Access Control Models and Architectures for Iot and Cyber Physical Systems

Maanak Gupta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Tennessee Tech University, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at San Antonio and has worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Cyber Security. He also holds an M.S. degree in Information Systems from Northeastern University, Boston. His primary area of research includes security and privacy in cyber space focused in studying foundational aspects of access control and their application in technologies including cyber physical systems, cloud computing, IoT and Big data. Dr Gupta has worked in developing novel security mechanisms, models and architectures for next generation smart cars, smart cities, intelligent transportation systems and smart farming. He is also interested in machine learning based malware analysis and AI assisted cyber security solutions. His scholarly work is regularly published at top peer-reviewed security venues including ACM SIGSAC conferences and refereed journals. He was awarded the 2019 computer science outstanding doctoral dissertation research award from UT San Antonio. His research has been funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA, US Department of Defense (DoD) and private industry.

Smriti Bhatt is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computing and Cyber Security at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. She has received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at San Antonio and did her doctoral research at the Institute for Cyber Security (ICS) and Center for Security and Privacy Enhanced Cloud Computing (C-SPECC). Dr. Bhatt's research expertise is in the field of Cyber Security, mainly focused on Access Control and Communication Control models, and Security and Privacy in Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things (IoT). Her current research projects focus on developing secure access control and communication control models for Cloud-Enabled IoT architecture applicable to various IoT domains, such as Smart Home, Smart Health, and Wearable IoT. Her research work also expands into deep learning for IoT security with applications in access control and anomaly detection. She has been actively publishing her work on well-regarded conferences and journals in the field, and also continually serves as an expert reviewer for journals (e.g., IEEE Transactions on Cloud, IEEE Access, and Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing). She have also served as technical program committee member and co-chair for several conferences and workshops. Furthermore, Dr. Bhatt is enthusiastically involved with various national and local organizations including AnitaB.org, Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS), and San Antonio Women in IT (SAWIT) for enhancing diversity and inclusion in STEM.

Asma Alshehri is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Shaqra University, Shaqra, Saudi Arabia. She received M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). It was her honor to be the first Arabian women to work and graduate from the Institute for Cyber Security (ICS), UTSA. Her primary area of research includes security and privacy in cyber space focused in studying foundational aspects of access control and their application in technologies including cloud computing, IoT and Big Data. She has worked in developing novel security mechanisms, models, and architectures for IoT smart cities, cars, and homes. She is also interested in malware analysis and AI assisted cyber security solutions. She is currently the Vice Dean of IT and E-learning Deanship at Shaqra University, Head of E-learning Unit at University Agency for Educational Affair, and Chair of Computer Science Department at Collage of Science and Humanities at Dhurma. She holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Ravi Sandhu is Professor of Computer Science, Executive Director of the Institute for Cyber Security and Lead PI of the NSF Center for Security and Privacy Enhanced Cloud Computing at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he holds the Lutcher Brown Endowed Chair in Cyber Security. Previously he served on the faculty at George Mason University (1989-2007) and Ohio State University (1982-1989). He holds BTech and MTech degrees from IIT Bombay and Delhi, and MS and PhD degrees from Rutgers University. He is a Fellow of IEEE, ACM and AAAS, and has received numerous awards from IEEE, ACM, NSA, NIST and IFIP, including the 2018 IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure award for seminal work on role-based access control (RBAC). A prolific and highly cited author, his research has been funded by NSF, NSA, NIST, DARPA, AFOSR, ONR, AFRL, ARO and private industry. His seminal papers on role-based access control established it as the dominant form of access control in practical systems. His numerous other models and mechanisms have also had considerable real-world impact. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, and previously as founding Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Information and System Security. He was Chairman of ACM SIGSAC, and founded the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, the ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies and the ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy. He has served as General Chair, Steering Committee Chair, Program Chair and Committee Member for numerous security conferences. He has consulted for leading industry and government organizations, and has lectured all over the world. He is an inventor on 31 security technology patents and has accumulated over 45,000 Google Scholar citations for his papers. At UTSA his team seeks to pursue world-leading research in both the scientific foundations of cyber security and their applications in diverse 21st century cyber technology domains, including cloud computing, internet of things, autonomous vehicles, big data and blockchain. Particular focus is on foundations and technology of attribute-based access control (ABAC) as a successor to RBAC in these contexts

Maanak Gupta是美國田納西科技大學計算機科學系的助理教授。他在德克薩斯州聖安東尼奧大學獲得計算機科學博士學位，並在網絡安全研究所擔任博士後研究員。他還擁有波士頓東北大學的信息系統碩士學位。他的主要研究領域包括網絡空間中的安全和隱私，專注於研究訪問控制的基礎方面及其在技術中的應用，包括物聯網、雲計算、大數據等。Gupta博士致力於開發新穎的安全機制、模型和架構，應用於下一代智能汽車、智慧城市、智能交通系統和智慧農業。他還對基於機器學習的惡意軟件分析和人工智能輔助的網絡安全解決方案感興趣。他的學術工作經常在頂級同行評審的安全會議和期刊上發表。他獲得了2019年德克薩斯州聖安東尼奧大學計算機科學優秀博士論文研究獎。他的研究得到了美國國家科學基金會（NSF）、美國國家航空航天局（NASA）、美國國防部（DoD）和私營行業的資助。

Smriti Bhatt是德克薩斯州聖安東尼奧大學計算機科學系計算和網絡安全專業的助理教授。她在德克薩斯州聖安東尼奧大學獲得計算機科學博士學位，並在網絡安全研究所（ICS）和安全和隱私增強雲計算中心（C-SPECC）進行了博士研究。Bhatt博士的研究專長是網絡安全領域，主要集中在訪問控制和通信控制模型，以及雲計算和物聯網（IoT）的安全和隱私。她目前的研究項目主要是為適用於各種物聯網領域（如智能家居、智能健康和可穿戴物聯網）的雲端物聯網架構開發安全的訪問控制和通信控制模型。她的研究工作還涉及到物聯網安全的深度學習，應用於訪問控制和異常檢測。她積極在該領域的知名會議和期刊上發表論文，並持續擔任期刊的專家審稿人（例如IEEE Transactions on Cloud、IEEE Access和Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing）。她還曾擔任多個會議和研討會的技術程序委員會成員和聯合主席。此外，Bhatt博士熱衷於參與各種國家和地方組織，包括AnitaB.org、Women in CyberSecurity（WiCyS）和San Antonio Women in IT（SAWIT），以促進STEM領域的多樣性和包容性。

Asma Alshehri是沙特阿拉伯沙克拉大學計算機科學系的助理教授。她在德克薩斯州聖安東尼奧大學獲得計算機科學碩士和博士學位。她有幸成為第一位在德克薩斯州聖安東尼奧大學網絡安全研究所（ICS）工作和畢業的阿拉伯女性。她的主要研究領域包括網絡空間中的安全和隱私，專注於研究訪問控制的基礎方面及其在技術中的應用，包括雲計算、物聯網和大數據等。她曾在物聯網智慧城市、汽車和家居等領域開發了新穎的安全機制、模型和架構。她還對惡意軟件分析和人工智能輔助的網絡安全解決方案感興趣。她目前擔任沙克拉大學IT和電子學習副院長，大學教育事務機構的電子學習單位負責人，以及Dhurma科學與人文學院計算機科學系主任。她擁有沙特阿拉伯利雅德普魯麗莎·努拉·本特·阿卜杜勒拉曼大學的計算機科學學士學位。

Ravi Sandhu是教授