Editorial

TY - JOUR

T1 - Editorial

AU - Vaidya, Jaideep

N1 - Funding Information: Basit Shafiq is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). Prior to joining LUMS, he was a Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Information Management, Integration and Connectivity (CIMIC), Rutgers University. He received B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Pakistan, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Pur-due University, USA. His general area of research is in services computing, distributed systems, security, and privacy. He has published over 60 technical papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Shafiq is a senior member of the IEEE. His research has been sponsored by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan, Ignite - National Technology Fund, Pakistan, United States National Science Foundation, and SAP Research Labs. Funding Information: He is associate editor of Information Sciences and has been guest editors for several journals such as MONET, JNCA and FGCS etc. He has been invited to give keynote talks in several international conferences such as ISPEC 2016 etc. He received three National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Grants and more than ten Grants from Guangdong Province and other departments for the research on security and privacy in new computing environments. In 2017, he received NSFC Outstanding Youth Foundation. In 2018, he was selected as a Young Changjiang River Scholar in China. Funding Information: Mauro Conti is Full Professor at the University of Padua, Italy, and Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. He obtained his Ph.D. from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, in 2009. After his Ph.D., he was a Post-Doc Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In 2011 he joined as Assistant Professor the University of Padua, where he became Associate Professor in 2015, and Full Professor in 2018. He has been Visiting Researcher at GMU (2008, 2016), UCLA (2010), UCI (2012, 2013, 2014, 2017), TU Darmstadt (2013), UF (2015), and FIU (2015, 2016, 2018). He has been awarded with a Marie Curie Fellowship (2012) by the European Commission, and with a Fellowship by the German DAAD (2013). His research is also funded by companies, including Cisco, Intel, and Huawei. His main research interest is in the area of security and privacy. In this area, he published more than 250 papers in topmost international peer-reviewed journals and conference. He is Area Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, and Associate Editor for several journals, including IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, and IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. He was Program Chair for TRUST 2015, ICISS 2016, WiSec 2017, and General Chair for SecureComm 2012 and ACM SACMAT 2013. He is Senior Member of the IEEE.

PY - 2019/1/1

Y1 - 2019/1/1

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U2 - 10.1109/TDSC.2018.2884156

DO - 10.1109/TDSC.2018.2884156

M3 - Editorial

AN - SCOPUS:85060514445

SN - 1545-5971

VL - 16

SP - 1

EP - 4

JO - IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

JF - IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

IS - 1

M1 - 8613033

ER -