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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.
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18Apr2023
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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.
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14Mar2023
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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.
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06Mar2023
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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.
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01Feb2023
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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.
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18Nov2022
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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.
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09Nov2022
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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.
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18May2022
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Dr. Kantarci has been appointed as IEEE Systems Council
Distinguished Lecturer for 2022-2024
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18May2022
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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.
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16May2022
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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.
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07Apr2022
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SCVI Centre has been featured in Canada’s Innovation
Leaders (Link)
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03Mar2022
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Dr. Kantarci is listed among top-Computer Scientists in
Canada (Research.com)
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01Mar2022
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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.)
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21Jan2022
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Our article titled "Adversarial Machine Learning:
A Multi-Layer Review of the State-of-the-Art and Challenges for Wireless
and Mobile Systems " in IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials is
now available as early access paper. (Click to view Congratulations Jinxin
and Johan. Thank you Dr. Michele Nogueira for the fruitful collaboration.)
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18Dec2021
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Our paper titled "All Predict Wisest Decides: A
Novel Ensemble Method To Detect Intrusive Traffic In IoT
Networks" has received the BEST PAPER AWARD in
IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom)
2021 [under Communication QoS, Reliability and
Modeling]. Congratulations to the team: Zhiyan Chen, Murat simsek, Petar Djukic.
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9Dec2021
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Our article titled "Machine Learning-Backed
Planning of Rapid COVID-19 Tests With Autonomous Vehicles With Zero-Day
Considerations" in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in
Computational Intelligence is now available. (Click to see details)
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14Dec2021
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Drones, bots and self-driving cars: How this new Kanata
North innovation centre will help drive
the future of autonomous vehicles (Click to see details)
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29Oct2021
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As in last year, Dr. Kantarci is listed in the top 2% most cited researchers in the field of
networking and telecommunications. Researchers at Stanford University used
the Scopus database and calculated different metrics and a composite metric
to compare scientists in the same research. (Source here)
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22Oct2021
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Dr. Kantarci is a panelist in uOttawa
Innovates Panel “How AI is addressing Security for Smart Critical
Infrastructure” on 28 September 2021 (click to see details)
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28Sep2021
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Smart Connected Innovation Centre is featured
in Ottawa Business Journal (Click for the media piece)
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27Sep2021
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Our article titled “All Predict Wisest
Decides: A Novel Ensemble Method to Detect Intrusive Traffic in IoT Networks” has been accepted to IEEE Networking
Letters. Congrats Yuwei! (click to access)
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30Aug2021
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Dr. Kantarci delivering invited talk in IEEE
Congress on Intelligent and Service-Oriented Systems Engineering.
“Adversarial Machine Learning-Driven Fake Task Anticipation in Mobile
Crowdsensing Systems”
Kudos to Zhiyan Chen.
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24Aug2021
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Our article titled “Risk-Aware Fine-Grained
Access Control in Cyber-Physical Contexts” has been accepted to ACM Digital
Threats: Research and Practice. Congrats Jason! (Preprint available here)
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05Aug2021
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Our article titled “Transit networks, social
contacts and open data meet public transportation plans for post-COVID-19:
A Canadian case study” has been accepted to IEEE Engineering Management
Review. Congrats Oliver Benning and
Jonathan Calles! (Click for Early Access)
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02Aug2021
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Dr. Kantarci is delivering a keynote in IEEE
International Workshop on Decentralized AI and Computing on IoT. Keynote title: AI-Backed Threat Modeling and Defense Strategies in IoT Systems. Date: 14-16July 2021
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2July2021
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Dr. Kantarci is delivering a keynote
titled in IEEE World Forum on the Itnernet
of Things (WF-IoT 2021) Workshop on Wireless
Intelligent Secure Trustable Things: bringing IoT
and AI together. Keynote Title: Empowering Artificial Intelligence Against Adversarial
Patterns in the IoT Sensing Systems
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30June2021
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Dr. Kantarci has received the
Canada Foundation for Innovation’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund (Link)
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17 Aug2020
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Our article titled
"Empowering Self-Organized Feature Maps for AI-Enabled Modelling of
Fake Task Submissions to Mobile Crowdsensing Platforms" has been
accepted to IEEE Internet of Things Journal (Link)
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23 July2020
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Our article titled "Ensemble
Methods for the Detection of Fake Tasks in Mobile Crowdsensing under
Limited Training Data" has been accepted to IEEE Vehicular Technology
Magazine (Link)
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9 July2020
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Dr. Kantarci has been awarded the NSERC Alliance Grant to battle the COVID-19 Crisis
with research “Artificial Intelligence-Based Decision Support System for
COVID-19 Mobile Assessments and Optimal Supply Services During the
Pandemic” (Link)
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3June2020
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NEXTCON to help resolve
COVID-19: Our initial research results to help resolve
COVID-19 crisis
published in Intl. Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IF:
2.468). Click to
view
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11May 2020
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Congratulations
to NEXTCON’s Ji Chu Jiang for his
first accepted paper. “High Precision Deep Learning-Based Tabular
Detection” accepted to IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
(ISCC). Way to go, Ji Chu!
