NSF CAREER Award for research in privacy and security
Google Faculty Research Award
IBM Faculty Award
IEEE CISTC Technical Recognition Award for cloud security research
Pioneering contributions to proxy re-cryptography, anonymous communication, two-party computation, secure storage, and provable data possession
Widely recognized in media for work on editable blockchains and AI-powered password cracking
Research Experience
Professor and Eminent Scholar in Cybersecurity, George Mason University
Farber Endowed Chair and Department Chair, Stevens Institute of Technology
Assistant/Associate Professor and co-founder of the Information Security Institute, Johns Hopkins University
Researcher, IBM Zurich Research Lab
Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
Visiting Professor, Microsoft, Redmond
Background
Professor, Eminent Scholar in Cybersecurity and CCI Faculty Fellow in the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Cyber Security Engineering at George Mason University.
Former Farber Endowed Chair in Computer Science and Department Chair at Stevens Institute of Technology.
Previously affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), Assistant/Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University (USA), and co-founder of the JHU Information Security Institute.
Former researcher at IBM Zurich Research Lab (Switzerland) and scientist at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California (USA); also served briefly as a visiting professor at Microsoft in Redmond (USA).
Current research focuses on privacy-preserving machine learning and decentralized secure computing based on blockchain technology.
Contributions span proxy re-cryptography, anonymous communication, two-party computation, secure storage, and provable data possession.