Curriculum Vitae - The University of Texas at Dallas

Section 18: DISCUSSION OF COMPLETE RESEARCH ANDPUBLICATIONS (1980 – Present)18.1 INTRODUCTIONIn this note I give a detailed overview of the research I have carried out since I started my professionalcareer in August 1980 after my PhD. It shows the depth and breadth of my work. Please note that asynopsis of my research record is given in Section 3 describing the significance of my research withspecific references and citations.I first describe my research focus at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) since October 2004, andthen describe my research contributions to computer science from 1980-2004. Research at UTD,discussed in Section 18.2, is focusing in two major areas: Data Security and Privacy (Assured InformationSharing; Secure Geospatial Data Management and Secure Social Networks) and Information Management(Semantic Web, Data Mining). In particular, we are developing novel data mining techniques and securesemantic web technologies to solve problems mainly for cyber security and national security.In addition to computability theory research which I carried out while a visiting faculty, my priorresearch, was carried out mainly while I was in industry. It has focused on data security, datamanagement, distributed systems and data mining and is discussed in Section 18.3. My research spansfrom theory to system design, modeling and implementation to application design to technology transferto big-picture/vision. I have discussed my research in five areas (Computability Theory, InformationSecurity, Distributed Systems and Real-time Objects, Data Management, and Homeland Security).My main research area since 1985 has been in Secure Dependable Data Management and still continues.My research has resulted in over 100 journal papers, over 200 conference/workshop papers, over 80keynote presentations, 3 patents and 12 books (10 published, 2 in preparation).18.2 RESEARCH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS(October 2004 – Present: Data and Applications Security, Information Management)Research is proceeding in two main areas: Data Security and Privacy, and Information Management.Publications: Several journal publications including IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man andCybernetics, Very Large Database Journal, Computer Systems Science and Engineering, MultimediaTools, ACM Transactions on Information Systems Security, IEEE Transactions on Dependable andSecure Systems, Data and Knowledge Engineering. Conferences include ACM SACMAT, IFIP DataSecurity, IEEE ICDM, ACM GIS, IEEE ISORC, PKDD.I. Data and Applications SecurityArea 1: Assured Information Sharing: Funding from AFOSR, NSF (2004 - Present)In the area of assured information sharing, the goal is for organizations to share data and at the same timeenforce policies. We are investigating confidentiality, privacy, trust, integrity, provenance, standards andinfrastructure aspects. In particular, we are examining three scenarios. In the first scenario, we assumethat the partners of a coalition are trustworthy (e.g, US, UK, Australia). However, each partner may wantto enforce various security policies. We are investigating RBAC and UCON policies for such a scenario,carrying out data mining and conducting experimental studies as to the amount of information that is lostby enforcing policies. We are also investigating ways to transfer our technologies to programs such asDoD’s NCES (Network Centric Enterprise Services).In the second scenario, we assume that the partners are semi-trustworthy. In this case, we want to playgames with the partners and extract as much information as possible without giving out information aboutourselves. We are using results from game theory to formulate strategies for such a scenario and have113