Biography: 

Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham joined The University of Texas at Dallas in October 
2004 as a Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Cyber Security 
Research Center in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science. 
She is an elected Fellow of three professional organiza-tions: the IEEE 
(Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the AAAS (American 
Association for the Advancement of Science) and the BCS (British Computer 
Society) for her work in data security. She received the IEEE Computer Society's 
prestigious 1997 Technical Achievement Award for "outstanding and innovative 
contributions to secure data management."

Dr Thuraisingham's work in information security and information management has 
resulted in over 70 journal articles, over 200 refereed conference papers and 
workshops, and three US patents. She is the au-thor of seven books in data 
management, data mining and data security including one on data mining for 
counter-terrorism and another on Database and Applications Security and is 
completing her eighth book on Trustworthy Semantic Web. She has given over 30 
keynote presentations at various technical confer-ences and has also given 
invited talks at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and at 
the United Nations on Data Mining for counter-terrorism.  She serves (or has 
served) on editorial boards of leading research and industry journals and 
currently serves as the Editor in Chief of Computer Stan-dards and Interfaces 
Journal. She is also an Instructor at AFCEA's (Armed Forces Communications and 
Electronics Association) Professional Development Center and has served on 
panels for the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and the National Academy of 
Sciences. 

Dr Thuraisingham is the Founding President of "Bhavani Security Consulting"  -
a company providing services in consulting and training in Cyber Security and 
Information Technology

Prior to joining UTD, Thuraisingham was an IPA (Intergovernmental Personnel Act) 
at the National Sci-ence Foundation from the MITRE Corporation. At NSF she 
established the Data and Applications Secu-rity Program and co-founded the Cyber 
Trust theme and was involved in inter-agency activities in data mining for 
counter-terrorism. She has been at MITRE since January 1989 and has worked in 
MITRE's Information Security Center and was later a department head in Data and 
Information Management as well as Chief Scientist in Data Management. She has 
served as an expert consultant in information secu-rity and data management to 
the Department of Defense, the Department of Treasury and the Intelligence 
Community for over 10 years. Thuraisingham's industry experience includes six 
years of research and development at Control Data Corporation and Honeywell Inc. 
Thuraisingham was educated in the United Kingdom both at the University of 
Bristol and at the University of Wales.