Curriculum Vitae - The University of Texas at Dallas

Research and Technology Transfer in Data Management: During the mid to late 1980s while atHoneywell Computer Sciences Center, I worked with a team on a number of research projects funded bythe commercial divisions. In one effort we developed an application generator toolkit to help the residentialcontrol division programmers develop database applications. In another effort, we explored the use ofexpert systems technology for designing process control systems such as Honeywell’s TDC3000 forIndustrial Automation division. We also designed and developed a distributed data dictionary system forHoneywell’s Residential control division. While my main research has been in data and applicationssecurity, I have a solid background in database systems, as I believe strongly that to conduct securityresearch in data management, one needs a good understanding of database systems.Data, Information and Knowledge Management: At MITRE, in the mid to late 1990s and early 2000, Imanaged a research group in Information Management (which included data management, multimedia,information management, data mining and knowledge management) for several years. I also advised thegovernment and MITRE on data/information management and wrote five books in the field for technicalmanagers. I managed university research programs for the Intelligence Community for six years. Severaljournal and conference papers were published in Knowledge and Process Management Journal, ComputerStandards and Interface Journal and the IEEE Data Engineering Conference. I also served on the editorialboard of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering for four years. Having a strong systemsbackground has helped my security research a great deal as security is not a stand-alone field and has to beintegrated with systems.Area 5: Information Technologies for Homeland SecuritySince 9/11 I have been very active at NSF on interagency research in homeland security. In particular, Ihave set the direction for data mining for counter-terrorism and gave keynote presentations at the WhiteHouse and the United Nations. I consulted for DHHS (Health and Human Services) on bioterrorism andalso wrote a book on data mining for counter-terrorism. I am also very aware of privacy concerns and aspart of my research on information security, I am addressing privacy. I will continue to contribute tohomeland security areas. I am using my expertise in areas such as data security, real-time systems and datamining and theory to investigate problems in national security. Also, to get a better understanding ofterrorist behavior, I completed the certification in terrorism studies at University of St. Andrews inScotland in Summer 2010.117