Shambhu J. Upadhyaya is
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the State
University of New York at Buffalo where he also directs the
Center of Excellence in Information Systems Assurance Research and Education (CEISARE),
designated by the National Security Agency
and the Department of Homeland
Security. Prior to July 1998, he was a faculty member at the
Electrical and Computer Engineering department. His research
interests are information assurance, computer security, behavioral
biometrics authentication and fault tolerant computing. He has
authored or coauthored about 300 articles in refereed journals and conferences in these areas. His current
projects involve insider threat assessment, continuous authentication and
deception to deal with advanced persistent threats. His research has
been supported by the National Science Foundation, Rome Laboratory, the U.S. Air
Force Office of Scientific Research, DARPA, National Security Agency, IBM, Intel
Corporation and Harris Corporation. In May
1999, IBM sponsored a new Electronic Test and Design Automation Lab to support
his teaching and research on VLSI Testing. He has been awarded an IBM Faculty
Partnership Fellowship for year 2000-01 in recognition of his research
accomplishments in the area of VLSI. He was also an NRC faculty fellow in 2001
and 2002. In 2005, he received Cisco equipment donation to build a computer
security lab. He has held visiting research faculty positions at the
Center for Reliable and High Performance
Computing, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Intel Corporation,
Folsom, CA, Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, NY and the Naval
Research Laboratory, Washington DC. He was the Program Co-Chair of
the Fifth IEEE/ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, 1995. He was the publicity chair of 1998 IEEE International
Computer Performance and Dependability Symposium, and has served as the Program
Co-chair of IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, 2000 held in Nuernberg, Germany
and the International Conference and Indo-US Bilateral Workshop on
Cyber Security, Cybercrime and Cyber Forensics, August 19-21, 2009,
held in Cochin, India. He is a Program Co-Chair of the 27th IEEE
International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks
(ICCCN 2018), August 2018, Hangzhou, China. He was the General Chair
of the 28th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, Niagara
Falls, NY in September 2009 and the 2nd International Symposium on
Data, Privacy and E-Commerce, Buffalo/Niagara Falls, NY, September
2010. He was the General Co-Chair of the International Conference on
Security in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SNDS 2012),
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, October 2012. He was an associate editor of
IEEE Transactions on Computers
from 2001 to 2006, is a member of the editorial board of the International
Journal on Reliability, Quality, and Safety Engineering published by the World
Scientific Publishers and the
ICST Transactions on Security and Safety. He was a guest co-editor of the book series Interfaces in
OR/CS on Mobile Computing: Implementing Pervasive Information and Communication
Technologies, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001
and was a guest co-editor of a special issue on Secure Knowledge Management in
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, May 2006 and a co-Guest
Editor of a special issue on Emerging Security Trends for
Deeply-Embedded Computing Systems in
IEEE Transactions on
Emerging Topics in Computing, July 2016. He was an invited speaker at the 3rd Annual IFIP WG 11.9
Digital Forensics Conference at Orlando, FL, Jan. 2007, a keynote speaker at the
2nd Annual Symposium on Information Assurance, Albany, NY, June 2007, a
keynote speaker at the DIMACS/DyDAn Workshop on Mathematical & Computational
Methods for Information Security, Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas,
December 7, 2007, a distinguished invited speaker at the 1st International
Symposium on Cyber Security, Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore, January 2013, and a keynote speaker at the 3rd ACM
International Workshop on Security and Privacy Analytics (Co-located
with ACM CODASPY 2017), March 24, 2017, Scottsdale, AZ. He was a panelist on the 4th International Workshop on
Dependable Network Computing and Mobile Systems (DNCMS), Madrid,
Spain, October 2011 and on the 1st Workshop on Computer
Security Research Institute, Washington DC, April 2012. He received
the Tan Chin Tuan (TCT) Exchange Fellowship at Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore in summer 2013. He is recipient of the
Sustained Achievement Award, UB Exceptional Scholars, 2013 and also
a recipient of SUNY Chancellors Award for Scholarship and
Creative Activities, 2019. He
received the Best Poster Award at the 8th IEEE International
Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS)
for his paper Adaptive Techniques for Intra-User
Variability in Keystroke Dynamics in 2016. In 2018, he
recevied the IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation in Academic
Award. He is Fellow of IEEE.