Curriculum Vitae
Bhavani Thuraisingham, Ph.D.
September 2007
Resume Summary (summary of sections 4-13)
Teaching Experience (Academic and Professional)
Publications List (Authored works, e.g., Journals, Conferences, Books)
Edited Works (e.g., Books, Proceedings, Journals)
Presentations (e.g., Keynotes addresses, Panels)
Discussion of Publications and Research Statement
Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham joined The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) in October 2004 as a Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Cyber Security Research Center in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science She is an elected Fellow of three professional organizations: the IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) and the BCS (British Computer Society) for her work in data security. She received the IEEE Computer Society’s prestigious 1997 Technical Achievement Award for “outstanding and innovative contributions to secure data management.” She was quoted by Silicon India Magazine as one of the leading seven technology innovators of South Asian Origin in the USA in 2002.
Prior to joining UTD, Dr. Thuraisingham was an IPA (Intergovernmental Personnel Act) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington VA, from the MITRE Corporation. At NSF she established the Data and Applications Security Program and co-founded the Cyber Trust theme and was involved in inter-agency activities in data mining for counter-terrorism. She worked at MITRE in Bedford, MA between January 1989 and September 2001 first in the Information Security Center and was later a department head in Data and Information Management as well as Chief Scientist in Data Management in the Intelligence and Air Force centers. She has served as an expert consultant in information security and data management to the Department of Defense, the Department of Treasury and the Intelligence Community for over 10 years. Thuraisingham’s industry experience includes six years of research and development at Control Data Corp. and Honeywell Inc. in Mpls, MN. While she was in Industry and MITRE, she was an adjunct professor of computer science and member of the graduate faculty first at the University of Minnesota and later at Boston University between 1984 and 2001. She also worked as visiting professor soon after her PhD first at the New Mexico Institute of Technology and later at the University of Minnesota between 1980 and 1983.
Dr. Thuraisingham’s work in information security and information management has resulted in over 70 journal articles, over 200 refereed conference papers and workshops, and three US patents. She is the author of seven books in data management, data mining and data security including one on data mining for counter-terrorism and another on Database and Applications Security and is completing her eighth book on Trustworthy Semantic Web. She has given over 30 keynote presentations at various technical conferences and has also given invited talks at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and at the United Nations on Data Mining for counter-terrorism. She serves (or has served) on editorial boards of leading research and industry journals including several IEEE and ACM Transactions and currently serves as the Editor in Chief of Computer Standards and Interfaces Journal. She is also an Instructor at AFCEA’s (Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association) Professional Development Center since 1998 and has served on panels for the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and the National Academy of Sciences.
Dr Thuraisingham is the Founding President of “Bhavani Security Consulting” (www.dr-bhavani.org) a company providing services in consulting and training in Cyber Security and Information Technology. She promotes Math and Science to high school students as well as to women and underrepresented minorities and has given featured addresses at conferences sponsored by WITI and SWE. Articles on her efforts as well as her vision have appeared in multiple magazines including the Dallas Morning News, The D Magazine, The MITRE Matters and the DFW Metroplex Technology Magazine.
Dr. Thuraisingham was educated in the United Kingdom both at the University of Bristol and at the University of Wales.
Section 2: MAJOR EXTERNAL AWARDS
o Best paper award, IEEE Conference on Systems Sciences, 1988 on Secure Query Processing Strategies (Invited paper published in IEEE Computer, March 1989)
o Recipient of IEEE Computer Society’s 1997 Technical Achievement Award for contributions to Secure distributed database management. As Cited by IEEE, “this award is given to individuals who have made outstanding and innovative contributions in the field of computer and information science and engineering within the past 15 years.”
o Recipient of Career Communication Inc.’s National 2001 Woman of Color Technology Research Leadership Award
o Featured by Silicon India’s May 2002 issue as one of the top 7 technology innovators (only woman) in USA of South Asian origin (others are from Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, NASA, PARC and HP Labs). My innovation was for data and web security.
o Recipient of IEEE’s 2003 Fellow Award for Contributions to Secure Systems involving databases, distributed systems and the web. As stated by IEEE, “each year, following a rigorous evaluation procedure, the IEEE Fellow Committee recommends a select group of recipients for one of the Institute's most prestigious honors, election to IEEE Fellow”.
o Recipient of AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2003 Fellow Award for “Outstanding and Innovative Contributions to Secure Database Systems and Secure Web Information Systems”.
