Bhavani Thuraisingham
Bhavani Thuraisingham
Program Director
Data and Security Applications
Division of Information and Intelligent Systems
4201 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1115
Arlington, Virginia 22230, USA
Tel: (703) 292-8930
Fax: (703) 292-9073
Email: bthurais@nsf.gov
http://www.cise.nsf.gov/staff?name=bthurais
Bhavani Thuraisingham is the program director
for Data and Applications Security (DAS) at the National Science
Foundation. Previously she was program director for Information
and Data Management (IDM). In addition to her responsibilities
in DAS and IDM, she is also part of a team setting directions for
Bioinformatics as well as working on interagency efforts on Information
Technology for counter-terrorism. She is heading the Information
Management focus area for NSF's Information Technology Research
program. She is on leave from the MITRE Corporation since October
2001 where she is chief scientist in data management in the Information
Technology Directorate in Bedford Massachusetts. Since joining
MITRE in January 1989, she has worked in secure databases, real-time
databases, data management and data mining. She is the recipient
of IEEE Computer Society's 1997 Technical Achievement Award for
outstanding and innovative research contributions to secure distributed
data management and the IEEE's 2003 Fellow Award for contributions
to secure systems involving database systems, distributed systems
and the web. She was named by Silicon India as one of top seven
technology innovators of South Asian origin in May 2002.
Dr. Thuraisingham received the M.Sc. degree from the University of Bristol
and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Wales both in the United Kingdom.
Prior to joining MITRE she worked in the computer industry for over 5 years
in Minneapolis first at Control Data Corporation and later at Honeywell Inc.
She has also served as adjunct professor of computer science for over six years
first at the University of Minnesota and later at Boston University. Dr. Thuraisingham
serves (or has served) on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge
and Data Engineering, the Journal of Computer Security and the Computer Standards
and Interfaces Journal. She has chaired over 15 conferences and workshops and
has published over 400 technical papers and reports including over 50 journal
articles, and is the inventor of three patents for MITRE on database inference
control. She is the author of five books in data management and data mining
(by CRC Press) for technical managers and has edited several more in information
security and data management. Her sixth book on Web Data Mining with Applications
in Business Intelligence and Counter-terrorism is in production and she is
now working on her new book database Security based on her research for the
past 17 years. She is a distinguished visitor for IEEE and is also a member
of ACM, the British Computer Society, and currently serves on the advisory
committee in data management for IASTED. She has served on panels for the National
Academy of Sciences and the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. She is an
information technology consultant to the Department of and Health and Human
Services' States Bioterrorism Initiative. She is a frequent keynote and featured
speaker worldwide including invited talks on data mining for counter-terrorism
at the White House, the United Nations, Cambridge University, Oxford University,
Stanford University and several conferences. |
