Bertino re-elected as Vice President of the ACM
05-30-2024
Professor Elisa Bertino
ACM has re-elected Elisa Bertino, Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science, to another two-year term as vice president. Bertino is an ACM Fellow, former ACM Secretary/Treasurer, and 2019–2020 ACM Athena Lecturer.
Re-elected ACM vice president, Elisa Bertino has made pioneering contributions to data management, data security theory, and systems for over 30 years. With another term in office, she hopes to guide ACM in addressing questions raised by AI and data ethics, data privacy and sustainability, among other pressing topics. “I will work together with the ACM Executive Committee and the many volunteers and leaders in ACM to make sure the organization plays a central role in fostering discussions and initiatives to answer questions posed by society concerning our technologies,” Bertino said. “I will also focus on important matters, such as broadening diversity in our field, supporting younger researchers and making sure ACM is technically and globally relevant by organizing workshops and conferences on new emerging technologies and applications.”
Bertino was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to secure database systems. Within the data security and privacy field, she is especially known for pioneering innovations in context-based access control and data protection from insider threats. Her recent work focuses on security of cellular networks and IoT systems. Prior to severing as Vice President, Bertino served as Secretary/Treasurer (2020–2022). She also served as Chair of SIGSAC, the ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (2009–2013) and in 2011, co-founded of the ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), which has become the main forum for high-quality research on data privacy and security.
Additionally, Yannis Ioannidis was re-elected as president for a two-year term beginning July 1. Ioannidis is a Professor of Informatics & Telecom at the University of Athens, Greece, and a Fellow of ACM and IEEE. An ACM member since 1983, he has served as ACM Secretary/Treasurer (2018–2020), SIGMOD Chair (2009–2013) and Vice-Chair (2005–2009), and as a member of the ACM Europe Council, the SIG Governing Board Executive Committee, and the ACM Publications Board.
Newly elected to the office of secretary/treasurer is Rashmi Mohan, Director of Engineering at Splunk Inc., former ACM India Council Secretary, and founding member and host of the popular ACM ByteCast podcast series.
President, Vice President and Secretary/Treasurer serve two-year terms from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2026.
In addition, Members-at-Large elected to four-year terms are Odest (Chad) Jenkins (University of Michigan), John Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Tanara Lauschner (Federal University of Amazonas), Alison Derbenwick Miller (Independent Consultant), Alejandro Saucedo, (Zalando SE and Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning).
They will serve four-year terms from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2028.
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.
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