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James Joshi is an associate professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a founder and the Director of the Laboratory of Education and Research on Security Assured Information Systems (LERSAIS), which has been designated jointly by the NSA and DHS as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education. He received his MS in Computer Science and PhD in Computer Engineering degrees from Purdue University in 1998 and 2003.

His research interests include Access Control Models, Security and Privacy of Distributed Multimedia Systems, Trust Management and Information Survivability. He is a recipient of the NSF-CAREER award in 2006. His current research activities include Security and Privacy issues in Cloud Computing and Collaborative sysmtes, Social networks (including access control anonymization techniques and privacy attack analysis), and Intrusion detection/prevention systems in networks (Trust based approaches, collaborative detection, etc.)

He served as Program Co-Chair for the IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (several years), the International Workshop on Information Assurance, and the International Workshop on Trusted Collaboration, IEEE/ICST CollaborateCom (multiple times), COMPSAC2009 (as track chair) and ACM SACMAT2009. He has served as General chair of CollaborateCom (multiple times), SACMAT 2010. He currently serves as a Steering committee member of CollaborateCom and SACMAT. He also served as an editorial board member of the International Journals of E-Business research, Network Security and Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering. He has served as a program committee member in many international conferences (over 70) including the ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT), International Workshop on Systems and Network Security (SNS), and European Conference on Information Warfare and Security (ECIW). He serves in the editorial review board of the International Journal of E-Business Research and the International Journal of Network Security. He is a co-editor of the book titled “Information Assurance: Dependability and Security of Networked Systems” to be published in 2007.

At Pitt, he co-founded and is the director of the Laboratory of Education and Research in Security Assured Information Systems (LERSAIS), which is one of only about dozen in the nation with five CNSS certifications, and manages the DoD Information Assurance Scholarship Program and the NSF-Federal Cyber Service Scholarship for Service program. His efforts has resulted in the CAE and CAE-Research designation of LERSAIS jointly by NSA and the DHS.

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