Prof. James Joshi

Prof. James Joshi |University of Pittsburgh, United States

James Joshi is a professor of School of Computing and Information at the University of Pittsburgh, and the director/founder of the Laboratory of Education and Research on Security Assured Information Systems (LERSAIS). He is currently serving as a Program Director in the Computer and Network System (CNS) division and its Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program at the US National Science Foundation. He currently also serves as the Co-Chair of the Privacy Interagency Working Group of the Networking and Information Technology R&D (NITRD), which coordinates federal R&D; he also co-chairs the recently established NITRD Fast Track Action Committee for Advancing Privacy Preserving Data Sharing and Analytics. He is an elected Fellow of the Society of Information Reuse and Integration (SIRI), a Senior member of the IEEE and a Distinguished Member of the ACM. His research interests include access control models, security and privacy of distributed systems and AI/ML, and trust management. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2006. He established and managed the NSF CyberCorp Scholarship for Service program at Pitt in 2006 (two rounds). He also established LERSAIS as a NSA designated Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (both CAE and and CAE-R). He has served as a program co-chair and/or general co-chair of several international conferences/workshops, including, ACM SACMAT, IEEE BigData, IEEE IRI, IEEE CIC, IEEE ISM, IEEE EDGE, etc. He currently serves as the steering committee chair of IEEE CIC/TPS/CogMI, and had recently served as the EIC of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. He has published over 140 articles as book chapters and papers in journals, conferences and workshops, and has served as a special issue editor of several journals including Elsevier Computer & Security, ACM TOPS, Springer MONET, IJCIS, and Information Systems Frontiers. His research has been supported by NSF, NSA/DoD, and Cisco.