Data Confidentiality Workshop
Home Workshop Agenda Participants Travel Information

 

Contact

 


WORKSHOP ON DATA CONFIDENTIALITY

September 6-7, 2007 in Arlington, VA

White Paper & Bio



Sushil Jajodia

George Mason University

 

Biographical Data

Sushil Jajodia is University Professor, BDM International Professor of Information Technology, and the director of Center for Secure Information Systems at the George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. He served as the chair of the Department of Information and Software Engineering during 1998-2002. He joined GMU after serving as the director of the Database and Expert Systems Program within the Division of Information, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems at the National Science Foundation. Before that he was the head of the Database and Distributed Systems Section in the Computer Science and Systems Branch at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington and Associate Professor of Computer Science and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Milan and University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy and at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, England. Dr. Jajodia received his PhD from the University of Oregon, Eugene. His research interests include information security, temporal databases, and replicated databases. He has authored six books, edited twenty-seven books and conference proceedings, and published more than 300 technical papers in the refereed journals and conference proceedings. He received the 1996 Kristian Beckman award from IFIP TC 11 for his contributions to the discipline of Information Security, and the 2000 Outstanding Research Faculty Award from GMU's School of Information Technology and Engineering. Dr. Jajodia has served in different capacities for various journals and conferences. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Computer Security and on the editorial boards of IEE Proceedings on Information Security, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, International Journal of Information and Computer Security, and International Journal of Information Security and Privacy. He is a past editor of ACM Transactions on Information and Systems Security and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. He is the consulting editor of the Springer International Series on Advances in Information Security. He has been named a Golden Core member for his service to the IEEE Computer Society, and received International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Silver Core Award "in recognition of outstanding services to IFIP" in 2001. He is a past chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit, and Control (SIGSAC), IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineering, and IFIP WG 11.5 on Systems Integrity and Control.. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of IEEE Computer Society and Association for Computing Machinery. The URL for his web page is http://csis.gmu.edu/faculty/jajodia.html.