Murat Kantarcioglu, Ph.D.

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Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Dallas
muratk at utdallas . edu

Research Interests

My research interests lie at the intersection of privacy, security, data mining and databases. Recently I have been working on security and privacy issues raised by data mining, privacy issues in social networks, security issues in databases, privacy issues in health care, applied cryptography, risk and incentive issues in assured information sharing, use of data mining for fraud detection and homeland security.

Publications

For publication information, please visit the following page [Publications]

Education

Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Ph.D., Computer Science, Advisor: Chris Clifton, August 2005
        Graduate Certificate in Applied Statistics, May 2005.
        M.S., Computer Science, May 2002.

METU Ankara, Turkey

B.S., Computer Engineering with Minor in Finance, June 2000

CV

For biographical and historical information, please see my NSF style CV [pdf]

Teaching

For information on courses being thought by me, please visit the following page [Teaching]

Current Student

  • Mustafa Canim (PhD)
  • Raymond Heatherly (PhD)
  • Ali Inan (PhD)
  • Vaibhav Khadilkar (PhD) (co-advising with Prof. Thuraisingham)      
  • Robert Nix (PhD)

  Alumni

  • Ryan Layfield (PhD) (co-advised with Prof. Thuraisingham)
    • Thesis title: Using game theory to mitigate the effects of a bioterrorist attack.
    • Graduation year: 2008, Current Employer: Cisco
  • Li Liu (PhD) (co-advised with Prof. Thuraisingham)  
    • Thesis title: Perturbation based privacy preserving data mining techniques for real-world data.
    • Graduation Year: 2008, Current Employer: eBay
  • Jack Lindamood (MS)
    • Thesis title: Privacy preserving methods in social networking data
    • Graduation Year: 2008, Current Employer: Facebook