Dr. Kemal Akkaya

Dr. Kemal Akkaya is a full professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Florida International University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the 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 George Washington University in Fall 2013. Dr. Akkaya leads the Advanced Wireless and Security Lab (ADWISE) in the ECE Dept. His current research interests include security and privacy, security and privacy, internet-of-things, and cyber-physical systems. Dr. Akkaya is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM. He is the area editor of Elsevier Ad Hoc Network Journal and serves on the editorial board of IEEE Communication Surveys and Tutorials. Dr. Akkaya was the General Chair of IEEE Local Computer Networks (LCN) conference in 2018 and PC chair for IEEE ICC Smart Grid Communications Symposium 2019. He has served as the guest editor for Journal of High-Speed Networks, Computer Communications Journal, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal and in the TPC of many leading wireless networking conferences including IEEE ICC, Globecom, INFOCOM, LCN, and WCNC. He has published over 180 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He has received the "Top Cited'' article award from Elsevier in 2010.