Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham joined The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) in October 2004 as a Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Cyber Security Research Center in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science. She is an elected Fellow of three professional organizations: the IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) and the BCS (British Computer Society) for her work in data security. She received the IEEE Computer Society’s prestigious 1997 Technical Achievement Award for “outstanding and innovative contributions to secure data management.” She was quoted by SiliconIndia magazine as one of the leading seven technology innovators of South Asian origin in the USA in 2002.

Prior to joining UTD, Dr. Thuraisingham was an IPA (Intergovernmental Personnel Act) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, VA, from the MITRE Corporation. At NSF she established the Data and Applications Security Program and co-founded the Cyber Trust theme and was involved in interagency activities in data mining for counter-terrorism. She worked at MITRE in Bedford, MA between January 1989 and September 2001, first in the Information Security Center and later as a department head in Data and Information Management as well as Chief Scientist in Data Management in the Intelligence and Air Force centers. She has served as an expert consultant in information security and data management to the Department of Defense, the Department of Treasury and the Intelligence Community for over 10 years. Thuraisingham’s industry experience includes six years of research and development at Control Data Corp. and Honeywell Inc. in Minneapolis, MN. While in industry and at MITRE, she was an adjunct professor of computer science and member of the graduate faculty first at the University of Minnesota and later at Boston University between 1984 and 2001. She also worked as visiting professor soon after her PhD, first at the New Mexico Institute of Technology and later at the University of Minnesota between 1980 and 1983.

Dr. Thuraisingham’s work in information security and information management has resulted in over 90 journal articles, over 200 refereed conference papers and workshops, and three US patents. She is the author of nine books in data management, data mining and data security including one on data mining for counter-terrorism and another on Database and Applications Security and is completing her tenth book on Secure Service-Oriented Information Systems. She has given over 70 keynote presentations at various technical conferences and has also given invited talks at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and at the United Nations on Data Mining for counter-terrorism. She serves (or has served) on editorial boards of leading research and industry journals including several IEEE and ACM Transactions and currently serves as the Editor in Chief of Computer Standards and Interfaces Journal. In addition, she has been an instructor at AFCEA’s (Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association) Professional Development Center since 1998 and has served on panels for the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and the National Academy of Sciences.

During her five years at UTD, Dr. Thuraisingham has established and leads a strong research program in Intelligence and Security Informatics which now includes 4 core professors. The team has generated over $10m in research funding from agencies such as NSF, AFOSR, IARPA, NGA, NASA, ONR and NIH as well as corporations such as Raytheon Inc. The research projects include an NSF Career Grant, an AFOSR Young Investigator Program Award and a DoD MURI Award. Her current focus includes three activities: (i) studying how terrorists and hackers function so that effective and improved solutions can be provided; (ii) initiating interdisciplinary programs integrating social sciences and information sciences; and (iii) transferring the technologies developed at the university to commercial development efforts. She is also instrumental in establishing UTD’s MS Track in Information Assurance and teaches courses in data and applications security, digital forensics and trustworthy semantic services.

Dr. Thuraisingham is the founding president of “Bhavani Security Consulting, LLC” a company providing services in consulting and training in Cyber Security and Information Technology. She is also the founder and a member of the board of directors of “Infosec Analytics, LLC”, a spin-off company from UTD developing tools in malware detection and information sharing.

She promotes Math and Science to high school students as well as to women and underrepresented minorities. She has given featured addresses at conferences sponsored by WITI and SWE and received the 2001 Women of Color Research Leadership Award from Career Communications Inc. Articles on her efforts, as well as her vision, have appeared in multiple magazines including the Dallas Morning News, D Magazine, MITRE Matters and the DFW Metroplex Technology magazine.

Dr. Thuraisingham was educated in the United Kingdom both at the University of Bristol and at the University of Wales and is currently working on a certificate in terrorism studies at St. Andrews University, Scotland.

Raymond A. Paul serves in command and control (C2) Policy and conducts research concerning network enabled command and control service oriented systems engineering development in the Department of Defense. His current research focus is on high assurance systems engineering, software engineering, C2 networks, dynamic adaptive decision making, and trustworthy sensor networks. Paul holds a doctorate in software engineering and is an active "Fellow" member of the IEEE Computer Society and Professional member of the ACM.