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22 April 2020
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Another proud moment
for NEXTCON lab. Xuankai Chen has won the 2nd Prize for the
Fall 2019 Cognos Prize
at uOttawa for his Honours thesis
titled “Artificial Neural Networks-assisted Data Acquisition in
Mobile Crowdsensing Systems”. Congrats Xuankai! (LinkedIn)
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26 Feb 2020
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Three papers on AI-backed security
accepted to IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2020)
Congratulations to Zhiyan Chen, Yueqian Zhang, Safa Otoum! (Link)
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27 Jan 2020
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Four researchers of NEXTCON Lab
participated in CANDEV Data Challenge presented by Statistics Canada on
18-19 January with their "AI Model for Enabling Smart Cities" in
the smart cities innovation challenge. (Link)
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20 Jan 2020
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Yueqian “Audrey” Zhang ; and Ahmed
Omara have defended their Master’s theses successfully. Theses titled
"Resource Clogging Attacks in Mobile Crowd-Sensing: AI-based Modeling,
Detection and Mitigation" and “Predictive
Operational Strategies for Smart Microgrid Networks”. Congrats Audrey! Congrats Ahmed! (Link)
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19 Dec 2019
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Dr. Kantarci is delivering a talk
titled "Bridging AI and Adversarial AI for secure non-dedicated
sensing in smart spaces" the Ottawa AI Alliance – Second Annual
Workshop.
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28 Nov2019
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Dr. Kantarci is invited speaker
with his talk titled "Mobile Crowdsensing for Crowd Management in
Disasters: Challenges, Solutions, Opportunities" in dedicated"
and "non-dedicated" sensor networks against misbehaviour" in
8th MC/WG Meeting of Resilient Communication Services Protecting End-user
Applications from Disaster-based Failures (RECODIS) in Nicosia, Cyprus.
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16 Oct 2019
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Dr. Kantarci delivers keynote
speech titled "AI-backed resiliency for "dedicated" and
"non-dedicated" sensor networks against misbehaviour" in
11th International Workshop on Resilient Networks Design and Management
(RNDM) in Nicosia, Cyprus.
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14 Oct 2019
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Our AVIN Talent Edge project
"Vehicular Sensor Fusion for Detection and Characterization of
Significant Events" has been approved for funding by Ontario Centres
of Excellence (OCE).
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4 Oct 2019
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Our article titled "Towards
Fog-Based Mobile Crowdsensing Systems: State of the Art and
Opportunities" has been accepted to IEEE Communications Magazine.
Congratulations Dimitri!
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30July2019
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Dr. Kantarci's MITACS Accelerate
application, AI-Based Automated Methodologies for Supply Chains has been
awarded. 3-year collaboration with our industry partner. Total project
budget: $270K
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17July2019
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Two papers accepted to Globecom
2019. Both on adversarial machine learning. Congratulations Audrey, Kyle,
Ertugrul.
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15July2019
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NEXTCON Lab is on the news with AI
and connected vehicles research. (link)
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25June2019
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Our article titled "article A
Survey on Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, and Policy Issues in Cyber-Physical
System Deployments in Smart Cities" is now available in Elsevier
Sustainable Cities and Society (pdf)
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25June2019
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Venkat Dasari and Ertugrul Kara
have successfully defended their Master's theses. Congratulations!
