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Keynote Speaker

The Science, Engineering, and Business of Cyber Security

by Ravi Sandhu, Ph.D.
Lutcher Brown Endowed Professor of Cyber Security

 

Ravi Sandhu, PhD

Ravi Sandhu, Ph.D.
Executive Director and Chief Scientist, Institute for Cyber Security
Lutcher Brown Endowed Professor of Cyber Security
Professor of Computer Science, UTSA

Training
  • Ph.D. from Rutgers University, 1983
Positions Held
  • Executive Director of the Institute for Cyber Security, 2007-present
  • Professor, UTSA, 2007-present
  • Associate Professor, George Mason University, 1989-2007
  • Assistant Professor, Ohio State University, 1983-1989
Awards
  • ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award, 2012
  • AAAS Fellow, 2008
  • IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, 2004
  • IEEE Fellow, 2002
  • ACM Fellow, 2001
Journals
  • Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2010-present
  • Security Editor, IEEE Internet Computing, 1998-2004
  • Founding Editor-in-Chief, ACM Transactions on Information & Systems Security, 1997-2004
Conferences
  • Conference Founder and Founding General Chair, ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, 2011
  • Chairman, ACM Special Interest Group on Security Audit and Control, 1995-2003
  • Conference Founder, ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies, 1995
  • Conference Founder, ACM Computer and Communications Security, 1993
Conference Steering Committees
  • ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, Chair 2010-present
  • ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies, Chair 1995-2008
  • ACM Computer and Communications Security, Chair 1993-2003; Member 2003-2007
  • IEEE Computer Security Foundations, Member 1992-2008
Entrepreneurial
  • Chief Scientist and Co-Founder, TriCipher Inc., 2000-2010 (acquired by VMware in 2010)
  • Inventor on 28 security technology patents