Virgil D. Gligor is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and co-director of the University's CyLab, one of the world's premier university-based information security and privacy research centers.
Gligor received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and PhD degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon, he taught at the University of Maryland (1976 – 2007). Gligor was a visiting professor at University of Cambridge (1999), ETH Zurich (2005), and EPF Lausanne (2006), and he was a research professor at Singapore Management University and University of Maryland (2008-2011). He was a consultant to the Burroughs (1977-1981) and IBM (1984-1999) Corporations, and he has served on Microsoft's Trusted Computing Academic Advisory Board (since 2002), SAP's Security Advisory Board (since 2011), and Queen's University Belfast CSIT Advisory Board (since 2012).
For nearly four decades, Gligor's research interests have ranged from access control mechanisms, penetration analysis, and denial-of-service protection to cryptographic protocols and applied cryptography. His current research addresses problems of trustworthy computing in the presence of an active adversary (such as malware and malicious insiders) and next-generation secure Internet.
Gligor served the profession as the chair or co-chair of many conferences and symposia, including the ACM Computer and Communication Security Conference, IEEE Security and Privacy Symposium, Internet Society's Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium, IEEE Dependable Computing for Critical Applications, and IEEE-ACM Symposium on Reliability in Distributed Software and Databases. Gligor was an editorial board member of several IEEE and ACM journals and the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. In 2006, Gligor received the National Information Security Award granted by the National Security Agency and National Institute of Standards and Technology in the US. In 2011, he received the ACM Outstanding Innovation Award for security and privacy research.