o Recipient of British Computer Society (BCS) 2005 Fellow Award for contributions to information technology
(This part gives a summary of what is given in Sections 4 – 14)
Name: Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham
Work Address I: Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas
Phone: 972-883-4738
Fax: 972-883-2349
Email: Bhavani.thuraisingham@utdallas.edu
URL I: http://www.utdallas.edu/~bxt043000/
Work Address II: Bhavani Security Consulting, PO Box 802435, Dallas, TX 75380
Email: bhavanit@comcast.net
URL II: www.dr-bhavani.org
Personal Data: US Citizen
Ph.D. in Theory of Computation and Computability Theory;
University of Wales, Swansea, United Kingdom, July 1979 (at age 24);
Thesis: Decision Problems for System Functions
Advisors: Dr. Roger Hindley (Swansea), Dr. John Cleave (Bristol) – received most of the supervision at University of Bristol and submitted thesis at University of Wales, Swansea due to residency requirements
M.S. in Computer Science, University of Minnesota, March 1984
(G.P.A. 4.0/4.0; Specialized in: Databases, Networks, Operating Systems;
Dissertation: Transport Layer for a Token Ring Network, Advisor: Dr. William Munroe)
M.Sc. in Mathematical Logic and Foundations of Computer Science;
University of Bristol, United Kingdom, January 1977;
Thesis: Construction of a Universal Partial Recursive Functional (Advisor: Dr. John Cleave)
B.Sc. in Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Physics
University of Ceylon, August 1975 (First Class and First in order of merit)
Higher Doctorate: D.Sc. Preparing published work to be submitted to the degree of D.Sc (Doctor of Science) at the University of Bristol in England, 2008. D.Sc. is beyond Ph.D. (usually known as Higher Doctorate) and awarded by British Universities to Alumni who have made outstanding research contributions in their field. University of Bristol is consistently rated among the top 5 universities in the U.K.
Professional Education:
• Cybil Programming through Control Data Institute ‘84,
· The Intelligence Community, AFCEA ‘94.
· Mid Management Development Program - 7 month course offered through the MITRE Institute; Apr. ‘97
• Certificate in Java Programming, at Learning Tree International ('Sept 98-' July 00; 5 courses; 15 credits)
• Program Director Training, National Science Foundation, March 2002
· Executive leadership certificate, UTD Management School, 2006-2008
· Certificate in Criminology, Planned at University of Texas at Dallas, 08-09 (15 credit hours)
· Professional development: Readings on Terrorism and understanding terrorists
II. MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Major Accomplishments:
Professor and Director at the University of TX at Dallas, * President of Bhavani Security Consulting * 3 years of NSF experience * 22+ years work experience in Industry and at the MITRE Corporation, * Technical, management, and business development experience, * Over 8 years of visiting/adjunct university academic experience, * Over 10 years of teaching experience for professional organizations * Author of 8 books in data management, data mining and security, over 200 conference papers and over 80 journal articles * Editor of over 10 books in data management, data security, and object technology * Over 150 presentations including 25 featured/keynote talks at conferences worldwide, * Inventor of 3 Patents, * Research, prototype, technology transfer, and product development experience, * Programming in Java for web
Major External Awards:
o Recipient of IEEE Computer Society’s 1997 Technical Achievement Award for contributions to Secure distributed database management.
o Recipient of Career Communication Inc.’s National 2001 Woman of Color Technology Research Leadership Award
o Featured by Silicon India’s May 2002 issue as one of the top 7 technology innovators in USA of South Asian origin
o Recipient of IEEE’s 2003 Fellow Award for Contributions to Secure Systems involving databases, distributed systems and the web.
o Recipient of AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2003 Fellow Award
o Recipient of British Computer Society (BCS) 2005 Fellow Award
o Best paper award, IEEE Conference on Systems Sciences, 1988
III. WORK EXPERIENCE (Please see Sections 4, 5, 6 for details)
The University of Texas at Dallas (October 2004 – Present)
Starting October 2004, I have joined the University of Texas at Dallas as Full Professor of Computer Science (with tenure) and Director of the Cyber Security Research Center at the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science. I am supervising students in the area of secure semantic web; secure geospatial information systems, data mining for counter-terrorism, and privacy. I teach courses in data and applications security, trustworthy semantic webs, biometrics and digital forensics.
Bhavani Security Consulting (June 2005 – Present)
Since June 2005 I founded my consulting company and am its president. Through this company I contract to the MITRE Corporation for Treasury work, teach courses for AFCEA, a non profit organization and also perform the role of Editor in Chief for Elsevier Science Publishers. Also consult for corporations such as Technology Futures Inc.
(iii) National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia (Oct. 1, 2001 – September 30, 2004)
IPA Position: Director of Cyber Trust, Data and Applications Security, Information and Data Management
I was on IPA from the MITRE Corporation at NSF for 3 years and managed programs in Information Management, Sensor Networks, Data and Applications Security and Cyber Trust. Details are given in Section 4.
(iv) The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA (Jan ‘89 – June 2005)
Technical Positions:
* Information Technology Consultant (October 2001 – June 2005)
* Chief Scientist/Engineer in Data Management, Information Technology Directorate
(May ‘99 – September 2001)
* Senior Principal Scientist/Engineer, Advanced Information Systems Center (Sept. ‘96 –May’99)
* Principal Scientist/Engineer, Advanced Information Systems Center (Mar. ‘95 - 8 Sept. ‘96)
* Lead Scientist/Engineer, Network and Distributed Systems Center (Aug ‘92 - 5 Mar. ‘95), Information Security Center (Jan ‘89 - Aug ‘92)
Management Positions
* Section Leader (June ’95 – Oct ’96) and Department Head (Oct ’96 – May ’99) in Data and Information Management, Advanced Information Systems Center and Information Technology Division
(approx. 28 staff in May 1999 - started with approx. 10 staff in June 1995).
