Project Computer Science

CURRICULUM VITAE

ARUN K. SOOD

Citizenship: U.S.

Work Contact: Home Contact:

George Mason

University 13834 Springstone Drive

**** ********** *****, ** *** Clifton, VA 22024

Fairfax, VA 22030 703-***-****

abouxh@r.postjobfree.com

703-***-****/1530 (voice); 703-***-**** (fax)

PRESENT POSITION

Professor (Computer Science)

Co-Director, International Cyber Center,

Director, Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Computer Science

Volgenau School of Information Technology & Engineering

George Mason University

EDUCATION

B.Tech. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi l966

M.S. Carnegie-Mellon University l967

Ph.D. Carnegie-Mellon University l972

All degrees in Electrical Engineering

AREAS OF INTEREST

Image Analysis and Computer Vision, Optimization, Parallel and Distributed Processing,

Secure and High Availability

Systems, Performance Modeling, Relational Database Machines, and Simulation and Modeling.

EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY

George Mason University1987 - presentProfessor, Department of Computer Science.

Co-Director, International Cyber Center

Director, Laboratory for Interdisciplinary

Computer Science.

19902005Director, Center for Image Analysis.

Autonomous Systems. Machine Vision. Image Analysis. Parallel and Distributed Processing.

Fault Tolerant Systems.

Secure and High Availability Systems. Simulation and Modeling. Collaboration

Environments.

2003 2006 Chair, Department of Computer Science.

The department has 25 faculty, including 5 on term limited contracts. It offers 4 degree

programs: BS CS, BS Applied CS

(beginning in 2006), MS CS, and PhD CS. In addition the department offers graduate

certificates. From Spring 2006 the

department is offering a Post Bachelor certificate in CS, targeted to students bachelor

degree in a discipline other than CS.

Department has 650 undergraduates, 240 graduates, and 60 doctoral students. CS faculty

also participate in an

interdisciplinary doctoral program in Information Technology. GMU is on the NSF 2005 list

of top 100 Computer

Sciences research institutions. In the 2005 list GMU ranks 61 based on total research

funding, and ranks 43 based on

th

federal funds. CS PhD program ranks 60 in the 2006 US News World Report rankings.

Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan Fall 2007Visiting Professor, Information

Engineering

and Computer Science.

Supported by Republic of China (Taiwan) Government.

Guest lectures at

National Center for High Performance Computing, Tainan County (host: Dr. Chu-Sing Yang)

National Cheng Kung University, Tainan (host: Dr. Chu-Sing Yang)

National Changhua University of Education, Changhua (host: Dr. Der-Jiunn Deng)

National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung (host: Professor D. J. Guan)

Wayne State University l987 -- 90 Adjunct Professor, Department of Electrical

& Computer Engineering.

l981 -- 87 Associate Professor of Computer

Engineering, Department of Electrical &

Computer Engineering.

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1983 -- 87Director, RIES Computing Research Lab.

Parallel and Distributed Processing Systems. Relational Database Machines.

Interconnection Systems. Fault Tolerant

Networks. Computer Vision. Digital Signal Processing. Computer Aided Manufacturing and

Testing.

l985 -- 86 Interim President, Michigan Automated

Vehicle Research Consortium

MAVRC incorporated in September l985 as a not for profit corporation. From September

1984, was involved in

formulating the concept, planning and guiding effort as Wayne representative. Founding

sponsors were Teledyne

Continental Motors, Lear Siegler, KMS Fusion and Wayne State Univ. In September l985, was

appointed by MAVRC

board as part time Interim President.

Louisiana State University1980 -- 81Visiting Associate Professor of Electrical

Engineering, Department of Electrical

Engineering.

Interconnection Networks. Fault-Tolerant Systems.

Engineers India Limited 1979 80 Head, Business Strategies Department.

(Asia s Leading Engineering Company. Initially set up by Bechtel.)

