RAVI SANDHU BIO
September 2012

Ravi Sandhu is founding Executive Director of the Institute for Cyber
Security at the University of Texas San Antonio, and holds an Endowed
Chair.  He is an ACM, IEEE and AAAS Fellow and inventor on 26 patents.
He is Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and
Secure Computing, past founding Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on
Information and System Security and a past Chair of ACM SIGSAC.  He
founded ACM CCS, SACMAT and CODASPY, and has been a leader in numerous
other security conferences.  His research has focused on security
models and architectures, including the seminal role-based access
control model.