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Gene Tsudik - Biography#


Gene Tsudik is a Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from USC in 1991. His dissertation focused on access control in the Internet. Before coming to UCI in 2000, he was a Project Leader at IBM Research, Zurich Laboratory (1991-1996) and USC Information Science Institute (1996-2000).

Over the years, his research interests included: routing, firewalls, authentication, mobile/wireless network security, secure e-commerce, anonymity, secure group communication, digital signatures, key management, ad hoc network routing, and - more recently - database privacy, secure storage, embedded systems security, genomic privacy and usable security. Some of Professor Tsudik's notable research contributions include: Inter-Domain Policy Routing (IDPR), IBM Network Security Program (KryptoKnight), Internet Keyed Payment (iKP) protocols, Peer Group Key Management (CLIQUES) and Mediated Cryptographic Services (SUCSES).

Professor Tsudik has over 210 publications and 8 patents. Between 2002 and 2007 he served as the Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies in the School of Information and Computer Sciences at UCI. In 2007, he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Rome (La Sapienza). During 2008-2011 he was the Vice-Chair of the Computer Science Department. In 2009, he was appointed Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Information Systems Security (TISSEC) and re-appointed for the 2nd term in 2011. He was elected IEEE Fellow in 2012, ACM Fellow - in 2014 and appointed Chancellors Professor in 2013. He currently serves as the Director of the UCI Secure Computing and Networking Center (SCONCE). Prof. Tsudik has supervised 18 graduated PhD students (4 male, 14 female) of whom 11 are in academic faculty positions (4 in US, 3 in Asia, 3 in Europe and 1 in Middle East).

Prof. Tsudik has held visiting positions at various universities in Italy, the Netherlands, UK and Spain.
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