Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu is an Ashbel Smith Professor in the Computer Science Department and Director of the Data Security and Privacy Lab at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). He held visiting positions at Harvard Data Privacy Lab and UC Berkeley.

He is the recipient of various awards including NSF CAREER award, the AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association) 2014 Homer R Warner Award and the IEEE ISI (Intelligence and Security Informatics) 2017 Technical Achievement Award for his research in data security and privacy. He is also a fellow of IEEE, AAAS and a distinguished member of ACM.