Professor of Computer Science
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (courtesy)
Research Director of CERIAS
Interim Director of Cyber Center, Discovery Park
Joined department: 2004
Education:
Dr., Computer Science
University of Pisa (1980)
Professor Elisa Bertino joined Purdue in January 2004 as professor in Computer Science and research
director at CERIAS. Her research interests cover many areas in the fields of information security and
database systems. Her research combines both theoretical and practical aspects, addressing
applications on a number of domains, such as medicine and humanities. Current research includes:
access control systems, secure publishing techniques and secure broadcast for XML data; advanced RBAC
models and foundations of access control models; trust negotiation languages and privacy; data mining
and security; multi-strategy filtering systems for Web pages and sites; security for grid computing
systems; integration of virtual reality techniques and databases; and geographical information
systems and spatial databases.
Professor Bertino serves or has served on the editorial boards of several journals - many of which
are related to security, such as the ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, the IEEE
Security & Privacy Magazine, and IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. She is
currently serving as program chair of the 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
(VLDB 2010). Professor Bertino is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
and a Fellow of ACM. She received the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement award in 2002 for
outstanding contributions to database systems and database security and advanced data management
systems, and received the 2005 Tsutomu Kanai Award by the IEEE Computer Society for pioneering and
innovative research contributions to secure distributed systems.
She is currently serving in the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors and as Chair of ACM SIGSAC.
Selected Publications
Q, Ni, E. Bertino, J. Lobo, C. Brodie, C.-M. Karat,J.Karat,A. Trombetta, "Privacy-Aware Role-Based
Access Control", ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, Vol. 13, N. 3, July
2010.
N. Shang, M. Nabeel, F. Paci, E. Bertino, "A Privacy-Preserving Approach to Policy-Based
ContentDissemination", Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE
2010, March 1-6, 2010, Long Beach, California, USA. IEEE 2010.
R. Nehme, E. Rundensteiner, E. Bertino, "Tagging Stream Data for Rich Real-Time Services",
Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on VeryLarge Databases (VLDB 2009), Lyon
(France), August 24-28, 2009.
Research Funding
Elisa Bertino, Secure Sensor Semantic Web and Information Fusion Applications, University of
Texas at Dallas, 8/15/2009-5/31/2013.
Elisa Bertino, TC: Small: Collaborative Protocols for Privacy-Preserving Scalable Record Matching
and Ontology Alignment, National Science Foundation, 8/1/2010-7/31/2013.
Elisa Bertino and Athula,N Kulatunga, Cryptographic Key Management Systems (CKMS),
Department of Energy, 10/1/2010-9/30/2013.
Elisa Bertino and Gabriel Ghinita, TC Large: Collaborative Research Privacy-Enhanced Secure Data
Provenance, National Science Foundation, 6/1/2011-5/31/2016.
Elisa Bertino and Lorenzo Martino, Secure Semantic Information Grid for NCES and Border Security
Applications, University of Texas at Dallas, 5/15/2008-5/14/2012.
Elisa Bertino, Christopher Clifton, Ninghui Li, and Eugene Spafford, A Framework for Managing the
Assured Information Sharing Lifecycle, MURI Program, 5/1/2008-4/30/2013.
Sonia Fahmy, Elisa Bertino, and Hyo Sang Lim, NeTS:Medium:Collaborative Research:A Comprehensive
Approach for Data Quality and Provenance in Sensor Networks, National Science Foundation,
6/1/2010-5/31/2013.
Stephen John Elliott, Elisa Bertino, and David Ebert, Biometric Uniqueness and Permanence
Analysis, Homeland Security, 1/1/2011-12/31/2012.
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