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. Prior to July 1998, he was a faculty
member at the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. His research
interests are information assurance, computer security, fault diagnosis, fault
tolerant computing, and VLSI Testing. He has authored or coauthored more than
175 articles in refereed journals and conferences in these areas. His current
projects involve insider threat modeling, intrusion detection, security in
wireless networks, and protection against Internet attacks. His research has
been supported by the National Science Foundation, Rome Laboratory, the U.S. Air
Force Office of Scientific Research, DARPA, and National Security Agency. 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 has served on various Conference
Committees including the IEEE Simulation Conference, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999 -
2007, Fault Tolerant Computing Symposium, 1997, and
1999, IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI
Systems, 1997, 1998, 2000 - 2003, 2006, and IEEE Symposium on Reliable
Distributed Systems, 1998,
1999, 2006-2007. 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. He was an associate editor of
IEEE Transactions on Computers
from 2001 to 2006, and is a member of the editorial board of the International
Journal on Reliability, Quality, and Safety Engineering published by the World
Scientific Publishers. 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. He was on the
Program Committee of 3rd IEEE International Information Assurance Workshop,
Washington DC, March 2005, 6th Annual IEEE Information Assurance Workshop, West
Point, NY, June 2005, and Dependable Computing and Communications Symposium of
IEEE DSN-2005. In 2007, he is serving on the program committees of IEEE SRDS,
8th Annual IEEE Information Assurance Workshop, West Point, NY, 2007, IEEE
International Symposium on Ubisafe Computing (UbiSafe-07), 2nd International
Swarm Intelligence & Other Forms of Malware Workshop (Malware 2007) and Annual
Simulation Symposium. He was an invited speaker at the 3rd Annual IFIP WG 11.9
Digital Forensics Conference at Orlando, FL, Jan. 2007. His paper "Spycon:
Emulating User Activities to Detect Evasive Spyware" received the Best Paper
Award in IEEE Malware 2007. He is a senior member of IEEE.