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Kemal Akkaya

Professor and IEEE Fellow
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
KF School of Computing and Information Sciences (courtesy)
Florida International University
Miami, FL 33174

I am a full Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Florida International University (FIU). I also have a joint courtesy appointment at Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Science (SCIS) . I received my BS degree in Computer Science from Bilkent University, MS degree in Computer Engineering from Middle-East Technical University, Turkey and PhD in Computer Science from University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). I lead the Advanced Wireless and Security (ADWISE) Research Lab at FIU. I am also an IEEE Fellow. Previously, I was an associate professor at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL. At FIU, I also act as the Research Director for the Cybersecurity Emerging Preeminent Program , which is a university-wide effort to conduct interdisciplinary research and education in numerous aspects of cybersecurity. My current research interests are :

Wireless and Network Security

• Secure Protocol Design
• IoT Security
• Cyber-physical System Security
• PKI & Key Management
• 5G Security and Standards
• Blockchain Applications and Cryptocurrencies
• IoT/CPS and Cryptocurrency Forensics
• SDN and NFV-based Defense

• Privacy in Smart Grid
• Privacy in Vehicular Networks
• Privacy in Smart Buildings/Homes
• Privacy in Distributed Autonomous Organizations
• Homomorphic and Secure Multi-party Computation (MPC) Systems
• Performance improvement of Privacy-preserving Machine Learning using MPC
• Network management for MPC
• Privacy vs Policy vs Ethics

• Energy-Efficient Protocols
• QoS Provisioning & Multimedia Processing
• Coverage and Connectivity
• Node Placement and topology management
• Group mobility and re-organization

Please check my Google Scholar Site for details.

1. I am an affiliated faculty with University of Florida Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research (FICS)
2. I am affiliated with of University of Florida Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World .
3. I am serving as a cybersecurity theme coordination committee member for UNESCO Chair for Water Security

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