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James B D Joshi
Professor
DINS, School of Computing and
Information
University of
Pittsburgh
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706A
IS Building, 135 N. Bellefield Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Phone: (412) 624-9982
Fax: (412) 624-2788
Email: jjoshi [at] pitt.edu
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CV & Bio
PDF Version of the CV (Updated
in September, 2023)
Bio:
Dr. James Joshi is a professor of School of Computing and Information at the University of Pittsburgh, and the director/founder of the Laboratory of Education and Research on Security Assured Information Systems (LERSAIS). From 2019 – Aug 31, 2023, he served as a Program Director in the Computer and Network System (CNS) division and its Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program at the U.S. National Science Foundation. He currently serves as an “Expert” in the NSF Directorate of Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP). He also served as the Co-Chair of the Privacy Interagency Working Group of the Networking and Information Technology R&D (NITRD), as well as the NITRD Fast Track Action Committees for: (1) Advancing Privacy Preserving Data Sharing and Analytics (PPDSA) that produced the National Strategy to Advance PPDSA in 2023; and (2) Digital Assets R&D Agenda (till Aug, 2023) that was responsible for publishing the National Objectives for Digital Assets R&D in 2023, and the forthcoming National Strategy for Digital Assets R&D. He also serves in the NITRD CSIA Cybersecurity R&D National Strategy Task Force.
He is an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Distinguished Member, Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, and an IEEE CS Golden Core member. His research is focused broadly on cybersecurity and privacy areas including advanced access control models, security and privacy of distributed systems and AI/ML, and trust management. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2006. He had earlier established and managed the NSF CyberCorp Scholarship for Service program at Pitt in 2006 (two rounds of funding). He had established LERSAIS/Pitt as an NSA designated Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (both CAE Education, and CAE Research). He has served as a program co-chair and/or general co-chair of several international conferences/workshop. At Pitt, he served as the Chair of School of Information Science (SIS) Council, the highest governing body of the school .
He currently serves as the founding Steering Committee chair of the following co-located International IEEE conferences: Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC); Trust, Privacy and Security of Intelligent Systems, and Applications (TPS); and Cognitive Machine Intelligence (CogMI). He had served as the Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing from 2017-2021. He has published over 150 articles as book chapters and papers in journals, conferences and workshops, and has served as a special issue editor of several journals including IEEE TSC, Elsevier Computer & Security, ACM TOPS, Springer MONET, IJCIS, and Information Systems Frontiers. His research has been supported by NSF, NSA/DoD, and Cisco. He established the first undergraduate degree program in Computer science and Engineering in Nepal while he was at Kathmandu University.
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