Burak Kantarci of University of Ottawa

Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-backed Data Analytics are two enablers for smart and sustainable cities. IoT objects generate massive amounts of heterogeneous and unstructured sensory data. This talk will introduce the challenges and opportunities to achieve efficiency and security aspects. Specific focus will be on the operational and capital cost of the sensory data collection, data acquisition and processing techniques that leverage AI methods to maximize the value of the data and avoid data explosion at the analytics platforms, and AI-driven (i.e. machine and deep learning) system-level security of the sensing infrastructure and analytics platforms from two standpoints: modeling of adversarial behavior and mitigation of cyberattacks. A specific use case, particularly, mobile  crowd-sensing under the IoT ecosystem will be used to cover the  adversarial aspects focusing on trustworthiness issues. The talk  will wrap up by elaborating on the open issues, challenges and future  directions in this field.

Biography:

Burak Kantarci is an Associate Professor and the Founding Director of the Smart Connected Vehicles Innovation Centre (SCVI) in the Kanata North campus of the University of Ottawa, and the founding director of the Next Generation Communications and Computing Networks (NEXTCON) Research Lab at uOttawa. Dr. Kantarci holds a Ph.D in computer engineering; and he is a globally recognized researcher particularly in mobile cloud computing, mobile crowd-sensing and AI-driven solutions for secure and trustworthy cyberspace. Dr. Kantarci is the co-author of over 200 publications in established journals and conferences, and 13 book chapters. He is well known for his contributions to the quantification of data trustworthiness in mobile crowd-sensing (MCS) systems, and game theoretic incentives to promote user participation in MCS campaigns with high value data; as well as AI-backed access control, authentication and machine learning-backed intrusion detection solutions in sensing environments. Dr. Kantarci served as the Chair of IEEE Communications Systems Integration and Modeling Technical Committee, and has served as the Technical Program Co-Chair/ Symposium Co-chair of more than twenty international conferences/ symposia/ workshops including IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) – Communications Systems QoS, Reliability and Modeling (CQRM) symposium. In 2021, he has been elected as the new Secretary of IEEE Social Networks Technical Committee. An Editor of the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Internet of Things, Elsevier Vehicular Communications, an associate editor for IEEE Networking Letters, and an associate editor for Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy. Dr. Kantarci is a Distinguished Speaker of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), senior member of ACM, and senior member of the IEEE.

Address:Ottawa, Ontario, Canada