Murat Kantarcioglu, Ph.D.

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Assistant Professor

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, risk and incentive issues in assured information sharing, use of data mining for fraud detection, botnet detection and homeland security.

 

My research has been supported by grants from NSF, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, ONR, NSA, and NIH. Please see UTD Data Security and Privacy Lab’s web page for more details related to our research projects.

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 Ph.D. Students

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

Alumni

  • 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
  • Jack Lindamood (MS)
    • Thesis title: Privacy preserving methods in social networking data
    • Graduation Year: 2008, First Employer: Facebook