RAVI SANDHU BIO
January 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.  Prior to joining UTSA he
served on the faculty at George Mason University (1989-2007) and Ohio
State University (1982-1989).  He holds BTech and MTech degress from
IIT Bombay and Delhi and MS and PhD degrees from Rutgers University.
He is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE and AAAS, and has received awards from
ACM, IEEE, NSA and NIST.  His 180+ technical papers have accumulated
10,000+ Google Scholar citations.  His research has been funded by
NSF, NSA, NIST, DARPA, AFOSR, ONR, AFRL and others.  His seminal
papers on role-based access control led to it becoming the dominant
form of access control in commercial systems.  Many of his other
models and mechanisns have also had considerable impact.  He is
Editor-in-Chief of IEEE TDSC and founding General Chair of ACM
CODASPY.  He previously served as founding Editor-in-Chief of ACM
TISSEC and Chairman of ACM SIGSAC.  He has consulted for numerous
industry and government organizations, and has lectured all over the
world.  He is an inventor on 17 security technology patents.  At the
Institute for Cyber Security he leads a team of research and
professional staff conducting world-leading research on many aspects
of cyber security with special emphasis on secure information sharing,
social computing security, cloud computing security, service oriented
architecture security, botnet analysis and detection, and
infrastructure assurance.  His web site is at www.profsandhu.com.