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25June2019
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Proud moment for NEXTCON lab. Mark
Traquair has been awarded Winter 2019 Cognos Prize at uOttawa for his
Honours thesis which was a part of our collaboration with Lytica. (Click here)
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21May2019
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Our article "A Survey on Mobile
Crowdsensing Systems: Challenges, Solutions and Opportunities" in IEEE
Communications Surveys and Tutorials is now online. (Click
here)
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30Apr2019
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Dr. Kantarci has been granted tenure
and promotion to Associate Professor, effective 1 May 2019.
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29Mar2019
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Dr. Kantarci is the Chair for Big
Data Science and Analytics Track of the 5th IEEE Intl. Conference on Cloud
and Big Data Computing (CBDCom 2019). Click to view
details and/or submit paper
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15Feb2019
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Two papers
accepted to ICC 2019. One on reinforcement learning-based intrusion
detection on big sensed data; the other on ML-driven microgrid data
aggregation over HetNets. Congratulations Safa and Ahmed!.
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03Feb2019
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Dr. Kantarci has been appointed as
a Distinguished Speaker of the ACM. Kantarci’s term as a distinguished
speaker is for three years. Dr.
Kantarci can be invited as an ACM speaker to deliver the available lectures
by using the forms here.
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17Dec2018
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Our paper titled “Big data
aggregation in the case of heterogeneity: A feasibility study for Digital
Health” has been accepted by Springer Journal of Machine Learning and
Cybernetics. Congratulations Alex.
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14Dec2018
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Dr. Kantarci is the Chair of IEEE
Communication Systems Integration and Modeling (CSIM) Technical Committee.
Thanks to past chair Christos Verikoukis for his several years of service
to CSIM, and welcome new officers Nizar zorba (vice-chair) and Angelos
Antonopoulos (secretary).
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11Dec2018
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Dr. Kantarci’s Voucher for
Innovation and Productivity (VIP I) Program Project proposal on continuous authentication
has been approved by Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE).
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22Nov2018
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Our paper on sensing,
communications and security planes of smart cities has been published in
Elsevier Computer Networks. (Click
for pdf)
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24Oct2018
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Cem Kaptan has defended his
Master’s thesis titled “Machine Learning-driven Vehicular Crowd-Sensing for
urban transportation services”. Congratulations Cem!
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25Jul2018
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Two papers accepted to Globecom
2018. One on mobile crowd-sensing, the other on vehicular crowd-sensing.
Congratulations Maryam and Cem!
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10Jul2018
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Zachary I. Rauen has defended his
MSc thesis (in Electrical Engineering) successfully at Clarkson University.
Congratulations, Zack! Best wishes for a bright career path.
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19 April 2018
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Ph.D candidates Maryam Pouryazdan
and Fazel Anjomshoa have defended their theses successfully at Clarkson.
Congratulations, Maryam and Fazel! Best wishes for your bright career
paths. (Click for image)
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29 Mar 2018
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Dr. Kantarci's Voucher for
Innovation and Productivity (VIPI) Program Project proposal in partnership
with Gnowit has been approved by Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE).
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29 Mar 2018
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Three papers from our group have
been accepted to IEEE Intl. Conference on Communications (ICC'18). "Adaptively
Supervised and Intrusion-Aware Data Aggregation for Wireless Sensor
Clusters in Critical Infrastructures"; "Emulating Smart City
Sensors Using Soft Sensing and Machine Intelligence: a Case Study in Public
Transportation"; "MQTT-Driven Sustainable Node Discovery for the
Internet of Things-Fog Environments". Congratulations to Safa, Cem and
Riccardo! One paper titled Selective Versus Non-Selective Acquisition of
Crowd-Solicited IoT Data and its Dependability has also been accepted to an
ICC Workshop. (Cem Kaptan and Venkat Surya Dasari publish their first
papers; welcome on board!)
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08 Mar 2018
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Our article titled
"Collaborative Verification of Smart User Profiles for social
sustainability of smart cities" has been accepted to Elsevier
Sustainable Cities and Society journal's Special Issue on Role of Big Data
Analytics in a Sustainable Smart City. Paper co-authored with two
undergraduate students. This is an outcome of the uOttawa work-study
program. Phil, Victor, thank you both for the great work!
