Curriculum Vitae - The University of Texas at Dallas

on Query Flocks at ACM SIGMOD which is widely cited. Although I was invited to join as a co-author, Ideclined as I only put my name on a paper if I have made technical contributions to that paper. At thesame time, I got the MITRE team to write an article on data management research at MITRE and got itpublished in the highly visible ACM SIGMOD RECORD. This article instantly put MITRE on the map asa player in data management and data mining.In my position, by the late 1990s, I had to interact with people at many levels. These included researchers,government sponsors, and management at MITRE among others. In addition, I had my own research todo. Therefore, I felt that I had to write some books that would educate the high level managers andgovernment sponsors about the key concepts. Therefore, I started writing a few books on datamanagement and data mining. That has now evolved into twelve books on data management, data miningand data security. Around the late 1990s, being at MITRE I felt that I was getting more and more removedfrom what industry was doing. By that time, my six years in industry at Control Data and Honeywell inthe 1980s seemed so long ago. Therefore, when the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) consulting opportunityfor examining software research credit arose at MITRE, I took the position without any hesitation. Thisgave me insights (and continues to give me insights) into what the Fortunate 500 companies do and whatthey ought to do with respect to software. Therefore, now I have such an excellent understanding of whatindustry is doing which is helping me a lot with my own university spin-off company.In January 2001, I felt I was ready for the big move to Washington to see what it is like to be inside thegovernment. My plan was to go there for one year to manage the data management program. But I endedup spending three years. I started the data and applications security program and co-founded the cybertrust theme. I started my own research in secure semantic web and data privacy and worked with theUniversity of Milan team on XML Security. Our joint research papers were published in two prestigiousjournals: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering on Third Party Publication of Data andin ACM Transactions on Information and Systems Security on Privacy for Trust Management. While atNSF, I also began to get a clear picture and understand the government’s needs. With this knowledge, Ithen joined The University of Texas at Dallas.My task at the university was to establish a cyber security research center. While I had some startup fundsfor my own research, I did not have funds to start the center. Therefore, I decided to focus on datasecurity. After 9/11, there was a huge demand for information sharing. Therefore, I started a project withthe Air Force and worked on assured information sharing. Our papers were published in several journalsincluding the Journal of Information Security and Privacy. More importantly, I wrote the one page paperthat went into the DoD MURI BAA (Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University ResearchInitiative Broad Agency Announcement). This resulted in a very large research project on this topic.While my team’s focus is on incentives-based information sharing, which is an interdisciplinary projectbetween economists, management scientists, social scientists and computer scientists, my work alsocontinued to be in policy management for semantic web and I expanded it to social networks. Our paperpublished in ACM SACMT in 2009 was one of the early papers on security for social networks based onsemantic web and an enhanced version of this paper has appeared in the Computers and Security Journal.In addition to policy management and information sharing, my research also focused on ontologyalignment and data mining for security applications. In the area of ontology alignment, we used geospatialdata as the applications domain. Our papers were published in the prestigious conference ACM GIS threeyears in a row (2007-2009) and a paper was published in the highly prestigious Journal of Web Semantics.In the area of data mining for security applications, we have made tremendous progress in developingnovel techniques as well as tools. Several papers have been published including in prestigious conferencessuch as IEEE ICDM, and ECML/PKDD as well as in ACM Transactions on Management InformationSystems and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. A patent on stream mining as wellas another on social network mining have been filed. A small part of my time is spent on investigatingissues on dependable systems and we have a paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Reliability on thistopic.Last but not least, one of the major areas for our government sponsors is secure cloud computing. Wehave a fairly large project on this topic and are building a secure cloud infrastructure to demonstrate theassured information sharing concept. We are one of the first to get into this area and have developed10