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Research GRANTS And Funded Projects 
| Ontario Research Fund-Research Excellence (ORF-RE)
  (PI, Total: $999,985) SITE-CAV: Secure, Intelligent and Trustworthy Ecosystems
  for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (SITE-CAV) | 2025-2029 |  |  | 
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| Mitacs Accelerate (PI, Total: $165,000) Traffic Estimation and
  Stable Resource Allocation Using Distributed Machine
  Learning | 2024-2026 |  |  | 
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| NSERC DISCOVERY (PI, Total: $230,000) Building Reliable and
  Secure Networks Driven
  by the Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence for Smart and Connected Critical
  Infrastructures | 2024-2029 |  |  | 
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| Mitacs Accelerate
  (PI, Total: $90,000) Improving
  Safety of The Intended Functionality (SOTIF) Analysis for Autonomous Vehicles | 2024-2025 |  |  | 
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| Mitacs Accelerate
  (PI, Total: $90,000) Machine Learning-Driven Decision
  Support for Autonomous Services in Airport
  Operations | 2024-2025 |  |  | 
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| NSERC Collaborative
  Research and Training Experience (CREATE), PI, Total: $1,650,000)  CREATE Program for Training and Research in Autonomous Vehicles for Reliable Services in the Air and on Land (TRAVERSAL) | 2023-2029 |  |  | 
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| NSERC Alliance Mitacs
  Accelerate (PI, Awarded, Total: $135,000)  Intelligent Strategies for Optimal
  Virtual Network Function Placement in 5G Core | 2022-2024 |  |  | 
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| UTFORSK-Norway [lead
  institution: Univ. of Agder] (Co-PI
  & uOttawa Project Coordinator, Total Budget: 3M NOK ~ $400,000 CAD) | 2023-2026 |  |  | 
| Elevating the Quality of
  Education in ICT towards 2030 through Multilateral Collaborations (EQEI) |  |  |  | 
| Department of National
  Defence –Innovation for National Defence and Security (IDEaS)
  (PI, Total: $1,486,375 ) Autonomous, Reliable, Scalable and Secure
  Resource Management in Multi-level 5G edge | 2022-2025 |  |  | 
| Department of National
  Defence –Innovation for National Defence and Security (IDEaS)
  (PI, Total: $1,495,062 ) AI-Driven Situational-Aware Security and
  Performance Assurance for 5G-Enabled Critical Infrastructures | 2022-2025 |  |  | 
| Mitacs
  Accelerate (PI Total: $40,000) An End User-Centric Study of Autonomous
  Technology Adoption in Controlled Environments | 2022-2023 |  |  | 
| Mitacs Business
  Strategy Internship (BSI) (Total: 40,000, PI) Project Title: Food and Beverage Golf Course Drone Delivery | 2022 |  |  | 
| Ontario
  Centre for Innovation - Voucher for Innovation Productivity (VIP) (PI, Total:
  $156,666) Project Title: Deep Learning-Driven Integrated driver
  distraction detection system from multi-modal vehicular sensor data | 2022-2023 |  |  | 
| NSERC-Ontario
  Centre of Innovation VIP Alliance (Awarded:
  $90,000 PI, $75K In Cash) Project Title: Security by Design via Radio Fingerprinting for Autonomous
  Vehicle (AV) Network | 2021-2022 |  |  | 
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| Mitacs
  Accelerate Awarded
  ($225,000; co-PI share 50%) Project Title: Machine Learning-Enhanced Anomaly Detection and
  Performance Optimization for Enterprise WiFi Networks | 2021-2023 |  |  | 
| Canada Foundation
  for Innovation (CFI)- John R. Evans Leaders Fund (PI)+ Ontario Research
  Fund-Research Infrastructure  (Awarded:
  $650,574) Project Title: AI-Backed Internet of Vehicles Laboratory: An Open
  Access Innovation Facility  | 2020-2024 |  |  | 
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| NSERC Alliance
  (Total Amount: $50,000, PI) Project Title:
  Artificial Intelligence-Based Decision Support System for COVID-19 Mobile
  Assessments and Optimal Supply Services During the Pandemic | 2020-2021 |  |  | 
| Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) - 5G
  (ENCQOR) Academic Technology Development Program (Awarded, Total
