Prof. dr Vladimir Ćirić

Biografija

Education

Prof. Dr. Vladimir Ćirić (PPD) is Full Professor at Computer Science Department at Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš, Serbia. He graduated at the Computer Science Department, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš in 2001, and in 2005 and 2011 he obtained magistar and doctoral degree in Computer Science from the University of Niš.

Employment

In 2002, Prof. Ciric was appointed as a teaching and research assistant at the Computer Science Department, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Nis, Serbia. After obtaining his Ph.D. degree in 2011, in 2012 he was appointed Assistant Professor by the University of Nis, Associate Professor in 2017, and Full Professor in 2022. He teaches computer network security, cloud computing, and programming-related courses at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering. Since 2006, he has been an instructor at the Cisco Networking Academy at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering. He served as CEO of the Technology Transfer Center at the University of Nis from 2013 to 2016. In 2013, he proposed, designed, and implemented the Curriculum for Computer System Security study module at Master Studies at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, which was accredited for the first time in 2013 and reaccredited by the National Entity for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education in 2019. From 2014 until 2018, he was a member of the management committee of the Cost Action IC1305 Network for Sustainable Ultrascale Computing (NESUS). From 2013 until 2018, he was a member of the Faculty Council, and from 2019 until the present day, he serves as vice president of the Faculty Council. Since 2021, he has been preparing a team of students for national and international cybersecurity competitions. The team of students that he prepared won second place in the Serbian national cybersecurity competition among the 18 higher education institutions. They also achieved notable results in international competitions. In 2023, he established the Laboratory for Advanced Cybersecurity Systems at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering and currently serves as the head of the laboratory.

Teaching

  1. Computer Networks Security (3MRB2B05 - Beybednost racunarskih mreza)
  2. Fundamentals of programming (3OEZ2O02 - Algoritmi i programiranje)
  3. Computer Network Design (2OER7A01 - Projektovanje ra;unarskih mreza)
  4. Cloud Computing (3MRB2B04 - Racunarstvo u oblaku)

Research

His research interests include computer networks and security, cloud computing, computer architectures, and parallel and distributed computing. He has published 20 journal papers and over 40 conference papers, one book, two textbooks, several technical solutions, and one patent. According to the SCOPUS database, he has 90 citations (excluding self-citations) and h-index of 5.

Current Research Activities

The current research activities of Prof. Ciric include cybersecurity-related data collection, analysis, and visualization. His current focus is on publicly available cybersecurity datasets and their analysis using both statistical and machine learning approaches, as well as their implementation in real-life environments. In addition to his work with publicly available datasets, he develops architectures for security-related data collection within computer network environments. Currently, he performs experiments aimed at detecting modern cybersecurity attacks produced in simulated environments using deep learning networks.

Recent publications

  1. Milosevic, Marija S., and Vladimir M. Ciric, "Extreme minority class detection in imbalanced data for network intrusion." Computers & Security 123 (2022): 102940, Impact Factor 5.1.
  2. Vladimir Ciric, Marija Milosevic, Luka Mladenovic, Ivan Milentijevic, "Clustering and Visualization of Network Security-Related Data using Elastic Stack", Proceedings on 10th International Conference on Electrical, Electronic, and Computer Engineering (IcETRAN 2023), Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, June, 2023.
  3. Vladimir Ciric, Dušan Cvetkovic, Nadja Gavrilovic, Natalija Stojanovic, Ivan Milentijevic, "Input Splits Design Techniques for Network Intrusion Detection on Hadoop Cluster", Facta Universitatis, Series: Electronics and Energetics, Vol 34, No 2 (2021), pp. 239-257
  4. Nadja Gavrilovic, Vladimir Ciric, Nikola Lozo, "Snort IDS system visualization interface for alert analysis", Serbian Journal of Electrical Engineering, Vol. 19, No. 1, 2022, pp. 67-78.
  5. Vladimir Ciric, Dusan Cvetkovic, Ivan Milentijevic, "Design and Implementation of Network Intrusion Detection System on the Apache Hadoop Platform", Proceedings on 5th International Conference on Electrical, Electronic, and Computer Engineering (IcETRAN 2018), Palic, Serbia, June, 2018, pp. 1102-1105.

Honours

In 2015 he received the Excellence award and Expert level recognition from Cisco Networking Academy.
Award of the Faculty of Electronic Engineering for the contribution at Cisco Networking Academy of the Faculty of Electronic Engineering 2009
He is an IEEE member since 2005.