Next Generation Communications and Computing Networks (NEXTCON) Research

Director: Dr. Burak Kantarci, Associate Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa & Courtesy Faculty, ECE, Clarkson University

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Research @ NEXTCON is funded by (includes current and previous supports)

 

QUALCOMM Inc (through Wireless Internet of Things Lab at Clarkson)

 

NEXTCON Lab Members

 

 

LAB. DIRECTOR

Dr. Burak Kantarci

Founding Director, NEXTCON

 

RESEARCH ASSOCIATES

Dr. Murat Simsek

Senior Research Associate & Lab Coordinator

 

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Cem Kaptan

Cem Kaptan (Ph.D – Computer Science)

 

 

Research Topic: Dependable Vehicular Communications

 

 

MSc: University of Ottawa

BSc: Marmara University, Turkey

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Safa Otoum (PhD – Elec. and Comp. Eng.)

 

 

Research Topic: Security in Critical Infrastructure Monitoring Networks

 

MSc: University of Ottawa

BSc: Yarmouk University, Jordan

 

 

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Ahmedou Jreivine (PhD – Computer Science)

 

 

Research Topic: Software Defined Vehicular Networks

 

 

 

Ahmed Omara (Master of Applied Science, Elec. and Comp. Eng.)

 

Research Topic: Intelligent control and management of smart microgrid networks

 

BSc: Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport Egypt

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Kyle Quintal

(Master of Computer Science)

 

 

Research Topic: Smart authentication in IoT devices

 

 

BSc: University of Ottawa

ErtuÄŸrul Kara

Ertugrul Kara

(Master of Computer Science)

 

 

Research Topic: AI-assisted supply chain optimization

 

 

BSc: Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey

Venkat Surya Dasari

(Master of Appl. Science, Elec. and Comp. Eng.)

 

 

Research Topic: Dependability of crowd-solicited IoT Data

 

 

BSc: R.V.R. & J.C. College of Engineering, India

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Yueqian Zhang

(Master of Computer Science)

 

 

Research Topic: Security as a service in mobile crowdsensing

 

 

BSc: Chongqing University, P.R.China

 

 

 

 

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Ankkita Sood

(Master of Computer Science)

 

Research Topic: Security for mobile crowd-sensing systems

 

 

BSc: University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, India

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Yang Liu

(Visiting PhD – Computer Science)

 

Research Topic: Privacy-aware design of mobile crowd-sensing systems

 

 

Home institution: Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China

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Dimitri Belli (Visiting Ph.D – Computer Science)

 

 

Research Topic: Mobile social edge computing

 

 

Home institution: University of Pisa, Italy

 

 

 

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

 

Mark Traquair

Mark Traquair (Undergraduate-Computer Science)

 

Research Topic: AI-assisted supply chain optimization

 

 

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Ashish Khiani (Undergraduate-Computer Science)

 

 

Research Topic: IoT- Blockchain solutions

 

 

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Alek Hadzidedic (Undergraduate-Computer Science)

 

 

Research Topic: IoT-Blockchain solutions

 

 

 

 

ACTIVE RESEARCHERS & COLLABORATORS

Moayad Aloqaily (Smart Infrastructures)

Tarek Refaat(Vehicular Clouds)

Mazen G. Khair (SDN / NFV)

 

 

 

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