Professional Activities

Editor-in-Chief

• Computer Standards and Interface Journal, June 2005 - January 2009

Editorial Boards

• Journal of Computer Security, 1990 - 2000
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 1996 - 2000
• Computer Standards and Interfaces, 1993 - 2005
• ACM Transactions on Information Systems Security, 2004 - 2007
• IEEE Transactions on Secure and Dependable Computing, 2004 - 2010
• Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2004 -
• Journal of Computer Science and Network Security, 2006 -
• Journal of Information and Computer Security, 2005 -
• Journal of Information Security and Privacy, 2006 -
• Very Large Database Journal, 2007 - 2011

Advisory Boards

• Purdue University, Computer Science Department, 2004 - 2006
• Journal of Privacy Technologies, 2004 -
• Journal of Computer Security, 2000 -
• IASTED, 2001 - 2004

General Conference Chair/Co-Chair

• IEEE WORDS Conference, Rome, Italy, January 2001
• IFIP Data Integrity and Control Conference, Warrenton, VA, November 2005
• Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI, San Diego, CA, May 2006
• Secure Knowledge Management, Dallas, TX, November 2008
• Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI, Dallas, TX, June 2009
• NSF Workshop on Data and Applications Security, Arlington, VA, February 2009

Program Chair/Co-Chair

1. IFIP Database Security Conference, Vancouver, Canada, August 1992 (Chair)
2. ACM OOPSLA Conference Workshop on Secure Object, Washington DC, Sept 1993 (Co-chair)
3. ACM Multimedia Conference Workshop on Multimedia Data, San Francisco, CA, October 1994 (Co-chair)
4. ACM OOPSLA Conference Workshop on Objects in Healthcare, Portland, OR, October 1994 (Co-chair)
5. IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Database Systems, Blue Mountain Lake, NY, August 1995 (Co-chair)
6. ACM OOPSLA Conference Workshop on Objects in Healthcare, Austin, TX, October 1995 (Co-chair)
7. ACM Multimedia Conference Workshop on Multimedia Database, San Francisco, CA, November 1995 (Co-chair)
8. IEEE Metadata Conference, Silver Spring, MD, April 1996 (Founding Chair)
9. ACM OOPSLA Conference Workshop on Objects in Healthcare, San Jose, CA, October 1996 (Co-chair)
10. Federal Data Mining Symposium, Washington DC, December 1997 (Founding Co-Chair)
11. IEEE Multimedia Database Workshop, Dayton, OH August 1998 (Co-chair)
12. IEEE COMPSAC Conference, Vienna, Austria, 1998 (Co-chair)
13. IEEE WORDS Workshop, Santa Barbara, CA, January 1999 (Chair)
14. IEEE ISORC, Newport Beach, CA, March 2000 (Co-chair)
15. IFIP Database Security Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, August 2000 (Primary Co-chair)
16. CODATA Symposium on Integrating Heterogeneous Data, Stressa Italy, October 2000 (Co-chair)
17. IEEE ISADS Conference, Dallas, TX, March 2001 (Chair)
18. IEEE COMPSAC Conference Workshop on Web Security, Oxford, UK, August 2002 (Co-chair)
19. IEEE ISORC, Korea, April 2006 (Co-chair)
20. ACM SACMAT Conference, Sophia Antipolis, France, June 2007 (Chair)
21. ICDE Secure Semantic Web Workshop, Mexico, April 2008 (Co-chair)
22. ICWS Security Workshop, Los Angeles, CA, July 2009 (Co-chair)
23. PASSAT, Vancouver, Canada, August 2009 (Chair)
24. Indo-US Summit in Infrastructure Security, Bangalore, January 2010 (Co-chair)

Program Vice Chair and/or Special Roles

1. IEEE ICDE Conference, Mexico, 2008, Vice Chair for Security
2. IEEE ICDE Conference, Sydney, 1999, Panel Chair
3. Computer Security Applications Conference, 1990, Chair, Database Security Track

Program Committee Member (sampling, not a complete list)

