Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (courtesy)
Joined department: 1982
Education:
BE, Electrical Engineering
American University in Beirut (1975)
MS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
The Johns Hopkins University (1980)
PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
The Johns Hopkins University (1982)
Professor Atallah's current research interests are primarily in information security, and also
include algorithms, parallel computation, and computational geometry. His work in information
security centers on protocols for online collaborations between entities that do not completely trust
each other, on key management issues in access control, and on watermarking digital objects
(particularly non-media, such as relational data and natural language text). A Fellow of both the ACM
and IEEE, he has served on the editorial boards of top journals, and on the program committees of top
conferences and workshops. He was keynote and invited speaker at many national and international
meetings, and a speaker nine times in the Distinguished Colloquium Series of top Computer Science
Departments. He was selected in 1999 as one of the best teachers in the history of Purdue University
and included in Purdue's Book of Great Teachers, a permanent wall display of Purdue's best teachers
past and present. He is a co-founder of Arxan Technologies Inc.
Selected Publications
Hao Yuan, Mikhail J. Atallah, "Data Structures for Range Minimum Queries in Multidimensional Arrays",
Proc. of Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2010), Austin, Texas, 2010.
Mikhail J. Atallah, Keith B. Frikken, "Securely outsourcing linear algebra computations",
Proceedings of the 5th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security
(ASIACCS 2010), Beijing, China, 2010.
Daniel Aliaga, Mikhail J. Atallah, "Genuinity Signatures: Designing Signatures for Verifying 3D
Object Genuinity", Proc. 30th Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics
(Eurographics 2009), Munich, Germany, 2009.
Research Funding
Daniel Aliaga and Mikhail J. Atallah, RI: Small: A Computational Framework for Marking Physical
Objects against Counterfeiting and Tampering, National Science Foundation, 9/1/2009-8/31/2012.
Mikhail J. Atallah, TC: Small: Collabortive Research: Privacy-Constrained Searching,
National Science Foundation, 9/1/2009-8/31/2012.
Mikhail J. Atallah, Techniques for Secure and Reliable Computational Outsourcing, Air Force
Office of Scientific Research, 3/15/2009-11/30/2012.
Wojciech Szpankowski, Ruben Aguilar, Mikhail J. Atallah, Christopher Clifton, Supriyo Datta, Ananth
Y. Grama, Suresh Jagannathan, Jennifer Neville, Yuan Qi, and Doraiswami Ramkrishna, Emerging
Frontiers of Science of Information, National Science Foundation, 8/1/2010-7/31/2015.
Last Updated: January 18, 2012 05:26pm