Leadership, Coordination Positions:
* Head, MITRE’s Corporate Research and Development Initiative in Evolvable Interoperable Information Systems (March ‘96 - September '97, budget approx: $4M);
* Head, MITRE’s Corporate Research and Development Initiative in Data Management (Sept ‘94 - March ‘96, budget approx. $1M);
* Co-Director, MITRE Database Specialty Group (Oct ‘93-Dec ‘95).
My 16+ years experience at MITRE has given me the opportunity to work on research, development and technology transfer work. I have been working for a number of sponsors including the Air Force, Navy, Army, NSA, CIA and IRS. I have worked with not only researchers and defense contractors, but also with Fortune 500 corporations in information technology. I have managed a department of about 30 staff for 4 years and also managed the evolvable systems initiative and the massive data and applications initiative at MITRE and provided leadership in data management and data mining. A summary of my technical, leadership and management accomplishments is give under Industry experience section.
(v) Honeywell Inc. Golden Valley, MN (Jan. ‘86 - Jan. ‘89)
Position: Principal Research Scientist / Engineer, Corporate Systems Development Division
I have conducted research, development, and technology transfer activities in database security, data management, distributed processing, information systems, process control systems, payoff modeling, and AI applications. In addition to reports and proprietary documents, papers were also published in refereed journals and conferences. Work was carried out for Honeywell internal divisions as well as for the Air Force and NASA. Details are given under Industry experience section.
(vi) Control Data Corporation, Arden Hills, MN (Dec '83 - Jan ‘86)
Position: Senior Programmer/Analyst, Arden Hills programming Division
I was involved in the design and development of the CDCNET (Control Data Communications Network) product. Company proprietary documents were also written. Specifically I was responsible for several components and details are given under the Industry Experience section.
Academic/Teaching Experience (1980 – Present)
Since October 2004 I am full tenured professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Dallas. My prior academic experience includes the following: Between 1980 and 1988, over six years of academic experience, including visiting faculty member first at the Department of Computer Science, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, and then at the Department of Mathematics, University of Minnesota (‘80 - ‘83), and adjunct professor and member of the graduate faculty, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota (‘84 - ‘88). I taught undergraduate and graduate courses in various topics including theory of computation and principles of programming languages. Also gave graduate seminars in secure database systems. Supervised M.S. and Ph.D. students and collaborated on research projects. During academic years 2000 and 2001, I taught an advanced data management and data mining course at Boston University (Metropolitan College) as adjunct professor of computer science. While at MITRE, I have co-supervised students at North Eastern, Cornell, CMU, and University of Rhode Island; and students at the University of Milano. After I finished my PhD in UK until I moved to the US, I taught Math for High School Students.
Professional Teaching (1990 – present)
Between 1990 and 2000 I have been an instructor at the MITRE Institute giving tutorials in data management to MITRE staff as well as sponsors (in Bedford, DC, Fort Monmouth, San Antonio, San Diego, Colorado Springs, and Stuttgart). Topics include database security, database systems evolution and interoperation, heterogeneous database integration, distributed databases, object databases, real-time databases, data warehousing and mining. Since September 1998, I am an instructor for AFCEA Educational Foundation teaching a course on “data management, information management and knowledge management” and another course on ”data mining and its applications to counter-terrorism.” I also prepared lecture notes for Harcourt higher education for IT2555 for a web course in data mining.
Main Specialty Areas:
Information Security (data security, web security, information assurance), Data Management and Data Mining (interoperability, geospatial data, web mining), Knowledge Management and Semantic Web.
Recent Focus:
At the University of Texas at Dallas, my focus is on Assured Information Sharing, Secure Geospatial Data Management and Surveillance/Biometrics. While working at NSF my focus was on Cyber Security, Privacy, Data Mining for Counter-terrorism: Several keynote and featured presentations on data mining for security at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, The United Nations, Cambridge University, Stanford University (panel at Stanford Database Workshop), Oxford University (COMPSAC Luncheon address), National Academy of Sciences, SIAM Data Mining Conference, IEEE ICTAI Conference, American Association of Colleges and Universities, among others.
