CSIS Researchers

CSIS has the following full-time research scientists:

• Dr. Sushil Jajodia (jajodia@gmu.edu). BDM International Professor and Director; Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1977. Research Interests: Information Systems Security, Database Management Systems, Distributed Systems, Temporal Databases.
   
• Dr. Anup Ghosh (aghosh1@gmu.edu). Chief Scientist and Research Professor; Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1996. Research Interests: Software Security, Operating System Security, Networking Security, Malicious Code.
   
• Dr. Steven Noel (snoel@gmu.edu). Associate Director; Ph.D., University of Louisiana, 2000. Research Interests: Network Attack Modeling, Analysis, and Visualization, Data Mining for Intrusion Detection, Ontology of Network Attacks.
   
• Dr. Claudio Bettini (cbettini@gmu.edu). Research Professor; Ph.D., University of Milan, 1993. Research Interests: Temporal Data Management and Reasoning, Policy, Internet and Web Technologies.
   
• Rick Duncan (rduncan1@gmu.edu). Research Scientist; M.S., George Mason University, 2006. Research Interests: Networks, Penetration Analysis, Distributed Software Engineering, Security through Virtual Machines, Secure Information Sharing.
   
• Pramod Kalapa (pkalapa@gmu.edu). Research Scientist; M.S., Louisiana State University, 1991. Research Interests: Intrusion Alarm Correlation and Scenario Building, Software Engineering.
   
• Dr. X. "Sean" Wang (xywang@gmu.edu). Research Professor; Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1992. Research Interests: Sequence Data Models, Temporal Databases, Intrusion Detection.
   
• Robert Weierbach (rweierba@gmu.edu). Research Scientist; M.S., George Mason University, 2001. Research Interests: Vulnerability and Exploit Analysis, Key Management Infrastructure, Intrusion Detection.
   
• Dr. Bo Zhu (bzhu@gmu.edu), Postdoc; Ph.D., National University of Singapore, 2006.  Research Interests: Security and Privacy in Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Peer-to-Peer Networks, Intrusion Detection Systems, Digital Signature with Specific Properties.

Faculty Members

Faculty members from various departments are involved in research collaboration with CSIS. Among them the following are more actively involved:

• Dr. Paul Amman (pammann@gmu.edu). Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1988. Research Interests: Software Testing, Fault Tolerance, Reliability, Formal Methods for Secure Information Systems.
• Dr. Alexander Brodsky (brodsky@gmu.edu). Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Hebrew University, 1991. Research Interests: Linear Constraint Databases, Geographic Information Systems.
• Dr. Zoran Duric (zduric@cs.gmu.edu). Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1995. Research Interests: Computer Vision, Video Image Processing, Human-Computer Interaction, Vision Based Control, Physics Based Modeling, Machine Learning in Vision.
• Dr. Kris Gaj (kgaj@gmu.edu). Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, 1992. Research Interests: Cryptography, Computer Arithmetic, CAD Tools, Testing, Hardware/Software Co-design.
• Dr. Amihai Motro (ami@gmu.edu). Professor; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1981. Research Interests: User Interfaces to Databases, Uncertainty Management in Information Systems, Integrity and Security of Databases, Multiple Database Environments.
• Dr. Ravi S. Sandhu (sandhu@gmu.edu). Professor; Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1983. Research Interests: Security Models, Database Security, Network and Distributed System Security.
• Dr. Sanjeev Setia (setia@cs.gmu.edu). Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1993. Research Interests: Parallel Computing on Clusters of Workstations, Performance Evaluation of Computer Systems.
• Dr. Edgar Sibley (esibley@gmu.edu). University Professor and Eminent Scholar; Sc.D., MIT, 1967. Research Interests: Information Systems Policy, Organizational Informatics.
• Dr. Robert Simon (simon@cs.gmu.edu). Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1996. Research Interests: Computer Networks, Distributed Multimedia and Real-time Systems, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Performance Modeling and Simulation, Multimedia Databases and Video-on-Demand Systems.
• Dr. Duminda Wijesekera (dwijesek@gmu.edu). Assistant Professor; Ph.D. in Mathematical Logic, Cornell University, 1990 and Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Minnesota, 1997. Research Interests: Access Control, Telecommunications Security, Multimedia Systems, Data Mining, Applications of Logic to Computing.

Over the past few years, CSIS members have been involved in active collaborative research with scientists from other institutions both in the U.S. and around the globe. Some of them are:

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	The Committee on National Security Systems and the National Security Agency have certified that George Mason University offers a set of courseware that has been reviewed by National Level Information Assurance Subject Matter Experts and determined to meet National Training Standards for Information Systems Security Professionals, NSTISSI No. 4011, 4012, and 4013 for academic years 2005 - 2008.

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