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LERSAIS Team receives $1 million NSF Scholarship Grant
Dr. James Joshi named 2006 NSF Career Award Recipient

James B. D. Joshi, PhD
Associate 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 _at_ sis.pitt.edu
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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 _at_ sis.pitt.edu
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Konstantinos Pelechrinis, PhD
Assistant Professor

Konstantinos Pelechrinis

School of Information Sciences, Telecommunications and Networking, University of Pittsburgh

Wireless network systems (e.g., 802.11, 3G, wireless home networks, multihomed wireless devices), wireless networks security -- jamming detection and prevention, Denial of Service Attacks, mathematical foundations of communications networks, and graph mining of the Internet.

Phone: 412-624-9417
Fax: 412-624-2788

749 IS Building, 135 North Bellefield Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

kpele _at_ sis.pitt.edu
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Abdelmounaam Rezgui, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor

Abdelmounaam Rezgui

School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh

Real-Time Processing of Data-Intensive Applications on Cloud Computing Environments, Power Saving Techniques for Cellular Networks, Green High Performance Computing

Phone: 412-624-9197
Fax: 412-624-2788

709 IS Building, 135 North Bellefield Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

arezgui _at_ sis.pitt.edu
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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 _at_ sis.pitt.edu
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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 _at_ tele.pitt.edu
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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: 412-624-8147
Fax: 412-624-2788

6145 Sennott Square, Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

znati _at_ tele.pitt.edu
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