Research Statement:
My early research was on theory of computation and in particular recursion theory. This research was carried out as visiting professor at the New Mexico Institute of Technology and at the University of Minnesota for 3 years. It resulted in several journal publications including in the Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences. Since 1985 my research has focused on secure database systems and later on real-time objects. This research was carried out initially at Honeywell Inc as well as at the University of Minnesota as adjunct professor of computer science for over 4 years. I continued with this research at the MITRE Corporation since 1989. Significant contributions include Design and development of Lock Data Views Relational Database System, Design and development of secure distributed database system, Design and development of techniques to handle the Inference problem, Design of NTML: a Non monotonic Logic for Secure Data and Knowledge Based Systems, Design and development of secure multimedia and object systems, and the Design and development of an object-based real-time data manager and middleware for next generation real-time command and control systems. I also used my background in theory and proved that the inference problem was unsolvable. This work has been quoted by Dr. John Campbell of NSA as the significant development in database security in 1990. My research in the early 2000 was on secure semantic web, privacy constraint processing and secure sensor information management. My main research now is focusing in three major areas: Assured Information Sharing; Secure Geospatial Data Management; Surveillance/Identity Assurance. My research in secure database systems was transferred to Army’s Maneuver Control System. My research in distributed real-time object systems was transferred to the AWACS program. My research at Honeywell, University of Minnesota and MITRE has resulted in several publications including in IEEE Transactions of Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions of Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Computer, IEEE Network, ACM OOPSLA, IEEE Data Engineering, and VLDB Conferences. My work on secure databases has resulted in 3 US patents.
Research Contracts/Grants
At MITRE I initiated and lead several research projects for various sponsors including Navy (secure distributed databases, secure objects, inference problem/NTML), Army (inference problem, security constraint processing), Air Force (secure distributed databases and real-time databases/middleware), and National Security Agency (secure federated databases, designing secure systems and applications). Each project that I led consisted of about 3 – 5 staff, a third with PhDs and half with MS degrees; also included students from CMU, Cornell, University of Rhode Island and North Eastern University. I was also a mentor to 2 junior research staff at NSA for 2 years (at the request of the chief, R23) and conducted joint research on designing secure applications and semantic data models for secure databases. I currently have grants from the Air Force, Raytheon, NSF and from the Texas Enterprise Funds at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Research Management:
At the University of Texas at Dallas I am supervising many PhD and MS students. Prior to that, as department head at MITRE, I managed around 28 staff for 4 years (1995-1999). About a third had PhDs and half with Masters degrees. Research in my department focused in four areas: Multimedia data management, Data Mining, Interoperable databases and Distributed objects, while security cuts across all areas. We also supported operational systems in distributed databases. Total budget for department was approx $5M/yr. I also managed MITRE's internal research in information management for 3 years. Total budget for the initiative was approx $4M/yr. I managed fifteen academic research projects for CIA for 6 years. Total budget was approx. 3m/yr. While a department manager I started writing books for technical managers on data management and data mining and have completed 6 books. Between 1999 and 2001 I was chief scientist/engineer in data management and was responsible for the research as well as providing research directions for about 200 staff at MITRE’s Air Force Center. At UTD I am mentoring 2 associate professors and 3 assistant professors and we work as a team.
Patents:
First U.S. Patent issued on security constraint processing in database systems (Date of issuance: October 11, 1994 - this patent has most number of citations currently for a MITRE patent); Second US Patent issued on secure deductive data management (Date of issuance: January 2, 1996); Third U.S. Patent on knowledge-based database inference control (date of issuance December 2, 1997). Note: During March 2004, a prominent venture capital company from the West Coast has purchased the rights to some of MITRE patents for a substantial amount. This company mainly wanted 4 MITRE patents to put to use immediately; 3 of the four are mine. Working on applying for patents at the University of Texas at Dallas on secure data management.
Publications:
Published (or accepted) over 300 technical papers and reports including 80 journal articles in information security, data/knowledge base systems, distributed processing, object technology, AI applications, real-time systems, and computability theory. Journals include Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences, ACM Transactions on Information and Systems Security, Communications of the ACM , IEEE Computer, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Network, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Very Large Database Journal, Real-time Systems, Data and Knowledge Engineering, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, Mathematical Logic Journal, Journal of Object-Oriented Programming, Journal of Systems and Software, Computers and Security, Information and Management, Computer Standards and Interface, AI-Expert, Tools in Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems Management, Information and Software Technology, Journal of Information Security and Privacy, SIGNAL, IEEE ITPro. Presented papers at several conferences and invited workshops including ACM OOPSLA, ACM SACMAT, IEEE Data Engineering, POLICY, VLDB, IEEE ISORC, IEEE ISADS, Computer Security Foundations Workshop. In addition over 150 professional presentations including 60 keynote presentations.