Staff function reporting to Marketing Director. Most projects assigned by Chairman of the

Board (CEO). Assignments

involved productivity, finance, and market analysis and modeling; support for corporate

reorganization - adopted matrix

organization with conscience groups; market development (Algeria); support corporate

planning department activities.

l972 -- 80 Systems Engineering and Computer Services

Division

Consulting projects involved system analysis, modeling and simulation, process and

engineering Systems, optimization of

large scale systems, computer system selection, and Management Information Systems.

Clients were in process and mining

industries, electric utilities, and government agencies. Involved international

assignments. As project lead (from 1975) had

business development and client responsibilities.

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi l97l -- 72 Lecturer, Department of Electrical

Engineering

System Modeling. Parameter Estimation.

Carnegie-Mellon University l970 -- 7l Teaching Assistant, Department of Electrical

EngineeringGulf Research and Development Company. l967 -- 70 Systems and Controls Division.

(Subsidiary of Gulf Oil Corporation).

Full time 1967 68. Part time concurrent with doctoral program at CMU (1968 70).

Design and development of special purpose instrumentation geophysical and seismic

systems. Process system modeling

and simulation. Optimization of distributed parameter systems.

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

SCIT Labs, Inc. Founder. A startup to productize SCIT technology. Technology transfer

from GMU, with GMU-IP

owning 5% of the company.

Task Technologies Ltd. Co-founder. Distributed Collaboration Systems. Consulting with

early stage startup

companies.. Imaging software evaluation (PRC). Data security review, and Automated

Collateral Management (First

Virginia Services). Multimedia C-GATE demo (CACI). Information Technology plan, imaging

applications, enterprise

wide referrals management (Farmers & Mechanics Bank). Professional services outsourcing.

Seminars on imaging and

multimedia applications to banks (Virginia Bankers Association and Virginia Association

of Community Bankers), parallel

databases (Internal Revenue Service), and large scale image archives (EDS).

First Virginia Services Inc. (subsidiary of First Virginia Banks Inc.) - Imaging

Solutions for Check Processing, Mainframe

sizing.

Privac Inc. - Review of Design for Personal Supercomputer.

BDM, Incorporated - Optical database machines: Applications and Design.

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Planning Research Corporation - Image Analysis Techniques for Object Isolation.

KMS Fusion- A/I Enhanced Path Planning.

Michigan Autonomous Vehicle Research Consortium - Studies in Expert Systems for Vehicle

Diagnostic and Data-

Sensor Fusion in Military Vehicles.

Ford Motor Company - Design and development of a l6-week program to train engineers to

develop software for

microprocessor based engine controller. Designed, developed and conducted a five-day

workshop in software engineering.

RESEARCH CONTRACTS/GRANTS

Office of Naval Research: Series of workshop on Cyber Security and Global Affairs,

$104,000, 2009 - 2012

National Science Foundation: CERT capacity building in Africa. $140,00, 2009- 2011

Office of Naval Research: Workshop on Cyber Security and Global Affairs at St. Peter s

College, Oxford, $34,999, May

to December 2009.

Lockheed Martin Corporation: Self Cleansing Intrusion Tolerance Architecture

Scalability and, Principal Investigator,

$300,000. December 2008 to December 2009.

Virginia Commonwealth Technology Research Fund: Self Cleansing Intrusion Tolerance Next

Generation Security

Technology. Principal Investigator, $205,966. CTRF Funds: $86,013, Matching Funds:

$86,013, (NGC: $85,000 GMU:

$1,013), Indirect Return Waived. ( March 2008 to February 2009).

Lockheed Martin Corporation: Self Cleansing Intrusion Tolerance Architecture - Its

Application and Integration in

VOIE Environment, Principal Investigator, $200,000. December 2007 to December 2008.

National Science Foundation: Planning visit to Nigeria. Principal Investigator and Leader

of a team of Mathematicians

and Computer Scientists to visit Abuja, Nigeria. $20,000. 2007 2008.

SUN Microsystems Grant supporting Self-Cleansing Intrusion Tolerance, Project Principal

Investigator, $ 37,000 +

SUN server.

