His research focuses on creating technologies that can efficiently extract useful information from any data without sacrificing privacy or security. Recently, he has been working on security and privacy issues raised by data mining, privacy issues in social networks, privacy issues in health care, and risk and incentive issues in assured information sharing. His lab has created open source tools, such as the “Anonymization Tool Box,” that people can download and use to sanitize data and share it in a secure fashion. The tool box has compiled the best tools made available by various sources and put them together in one convenient location for public use. Kantarcioglu obtained his master’s degree and Ph.D. in computer science from Purdue University.