb2023

 

Dr. Kantarci is leading two DND IDEaS projects to achieve stronger and more secure 5G-enabled infrastructures in collaboration with leading indsutry partners. $3M IDEaS DND funding advances 5G security research. Click to view the news release.

18Nov2022

 

We received the Best Paper Award in Wireless World Research Forum Meeting #48 with our work entitled "On the Impact of CDL and TDL Augmentation for RF Fingerprinting under Impaired Channels". Congratulations to all co-authors: O. M. Gul, M. Kulhandjian . B Kantarci, C. D'Amours, A. Touazi, C. Ellement. Click to view the full story.

09Nov2022

 

Our article (and a new public data set to use in cybersecurity research!) has been accepted to IEEE Networking Letters. J. Liu, Y. Shen, M. Simsek, B. Kantarci, H. Mouftah, M. Bagheri, P. Djukic, A New Realistic Benchmark for Advanced Persistent Threats in Network Traffic, IEEE Networking Letters, 2022 Click to view the article. Dataset can also be accessed here. Dataset is available for research use as long as the article is attributed properly.

18May2022

 

Dr. Kantarci has been appointed as IEEE Systems Council Distinguished Lecturer for 2022-2024

18May2022

 

Our article "A Tutorial on AI-Powered 3D Deployment of Drone Base Stations: State of the Art" has been accepted to Elsevier Vehicular Communications (Available here.) Congrats Nahid, and thanks to all co-authors.

16May2022

 

Our article "Machine Learning-Enabled IoT Security: Open Issues and Challenges Under Advanced Persistent Threats" has been accepted to ACM Computing Surveys (Available here.) Congrats Zhiyan, Jinxin, Yu and thanks to all co-authors.

07Apr2022

 

Our Smart Connected Innovation Centre has been featured in Canada's Innovation Leaders (Link.)

03Mar2022

 

Dr. Kantarci is listed among top Computer Scientists in Canada in 2021 (Click to view at Research.com.)

01Mar2022

 

Dr. Kantarci received a Minister's Award of Excellence in the category of Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities. (Click to view.)

21Jan2022

 

 

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