Books Authored:
• Data Management Systems Evolution and Interoperation, published May 1997, CRC Press • Data Mining: Technologies, Techniques, Tools and Trends, CRC Press, December 1998 • Web Data Management and Electronic Commerce, CRC Press, June 2000 • Managing and Mining Multimedia Databases for the Electronic Enterprise, CRC Press, June 2001, • XML, Databases and the Semantic Web, CRC Press March 2002 • Web Data Mining Technologies and Their Applications in Business Intelligence and Counter-terrorism, CRC Press, June 2003 • Database and Applications Security: Integrating Data Management and Information Security for CRC May 2005 * Building Trustworthy Semantic Webs, Contract signed May 2005, Publications 2007) * Data Mining Applications (Contract signed with CRC Press, May 2006, Publications 2007, co-authors: L. Khan and M. Awad)
Books and Special Issues Edited:
• Over Ten Books: Database Security for North Holland (co-editor, ‘93), Object-Oriented Systems Security for Springer (co-editor, ‘94), Multimedia Database Management for Kluwer (co-editor, ‘96), Multimedia Directions for Kluwer (co-editor ’97) Data Management Handbook Supplement for Auerbach (guest editor, ‘96); Data Management Handbook (consulting editor, ‘97), Knowledge Management for MIT Press (co-editor, '00) • Database Security for Kluwer (co-editor, ‘01), Heterogeneous Information Exchange for Kluwer, (coeditor ‘02); Web Information Security for Artech House (coeditor ’05) * Data Integrity, (coeditor ’05); Special issues for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (‘96), Computer Standards and Interface (‘95), Multimedia Tools and Applications (‘97) (also available as book by Kluwer ‘97), IEEE Multimedia (‘97), Data and Knowledge Engineering (’02) and Journal of Computer Security (’03); Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (’04); VLDB Journal (co-editor ’06), Journal of Information Security (co-editor ’07)
Prototypes and Products:
Developed parts of the CDCNET product at Control Data Corporation (extensive implementation in Cybil language). Implementations while taking computer science classes (mostly Pascal). Supervised the implementation of expert process control system XIMKON at Honeywell as well as Network operating system and students’ implementations at University of Minnesota (mostly C). Supervised very closely the implementation of several prototypes based on my designs at MITRE. These include secure distributed database system prototype for query and update and simulation for query and concurrency control, database and distributed database inference controller prototypes for query, update, and database design, Multimedia system prototypes simulating security features, Active real-time data management prototype, and real-time data management hosted on an infrastructure for real-time applications (mostly C and C++). Many of these prototypes use commercial database system products. At the University of Texas at Dallas, my students are implementing several prototypes in secure data, information and knowledge management systems, data mining tools, geospatial semantic webs and social networks. I have kept up with the implementation on my own time, implemented small programs in C++ in mid-90s and my main interest currently is in Java and am continuing to be proficient in writing Java programs and obtained my certification in Java programming at Learning Tree International in July 2000.
Presentations:
Presentations are worldwide including in USA, UK, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Netherlands, Ireland, Spain, Belgium, Greece, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Taiwan, New Zealand, and South Africa. Invited lectures and seminars at Universities around the world including University of Cambridge, University of Oxford (COMPSAC Luncheon address) in England, MIT (IEEE presentation), and Stanford (Stanford Database Workshop panel).
External Tutorials:
One to three day tutorials to numerous MITRE sponsors (1990 - 2000), External tutorials in Database Security, Object Databases, Data Mining, Web Databases and Electronic Commerce (Computer Security Conference 1987, IEEE COMPSAC 1989, IEEE Dual Technology Conference 1994, ACM SAC Conference 1998, IEEE COMPSAC 1998, IEEE ISADS 1999, IEEE COMPSAC 1999, IEEE ANNIE 1999.
Educational Activities:
I have worked to promote Math and Science among high school students (e.g., talks at UTD), women (SWE, WITI) and disadvantaged minorities (Career Communications). At NSF I was actively involved ion the Math Science Education Partnerships between universities and high schools. Currently I am a member of the educational program for USGIF (US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation).
VI. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (Section 13)
Major Advisory Boards:
Advisory Board, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University 2005-6.
Advisory boards for journals.
Conference and Journal Boards:
IEEE Distinguished Lecturer 2002-2005; Chair IEEE Kanai Award 2002-2006; Editor in Chief, Computer Standards and Interface Journal, 2005 – present; Editorial board member IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (’96 - ’00) the Journal of Computer Security (’90 –’00), Computer Standards and Interface Journal (’93 – present), ACM Transactions on Information Systems Security (’04-present), IEEE Transactions on Secure Dependable Computing (’04-present); Program Chair (for IFIP Database Security 1992 and 2000, IEEE Metadata 1996, IEEE WORDS 1999, IEEE ISADS 2001, Program Co-Chair ACM Multimedia Database 1994-5, IEEE Multimedia Database 1995-6, 1998, ACM OOPSLA Object Security ’93, ACM OOPSLA Object Medical Information Systems 1994-6, IEEE KDEX 1998, AFCEA Data Mining 1997, IEEE COMPSAC 1998, IEEE ISORC 2000, IEEE COMPSAC Workshop on Web Security 2002, and Program Committee Member for several Conferences/Workshops; Panel member National Science Foundation, National Academy of Sciences, Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, Department of Health and Human Services, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Reviewer government agencies, Books, Journals and Conferences; Panel member and chair for several conferences; Invited papers; Tutorials; Editor of special issues; Member IEEE Board for Conference and Tutorials 1997, Chair of search committees for IEEE Transactions 1998; Advisory Board IASTED (’01-present).