1. IEEE Local Area Networks Conference, Minneapolis, MN, October 1987
2. ACM Computer and Communications Security Conference, Fairfax, VA, November 1994
3. ACM SAC 1994, Phoenix, AZ, March 1994
4. ACM SAC 1995, Nashville, TN, February 1995
5. IEEE ICECCS Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, October 1995
6. ACM SIGMOD Conference Workshop on Data Mining, Montreal, Canada, June 1996
7. Pacific Workshop on Distributed Multimedia Systems, Hong Kong, June 1996
8. IEEE ICECCS, Montreal, Canada, October 1996
9. IEEE WORDS Workshop, Newport Beach, CA, February 1997
10. Rough Sets and Soft Computing Workshop, Raleigh, NC, March, 1997
11. Pacific Workshop on Distributed Multimedia Systems, July 1997
12. Real-time Database Systems Workshop, Burlington, VT, September 1997
13. IEEE COMPSAC, Bethesda, MD, August 1997
14. Compugraphics and Visualization Conference, Algarve, Portugal, December 1997
15. IEEE ICDE, Orlando, FL, February 1998
16. IEEE ISORC, Kyoto, Japan, April 1998
17. PAKDD, Melbourne, Australia, April 1998
18. Real-time Systems Applications Conference, Denver, CO, June 1998
19. Euro micro Workshop on Multimedia and Communications, Vesteras, Sweden, August 1998
20. ASSET, Dallas, TX, March 1999
21. IEEE ISADS, Tokyo, Japan, March 1999
22. DASFAA, Taiwan, April 1999
23. Federal Data Mining Symposium, McLean, VA, March 1999
24. IEEE COMPSAC, Tempe, AZ, October 1999
25. IEEE WORDS 1999F, Monterey, CA November 1999
26. E-Commerce and Web-based Information Systems Workshop, San Jose, CA, April 1999
27. PAKDD, Beijing, China, April 1999
28. Federal Data Mining Symposium, Washington DC, March 2000
29. PAKDD, Kyoto, Japan, April 2000
30. ACM CCS Workshop on E-Commerce Security, Athens, Greece, November 2000
31. IEEE ISORC, Magdeberg, Germany, May 2001
32. IEEE COMPSAC, Chicago, IL, October 2001
33. International Workshop on Multimedia Middleware, Ottowa, Canada, November 2001
34. IEEE FTDCS, Bologna, Italy, November 2001
35. IEEE WORDS, San Diego, CA, January 2002
36. IASTED Applied Informatics, Innsbruck, Austria, February 2002
37. PAKDD Workshop on Rough Sets and Data Mining, Taiwan, May 2002
38. IEEE ISORC, Washington DC, May 2002
39. IEEE ICDM, 2002, Maebashi City, Japan, December 2002
40. ACM SACMAT, Monterey, CA, June 2002
41. Second Semantic Web Symposium, Sardinia, Italy, June 2002
42. IEEE COMPSAC, Oxford, UK, August 2002
43. COOPIS, Irvine, CA, October 2002
44. IEEE ICTAI 2002, Crystal City, VA, November 2002
45. IFIP Integrity and Control Conference, Bonn, Germany, November 2002
46. NSF/NIJ Symposium on Security Informatics, Tucson, AZ, June 2003
47. IASTED Applied Informatics, Innsbruck, Austria, February 2003
48. IEEE ISADS, Pisa, Italy, April 2003
49. IEEE ISORC, Japan, May 2003
50. IFIP Data Security, Colorado Springs, CO , August 2003
51. IEEE WORDS 2003F, Capri Island, Italy, October 2003
52. IFIP Integrity and Control Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 2003
53. ACM Computer and Communications Security, Washington DC, October 2003
54. IEEE ICTAI, Sacramento, CA, November 2003
55. IEEE COMPSAC, Dallas, TX, November 2003
56. IFIP Database Security Conference, Estes Park, CO, August 2003
57. IEEE ISORC, Vienna, Austria, May 2004
58. NSF/NIJ Symposium on Security Informatics, Tucson, AZ, June 2004
59. ACM SACMAT, Yorktown Heights, NY, June 2004
60. ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Databases in Virtual Organizations, Paris, France, June 2004
61. IFIP Database Security Conference, Sitges, Spain, July 2004
62. DEXA Workshop on Web Security, Zaragoza, Spain, August 2004
63. DEXA Workshop on Trust and Privacy in Digital Business, Zaragoza, Spain, August 2004
64. IEEE COMPSAC, Hong Kong, September 2004
65. IEEE SRDS, Florianapolis, Brazil, October 2004
66. IEEE ISADS, Chengdu, China, March 2005
67. IEEE ICDE, Tokyo, Japan, April 2005
68. ACM SACMAT, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2005
69. ACM SIGMOD, Baltimore, MD, June 2005
70. IEEE Distributed Systems in Sensor Systems, Marina del Rey, CA, July 2005
71. IFIP Database Security Conference, Storrs, CT, August 2005
72. Privacy in Data Mining Workshop, November 2005
73. ACM SACMAT, Lake Tahoe, CA, June 2006
74. ACM SIGKDD, Philadelphia, PA, August 2006
75. IFIP Database Security Conference, Sophia Antipolis, France, August 2006
76. IEEE COMPSAC, Chicago, IL, September 2006
77. IEEE SRDS, London, England, October 2006
78. ISWC, Montreax, Switzerland, October 2006
79. CIKM, Arlington, VA, November 2006
80. Privacy in Data Mining Workshop, December 2006
81. ACM SIGKDD, San Jose, CA, August 2007
82. AAAI, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 2007
83. IEEE POLICY, Bologna, Italy, June 2007
84. IFIP Database Security Conference, Redondo Beach, CA, July 2007
85. IEEE POLICY, Palisades, NY, June 2008
86. ACM SACMAT, Estes Park, CO, June 2008
87. ASIACCS, Sydney, Australia, March 2009
88. IEEE ICDE, Shanghai, China, March 2009
89. ACM SACMAT, Stresa, Italy, June 2009
90. ICWS, Los Angeles, CA, July 2009
91. DHS/CPS Workshop, 2009
92. IEEE Globecom, Honolulu, HI, November - December, 2009
93. IEEE ACSAC, Honolulu, HI, December 2009
94. IEEE ACSAC, Austin, TX December 2010
95. COCOA, Big Island Hawaii, December 2010
96. ACM CODASPY 2011, San Antonio, TX 2011
97. ASIACCS, Hong Kong 2011
98. IEEE ISADS 2011

