Kemal Akkaya

Professor

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Maryland Baltimore County
M.S in Computer Engineering, Middle-East Technical University, Turkey
B.S. in Computer Science, Bilkent University, Turkey

Dr. Kemal Akkaya is a full professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with a joint courtesy appointment in the School of Computer and Information Sciences at Florida International University (FIU). He received his PhD in Computer Science from University of Maryland Baltimore County in 2005 and joined the department of Computer Science at Southern Illinois University (SIU) as an assistant professor. Dr. Akkaya was an associate professor at SIU from 2011 to 2014. He was also a visiting professor at The George Washington University in Fall 2013, a Faculty Fellow at Airforce Research Lab in Summer 2020 and visiting faculty at University of Florida Nelms Institute of Connected World in 2021. Dr. Akkaya leads the Advanced Wireless and Security Lab (ADWISE) in the ECE Department. He is also acting as the Research Director for the FIU’s Emerging Preeminent Program in Cybersecurity, which is a university wide interdisciplinary program. His current research interests include security and privacy, internet-of-things, and cyber-physical systems. His research was funded by many agencies and industries including NSF, DoE, AFRL, DHS, NSA, INL, Cisco, and TrendMicro.  Dr. Akkaya is a senior member of IEEE. He is the area editor of Elsevier Ad Hoc Network Journal and serves on the editorial board of IEEE Communication Surveys and Tutorials and Sensor Journals. Dr. Akkaya was the General Chair of IEEE LCN 2018 and TPC Chair for IEEE ICC Smart Grid Communications. He has served as the guest editor for many journals and in the OC/TPC of many leading network/security conferences including IEEE ICC, Globecom, INFOCOM, LCN, WCNC, ICNP and ACM WiSec. He has published over 230 papers in peer-reviewed journal and conferences with more than 15,000 citations and google h-index of 49. He was listed among the top 2% scientists in the world according to a Stanford University study in 2019. Dr. Akkaya received FIU Faculty Senate Excellence in Research Award and FIU College of Engineering and Computing Research Award both in 2020. He has also received “Top Cited” article award from Elsevier in 2010. He also holds 6 patents. More information about his research and lab can be obtained at http://web.eng.fiu.edu/kakkaya/ and http://adwise.fiu.edu/.



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Aleksandr Krasnok

Assistant Professor

  • 2016 – 2018, Postdoc in Photonics, the University of Texas at Austin
  • 2010 – 2013, Ph.D. in Photonics and Quantum Optics, ITMO University
  • 2008 – 2010, M.S. in Quantum Optics, Far Eastern Federal University


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Stephanie Lunn

Assistant Professor

Stephanie Lunn is an Assistant Professor in the School of Universal Computing, Construction, and Engineering Education (SUCCEED) and the STEM Transformation Institute at Florida International University (FIU). Previously, Dr. Lunn served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She earned her doctoral degree in computer science from FIU, in addition to B.S. and M.S. degrees. She also holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Neuroscience from the University of Miami. Her research interests span the fields of computing and engineering education, human-computer interaction, data science, and machine learning.



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A. Selcuk Uluagac

Associate Professor

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

 



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