Curriculum Vitae - The University of Texas at Dallas

designs for privacy constraint processing which is along the lines of my work on the inference problem. Iam exploring some new directions such as security for sensor information systems.Other Information: Some of my research in secure databases was carried out in collaboration with theUniversity of Minnesota in the 1980s and I supervised MS and PhD students there. At MITRE I hadstudents working on my projects in secure databases from CMU and Cornell. I have also collaborated withthe University of Milan and supervised a PhD student. I mentored junior staff at the NSA at the request ofthe chief between 1991 and 1997 and wrote joint papers. I also reviewed university research proposals forNSA in this area between 1991 and 1996. I invented three US patents for MITRE on database inferencecontrol and have authored a very comprehensive book in database and applications security. I served onthe editorial board of the Journal of Computer Security for ten years and now serve on the editorial boardsof two of the major journals in security: ACM Transactions on Information Systems Security and IEEETransactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. In addition, I serve on the editorial and advisoryboards of four other security journals. My research in secure databases has also resulted in being elected aFellow of IEEE, AAAS and the British Computer Society. I received the IEEE CS 1997 TechnicalAchievement award for this work and was also quoted by Silicon India as one of top seven technologyinnovators of South Asian origin (other six are from Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, NASA, HP Labs andPARC). Several articles have appeared in IEEE Computer, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and DataEngineering, ACM OOPSLA, Journal of Object-Oriented Programming, Computers and Security Journal,Data and Knowledge Engineering, and Journal of Systems and Software.Area 3: Dependable Data ManagementDistributed Systems: I believe strongly that to carry out security research one needs a good understandingof systems. Therefore, while conducting security research since 1985, I have also worked in systemsincluding database systems, distributed systems and networks. Some of my early work with the Universityof Minnesota in the 1980s was on distributed fault tolerant systems. We worked on binary tree task modelsfor fault tolerant computing. I supervised PhD students in this area. While at Honeywell, I spent part of mytime designing a network operating system for space station networks. Prior to Honeywell, I had over 2years of product development experience with CDCNET at Control Data Corporation.Survivable Real-time Object Systems: Between 1993 and 2000 I worked with a team at MITRE and theUniversity of Rhode Island conducting research for next generation AWACS (Airborne Warning andControl System). My goal was to integrate my security research with real-time processing and faulttolerance techniques to build survivable systems. We designed and developed an infrastructure and datamanager based on objects for next generation AWACS and transferred the technology to Air Forceprograms. We also investigated aspects of integrating security, real-time processing and fault toleranceissues. I led the real-time information management part of the project and also helped found the real-timeobject request broker group at the Object Management Group. We were the first to propose real-timeaspects for Object Request Brokers in 1994. We continued our investigation on real-time CORBA and alsoinvestigated scheduling for real-time middleware. We also designed and developed new concurrencycontrol algorithms for real-time object databases. This research had a major impact not only on Air Forceprograms but also on other DoD programs. We influenced the standards community, the commercialcommunity (for real-time CORBA) and the research community (e.g., real-time concurrency control). Ialso supervised MS and PhD students in this area from University of Rhode Island and North EasternUniversity. Several papers on fault tolerant and real-time computing were published including articles inIEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and DataEngineering, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Symposium of Object-Oriented Real-timeComputing, Real-time Systems Journal, IEEE Network, VLDB Conference, and Computer SystemsScience and Engineering.Area 4: Data and Information Management116