Biography
Arif Selcuk Uluagac earned his Ph.D. with a concentration in information security and networking from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Georgia Institute of Technology in 2010. He also received a M.Sc. in Information Security from the School of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology and a M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009 and 2002, respectively.
Currently, Dr. Uluagac is a research faculty member at the Georgia Tech Communications Assurance and Performance Group (CAP) and Communications Systems Center within the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.
The focus of his research lies at the intersection of the networking and security fields. Of particular interest to Dr. Uluagac is designing secure and energy efficient communication protocols and architectures for cyber-physical systems and critical infrastructure networks (e.g., Smart Grids).
In 2007, he received “2007 Outstanding ECE Graduate Teaching Assistant Award” from the School of ECE at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also an active member of IEEE (senior grade), ACM, and ASEE and a regular contributor to leading panels, journals, and conferences in the field.