Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham
is the Louis A. Beecherl, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Computer
Science and the Executive Director of the Cyber Security Research
and Education Institute (CSI) at The University of Texas at
Dallas. She is an elected Fellow of IEEE, the AAAS, the British
Computer Society, and the SPDS (Society for Design and Process
Science). She received several prestigious award including
IEEE Computer Society's 1997 Technical Achievement Award for
“outstanding and innovative contributions to secure
data management”, the 2010 ACM SIGSAC (Association for
Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Security, Audit
and Control) Outstanding Contributions Award for “seminal
research contributions and leadership in data and applications
security for over 25 years” and the SDPS Transformative
Achievement Gold Medal for her contributions to interdisciplinary
research. She has unique experience working in the commercial
industry (Honeywell), federal research laboratory (MITRE),
US government (NSF) and academia and her 35 year career includes
research and development, technology transfer, product development,
program management, and consulting for the federal government.
Her work has resulted in 100+ journal articles, 200+ conference
papers, 100+ keynote and featured addresses, eightUS patents
(threepending) and fifteenbooks (two pending).She received
the prestigious earned higher doctorate degree (DEng) from
the University of Bristol England in 2011 for her published
work in secure data management since her PhD. She has been
a strong advocate for women in computing and has delivered
featured addresses at events organized by the CRA-W (Computing
Research Association) and SWE (Society for Women Engineers).
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