Bogdan Carbunar

Assistant Professor
School of Computing and Information Sciences
Florida International University
Office: ECS 310
Email: carbunar at cs dot fiu dot edu.

CV

About

I am an assistant professor in the SCIS Department at FIU in Miami. Before joining FIU I spent 6 years in Motorola Labs (Applied Research Center when I left) in Schaumburg and Libertyville, IL. Even earlier, I completed a Ph.D. in CS at Purdue University.
My research interests are in privacy and security issues in online (geo)social networks (e.g., fake review detection, private location-centric aggregates, location verification), caching in content distribution networks of video on demand providers, private data and computation outsourcing, electronic payments.

Selected Recent Publications


  • [HotPOST@ICDCS] Yelp Events: Building Bricks Without Clay?
    Jaime Ballesteros, Bogdan Carbunar, Mahmudur Rahman, Naphtali Rishe.
    To appear in the 5th International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-peer Computing and Online Social Networks (HotPOST).

  • [ACM TOMCCAP] A Framework for Network Aware Caching for Video on Demand Systems.
    Bogdan Carbunar, Rahul Potharaju, Michael Pearce, Venugopal Vasudevan, Michael Needham.
    Accepted for publication in the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP). [pdf]

  • [IEEE MASS] You Unlocked the Mt. Everest Badge on Foursquare! Countering Location Fraud in GeoSocial Networks.
    Bogdan Carbunar, Rahul Potharaju.
    In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Las Vegas, October 2012. [pdf]

    Please see here for a complete list.

    Students -- alphabetical ordering :)

    Mozhgan Azimpurkivi
    Madhusudan Banik
    George Burri
    Mahmudur Rahman

    Teaching

    Spring 2013
  • CIS5372: Foundations of Computer Security: Online Edition

    Fall 2012
  • CIS5372: Foundations of Computer Security

  • CNT4403: Computer Security

    Spring 2012
  • CIS5374: Information Security and Privacy

    Fall 2011
  • CIS5372: Foundations of Computer Security

    SELECTED PROJECTS

  • FitLock: Attacks and Defenses for a Health Monitoring Device
  • iSafe: Context Aware Public Safety
  • WatchYT: Detecting Fake Review Campaigns in Yelp
  • Secure and Private Data Outsourcing
  • Where-Fi
  • Conditional Electronic Payments
  • Coverage in Sensor Networks and RFID Systems

    SERVICE

    I am or have been involved with the following venues: ICICS 2013, IEEE ICDCS 2013, IEEE CCNC 2013, Inscrypt 2012, IEEE ICPADS 2012, IEEE SICK, ISOC NDSS 2012, CCSocialComp 2011, ACM STC 2011, IEEE ICME 2011, ACM CCSW 2010, ACM STC 2010, ACM SAC 2010, FC 2010, CoSec 2009, ACM STC 2009, ACM CCSW 2009, IEEE NPSec 2009, IEEE NPSec 2008, FC 2008 (Poster Chair), MODUS 2008, IEEE NPSec 2007, Inscrypt 2007

    PERSONAL: I am Bogdan Carbunar. Like everyone else.

    Things I like:

  • Windsurfing, swimming, biking.
  • I can read. Anything from cereal boxes, labels, traffic signals to fiction (e.g., Greene, Maugham, Mann, Pagnol, Saki).
  • Music. A bit of P. Floyd, J. Coltrane, Corelli among many others.
  • Former interests include spelunking (caving), jumping from small bridges, biking on snow and camping in severely under-provisioned tents (in terms of temperature and overall comfort).