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

Professor & University Research Chair in AI-Enabled Secure Networking for Smart Critical Infrastructures

IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer
IEEE Systems Council Distinguished Lecturer

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

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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 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.

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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.

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 Semantic communications, Generative AI and Large Language Models for Next Generation Networks

v AI-driven Security for Smart Critical Infrastructures

v Secure, Resilient and Reliable Communications for 6G and Beyond

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

v Internet of Things / Internet of Vehicles

v Crowdsensing and vehicular social networks

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