Other Boards and Activities

1. Member, National Academy Panel on Protecting Children from Inappropriate Content on the Internet, 2000 (Chair, Hon. Dick Thornburgh)
2. Vice Chair, AF SAB Panel on Migrating Legacy Databases, 2000
3. Member, National Academy Workshop on GIS, 2001 (participated from NSF)
4. Member, National Academy Panel on Information Fusion and Counter-terrorism, 2002 (participated from NSF; Chair: T. Mitchell)
5. Member, Curriculum Committee, K-6, 7-12, USGIF, 2006 (Geospatial Intelligence)
6. IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (2002 - 2005)
7. IEEE Conferences and Tutorials Board (1997 - 1998)
8. NSF Panel Member: Oct. 1992, Dec. 1994 (twice), Jan. 1996, Nov. 1998, May 1999, May 2000, Dec. 2000, Jan. 2001, Nov. 2005, Dec. 2007, March 2008, Nov. 2009, Dec. 2010
9. Reviewer for numerous journals and conferences including IEEE Computer, IEEE TSE, IEEE TKDE, ACM TODS
10. Steering committee for conferences and workshops
11. Session chair for numerous conferences and workshops (100+)
12. Reviewer of proposals for NSA - URP (1992, 1993, 1994), CMS-MDDS (1993, 1994, 1995)

Internal Activities

• CS Department Head Search Committee Chair, 2008 - 2009
• Engineering School Dean Search Committee, 2007 - 2008
• CS Faculty Search Committee, 2005 - Present
• CS Tenure and Promotion Committee, 2005 - 2006, 2006 - 2007, 2007 - 2008, 2010 - 2011
• University, Science School Dean Search Committee, 2006 - 2007
• University, Vice President for Business Search Committee, 2005 - 2006