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Ravi Sandhu
University of Texas at San Antonio:
Executive Director and Chief Scientist
Institute for Cyber Security (ICS)
Lutcher Brown Endowed Professor of Cyber Security
IEEE TDSC: Editor-in-Chief
ACM CODASPY: Founder, Steering Committee Chair and General Chair
TriCipher Inc: Chief Scientist
and Co-Founder
Note to PhD and Post-PhD Computer Science Researchers:
There are openings in my research teams for (i) secure information sharing, (ii) social computing security,
(iii) cloud computing security, (iv) service oriented architecture security, (v) botnet analysis and detection, and (vi) infrastructure assurance.
Interested researchers should contact me directly. We have openings for Doctoral Students, Post-Doctoral Researchers and Research Professors at all levels.
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Career Highlights
Vitae and Career Synopsis
 | 190+ papers (with 50+ co-authors),
10,000+ Google Scholar Citations, 52 h-index, 17 USA
patents, 16 PhD graduates, 35+
research grants |
 | Highest cited paper in Access Control:
RBAC96 paper 3700+ hits
 | ACM Fellow (2001), IEEE Fellow (2002), AAAS Fellow (2008) |
 | IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award (2004),
ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contribution Award (2008)
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 | NIST/NSA National Computer Security Conference Best Paper Awards (1992 and 1998)
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Brief Biosketch,
Long vita (22 pages): pdf doc,
Short vita (first 2 pages of long vita): pdf doc |
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Academic Positions Held
Professional Recognition
 | AAAS Fellow, 2008: For distinguished contributions to cyber security, including seminal role-based access control and usage control models, and for professional leadership in research journals and conferences |
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ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contribution Award, 2008 |
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IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, 2004: For outstanding and pioneering contributions to information security including innovation of the role-based access control model and usage control |
 | IEEE Fellow, 2002: For contributions to the field of information and system security |
 | ACM Fellow, 2001: For technical contributions to the field of information and system security, notably access control models and systems, and professional leaderhip in research journals and conferences |
Professional Leadership
 | Editor-in-Chief,
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Jan 1, 2010 onwards |
 | Founding General Chair and Steering Committee Chair,
ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), 2010 onwards |
 | Founding Editor-in-Chief, ACM Transactions on Information & Systems Security (TISSEC), 1997-2004 |
 | Chairman, ACM Special Interest Group on Security Audit and Control (SIGSAC), 1995-2003 |
 | Conference Founder: ACM CCS (1993),
ACM SACMAT (1995), ACM CODASPY (2011) |
 | Security Editor, IEEE Internet Computing, 1998-2004 |
 | Conference Steering Committees:
ACM CCS (1993-2003 Chair, 2003-2007 Member),
ACM SACMAT (1995-2008 Chair),
IEEE CSF (1992-2008 Member),
ACM CODASPY (2010- Chair) |
 | Conference Program Chair:
IEEE CSF (1991, 1992),
ACM CCS (1993, 1994, 2002),
ACM SACMAT (1995),
ACSAC (1996),
IFIP WG 11.3 (1996),
ACM CSAW (2007) |
 | Conference General Chair:
IEEE CSF (1993, 1994),
ACM CCS (1996),
ACM SACMAT (2001, 2002),
ACM CODASPY (2011) |
Teacher and Educator
Entrepreneur and Consultant
 | TriCipher, 2000 onwards, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder |
 | Consultant to numerous organizations including: McAfee, Trusted Information Systems, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Verizon, SETA Corporation, Argonne National Laboratory, Singapore Management University, Northrop Grumman, Integris Health |
Education
Personal
 | US Citizen since 1997. Born in India. Schooled at
Doon
School. Married with two sons. |
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