Murat Kantarcioglu

Murat Kantarcioglu is a professor and CCI Faculty Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech and a core faculty at the Sanghani Center. He is also a faculty associate at Harvard’s Data Privacy Lab. Before joining Virginia Tech, he served as an Ashbel Smith Professor of Computer Science at UT Dallas and was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s RISE Labs.

He earned his Ph.D. in computer science from Purdue University in 2005, where he received the Purdue CERIAS Diamond Award for Academic Excellence. His research centers on integrating cybersecurity, data science, and blockchain technologies to develop secure, privacy-preserving and efficient data analytics and trustworthy AI tools.

His research has been supported by numerous grants from agencies such as NSF, AFOSR, ARO, ONR, NSA, and NIH. He has authored over 180 peer-reviewed papers in top-tier venues including NDSS, CCS, USENIX Security, KDD, NEURIPS, SIGMOD, ICDM, ICDE etc. and several IEEE/ACM Transactions. He has also served as Program Co-Chair for conferences such as IEEE ICDE, ACM SACMAT, IEEE Cloud, IEEE CNS, and ACM CODASPY. His research has been featured by media outlets such as the Boston Globe, ABC News, PBS/KERA, and DFW Television, and he has received multiple best paper awards.  He is also a fellow of IEEE and AAAS.