Research: University of Texas at Dallas

Bhavani Thuraisingham
Director of the Cyber Security Research Center
University of Texas at Dallas

Prof. Bhavani Thuraisingham joined The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) 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 organizations: 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.” Prior to joining UTD, Thuraisingham worked for the MITRE Corporation for 16 years which included an IPA (Intergovernmental Personnel Act) at the National Science Foundation. Her work in information security and information management has resulted in over 80 journal articles, over 200 refereed conference papers three US patents. She is the author of eight books in data management, data mining and data security. Dr. Thuraisingham was educated in the United Kingdom both at the University of Bristol and the University of Wales.

Dr. Thuraisingham’s major research focus area at UTD is in Data and Applications Security including Assured Information Sharing, RFID data management, secure biometrics and federated identity management. Her research team includes Professor I-Ling, Yen (PhD, University of Houston), Associate Professor Latifur Khan (PhD. University of Southern California), Assistant Professor Murat Kantarcioglu (PhD, Purdue University) and Assistant Professor Kevin Hamlen (PhD, Cornell University). Together they supervise over 20 PhD students in data and applications security and data mining. In addition to Dr. Thuraisingham, Dr. Kantarcioglu and Dr. Khan will participate in CEIA activities and research.

Donald A. Hicks
Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy
University of Texas at Dallas

Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy at The University of Texas at Dallas joined the faculty in 1975. He also serves as Special Assistant to University President David E. Daniel. His research and consulting activities have been focused on technology innovation and processes of emerging technologies and industries. Current research includes studies on prospects for anticipating demand for ultra-precision nano-scale production, designer materials and toolsets; the role of venture capital investment in regional/industrial transformation; value creation in bioscience product development; the role of health ICT in health care service transformation; and time-to-market competitive pressures on product innovation and industry change.

Professor Hicks is the author of several books, major policy reports and scholarly articles. He serves on a variety of policy and economic development-related advisory groups and lectures frequently to industry, government academic, and nonprofit policy groups in the United States and abroad. He has delivered invited oral and written testimony before U.S. Congressional committees, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), National Science Foundation (NSF), and Texas legislative committees on industrial, technology and economic development policy issues.

He has served as a consultant and advisor for industry and government organizations throughout the United States and Europe, including the Conference Board, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Small Business Administration (SBA); Joint Economic Committee (JEC) and Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) of the U.S. Congress; Sematech and the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS); the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Urban Land Institute (LILP), Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Office of the Governor, the Office of the Texas Comptroller and the Texas National Laboratory Research Commission (TNLRC), Office of the Governor (North Carolina), Microelectronics Center of North Carolina (MCNC), pb Consult (Parsons-Brinkerhoff). International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), among others.

About UTD:
The University of Texas at Dallas, located at the convergence of Richardson, Plano and Dallas in the heart of the complex of major multinational technology corporations known as the Telecom Corridor®, enrolls more than 14,000 students. The school’s freshman class traditionally stands at the forefront of Texas state universities in terms of average SAT scores. The university offers a broad assortment of bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree programs. For additional information about UTD, please visit the university’s web site at www.utdallas.edu.

UTD’s Cyber Security and Emergency Preparedness Institute was created to help deal with the rapidly growing homeland security problems, such as cybercrime, information assurance and emergency preparedness. It has three centers — the CyberSecurity Research Center, the Global Information Assurance Center and the Emergency Preparedness Center — and has been designated as a center for excellence in information assurance education by both the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.

The Institute also hosts a world class laboratory called SAIAL (Security Analysis and Information Assurance Laboratory) where professors and students conduct cutting edge research and experimentation in information assurance.

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