Major Company Awards:
Significant awards: MITRE Corporation’s Program Achievement Award for Evolvable Real-time Systems (June 1997), MITRE Director’s Distinguished Accomplishment Award for Data Mining (August 1997), MITRE Director’s Distinguished Accomplishment Award for Distributed Object Management (December 1997). MITRE’s Program Achievement award for Research Credit for Treasury, June 2002, June 2005.
Other Company Awards:
MITRE: Author of the month award (for July 1997 and April 1999 for two of my books published), Honeywell Inc. monthly excellence award for April 1987, Control Data Corporation’s Award for completing certain number of error fixes to make product delivery deadline (September 1985).
Program Management Awards from NSF
Award for Information Technology Research Management FY02, Math and Science Partnership Program Competition FY02; Cyber Trust FY04.
Other Awards:
Best Paper Award for Software Track at the 1988 IEEE International Conference on Systems Sciences, Hawaii, January 1988. Subsequently invited to submit the paper to IEEE Computer and paper published in March 1989 issue.
Professional Association Membership:
IEEE (‘97 – present, initially senior member, currently Fellow); Member of ACM (‘81 - present); IEEE Computer Society (‘86 - present); British Computer Society (‘91 - present); AFCEA (‘95 - present); American Association for Advancement of Science (’02 – present); IASTED (’02 – present); Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (‘77 - ‘81); Association for Symbolic Logic (‘81 - ’84, ’91-’93 via MITRE); AAAS (02 – present, currently Fellow); IFIP 11.3 Working Group (‘90 - present); OMG Real-time and C4I SIGs (‘96 – ’99; Founder of C4I SIG and Instrumental in founding the real-time SIG)
Company Activities:
Organized conferences at MITRE: 1st Applied Database Conference, August 1994, Second Applied Database Conference, December 1995, 1st Object Technology Conference, June 1996, several tutorials in various aspects of data management at the MITRE Institute (1990 - present).
University Committees:
Faculty Search Committee 2005, 2006; Search Committee for Vice president for Business 2005, Dean of Natural Sciences 2006, Research Advisory Committee 2005-2007, Academic Advisory Committee, 2005 – 2007. Tenure committee chair 2005-6; 2007-8; Promotion committee chair 2006-7, Diversity Committee, 2006- (child care subcommittee)
I Bhavani Security Consulting (June 2005 – Present)
I am the president of Bhavani Security Consulting, a consulting and training company I established in June 2005. As part of my work, I consult for the Department of Treasury through a contract from the MITRE Corporation on Corporate research credit as well as expert witness in software. I also teach for AFCEA (Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association) courses in data management, data mining for counter-terrorism and data security. Through AFCEA I teach classes at AF bases including at Offutt, Eglin Lackland, Edwards and Kirkland. I consult for corporations in technology futures and write books on data management and data security for CRC Press.
II National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia (Oct. 1, 2001 – September 30, 2004)
IPA Position from the MITRE Corporation: Director of Information Cyber Trust, Data and Applications Security, Information and Data Management
I completed my 3 year IPA from the MITRE Corporation at the National Science Foundation. At NSF, during FY02, I was program director for information and data management. This is approx. a $10M program a year and funds research in various aspects of information and data management including data mining, information retrieval and information systems. I also participated in inter-directorate (CISE, BIO GEO) activities on providing directions in Bioinformatics and Geoinformatics. In addition, I was involved in the Math Science Partnership program with the Education Directorate. During FY03 I initiated a new program in Data and Applications Security ($2M/yr) and also managed the Information Management component of ITR (approx $50M) and Information Management for the Sensor Initiative (approx $2M). During FY04 I was one of four founding directorate of NSF’s Cyber Trust Theme (approx. $30M) and also managed the Information Management component of ITR.
During FY02 and FY03, I supported the Department of Health and Human Services on planning for information technologies to combat bioterrorism as part of the States Bioterrism Initiative. During FY04 I participated in an Interagency study on Hard Problems in Cyber Security and completed a draft in September 2004 (a version was later published by the government in 2006). The study report will be used by agencies to fund future research in Information security. Since October 2001, I have been very active on counter-terrorism related research especially on the use of data mining. I gave talks not only at conferences, but also at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the United Nations and participate in National Academy of Science activities in this area. I was a member of interagency planning on data mining for counter-terrorism. As an IPA, I also conducted research at MITRE. This research focused on privacy, secure semantic web and secure sensor information management.
III. The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA (Jan ‘89 – June 2005)
Technical Positions:
* Information Technology Consultant (October 2001 – June 2005)
* Chief Scientist/Engineer in Data Management, Information Technology Directorate
(May ‘99 – September 2001)
* Senior Principal Scientist/Engineer, Advanced Information Systems Center (Sept. ‘96 –May’99)
* Principal Scientist/Engineer, Advanced Information Systems Center (Mar. ‘95 - 8 Sept. ‘96)
* Lead Scientist/Engineer, Network and Distributed Systems Center (Aug ‘92 - 5 Mar. ‘95), Information Security Center (Jan ‘89 - Aug ‘92)
Management Positions
* Section Leader (June ’95 – Oct ’96) and Department Head (Oct ’96 – May ’99) in Data Management and Object Technology, Advanced Information Systems Center and Information Technology Division
(approx. 28 staff in May 1999 - started with approx. 10 staff in June 1995).
