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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
. The scope of his research interests encompasses information secrecy, privacy, integrity, and availability problems in military, civil, and commercial sectors. He has authored six books, edited twenty-eight 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, 2000 Outstanding Research Faculty Award
from GMU's School of Information Technology and Engineering, and 2008 ACM
SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award for
his research and teaching contributions to the information security field and
his service to ACM SIGSAC and the computing community.
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 IET 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.
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