CS 2003-2004 Faculty Information - Department of Computer ...

Selected Publications:
M. A. Hammad, M. J. Franklin, W. G. Aref, and A. K. Elmagarmid, “Scheduling For Shared Window Joins Over Data
Streams,” Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2003), pp. 297-308, 2003.
M. F. Mokbel, T. M. Ghanem, and W. G. Aref, “Spatio-temporal Access Methods,” IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin,
Volume 26, No. 2, pp. 40-49, Jun., 2003.
W. G. Aref and I. F. Ilyas, “SP-GiST: An Extensible Database Index for Supporting Space Partitioning Trees,” Journal of
Intelligent Information Systems: Special Issue on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, Volume 17, No. 2/3,
pp. 215-240, November 2001.
Mikhail Atallah
Education:
BE, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, American University in Beirut, 1975
MS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The Johns Hopkins University, 1980
PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The Johns Hopkins University, 1982
Positions:
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Courtesy)
Bio-sketch:
Professor Atallah’s current research interests are in information security (in particular, software security, secure protocols,
and watermarking). He received a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation in
1985. A Fellow of the IEEE, he has served on the editorial boards of SIAM Journal on Computing, IEEE Transactions on
Computers, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Information Processing Letters, Computational Geometry:
Theory & Applications, International Journal of Computational Geometry & Applications, Parallel Processing Letters, and
Methods of Logic in Computer Science. He was guest editor for a special issue of Algorithmica on Computational
Geometry, has served as editor of the Handbook of Parallel and Distributed Computing (McGraw-Hill), as editorial advisor
for the Handbook of Computer Science and Engineering, (CRC Press), and as editor-in-chief for Handbook of
Algorithms and Theory of Computation (CRC Press). He was selected to serve on the program committees of various
conferences and workshops (including International World Wide Web Conference, ACM Symposium on Access Control
Models and Technologies, ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management, Australasian Information Security
Workshop, ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, Workshop on
Algorithms and Data Structures, IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, IEEE International Parallel
Processing Symposium, International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, and many others). He was keynote
and invited speaker at many national and international meetings. In June 2001, he co-founded Arxan Technologies Inc.,
a startup in the software security products space, that in 2002 secured funding from a top-tier venture capital firm.
In addition to the projects appearing in the Research Funding section, Professor Atallah has received funding for these
external projects: “Effectiveness of Software Projection Methods” (with John Rice and Buster Dunsmore), Wright-
Patterson Air Force Base, 11/1/02 - 11/1/03, $950,000; “Automatically Protecting Software Against ‘diff ’ Attacks” (with
John Rice and David M’Raihi), SBIR Department of Defense, 8/12/03 - 1/31/04, $250,000; and “Tools for Quantifying
Software Vulnerabilities and Protection” (with John Rice), Indiana 21st Century Fund, 4/1/04 - 4/1/05, $1,178,256.
Selected Publications:
Mikhail J. Atallah and Marina Bykova, “Portable and Flexible Document Access Control Mechanisms,” Proceedings of
the 9th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), pp. 193-208, Sophia Antipolis, France,
September 2004.
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