Sushil Jajodia

Sushil Jajodia is Distinguished University Professor, BDM International Professor, and founding director of the Center for Secure Information Systems in the College of Engineering and Computing at the George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. He served as the director of the NSF IUCRC Center for Cybersecurity Analytics and Automation (CCAA), Phase I and II, during 2013-2024; and as the chair of the Department of Information and Software Engineering during 1998-2002. Before coming to GMU, he held permanent positions at the National Science Foundation; Naval Research Laboratory, Washington; and University of Missouri, Columbia. Dr. Jajodia received his BS and MS from the Southern Illinois University, Carbondale and PhD from the University of Oregon, Eugene, all in Mathematics. Research Dr. Jajodia has made research contributions to diverse aspects of security and privacy, including access control, multilevel secure databases, vulnerability analysis, adaptive cyber defense, cloud security, and steganography, as well as replicated and temporal databases and algebraic topology. He has authored or coauthored seven books, edited 53 books and conference proceedings, and published more than 500 technical papers in the refereed journals and conference proceedings. Five of his books have been translated in Chinese. He is also a holder of 28 patents, 17 of which have been licensed by successful startups. Honors and Awards - Fellow of ACM (2021), IEEE (2013), and IFIP (2021) - BDM International Professor (2000) and Distinguished University Profesor (2007) - Endowed chairs and the title of Distinguished University Professor are the highest academic rank bestowed on members of George Mason University faculty - IFIP TC 11 Kristian Beckman award (1996) - IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Member (1996) - Volgenau School of Engineering Outstanding Research Faculty Award (2000) - IFIP Silver Core Award (2001) - ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award (2008) - IFIP WG 11.3 Outstanding Research Contributions Award (2011) - ESORICS Outstanding Research Award (2015) - Federal Information Systems Security Educators Association (FISSEA) Educator of the Year Award (2016) - IEEE Computer Society Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award (2016) - IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award (2020) He was recognized for the most accepted papers at the 30th anniversary of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. 2024 Edition of Top Computer Science Scientists by Research.com ranks him at 125th in the world and 82nd in the US. His Erdos number is 2. According to the Google Scholar, his work has been cited over 50,000 times and his h-index is 116. PhD Graduates Dr. Jajodia has supervised 27 doctoral dissertations. Thirteen of these graduates hold academic positions while rest are in successful industrial positions. Twelve students hold tenured positions at U.S. universities; four are NSF CAREER awardees, one is DoE Young Investigator awardee, and one is a Fulbright Scholar. One additional student is tenured at a Canadian university. Selected Professional Activities - Founding editor of the Springer Series on Advances in Information Security (2001-present) - Editorial Board Member of Springer Cybersecurity (2018-present), Springer Journal of Banking and Financial Technology (2019-present), and SpringerBriefs in Computer Science - Founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Computer Security (1992-2010) - Past editor of IEEE Transactions on Computers (2016-2019), ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (1999-2006), IET Information Security (2007-2014), International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (1992-2011), IEEE Concurrency (1997-2000), and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (1989-1991) - 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

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