Biography: Dr. Vijay Atluri received her B.Tech. in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada, India, M.Tech. in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, and Ph. D. in Information Technology from George Mason University, USA. She is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems in the MSIS Department, and research director for the Center for Information Management, Integration and Connectivity (CIMIC) at Rutgers University.

Dr. Atluri's research interests include Information Systems Security, Databases, Workflow Management, Spatial Databases, Multimedia and Distributed Systems. She has published over 60 technical papers in the refereed journals and conference proceedings in these areas and is the co-author of the book, Multilevel Secure Transaction Processing, Kluwer Academic Publishers (1999). Currently, she serves as a member of the Steering Committee for ACM Special Interest Group on Security Audit and Control (SIGSAC) and for the ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Architectures (SACMAT). She served as program chair for the 2003 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2000 ACM Workshop on Role Based Access Control, as program co-chair for the 1999 IFIP WG11.3 Working Conference on Database Security, and on the program committees of a number of conferences and workshops. In 1996, she was a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award to investigate issues related to incorporating multilevel security into database management systems for advanced application domains such as office information systems, CAD/CAM, workflow systems. Dr. Atluri is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, the Association for Computing Machinery, and IFIP WG11.3.

More information may be found at: http://cimic.rutgers.edu/~atluri/