Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu Data Security and Privacy Lab

Other Service

Editorial Roles

  1. Founding co-editor-in-chief, ACM Transactions on AI Security and Privacy (2025-present)
  2. Co-editor-in-chief, Frontiers in Big Data: Cyber Security Track (2022-present)
  3. Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (2024-present)
  4. Associate Editor, ACM Computing Survey (2022-2025)
  5. Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, ACM (2020-2025)
  6. Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE (2012-2016)
  7. Associate Editor, Transactions on Collaborative Computing, EAI (2014-2018)
  8. Associate Editor, Data Science and Engineering (DSE) Journal (2015-2020)
  9. Associate Editor, IET Information Security Journal (2015-2017)
  10. Associate Editor, Very Large Database Management Journal (VLDBJ) (2015-2020)
  11. Associate Editor, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (2015-2020)

Service at Virginia Tech

  1. Personnel Committee Member, Fall 2025-Present
  2. Co-Director CS/Roots (The Entrepreneurship Hub @ Virginia Tech CS Department), Fall 2025-Present

Service at UT Dallas

  1. Fall 2022 to Fall 2023: School-wide Strategic Planning Committee Member
  2. Fall 2021 to Fall 2023: Engineering School Academic Affairs Committee
  3. Fall 2022 to Spring 2024: Ph.D. Committee
  4. Fall 2022 to Spring 2024: Teaching Assistant Selection Committee
  5. Fall 2019 to Spring 2024: Academic Advisor to Blockchain Club
  6. Spring 2019, Spring 2020: Departmental Search Committee Member
  7. Spring 2019 to Spring 2024: UT Dallas Institutional Review Board Member
  8. Fall 2017: Strategic planning working group on Research and Doctoral Education
  9. Fall 2010 to 2016: Equipment Committee Chair, Department of Computer Science, UT Dallas
  10. Fall 2006 to Spring 2024: Equipment Committee Member, Department of Computer Science, UT Dallas
  11. Fall 2006 to Fall 2017: CS Graduate Admission committee member
  12. Spring 2008, Fall 2015, Fall 2022: CS 6360 Qualifying Exam Committee Chair, Department of Computer Science, UT Dallas
  13. Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2016, Fall 2016: CS 6360 Qualifying Exam Committee Member, Department of Computer Science, UT Dallas
  14. Spring 2006: Outside Chair for Management Final Oral Examination of Ekin Alakent
  15. Fall 2005, Spring 2006: Organized an information security research discussion group

Proposal Reviews

  1. 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023: National Science Foundation Panels
  2. 2021: National Institutes of Health
  3. 2020, 2021: Army Research Office
  4. 2022, 2023, 2024: Department of Homeland Security
  5. 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023: Swiss National Science Foundation
  6. 2012, 2013: The Italian Research and University Evaluation Agency (ANVUR) Evaluation Panel
  7. 2014: STW Foundation, Netherlands
  8. 2012, 2013, 2015: DOE Graduate Fellowship Review Panel, DOE SBIR Panel
  9. 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024: Research Grants Council, Hong Kong
  10. 2006: Reviewer, Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation (KSEF)
  11. 2005: Reviewer, Estonian Science Foundation

External Ph.D. Thesis Committees

  1. Spring 2009-Spring 2012: Elizabeth A. Durham, Vanderbilt University. Thesis title: "Building a Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage Framework for Healthcare"
  2. Spring 2007, Fall 2007: Onur Kardes, Stevens Institute of Technology. Thesis title: "General Implementation Framework for Privacy Preserving Data Mining"

Search Committees

  1. Chair, Editor in Chief Search Committee for IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 2024
  2. Member, Editor in Chief Search Committee for IEEE Transactions on Privacy, 2023
  3. Member, Editor in Chief Search Committee for ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, 2023

Journal Reviewing

  1. Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE
  2. Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE
  3. Transactions on Database Systems, ACM
  4. Transactions on Internet Technology, ACM
  5. Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, ACM
  6. Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics-Part C, IEEE
  7. Transaction on Neural Networks, IEEE
  8. Mobile Networks and Applications
  9. Pattern Recognition Letters
  10. Knowledge and Information Systems
  11. Artificial Intelligence Review
  12. VLDB Journal
  13. Information Systems (Elsevier)
  14. Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE) Journal
  15. Internet Computing, IEEE