RAVI SANDHU BIO
April 2010

Ravi Sandhu is Executive Director of the Institute for Cyber Security
at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he holds the Lutcher
Brown Endowed Chair in Cyber Security.  Previously he was 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 and AAAS, and has received awards from IEEE,
ACM, NSA and NIST.  A prolific and highly cited author, his research
has been funded by NSF, NSA, NIST, DARPA, AFOSR, ONR, AFRL 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 is Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on
Dependable and Secure Computing, and founding General Chair of the ACM
Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy.  He
previously served as founding Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on
Information and System Security and on the editorial board for IEEE
Internet Computing.  He was Chairman of ACM SIGSAC, and founded the
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security and the ACM
Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies and chaired their
Steering Committees.  He has served as General 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 20 security
technology patents.  He has pioneered the teaching of cyber security
at the graduate level and was the principal architect of the MS and
PhD degrees in Information Security and Assurance at George Mason
University.  At the Institute for Cyber Security he leads multiple
teams conducting world-leading research on many aspects of cyber
security including secure information sharing, social computing
security, cloud computing security, service oriented architecture
security, botnet analysis and detection, and infrastructure assurance,
in collaboration with researchers all across the world.  His web site
is at www.profsandhu.com.