Leadership, Coordination Positions:
* Head, MITRE’s Corporate Research and Development Initiative in Evolvable Interoperable Information Systems (March ‘96 - September '97, budget approx: $4M);
* Head, MITRE’s Corporate Research and Development Initiative in Data Management (Sept ‘94 - March ‘96, budget approx. $1M);
* Co-Director, MITRE Database Specialty Group (Oct ‘93-Dec ‘95).
Technical: My 16 years experience at MITRE has given me the opportunity to work on research, development and technology transfer projects. I have been working for a number of sponsors including the Air Force, Navy, Army, NSA, CIA and IRS. I have worked with not only researchers and defense contractors, but also with Fortune 500 corporations in information technology. A summary of my technical accomplishments is listed below.
Information Security: Between January 1989 and August 1992, my work focussed entirely on information security. I initiated and lead various database and object security projects for the Army, Navy, Air Force, and the National Security Agency. The topics included secure distributed/federated database management, inference problem, secure multimedia/object-oriented data management, and secure client-server computing. I design and supervised the implementation of a prototype secure distributed database system that connected database systems in Bedford MA, McLean VA, and Fort Monmouth NJ. This was the first secure distributed database system prototype to be developed. I also designed centralized and distributed database inference controllers and supervised the implementation of these systems. In addition, I designed a secure object/multimedia database system and supervised the implementation of this system. Other contributions include the proof of the unsolvability of the inference problem, use of conceptual structures to designing secure database applications and the development of a logic for secure data and knowledge base management systems. Since August 1992 I have been working part-time on information security. My focus has been on the inference problem, object security, and privacy issues for data mining. I led a team project to investigate security for distributed object systems and this work had an impact on the security standards for the Object Management Group. I provided technical direction to DoD projects in database security between March 1991 and September 1996 and was a consultant to NSA and mentored junior staff at NSA. Between 1996 and 2001 I continued to work in information security by providing directions on the Inference problem to the Air Force and also examine security issues for XML and web information systems.
Data Management, Real-time Systems and Object Technology: My work in data management at MITRE began around August 1992. Since then I have initiated and lead projects in real-time database management and distributed object management for evolvable real-time command and control systems, massive multimedia data management for Intelligence applications, and distributed object management for heterogeneous database integration. In addition I have initiated and contributed to projects in data mining and warehousing. As part of my work, I have provided directions in data management to the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. In particular, between October 1993 and March 1999, I was the lead in providing technology directions for the Intelligence Community initiative on Massive Digital Data Systems. Based on results from this effort, together with the CIA sponsor we began discussions with DARPA on data mining in December 1997 and these discussions eventually led to the EELD program at DARPA. Also between October 1993 and September 1999 I have been part of a team providing directions for next generation real-time data management and object systems for the AWACS project. For this work I received the MITRE program achievement award in 1997. For the work in data mining and distributed objects, I received two MITRE Director awards in 1997.
Consulting in Information Technology (IRS): Between January 1999 and September 2001 I worked on projects for the Internal Revenue Service in interviewing various Fortune 500 corporations on their research and development tax credits and writing reports on these interviews for the sponsor. This work utilized my extensive experience in computer science and information technology. This work has also enabled me to get an excellent understanding of the internal details of databases, ERP, and e-commerce software. Initially my work focussed on banking and financial industries, later I also worked on other industries such as Telecommunications. Between May 2000 and July 2001, I have been working with a major Fortune 100 corporation and the IRS jointly to determine the products that would qualify for research credit. For this effort, I had to review numerous products that this corporation worked on during FY00 and this has made me intimately familiar with the commercial products of a major corporation in the US in information technology. This work was reported in the Wall Street Journal in December 2000 and also claimed by IRS as a success story in a major IRS and Fortune 100 meeting in February 2001. For this work I received the MITRE program achievement awards in 2002 and 2005
Consultant to Air Force: Also, since May 1999 I have been appointed chief scientist/engineer in data management in MITRE’s Information Technology Directorate and in this position provide data management directions for MITRE’s programs for the Air Force as well as oversee the information technology technical work in the directorate in the following areas: information management, e-business and web computing, real-time computing, and decision support. I have also been consulting to MITRE's corporate initiatives in knowledge management and e-business. Between January 2001 and September 2001 I was Vice Chair of the Database Migration Panel to the AF Scientific Advisory Board (SAB).
Other Consulting: In the 1990s I consulted on several MITRE projects involving information and data management sponsored by the Intelligence Community, NASA (EOS project) and FAA.
