Ahn -- Arizona State University (ASU)

Gail-Joon Ahn, PhD, CISSP

Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering , Arizona State University

Brickyard Office
Office: BYENG 486
Phone: (480) 965-9007
FAX: (480) 965-2751

699 S. Mill Avenue
Tempe, AZ 85281
Email: gahn at asu.edu
Skysong Office
Office: Skysong 211B
Phone: (480) 884-1572
FAX: (480) 884-1888

1475 N. Scottsdale Rd.
Scottsdale, AZ 85257
Email: gahn at asu.edu

Prof. Ahn is Director of Laboratory of Security Engineering for Future Computing (SEFCOM). His principal research and teaching interests are in information and systems security. His research foci include vulnerability and risk management, access control, and security architecture for distributed systems. His research has been supported by NSF, NSA, DoD, DoE, Bank of America, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is a recipient of Department of Energy CAREER Award and the Educator of the Year Award from the Federal Information Systems Security Educators' Association (FISSEA). Prior to ASU, he was an Associate Professor of College of Computing and Informatics and Founding Director of Center for Digital Identity and Cyber Defense Research (DICyDER) and Laboratory of Information Integration, Security and Privacy (LIISP) at UNC Charlotte. Also, he is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Research Activities and Publications

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Professional Activities (2012-2013)

Information Director, ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC), 2002 onwards.
Associate Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2010 onwards.
Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, 2011 onwards.
Editorial Board, Computers & Security, 2013 onwards.
Editorial Review Board, Journal of Database Management, 2001 onwards.
Steering Committee Chair, ACM Symposium on Access Control Models And Technologies (SACMAT), 2013.
Program Committee, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2013.
Program Committee, ACM Symposium on InformAtion, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), 2013.
Program Committee, ACM Symposium on Access Control Models And Technologies (SACMAT), 2002-2013.
Program Committee, ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), 2013.
Program Committee, IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security (DBSec), 2013.
Program Committee, European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 2013.
Program Committee, The International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS), 2013.
Program Committee, The International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), 2013.
Program Committee, IEEE International Computer Software & Applications Conference (COMPSAC), 2013.
Track Chair, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC)--Smart Grid and Smart Technologies Track, 2013
Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI), 2013
Program Committee, The International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom), 2013.

Awards and Recognition

CAREER Award, Department of Energy, September 2003
Educator of the Year Award, Federal Information Systems Security Educators' Association, March 23, 2005
Guest Editor, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security , Vol.10, No.1, February 2007
Guest Editor, IEEE Internet Computing (May/June), 2011
NSF Panelist, 2004-2012.
IEEE Senior, 2007 onwards.
ACM Senior, 2007 onwards.

Teaching

CSE 465: Introduction to Information Assurance, [ Fall ]
CSE 469/598: Forensic Computing: Computer and Network Forensics, [ Spring ]