RAVI SANDHU BIO
August 2022

Ravi Sandhu is Professor of Computer Science, Executive Director of
the Institute for Cyber Security and Lead PI of the NSF Center for
Security and Privacy Enhanced Cloud Computing at the University of
Texas at San Antonio, where he holds the Lutcher Brown Endowed Chair
in Cyber Security.  Previously he served on the faculty at George
Mason University (1989-2007) and Ohio State University (1982-1989).
He holds BTech and MTech degrees from IIT Bombay and Delhi, and MS and
PhD degrees from Rutgers University.  He is a Fellow of IEEE, ACM,
AAAS and the National Academy of Inventors. He has received numerous
awards from IEEE, ACM, NSA, NIST and IFIP, including the 2018 IEEE
Innovation in Societal Infrastructure award for seminal work on
role-based access control (RBAC).  A prolific and highly cited author,
his research has been funded by NSF, NSA, NIST, DARPA, AFOSR, ONR,
AFRL, ARO and private industry.  His seminal papers on role-based
access control established it as the dominant form of access control
in practical systems.  His numerous other models and mechanisms have
also had considerable real-world impact.  He served as Editor-in-Chief
of the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, and
previously as founding Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on
Information and System Security.  He was Chairman of ACM SIGSAC, and
founded the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security,
the ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies and the
ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy.  He has
served as General Chair, Steering Committee Chair, Program Chair and
Committee Member for numerous security conferences.  He has consulted
for leading industry and government organizations, and has lectured
all over the world.  He is an inventor on 31 security technology
patents and has accumulated over 47,000 Google Scholar citations for
his 300+ papers.  At UTSA his team seeks to pursue world-leading
research in both the scientific foundations of cyber security and
their applications in diverse 21st century cyber technology domains,
including cloud computing, internet of things, autonomous vehicles,
big data and blockchain.  Particular focus is on foundations and
technology of attribute-based access control (ABAC) as a successor to
RBAC in these contexts, and on convergence of access control concepts
to solve real-world challenges.  His web site is at
www.profsandhu.com.