Developing and Securing the Cloud

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Author

Dr. Bhavani uraisingham is the Louis A. Beecherl, Jr. Distinguished Professor

in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University

of Texas at Dallas (UTD) and the executive director of UTD’s Cyber Security

Research and Education Institute. Her current research is on integrating cyber

security, cloud computing, and big data analytics. Prior to joining UTD in October

2004, she worked at the MITRE Corporation for 16 years, which included a three-

year stint as a program director at the National Science Foundation (NSF). At

MITRE, she led team efforts on developing secure data management systems and

data mining tools. She initiated the Data and Applications Security program at

NSF and was part of the Cyber Trust theme. Prior to MITRE, she worked for the

commercial industry for six years, conducting research in data security, data man-

agement, and distributed systems.

Dr. uraisingham is the recipient of numerous awards, including the IEEE

Computer Society’s 1997 Technical Achievement Award, the ACM SIGSAC

2010 Outstanding Contributions Award, the IEEE SMC and Transportation

Systems Societies’ 2010 joint award on Research Leadership in Intelligence and

Security Informatics, the Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS) 2012

Transformative Achievement Gold Medal for interdisciplinary research on inte-

grating computer sciences, with social sciences, and a 2013 IBM Faculty Award.

She is a fellow of IEEE, AAAS and the British Computer Society. She has published

over 100 journal articles, over 200 conference papers, and 12 books, and has deliv-

ered over 100 keynote and invited addresses. She has five patents (two pending)

and is the founder of Knowledge and Security Analytics, LLC. Dr. uraisingham

received her PhD from the University of Wales, Swansea in theory of computation

and her earned higher doctorate (Doctor of Engineering) from the University of

Bristol, England for her published work in data security.