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24 Nov 2017
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Our article titled "Big
Sensed Data Meets Deep Learning for Smarter Health Care in Smart
Cities" has been accepted to the special issue of Sensors and
Actuators for Smart Cities in the Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks. Congratulations
Alex. (Click
for pdf)
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17 Nov 2017
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Our article titled
"Intelligent Gaming for Mobile Crowd-sensing Participants to Acquire
Trustworthy Big Data in the Internet of Things" has been accepted to
IEEE Access journal. Congratulations Maryam. (Click for pdf)
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12 Oct 2017
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Our article titled "Detection
of Known and Unknown Intrusive Sensor Behavior in Critical
Applications" has been published in IEEE Sensors Letters.
Congratulations Safa. (Click for pdf)
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1 Oct 2017
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PhD candidate Fazel Anjomshoa has
been accepted to the Insight Data Science Fellows Program, and will join
the program on Sep. 5th.
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29 Aug 2017
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Maryam Pouryazdan and Fazel
Anjomshoa have passed their PhD proposal exams. Maryam and Fazel are now
officially PhD candidates. Congrats both!
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29 Aug 2017
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Safa Otoum has passed her PhD
proposal exam. She is officially a PhD candidate now! Congrats Safa!
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23 Aug 2017
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New paper accepted to IEEE PIMRC'17.
CD-ASM: A New Queuing Paradigm to Overcome Bufferbloat Effects in HetNets.
Collaboration initiated by Drs. Michele Nogueira and Aldri Santos from
UFPR-Brazil. Colegas, muito obrigado!
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2 Aug 2017
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Our paper with two undergrads
accepted to IEEE Global Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP)
Symposium. Title: Participatory detection of identity theft on mobile
social platforms. This is an outcome of the uOttawa work-study program.
Phil, Victor, thank you both for the good work!
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28 Jul 2017
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Our article on non-dedicated
sensing and smart cities has been accepted to IEEE Sensors Journal. (Click for pdf)
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11 July 2017
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Our article on Social
Behaviometrics in IoT have been accepted to IEEE Access. Congrats to Fazel
and Moayad.(Click for pdf)
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26 June 2017
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Dr. Kantarci elevates to the
vice-chair of IEEE Communication Systems Integration and Modelling
Technical Committee (CSIM-TC).
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22 May 2017
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Dr. Kantarci receives NSERC
DISCOVERY grant for the project titled "Mobile social network
analytics and mobile edge solutions for trustworthy and reliable urban sensing".
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13 Apr 2017
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Two papers accepted to IWCMC 2017.
Congratulations to Safa Otoum! Thanks to Moayad Aloqaily!
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28 Mar 2017
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Our article on "Crowdsensim
simulator" has been publishedin IEEE Access journal. Thank you Claudio
for leading this initiative and thanks to all our collaborators! (pdf)
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10 Feb 2017
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Two papers have been accepted to
IEEE ICC'17. One paper on blackhole detection in WSN-based smart grid
monitoring (with PhD student Safa Otoum), and the other paper on
sociability-based continuous identification (with PhD student, Fazel
Anjomshoa). Congratulations Safa and Fazel!
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26 Jan 2017
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Our article titled
"Quantifying User Reputation Scores, Data Trustworthiness, and User
Incentives in Mobile Crowd-Sensing" has been accepted to IEEE Access
special section on Big Data Analytics in Internet-of-Things And
Cyber-Physical System. The article is co-authored with PhD student Maryam
Pouryazdan. Congratulations Maryam! (pdf)
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21 Jan 2017
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Dr. Kantarci is the IEEE
Communications Society representative in the steering committee of IEEE
Transactions on Cloud Computing.
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16 Jan 2017
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Our article "Machine Learning
in Cardiac Health Monitoring and Decision Support" has been accepted
to the Smart Health and Well Being Special Issue of IEEE Computer. This is
in collaboration with SUNY at Albany and Univ. Rochester. Thank you all!
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03 Sep 2016
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Dr. Kantarci is an Area Editor for
IEEE Transactions on Green
Communications and Networking in the area of energy efficiency in data
storage and sensors.
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22 Aug 2016
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