Faculty

James B. D. Joshi, PhD Assistant Professor
	Department of Information Sciences and Telecommunications, University of Pittsburgh Role Based Access Control, XML Security, Secure Interoperability, Distributed and Multimedia Systems Security, Systems Survivability. Phone: 412-624-9982 Fax: 412-624-2788 706A IS Building, 135 North Bellefield Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15260 jjoshi@sis.pitt.edu Homepage	Faculty News   LERSAIS Team receives $1 million NSF Scholarship Grant Dr. James Joshi named 2006 NSF Career Award Recipient
Prashant V Krishnamurthy, PhD Associate Professor
	Department of Information Sciences and Telecommunications, University of Pittsburgh Wireless data networks, wireless network security, indoor radio propagation.   Phone: 412-624-9982 Fax: 412-624-2788 740 IS Building, 135 North Bellefield Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15260 prashant@sis.pitt.edu  Homepage
Michael B. Spring, PhD Associate Professor
	Department of Information Sciences and Telecommunications, University of Pittsburgh Distributed systems; client server systems; collaborative authoring; web services and e-business; information infrastructure and e-markets; interactive systems; secure systems; standards and standardization. Phone: 412-624-9429 Fax: 412-624-2788 727 IS Building, 135 North Bellefield Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15260 spring@sis.pitt.edu  Homepage
David Tipper, PhD Associate Professor
	Department of Information Sciences and Telecommunications, University of Pittsburgh Network design and traffic restoration procedures for survivable networks, network design for wireless and wired networks, and network control algorithms. Phone: 412-624-9421 Fax: 412-624-2788 749 IS Building, 135 North Bellefield Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15260 tipper@tele.pitt.edu  Homepage
Taieb Znati, PhD Professor
	Department of Information Sciences and Telecommunications & Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh Design of network level channel abstractions for real-time communication networks to support multimedia environments; Design and analysis of medium access control protocols to support distributed real-time systems, and the investigation of fundamental design issues related to distributed systems in the areas of machine learning, cognitive modeling, problem solving, and analogical reasoning. Phone: 624-8147 Fax: 412-624-2788 6145 Sennott Square, Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15260 znati@tele.pitt.edu  Homepage