Other Information: My work has resulted in IEEE’s Computer Society’s 1997 Technical Achievement Award, IEEE’s 2003 Fellow Award, AAAS 2003 Fellow award, British Computer Society’2005 Fellow Award, over 300 publications including over 70 journal articles, 3 software patents and 9 books (7 published and 2 in preparation). I give tutorials to sponsors, at conferences, and at the MITRE Institute in relational database management, distributed database management, heterogeneous database integration, real-time data management, secure data management, object-oriented database management, and data mining. I have also participated in standards efforts including Department of the Navy’s Database Interface Standard and Object Management Group’s real-time and C4I standards. I have given over 150 professional presentations including 30 keynote/featured addresses at major conferences. Also participated in panels at the National Academy of Sciences and the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.
Leadership, Coordination: Between March 1996 and September 1997, as head of the Evolvable Interoperable Information Systems (EIIS) Initiative at MITRE reporting to the Vice President of Research and Technology, I was responsible for research in data management, real-time systems, software reverse engineering, economic analysis for information system evolution and interoperation, and object technology and architectures. I worked with the leaders in each of these areas. Prior to this responsibility, I lead the corporate initiative in data management between September 1994 and March 1996 (which is part of EIIS). As a co-director between October 1993 and December 1995, I organized meetings in data management to discuss projects as well as organize conferences at MITRE. Between October 1995 and May 1999 I was actively involved in promoting object technology within MITRE. In this role, I was part of a MITRE team working in distributed object management, object-oriented frameworks, design patterns, attend Object Management Group meetings and participate in the real-time SIG at OMG. I introduced real-time issues for the common object request broker architecture at Object World West ‘95, founded the C4I SIG at OMG in 1996, and organized object technology conferences at MITRE. I have also provided technology advice to MITRE's e-business initiatives.
Management: Between June 1995 and May 1999, as a department manager reporting to the Director of the Division, I have developed skills in my department of about 30 people in relational data management, object-oriented data management, distributed object management, distributed database management, heterogeneous database integration, multimedia data management, data warehousing, migrating legacy databases, data mining, web technology, data security, and knowledge management. I formed four groups in my department each focussing on a subset of the above technologies with security cutting across all areas. I have initiated and continued projects each year at MITRE totaling 3 - 4 staff years. I was actively involved in mentoring staff and helping them in leadership and coordination positions such as providing directions for MITRE's research as well as organizing internal conferences in data management and object technology. Between May 1999 and September 2001, as chief engineer, I had oversight of the technical work in MITRE's Information1Technology Directorate for about 200 staff.
IV. Honeywell Inc. Golden Valley, MN (Jan. ‘86 - Jan. ‘89)
Position: Principal Research Scientist / Engineer, Corporate Systems Development Division
I have conducted research, development, and technology transfer activities in database security, data management, distributed processing, information systems, process control systems, payoff modeling, and AI applications. In addition to reports and proprietary documents, papers were also published in refereed journals and conferences. Work was carried out for Honeywell internal divisions as well as for the Air Force and NASA. Specific projects included the following: • Design of a Multilevel Secure Database Management System (Rome Laboratory); Development of Engineering Information Systems (Wright Laboratory). • Design of a Distributed Data Dictionary System (Honeywell’s Residential Control Division) • AI Applications in Process Control Systems (Honeywell Industrial Automation Systems Division). • Design of a Network Operating System for a Multicompatible Network Interface Unit (NASA). • Development of a Payoff Model of Alternative Communication Strategies (Honeywell Corporate). • Design of Innovative Software Architectures for Industrial and Buildings Control Systems (Honeywell Building Controls Systems). • Design of Knowledge Transformation Strategies (Honeywell Industrial Automation Systems Division).
V. Control Data Corporation, Arden Hills, MN (Dec '83 - Jan ‘86)
Position: Senior Programmer/Analyst, Arden Hills programming Division
I was involved in the design and development of the CDCNET (Control Data Communications Network) product. Company proprietary documents were also written. Specifically I was responsible for the following: • Design, development and testing of CDCNET Transport layer (Generic and Xerox transport protocols). • Design, development and testing of the first version of the CDCNET Session layer, which enabled the ASYNC Terminal Interface Program to communicate with the Cyber 170 Gateway. • Design, development and testing of X25 support for CDCNET, which would enable CDCNET to communicate with an X25 Network. • Development and testing of CDCNET Network Layer. Implemented the Intranetwork layer, which supported HDLC, Ethernet and MCI Networks. • Design, and development and testing of a set of command processors - transport Status command processor, which gathered information about the Transport connections, and also a set of command processors to configure an MCI network. • Development and testing of CDCNET memory management unit, which was responsible for releasing the buffers depending on the congestion. • Task lead for testing CDCNET with other Cyber products. (My official start date is January 1984, did some consulting work in December 1983)
I Academic Teaching Experience (1980 – Present)
Current (2004 – Present)
The University of Texas at Dallas
Position: Professor of Computer Science and Director of Cyber Security Research Center
