Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham, Founder
Dr. Bhavani is
the Louis A. Beecherl, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
and the Executive Director of the Cyber Security Research and Education Institute at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) and a Senior Research Fellow at Kings College, the University of London. She is an elected
Fellow of IEEE, the AAAS, the British Computer Society, and the SPDS
(Society for Design and Process Science). She received several
prestigious awards including IEEE Computer Society's 1997 Technical
Achievement Award for “outstanding and innovative contributions to
secure data management”, the 2010 ACM SIGSAC (Association for Computing
Machinery, Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control)
Outstanding Contributions Award for “seminal research contributions and
leadership in data and applications security for over 25 years” and the
SDPS Transformative Achievement Medal for her contributions to
interdisciplinary research.
She has unique experience working in the
commercial industry, federal research laboratory, US government and academia and
her 36 year career includes products development, technology
transfer, program management, and consulting for
the federal government and law firms at Honeywell, MITRE, NSF and UTD. Her work has
resulted in 100+ journal articles, 200+ conference papers, 100+
keynote/featured addresses, eight US patents (three pending) and fourteen
books in data analytics and cyber security. She received the prestigious earned higher doctorate degree
(Doctor of Engineering) from the University of Bristol, England for her
published research work in secure data management since her PhD.
