Dr. Ravi Sandhu Announced as New Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

Dr. Ravi Sandhu received the BTech and MTech degrees from IIT Bombay and Delhi and the MS and PhD degrees from Rutgers University. He is the founding executive director of the Institute for Cyber Security at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), where he is an Endowed Professor of Cyber Security. Prior to joining UTSA in 2007, he was a faculty member at George Mason University (1989-2007) and Ohio State University (1982-1989). He has written more than 180 technical papers, which have accumulated more than 10,000 Google Scholar citations. His research has been funded by the US National Science Foundation, the NSA, the NIST, the US DARPA, the AFOSR, the ONR, the AFRL, and others. His seminal papers on role-based access control (RBAC) led to RBAC becoming the dominant form of access control in commercial systems. His current projects include his seminal Usage Control model, new models for group-centric information sharing, security in social networking, botnet analysis and defense, multilevel-secure SOA, and the PEI method for secure systems design. He served as the founding editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Information and System Security and the chairman of ACM SIGSAC. He has consulted for numerous industry and government organizations, and has lectured all over the world. He is listed as an inventor on 12 security technology patents. He is a fellow of the ACM, the IEEE, and the AAAS, and has received awards from the ACM, the IEEE, the NSA, and the NIST. More information is available at www.profsandhu.com.