ECE FACULTY

Virgil Gligor

Title: Research Professor
Areas/Affiliations: ECE
E-mail: gligor@umd.edu
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Biography:

Dr. Virgil D. Gligor received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been at the University of Maryland since 1976, and is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Over the past 29 years, his research interests have ranged from access control mechanisms, penetration analysis, and denial-of-service protection to cryptographic protocols and applied cryptography. He was a consultant to the Burroughs (1977-1981) and IBM (1984-1999) Corporations, and is currently serving on Microsoft's Trusted Computing Academic Advisory Board. He served the profession as the chair or co-chair of several conferences and symposia, including the IEEE Security and Privacy Symposium, the Internet Society's Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium, the IEEE Dependable Computing for Critical Applications, and the IEEE-ACM Symposium on Relaibility in Distributed Software and Databases. He received the outstanding paper award at the 1988 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. He was a member of several U.S. Government INFOSEC Study Groups that set research agendas in information security, and served on a National Research Council panel on information security. He was an Editorial Board member for both Information Systems (1984-1994) and the Journal of Computer Security (1991-2000). He is currently an Editorial Board Member of the ACM Transactions on Information System Security, as well as the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. Most recently, he was appointed to Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Computers and elected as Chair of the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Security Audit and Control (ACM SIGSAC). He was awarded the prestigious National Information Systems Security Award in 2005.

Research Interests:

* Operating systems
* Computer security
* Distributed systems

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