RAVI SANDHU BIO
June 2009

Ravi Sandhu is Founding Executive Director of the Institute for Cyber
Security at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he is an
Endowed Professor of Cyber Security.  Prior to joining UTSA in 2007 he
served on the faculty at George Mason University (1989-2007) and Ohio
State University (1982-1989).  He holds BTech and MTech degress from
IIT Bombay and Delhi and MS and PhD degrees from Rutgers University.
He is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE and AAAS, and has received awards from
ACM, IEEE, NSA and NIST.  His 180+ technical papers have accumulated
10,000+ Google Scholar citations.  His research has been funded by
NSF, NSA, NIST, DARPA, AFOSR, ONR, AFRL and others.  His seminal
papers on role-based access control (RBAC) led to RBAC becoming the
dominant form of access control in commercial systems.  His current
projects include his seminal Usage Control model, new models for
group-centric information sharing, security in social networking,
botnet analysis and defense, multilevel-secure SOA and the PEI method
for secure systems design.  He served as founding Editor-in-Chief of
ACM TISSEC and Chairman of ACM SIGSAC, and is incoming Editor-in-Chief
of IEEE TDSC.  He has consulted for numerous industry and government
organizations, and has lectured all over the world.  He is an inventor
on 12 security technology patents. His web site is at
www.profsandhu.com.