Service to University ..

Both a the University of Pittsburgh and earlier in Kathmandu University, I had opportunities to play a leading role in establishing new programs of studies and curriculum. Here is a summary of of service to the University

University of Pittsburgh, USA (since Fall, 2003)

  • Leader of the Information Assurance Research Interest Group (currently nine members) in the School of Information Sciences (SIS) (since Summer, 2006).

  • Member of Curriculum Committee, Department of Information Science and Telecommunications (since 2004)

  • Chair of the Departmental Colloquium Committee

    • Organizer for the Departmental Colloquium, since 2005.

  • Coordinator and founding member of Laboratory of Education and Research on Security Assured Information Systems (LERSAIS) –

    • Led the faculty team to get the University designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (NCAE/IAE) by the NSA and DHS.

    • Currently the Point of Contact for the NCAE/IAE program.

    • Established the Lab facility with CISCO equipment grant and DoD capacity building grant (as PI)

  • Developed Security Curriculum and formalized Security Track

    • Formalized the Security Assured Information Systems (SAIS) Track at SIS – first track that set the example for other tracks.

    • Responsible for receiving the certification of the SAIS track courses for all the five national IA standards CNSS - 4011, 4012, 4013, 4014 and 4015. Pitt is one of only 13 institutions with all the five certifications. I coordinated the course development.

    • Established and currently manage the prestigious NSF-SFS Scholarship that supports 3 cohorts of 4 students each.

    • Developed and taught three new security courses for the security track. The contents of the first two courses make about  70-80 percent of the requirements of the mapped IA standards.

  1. Introduction to Security;

  2. Security Management and

  3. Developing Secure Systems

Kathmandu University, Nepal (1993 - 1996)

  • First Computer Science and Engineering faculty in the University (in Nepal)

  • Led the development of the first Undergraduate Computer Science and Engineering curriculum for my Nepal in 1993.

  • Designed and taught several courses for the first time at KU (Computer Foundation Course;  Introduction to Structured Programming; Data Structures and Algorithms, Communications and Networking, Hardware and System Maintenance, and Software Lab)

  • Managed the procurement, setting-up and maintenance of KU’s computer centers in the schools of Science & Engineering and Management

Service to Professional Community ..

 

Editorial Review Board

  • International Journal of E-Business Research (Since Jan, 2005)

  • International Journal of Network Security (June, 2005 – June, 2007)

Advisory Board

  • Kido Systems Inc., FL, USA (A Disaster Preparedness System) (by invitation), since 2006.

Program (Co) Chair

  • The IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, Las Vegas, 2007

  • The IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, Hawaii, 2006

  • International Workshop on Trusted Collaboration (TrustCol), New York, 2007.

  • International Workshop on Trusted Collaboration (TrustCol), Georgia, 2006.

  • International Workshop on Information Assurance, (with IPCCC), New Orleans, 2007.

  • International Workshop on Information Assurance, (with IPCCC), Phoenix, 2006.

  • International Workshop on Information Assurance, (with IPCCC), Phoenix, 2004.

  • Program vice co-chair of Multimedia Security Track at 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM'07), Taiwan, December, 2007.

Workshop Chair

  • The 3rd International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom-2007), New York, USA, 2007

  • The 2nd International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom-2006), Georgia, USA, 2006

Publicity Chair

  • The First International Workshop on Research Challenges in Next Generation Networks for First Responders and Critical Infrastructures, in conjunction (with IEEE IPCCC), New Orleans, Louisiana, April 11-13, 2007.

  • The IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, Las Vegas, 2005.

Technical Program Committees

  • The 12th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies, SACMAT06, Prance, 2007.

  • The 8th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises (PRO-VE’07), Guimaraes, Portugal, 10-12 Sept, 2007

  • The First International Workshop on Research Challenges in Next Generation Networks for First Responders and Critical Infrastructures, in conjunction (with IEEE IPCCC), New Orleans, Louisiana, April 11-13, 2007.

  • Database and Data Mining track of 2007 ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA ‘2007, May 13-16, 2007, Amman, Jordan.

  • International Conference on E-business (ICE-B), 28-31 July, Barcelona, Spain.

  • First International Workshop on Trust and Reputation Management in Massively Distributed Computing Systems (TRAM 2007), to be held in conjunction withThe 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2007), Toronto, Canada, June 25-29, 2007.

  • Second International Workshop "Dependability Aspects on Data WArehousing and Mining applications" DAWAM 2007, in conjunction with The Second International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security- ARES 2007.

