Li receives Outstanding Contributions Award from ACM SIGSAC
01-30-2023
Ninghui Li, Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University
Congratulations to Professor Ninghui Li for winning the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award
Ninghui Li, Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University was awarded the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC) Outstanding Contributions Award.
The award is given for significant contribution to the field of computer and communication security through fostering research and development activities, educating students, or providing professional services such as the running of professional societies and conferences.
Li was recognized for his outstanding leadership in the SIGSAC community and seminal research contributions to data security and privacy.
Li joins fellow Purdue Computer Science faculty members, Elisa Bertino, Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science and Eugene Spafford, Professor of Computer Science who also won the same award in 2014 and 2006 respectively.
Li’s primary research interests are in security and privacy, and he has published over 200 referred papers in these areas. He is editor-in-chief for ACM Transactions On Privacy and Security since October 2020, and has served as program chair for several leading conferences in the field, including ACM CCS, ESORICS, ACM ASIACCS, ACM SACMAT, and IFIP TM. He served as chair of ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC) from 2017 to 2021, and Vice Chair from 2013 to 2017. He is an ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow.
About the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University
Founded in 1962, the Department of Computer Science was created to be an innovative base of knowledge in the emerging field of computing as the first degree-awarding program in the United States. The department continues to advance the computer science industry through research. US News & Reports ranks Purdue CS #20 and #16 overall in graduate and undergraduate programs respectively, seventh in cybersecurity, 10th in software engineering, 13th in programming languages, data analytics, and computer systems, and 19th in artificial intelligence. Graduates of the program are able to solve complex and challenging problems in many fields. Our consistent success in an ever-changing landscape is reflected in the record undergraduate enrollment, increased faculty hiring, innovative research projects, and the creation of new academic programs. The increasing centrality of computer science in academic disciplines and society, and new research activities - centered around data science, artificial intelligence, programming languages, theoretical computer science, machine learning, and cybersecurity - are the future focus of the department. cs.purdue.edu
Writer: Emily Kinsell, emily@purdue.eduSource: Ninghui Li, ninghui@purdue.edu