General Co-Chair: ACM CODASPY June, 2025 (Pittsburgh, US); Member, OECD Data Free Flows with Trust (DFFT) Working Group (2024); PC-Co-Chair: ICMC 2025 (India), IEEE IRI 2024 (US), IEEE BuildSEC 2024 (India); Program Director of NSF CISE/CNS & SaTC program (Sept, 2019 – Aug, 2023); NSF Director’s Award for Superior Achievement (Individual category) for contribution in Privacy-Preserving Technologies related activities, Aug, 2023; Elected to IEEE Fellow effective Jan 1, 2023 for “Contributions in Access Control and Privacy”; IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Member, since Jan 1, 2022; NSF Director’s Award for Superior Achievement (Group category) for RINGS program, June, 2022; Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Information Association (AAIA) (2023); Co-Chair of NITRD Fast Track Action Committee on Digital Assets R&D (2022-2023 – Aug, 2023); Co-Chair of NITRD Fast Track Action Committee for Advancing Privacy Preserving Data Sharing and Analytics (2022 – March, 2023); Co-Chair of NITRD Privacy Interagency Working Group (2020 – Aug, 2023); Advisory Board Member, Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre, 2021; Founding Steering Committee Chair of IEEE TPS 2023, CIC 2023, CogMI 2023; Served as EIC of IEEE Transaction on Services Computing from 2017 - 2021.
Research Experience
Served as Program Director of the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program at NSF through the IPA program from 2019 – Aug 2023. Currently serving as an intermittent Expert at NSF Directorate of Technology, Innovation and Partnership (TIP), and recently led efforts to create the NSF Privacy-preserving Data Sharing and Analytics (PDaSP) program.
Education
PhD - Purdue University (2003)
Background
Professor in the Department of Informatics and Networked Systems (DINS) at the School of Computing and Information (SCI) in the University of Pittsburgh. Joined Pitt in 2003 after completing his PhD from Purdue University. Research interests broadly in Cybersecurity and Privacy, with a primary focus on advanced access control, distributed systems security and privacy, trust, and privacy in AI/ML areas.
Miscellany
Erdos # = 3 (Coauthor of Eugene Spafford with Erdos # = 2).