  • The Second IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Databases and Data Management (MDDM'07), in conjunction with 2007 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007), April 16-20, 2007, The Marmara Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey.

  • 3rd international workshop on security in systems and networks (SSN 2007), to be held in conjunction with 21st IEEE IPDPS March 26-30, Long Beach, California, USA.

  • The IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, 2006

  • Workshop on Information Assurance, 2006, (with IPCCC), Phoenix

  • The 2nd International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, Georgia, USA, 2006

  • The 3rd International Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security (VizSec06), held in conjunction with the 13th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2006)

  • 2006 IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Databases and Data Management (MDDM'06), in conjunction with The 22nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE2006), 4/3/2006 - 4/7/2006, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

  • International Conference on e-Business (ICE-B) (Spronsored by IEEE and ACM-SIGMIS), 2006,

  • The 10th Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education, MD, June, 2006.

  • Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Multimedia Computing (ParDMCom-06), to be held in conjunction with ISPA-06: The International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Application, Sorrento, Italy, December 1 -4, 2006.

  • International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM) 2007, Singapore, January 9-12, 2007.

  • 2007 International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE 07), April 26th - 28th, 2007, Seoul Olympic Parktel, Seoul, Korea.

  • The 2nd IEEE LCN Workshop on Network Security, (WNS 206), Tampa, Florida, U.S.A.  14 November 2006.

  • International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST 2006). Theme: Bridge the Gap between PST Technologies and Business Services, Ontario, Canada, Oct 30 - Nov 1, 2006

  • The IEEE GLOBECOM 2006 Computer and Network Security Systems Symposium, San Francisco, CA, USA, 27 November - 1 December 2006 (reviewer)

  • The IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Technology and Ubiquitous Computing (MTUC 2006) in conjunction with The IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC 2006)

  • The 10th Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE), Maryland, June, 2006

  • The 10th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies, SACMAT06, US, 2006

  • The 4th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security (ECIW 2006), University Of Glamorgan, UK, 2006

  • The 2nd international workshop on Security in systems and Networks (SSN'2006), to be held in conjunction with 20th IEEE IPDPS, April 25-29, Rhode Island, Greece.

  • The 5th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security (ECIW 2006), University Of Glamorgan,

  • 2005 IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR'05), in conjunction with IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2005), Irvine, CA, December 12-14, 2005.

  • The 8th IEEE International Symposium on Object-oriented Real-time distributed Computing, May 18-20, 2005, Seattle, Washington

  • The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration

  • The 10th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies, SACMAT, Sweden, 2005

  • The International Workshop on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), being held on Dec. 20-21, 2004 in Islamabad, Pakistan.

  • The 4th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security (ECIW 2005), University Of Glamorgan, UK, 11-12 July 2004

  • The 1st International Workshop on Systems and Network Security (SNS 2005) Denver, Colorado, USA, April 8, 2005 (to be held in conjunction with in conjunction with the IEEE 19th IPDPS)

  • The 9th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies, SACMAT 2004, New York - Session Chair and Panelist

  • The 8th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies, SACMAT, Como, Italy, 2003 – Session Chair

  • Workshop on Information Assurance, 2004, April 14-17, Phoenix, Session Chair and Program Co-Chair,

  • The 6th International Symposium on Multimedia Software Engineering (IEEE MSE'04), Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA December 13-15, 2004.

  • The Second ACM Workshop on Multimedia Databases (ACM MMDB'04) to be held in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM 2004).

  • The First Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services, August 22-26, 2004 - Boston, Massachusetts, USA

JOURNAL REVIEWER For

  • NSF Review Panel (CyberTrust(2), CAREER(1); External reviewer for IDM)

  • IEEE Distributed Systems Online

  • ACM Transactions on Information and System Security

  • International Journal of Information Security

  • IEEE Security & Privacy

  • Communications of the ACM

  • IEEE Computer

  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and  Data Engineering

  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

  • Information Systems Journal (Elsevier), special issue on Multimedia Databases

  • International Journal of E-Business Research

  • Distributed and Parallel Databases - An International Journal

  • International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM)

  • International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems

  • Journal of Universal Computer Science

  • Very Large Databases Journal

  • International Journal on Digital Libraries

  • Journal of System and Software

  • Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing

  • International Journal of Information and Computer Security (IJICS)

  • Special issue on Multimedia Databases of the Information Systems Journal (Elsevier)

  • Iranian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Encyclopedia of Geoinformatics

 

Professional Affiliation
  • Member of the ACM and the IEEE