Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu

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Associate Professor

Director, UTD Data Security and Privacy Lab

University of Texas at Dallas

muratk at utdallas . edu

Research Interests

My research focuses on creating technologies that can efficiently extract useful information from any data without sacrificing privacy or security. 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 for data security, risk and incentive issues in assured information sharing, use of data mining for fraud detection, botnet detection and homeland security. Please visit UTD Data Security and Privacy Lab's web page for more details related to our research and publicly available software.

Please also see the following news articles that mention our research or views on data security and privacy: Boston Globe, ABC News, GenomeWeb,  ACM News, Network World, The Huffington Post, Dallas Morning News, KDAF-TV Channel 33(1)(Social network privacy related), KDAF-TV Channel 33 (2) (CyberStalking related), CBS 11 TV, Processor.com, Labmanager.com

Please also see the conferences that I am involved with.

Research Grants

My research has been supported by grants from NSF including NSF CAREER award, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, ONR, NSA, and NIH. Please see my research funding information page for more details related to our research grants.

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 that I teach, please visit the following web page [Teaching]

Current Ph.D. Students

  • Samira Farhin
  • Saiful Islam
  • Vaibhav Khadilkar  (co-advising with Prof. Thuraisingham)    
  • Mehmet Kuzu
  • Erman Pattuk
  • Jyothsna Rachapalli  (co-advising with Prof. Thuraisingham)
  • Fahad Shaon
  • Huseyin Ulusoy


Alumni

  • Robert Nix (Ph.D.)
    • Thesis title: Efficient incentive compatible secure data sharing
    • Graduation year: December 2012, First Employer: Lipscomb University
  • Raymond Heatherly (Ph.D.)
    • Thesis title: Privacy-preserving social network analysis
    • Graduation year: August 2011, First Employer: Vanderbilt University
  • Mustafa Canim (Ph.D.)
    • Thesis title: Exploiting modern hardware for secure data management
    • Graduation year: May 2011, First Employer: IBM Watson Research Center
  • Ali Inan (Ph.D.)
    • Thesis title: A hybrid approach to private record linkage
    • Graduation year: August 2010, First Employer: Isik University
  • Ryan Layfield (Ph.D.) (co-advised with Prof. Thuraisingham)
    • Thesis title: Using game theory to mitigate the effects of a bioterrorist attack.
    • Graduation year: 2008, First Employer: Cisco
  • Li Liu (Ph.D.) (co-advised with Prof. Thuraisingham)  
    • Thesis title: Perturbation based privacy preserving data mining techniques for real-world data.
    • Graduation Year: 2008, First Employer: Ebay
       
  • Abhijith Shastry (M.S.)
    • Thesis title: Behavioral analysis resistant malware for mobile phones
    • Graduation year: August 2011, First Employer: Google
  • Jack Lindamood (M.S.)
    • Thesis title: Privacy preserving methods in social networking data
    • Graduation Year: 2008, First Employer: Facebook