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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
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Prof. Jajodia's Bio

Sushil Jajodia is 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. His research 
interests include information security, temporal databases, and replicated databases. 
He has authored four books, edited twenty books, and published more than 250 
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, and the 2000 Outstanding Research Faculty Award 
from GMU's School of Information Technology and Engineering. 

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 ACM Transactions on Information and Systems Security and 
International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems. He is the consulting 
editor of the Kluwer International Series on Advances in Information Security. 
He also serves as the chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Security, 
Audit, and Control (SIGSAC) and the IFIP WG 11.5 on Systems Integrity and 
Control. 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 chairman of the IEEE Computer Society Technical 
Committee on Data Engineering. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member 
of IEEE Computer Society and Association for Computing Machinery.