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 the topics listed below (see: current research interests below). Interested students or postdoc applicants may contact me via scvic-civic@uottawa.ca to inquire
the possibility of joining my team.
1.
Short bio:
Dr. Burak Kantarci is a Full Professor and University Research Chair in AI-Enabled Secure Networking for Smart Critical Infrastructures in the
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of
Ottawa. Dr. Kantarci is the founding director of the Smart
Connected Vehicles Innovation Centre (SCVIC) and Next
Generation Communications and Computing Networks Lab (NEXTCON).Prior to joining the uOttawa, he was an assistant professor at Clarkson University in
Potsdam, New York (2014-2016). 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 300+
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,
IEEE VCC2023 and IEEE Globecom 2024. 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, and a winner of 2024-25 George S. Glinski Award for Excellence in Research in the Faculty of Engineering at uOttawa.
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), Ontario Research Fund (ORF), U.S. National Science
Foundation (NSF), Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE), and Mathematics of Information
Technology and Complex Systems (Mitacs). [Total funding over $9.5M]
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 2022 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.
vSemantic communications, Generative AI and Large Language Models for Next Generation Networks
vAI-driven Security for Smart Critical Infrastructures
vSecure, Resilient and Reliable Communications for 6G and Beyond
vAI-backed event detection, actuation
and planning for Connected Vehicles
vInternet of Things / Internet of Vehicles
vCrowdsensing and vehicular social networks
Looking for our surveys or tutorials in these areas? Click here
Top-15: Latest news
Our collaborative work("Edge Learning for 6G-Enabled Internet of Things: A Comprehensive Survey of Vulnerabilities, Datasets, and Defenses") in IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials has received the IEEE ComSoc Communications Systems Integration and Modeling Technical Committee (CSIM-TC) 2024 Best Journal Paper Award Click
to view the paper.
11Dec2024
Our paper in collaboration with CIENA ("A New Realistic Platform for Benchmarking and Performance Evaluation of DRL-Driven and Reconfigurable SFC Provisioning Solutions") has received a Best Paper Award at IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom) 2024 Click
to view.
22Nov2024
Ontario Research Fund- Research Excellence (ORF-RE) funding to help drive connected and autonomous vehicle research led by Dr. Kantarci. Click
to view.
3Sep2024
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
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.)
