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 as well 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; geographical information systems and spatial databases. She cooperates on those topics with researchers from both the US and Europe.

Before joining Purdue University, she was a professor at the Department of Computer Sciences and Communication of the University of Milano where she was Department chair and also directed the DB&SEC lab, consisting of 15 members and carrying on research on several projects sponsored by the EU. While at Milano, she organized the First Edition of the International Summer School for PhD students and young researchers on Information and System Security and she is currently organizing the second edition.

Professor Bertino is a co-editor in chief of the VLDB Journal and serves 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, the International Journal of Information Security. She served as program chair of 7^th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT02), and is currently serving as program chair of the 9^th International Conference on Extending Database Technology Conference (EDBT 2004).

Professor Bertino is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and has been recently elected ACM Fellow. She also received the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement award in 2002 for "For outstanding contributions to database systems and database security and advanced data management systems".

For more information visit Elisa's CS homepage: http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/bertino