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James Joshi is an assistant 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. He is a Program Co-Chair for the IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, the International Workshop on Information Assurance, and the International Workshop on Trusted Collaboration. He has served as a program committee member in several international conferences 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 currently directs the Security program, which is one of only 13 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. He also leads the recently formed Information Security Research Interest Group in the School.