  Amount: $150,000, PI) Project Title:
  Machine Learning-based Firewall-less Security Automation for the Network Edge | 2020-2022 |  |  | 
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| MITACS Elevate (Awarded, Total
  Amount: $120,000, PI) Project title:
  Meta-information Extraction from Large-scale Streaming News for Entity-level
  Media Intelligence and Reporting | 2020-2022 |  |  | 
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| MITACS Accelerate (Cluster-Size;
  Awarded: $270,000 CAD in cash, PI) | 2019-2022 |  |  | 
| Project Title:
  AI-Based Automated
  Methodologies for Supply Chains: High Precision Tabular Detection and
  Semantic Modeling of E-Components |  |  |  | 
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| Ontario Centres of Excellence-OCE AVIN
  TIP (Awarded $40,000CAD total $30,000CAD in cash, PI) Project Title:
  Vehicular Sensor Fusion for Detection and Characterization of Significant
  Events | 2019-2020 |  |  | 
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| Ontario Centres of Excellence-OCE VIP 1
  (Awarded $39,999CAD total $24,999CAD in cash, PI) Project Title:
  Fine-grained continuous authentication accounting for multiple risk context
  factors | 2019 |  |  | 
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| NSERC ENGAGE (Awarded $25,000
  CAD, PI) Project Title:
  Semantic Modelling and Machine Learning Analysis of a Billion+ Electronic
  Components Products to Support Supply Chain Optimization | 2018 |  |  | 
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| Ontario Centres of Excellence-OCE VIP1
  (Awarded $39,983 CAD total, $24,983CAD in cash, PI) Project Title:
  Semantic Modelling and Machine Learning Analysis of a Billion+ Electronic
  Components Products to Support Supply Chain Optimization | 2018 |  |  | 
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| NSERC DISCOVERY  (Awarded $125,000 CAD in total, PI) Project Title: Mobile social network analytics and mobile
  edge solutions for trustworthy and reliable urban sensing  | 2017-2022 |  |  | 
| Visiting
  Researcher Program- OVPR (Awarded, $6,000 CAD, PI) Project Title: Empowering Smart
  Mobile Devices for Real-time Health Analytics | 2018 |  |  | 
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| NSF US-Ignite: (Awarded,
  $750,000CAD;  co-PI share: $137,788 CAD
  Subawarded to the University of Ottawa) Project Title:
  An Integrated Reconfigurable Control and Self-Organizing Communication
  Framework for Advanced Community Resilience Microgrids | 2017-2021 |  |  | 
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| NSF-CRII: Secure Trustworthy Cyberspace
  Program (Awarded $225,000 CAD, 
  PI) | 2015-2017 |  |  | 
| Project title:
  CRII: SaTC: Energy efficient participatory data collection and Context-Aware
  Incentives for Trustworthy Crowdsensing via Mobile Social Networks |  |  |  | 
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| CITeR: NSF-I/UCRC Cooperative Research
  Center (PI, Awarded $50,000 CAD)  |  |  |  | 
| Project Title:
  Context-aware Anomaly Detection in Internet of Biometric Things  | 2015-2016 |  |  | 
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| Qualcomm Inc., (PI, Awarded
  $20,000.00 ) | 2015-2017 |  |  | 
| Project Title:
  Wireless Internet of Things Lab for Sensor Networks, Localization, and Mobile
  Computing at Clarkson University  |  |  |  | 
| University of Ottawa Startup Grant Project Title:
  Large scale sensing systems for smart cities | 2016- Present |  |  | 
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| Clarkson University Startup Grant  | 2014-2016 |  |  | 
| Project Title:
  Clarkson University Research Startup |  |  |  | 
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| Postdoctoral Research fellowship | 2009-2014 |  |  | 
| Awarded at
  University of Ottawa by WiSense project at School of EECS |  |  |  | 
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| PhD Research Grant (funded PhD thesis study at the
  University of Ottawa) | 2007-2008 |  |  | 
| TUBITAK-Scientific
  and Technological Research Council of Turkey |  |  |  |