The scale and complexity of advanced cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are steadily growing. Most new-generation CPSs being developed or to be developed involve networked embedded computing (NEC) devices. The state of the art in software engineering for such network-based CPSs is weak. Major problems faced are the low quality of network-based CPS software and the low productivity of CPS software engineers. One type of desirable advance in enhancing the state of the art is to establish high-level programming tools boosting the productivity of software engineers. Here additional types of desirable advance are discussed. Specifically, the establishment of methods and tools for quantitatively analyzable fault tolerance design as well as for design of time-constrained security enforcement is proposed.

K.H. (Kane) Kim is Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, USA. He received an M.A. degree from the Computer Science Department at the University of Texas at Austin in 1972 and a Ph.D. degree from the Computer Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1974. He is the principal originator of the TMO (time-triggered message-triggered object, also called RTO.k) programming scheme, the Distributed Recovery Block (DRB) scheme, and several other fundamental dependable computing approaches. Dr. Kim is a recipient of the 1998 IEEE Computer Society's Technical Achievement Award and the 2004 IEEE Computer Society's Tsutomu Kanai Award for his contributions to the scientific foundation of both real-time fault-tolerant computing and real-time object-/component-oriented distributed computing. Dr. Kim is a fellow of IEEE (elected in Fall 1988) and a member of the IFIPWG 10.4 on Dependable Computing. He served as the Chairman of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Distributed Processing during 1984-86 and hosted several IEEE conferences. He also served as a member of the founding editorial board for the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems during 1989-1994. In 1983, he was one of the two co-founders of KOCSEA (Korean Computer Scientists & Engineers Association in America) and during 2005 - 2006, he served as the president of KSEA (Korean-American Scientists & Engineers Association).

We present an application of an open source platform for wireless body sensor network called DexterNet to the problem of monitoring different subjects. The architecture of the system consists of three layers. At the body sensor layer (BSL), the integrated monitoring of a person’s activities, geographic location, and air pollution exposures occurs. At the personal network layer (PNL), a wireless mobile device worn by the person summarizes the sensed data, and provides information feedback. The mobile device communicates wirelessly over the Internet with the third global network layer (GNL), in which a web server provides the following four information services: a clinical module that supports the healthcare management of different health problems cases, a personal health module that supports individual prevention of some health symptoms, a community module that supports participatory sensing, and a health research module that supports the collection of anonymous sensor data for research into the risk factors associated with the given health issues. We illustrate the potential for the system to serve as a comprehensive strategy to manage different health cases.

Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy ("buy chee") was appointed Director of CITRIS and professor of EECS department at the University of California, Berkeley on November 1, 2001. Prior to coming to Berkeley, she was Assistant Director of the Computer Information Science and Engineering Directorate (CISE) between December 1, 1998 and September 1, 2001. As head of National Science Foundation's CISE directorate, Dr. Bajcsy managed a $500 million annual budget. She came to the NSF from the University of Pennsylvania where she was a professor of computer science and engineering. In 2004 she became a CITRIS director emeritus and now she is a full time professor of EECS.

Dr. Bajcsy is a pioneering researcher in machine perception, robotics and artificial intelligence. She is a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Berkeley. She was also Director of the University of Pennsylvania's General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception Laboratory, which she founded in 1978.

Dr. Bajcsy has done seminal research in the areas of human-centered computer control, cognitive science, robotics, computerized radiological/medical image processing and artificial vision. She is highly regarded, not only for her significant research contributions, but also for her leadership in the creation of a world-class robotics laboratory, recognized world wide as a premiere research center. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as the Institute of Medicine. She is a recipient of Franklin Medal 2009. She is especially known for her wide-ranging, broad outlook in the field and her cross-disciplinary talent and leadership in successfully bridging such diverse areas as robotics and artificial intelligence, engineering and cognitive science.

Dr. Bajcsy received her master's and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Slovak Technical University in 1957 and 1967, respectively. She received a Ph.D. in computer science in 1972 from Stanford University, and since that time has been teaching and doing research at Penn's Department of Computer and Information Science. She began as an assistant professor and within 13 years became chair of the department. Prior to her work at the University of Pennsylvania, she taught during the 1950s and 1960s as an instructor and assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Department of Computer Science at Slovak Technical University in Bratislava. She has served as advisor to more than 50 Ph.D. recipients. In 2001 she received an honorary doctorate from Universty of Ljubljana in Slovenia and Lehigh University. In 2001 she became a recipient of the ACM A. Newell award.