Bhavani Thuraisingham

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Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham
Born1955
Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUniversity of Texas at Dallas
Website[1]

Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham 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.[1] She is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Informatics at Kings College University of London and a 2017-2018 Cyber Security Policy Fellow at New America.

Education[]

Thuraisingham received a B.Sc. in Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Physics from the University of Ceylon in 1975. She received an M.Sc. in Mathematical Logic and Foundations of Computer Science from the University of Bristol and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota in 1977 and 1984 respectively. She earned a Ph.D. in the Theory of Computation and Computability Theory from the University of Wales, Swansea in 1979 and a Doctor of Engineering at the University of Bristol in 2011.[2]

Career[]

Thuraisingham has 35 years work experiences[3] in commercial industry (Honeywell), Federally Funded Research and Development Center (MITRE), Government (NSF) and Academia.[1] She has conducted research in cyber security for thirty years and specializes in applying data analytics for cyber security. Her work has resulted in over 100 keynote addresses, 120 journal papers, 300 conference papers, 15 books (2 pending) [4] and 8 patents (3 pending).[5][6][7]

Awards and honors[]

  • IEEE Fellow, 2003[8]
  • IEEE Computer Society 1997 Technical Achievement Award[9]
  • AAAS Fellow, 2003[10]
  • British Computer Society Fellow, 2005
  • ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award, 2010[11]
  • ACM Distinguished Scientist, 2010[12]
  • IEEE SMC/TS Research Leadership Award, 2010[13]
  • Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS) Fellow, 2011[14]
  • SDPS Transformative Achievement Gold Medal, 2012[15]
  • Information Reuse and Integration (IRI) Fellow, 2011
  • IRI Research Leadership Award, 2014
  • IBM Faculty Award 2013[16]
  • ACM Fellow, 2018[17]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham". University of Texas at Dallas.
  2. ^ "Thuraisingham, Bhavani - Department of Computer Science - The University of Texas at Dallas – Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science". cs.utdallas.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
  3. ^ "CV of Dr. HerThuraisingham" (PDF).
  4. ^ Bhavani M. Thuraisingham at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  5. ^ "Patents".
  6. ^ "Patents". Google Patents.
  7. ^ "Google Patent Search".
  8. ^ "IEEE Fellow".
  9. ^ "IEEE 1997 Technical Achievement".
  10. ^ "AAAS Fellow".[permanent dead link]
  11. ^ "ACM Award". Archived from the original on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
  12. ^ "ACM Distinguished Scientist".
  13. ^ "IEEE ISI Research Leadership Award".
  14. ^ "SDPS Fellow".
  15. ^ "SDPS Transformative Achievement Award" (PDF).
  16. ^ "IBM Faculty Award".
  17. ^ 2018 ACM Fellows Honored for Pivotal Achievements that Underpin the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, December 5, 2018
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