Sushil Jajodia is University Professor, BDM International Professor, and the founding director of Center for Secure Information Systems in the Volgenau School of Engineering at the George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. He is also the director of the NSF I/UCRC Center for Cybersecurity Analytics and Automation (now in Phase II). Before coming to George Mason, he held permanent positions at the National Science Foundation; Naval Research Laboratory, Washington; and University of Missouri, Columbia. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Milan, Sapienza University of Rome, Cambridge University, King's College London, Paris Dauphine University, and Imperial College.
Dr. Jajodia received his PhD from the University of Oregon, Eugene. His research interests include security, privacy, databases, and distributed systems. He has authored or coauthored seven books, edited 52 books and conference proceedings, and published more than 500 technical papers in the refereed journals and conference proceedings. Five of his books have been translated in Chinese. He is also a holder of 23 patents. His current research sponsors are the Army Research Office, Office of Naval Research, National Security Agency, National Science Foundation, Northrop Grumman Corporation, and Intelligent Automation, Inc.
Dr. Jajodia was elected a fellow of IEEE in January, 2013. His contributions to the field have been recognized with several awards: IFIP TC 11 Kristian Beckman Award (1996), Volgenau School of Engineering Outstanding Research Faculty Award (2000), ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award (2008), IFIP WG 11.3 Outstanding Research Contributions Award (2011), ESORICS Outstanding Research Award (2015), Federal Information Systems Security Educators’ Association (FISSEA) Educator of the Year Award (2016 ), IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award (2016), and IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award (2020). He was recognized for the most accepted papers at the 30th anniversary of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. His h-index is 106 and Erdos number is 2.