A. Selcuk Uluagac
Associate ProfessorBiography
- Dr. A. Selcuk Uluagac is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Florida International University, where where he leads the Cyber-Physical Systems Security Lab (CSL). He has served as a member of the research faculty as a Senior Research Engineer in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Georgia Institute of Technology and prior to Georgia Tech, he was a Senior Research Engineer at Symantec.
- Dr. Uluagac earned his Ph.D. with a concentration in security and networking from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Georgia Institute of Technology in 2010. He also received a M.S. in Information Security from the School of Computer Science at The Georgia Institute of Technology and a M.S. in networking from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, respectively.
- The focus of his research is on cybersecurity and privacy with an emphasis on its practical and applied aspects. In 2015, he received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and received a fellowship from the Air Force Office of Sponsored Research (AFOSR)’s Summer Faculty Fellowship Program. In 2016, he received the Summer Faculty Fellowship from the University of Padova, Italy. In 2007, he received the “Outstanding ECE Graduate Teaching Assistant Award” from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also an active member of IEEE (senior grade), ACM, USENIX, and ASEE and a regular contributor to national panels and leading journals and conferences in the field. Dr. Uluagac has served on the program committees of top-tier security conferences such as IEEE Security & Privacy (“Oakland”), NDSS, ASIACCS, inter alia. He was the General Chair of ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (ACM WiSec) in 2019. Currently, he serves on the editorial boards of Elsevier Computer Networks Journal, Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), and the IEEE Communications and Surveys and Tutorials. He has been very active in external funding efforts during his tenure at FIU related to the security and privacy of Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems areas. Specifically, his research was funded by NSF, Department of Energy, Air Force Research Lab, Cyber Florida, Trend Micro, and Cisco.
Honors and Awards
- Service Award for Contributions as General Chair by Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), to 12th ACM International Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec) (May 2019)
- NSF CAREER AWARD by the National Science Foundation (NSF), in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations (May 2015)
- Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Award by the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), (March 2015)
- Summer Faculty Fellowship Award by the University of Padova, Italy, Department of Mathematics, Italy, (June 2016)
Research and Educational Interests
- Security and privacy of Internet of Things (IoT)
- Security and privacy of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
- Security for critical infrastructure networks (e.g., smart-grid, smart city),
- Wireless and mobile device security,
- Big data security,
- Block-chain.
Background Education
2010 Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology Electrical and Computer Engineering
2009 M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology Information Security, Computer Science
2002 M.S., Carnegie Mellon University Electrical and Computer Engineering
1997 B.S., Turkish Naval Academy Computer Science and Engineering
1997 B.A., Turkish Naval Academy Naval Science
Selected Publications
- Abbas Acar, Hidayet Aksu, Kemal Akkaya, and A. Selcuk Uluagac, “A Usable and Robust Continuous Authentication Framework using Wearables,” Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, February 2020, IF: 3.8
- Amit Kumar Sikder, Hidayet Aksu, and A. Selcuk Uluagac,”A Context-aware Framework for Detecting Sensor-based Threats on Smart Devices,” in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, January 2019, IF: 3.822
- H. Aksu, L. Babun, M. Conti, G. Tolomei, and A. S. Uluagac, “Advertising in the iot era: Vision and challenges,” IEEE Communications Magazine, pp. 1–7, April 2018, IF: 9.270
- A. Acar, H. Aksu, A. S. Uluagac, and M. Conti, “A survey on homomorphic encryption schemes: Theory and implementation,” ACM Computing Surveys., vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 79:1–79:35, Jul. 2018, IF: 5.550
- H. Menouar, I. Guvenc, K. Akkaya, A. S. Uluagac, A. Kadri, and A. Tuncer, “Uav-enabled intelligent transportation systems for the smart city: Applications and challenges,” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 22–28, March 2017, IF: 9.270
- M. H. Cintuglu, O. A. Mohammed, K. Akkaya, and A. S. Uluagac, “A survey on smart grid cyber-physical system testbeds,” IEEE Communications Surveys Tutorials, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 446–464, 1st quarter 2017, IF: 20.230