Kamil Sarac

Professional Preparation

Ph.D. - Computer Science
University of California at Santa Barbara - 2002

M.S. - Computer Science
University of California Santa Barbara - 1997

B.S. - Computer Engineering
Middle East Technical University - 1994

Research Areas

Research interests include computer networks and protocols including network monitoring and Internet measurements; security of software-defined networks; and future Internet architecture design.

Earlier research work includes sampling of large scale complex networks; energy efficient broadcast in ad hoc networks; overlay networks and their use in network security; and group communication and IP multicast.

Publications

In-network Reinforcement Learning for Attack Mitigation using Programmable Data Plane in SDN,
A Ganesan, K Sarac, IEEE ICCCN, Big Island, HI, USA, July 2024 2024 - publications

A Scheme to Introduce New Reachability Domains on the Internet, S Das, K Sarac, IEEE IPCCC, Anaheim, CA, USA, November 2023 2023 - publications

Attack Detection and Mitigation using Intelligent Data Planes in SDNs, A Ganesan, K Sarac
IEEE Globecom, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 2022. 2022 - publications

Practical Labs for Teaching SDN Security, S Das, K Sarac, 26th Colloquium on Information System Security Education (CISSE), Virtual Event, November 2022 2022 - publications

Vulnerability Challenges of Software Defined Networks, Z. Haas, T. Culver, and K. Sarac, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol: 59, issue: 7, pp.88-93, July 2021. 2021 - publications

Poster: Private Internet: A Global End-to-End Service Model, Souvik Das and Kamil Sarac, IEEE 29th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Dallas, TX, October 2021. 2021 - publications

Mitigating Evasion Attacks on Machine Learning based NIDS Systems in SDN, Aparna Ganesan and Kamil Sarac, IEEE 7th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), Tokyo, Japan, June/July 2021. 2021 - publications

ZIDX: A Generic Framework for Random Access to BGP Records in Compressed MRT Datasets, Omer Ozarslan and Kamil Sarac, IEEE ICCCN 2020, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (virtual), August 2020. 2020 - publications

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Appointments

Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Dallas [2002–Present]

Research Assistant
UC Santa Barbara [1998–2002]

Teaching Assistant
UC Santa Barbara [1997–2000]

Projects

UTD Cyber Service Academy Scholarship Program

2023/09

UTD SFS Scholarship Program

2010/09

Software Defined Network Security Lab Exercises

2018/09–2022/08

CTF-PM: CTF Package Manager A Cybersecurity Competition Management System

2017/09–2019/08

Additional Information

Cybersecurity Education

Director of cyber security education programs at the CS department. Managing NSF sponsored Cybercorps: Scholarship for Service (SFS) and DoD Cyber Service Academy Scholarship Programs. Advising over a dozen scholarship students and mentoring them toward their successful degree completion and job search activities with Federal Government agencies.

Teaching

Current teaching:

CS 6349: Network Security [in Fall semesters]
CS 4396: Computer Networks Lab [in Spring semesters]

Others:

CS 4390: Computer Networks
CS 6390: Advanced Computer Networks