Curriculum Vitae - The University of Texas at Dallas

Section 4: RESEARCH LEADERSHIPhttp://ecs.utdallas.edu/news-events/news/csaward-6-10.htmlComputer Science Professor Bhavani Thuraisingham received the 2010 RESEARCH LEADERSHIPAWARD For Outstanding and Sustained Leadership Contributions to INTELLIGENCE ANDSECURITY INFORMATICS jointly awarded by The IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems SocietyTechnical Committee on Intelligence and Security Informatics in Transportation Systems and The IEEESystems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Homeland Security.Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), a term coined by Dr. H. Chen, McClelland Professor ofManagement Information System at the University of Arizona Business School, is an interdisciplinaryfield that integrates multiple disciplines such as computer and information sciences, social sciences andmanagement sciences to support law enforcement, counterterrorism and homeland security missions ofanticipation, interdiction, prevention, preparedness and response to terrorism and violence.Thuraisingham received this award at the Eighth IEEE ISI Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia onMay 24, 2010. Previous recipients of this award include Dr. John Phillips, Chief Scientist of the CIA in2006, and Dr. Henry Lee, the world renowned Forensics Scientist in 2008. Not only has Dr.Thuraisingham been a pioneering researcher in the field of ISI for the past 25 years, she has continued toprovide extensive leadership to the US Federal Government and the research community. In the earlyyears she focused on research in data security while at Honeywell and later at MITRE and for thisresearch she received the 1997 IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Achievement Award. Since then shehas expanded her research to include data mining for cyber security and counter-terrorism applications.National Science Foundation Program Director Dr. Maria Zemankova has stated that Thuraisingham “isextremely sharp technically and also is a born leader” (Reference: MITRE Matters, March 2003). Dr.Chris Clifton, Associate Professor at Purdue University, has stated “there have been a lot of areas whereshe’s been ahead of the game”.While Thuraisingham was at the MITRE Corporation, she was an advisor to the Chief of the NationalSecurity Agency’s (NSA) INFOSEC research between 1990 and 1997, and helped establish researchprograms in data security and also collaborated with researchers at NSA and mentored the juniorresearchers at the request of the then chief of NSA/R2. In 1993 she helped the Intelligence Community toestablish the Massive Digital Data Systems (MDDS) Initiative and continued to be an advisor to thisprogram until 1999. The results of the MDDS program were briefed to a DARPA (Defense AdvancedResearch Projects Agency) Office Director in December 1997 that ultimately led to DARPA’s EELD(Evidence Extraction and Link Detection) program. During this period, she also gave tutorials andseminars at numerous federal research laboratories and agencies including at ESC (Electronics SystemsCenter), DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency), NSA, EUCOM (United States EuropeanCommand), SPAWAR (The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center), CECOM (US ArmyCommunications-Electronics Command), AFSPC (Air Force Space Command), AMC (Air MobilityCommand), ATIS-JPO (Advanced Integration Technical Services - Joint Program Office), IRS (InternalRevenue Service) and AIA (Air Intelligence Agency). She started consulting for IRS in January 1999 andcontinues to advise on software research credit. She also consulted to the Justice Department on softwarerelatedtax cases in 2001.Dr. Thuraisingham joined NSF in October 2001 as Program Director and became involved in Inter-agencyefforts on applying Data Mining for Counter-Terrorism. She gave invited talks at the White House Officeof Science and Technology Policy, the National Academy of Sciences as well as at the United Nations in2002 so that national and international programs could be established on this important topic. At the sametime, she established the Data and Applications Security Program at NSF and in 2003 she co-founded theCyber Trust theme. While at NSF, she was also a consultant to the Department of Health and HumanServices’ States Bioterrorism Initiative.13