NSF Travel support to invited talk at Workshop on Computational Methods for Security in

a Web Environment, Arica,

Chile, July 2006. (PI: Professor Wayne Patterson, Howard University, D.C.)

Critical Infrastructure Protection Project (funds from NIST) - Self-Cleansing Intrusion

Tolerance, Project Principal

Investigator, $ 30,000,(Support for GRA) 2006 - 2007 (CIPP PI: John McCarthy).

GMU Provost Collaborative System for Faculty Support, Principal Investigator, $ 25,000,

2004 2005.

Critical Infrastructure Protection Project (funds from NIST) - Self-Cleansing Intrusion

Tolerance, Project Principal

Investigator, $ 146,764, 2004 - 2005 (CIPP PI: John McCarthy, SCIT Project Co-PI: Yih

Huang).

National Science Foundation: MRI: Acquisition of an Experimental Testbed for Research and

Teaching in Mobile

Collaborative Agents, Contributing Faculty, $ 250,000, 2004 2007 (Principal

Investigator: Sanjeev Setia, Other Co-PIs

several CS faculty.)

TATRC, US Army - Zero Trust Intrusion Containment for Telemedicine, Principal

Investigator. $ 154,369. 2001 2003

(Co-PIs: Yih Huang, Robert Simon, Elizabeth White).

National Imagery and Mapping Agency - Agent-based Collaborative Image and Geospatial

Computing. Principal

Investigator. $ 390,000-****-****. (Co-PI Robert Simon).

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National Security Agency -- Simulation on Intelligent Networks. Co-Principal

Investigator. $ 350,000, 1997-98. (Co-PI

George Atallah, Robert Simon).

Hughes Information Technology Corporation -Simulation of Image Distribution System. Co-

Principal Investigator. $

35,000, 1996. (Co-P.I. Dr. George Atallah).

Hughes Information Technology Corporation - Performance Modeling of Large Scale High

Perfomance Image

Management System. Co-Principal Investigator. $ 55,000, 1995-96. (Co-P.I. Dr. George

Atallah).

GMU Provost s Office (Educational/Research Development Support Program): Multimedia

Telematics Systems Research

Initiative. Principal Investigator. $10,000, 1995-96.

Environmental Protection Agency - Data Quality Assurance and Visualization Tools to

Support Water Quality Database.

Lead Researcher. $ 75,550, 1993-94. (Co-operative Agreement Managing Director - Dr. D.

Carr.)

CESDIS/NASA Goddard - 1992 Cray Space Science Fellowship awarded to my Doctoral Student

Ms. Kathleen Perez-

Lopez, $18,000. 1992-93.

National Science Foundation - CISE Research Instrumentation: Exploiting Mixed Performance

Characteristics: A

Heterogeneous Hypercube System. Principal Investigator, $ 57,100. Additional Matching

Funds by George Mason

University $28,550,1992-93. (Co-P.I. Dr. O. Frieder )

VIDAR Systems Corporation - Characterization of Engineering Drawings for Improved Scanner

Performance. Principal

Investigator. $l5,000. Additional support from Center for Innovative Technology. $l5,000.

1990-92.

NATO Scientific Affairs Division - NATO Grants for International Collaboration in

Research - Using Neural Networks

for Segmenting Surfaces. Principal Investigator. $6700, l990-92 (Project PI: Prof. G.

Pieroni)

Office of Naval Research - Image Background Analysis and Characterization. Principal

Investigator, $276,000, 1989-92.

(Co-P.I. Dr. K. Hintz)

National Science Foundation - CISE Research Instrumentation - Image Processing

Improvements. Co-Principal

Investigator. $26,500, 1989-92. (P.I. Dr. B. Kjell). Additional Matching Funds by George

Mason University - $13,000.

US Army Belvoir RD&E Center--Multi-Resolution and Transform Techniques for Mine Detection

from Infra Red

Images. Principal Investigator. $225,399, l989-.92.(Co-P.I. Dr. B. Kjell)

NATO Scientific Affairs Division - Grant for organizing and directing an Advanced Study

Institute in Active Perception

and Robot Vision, Director, $50,000, July 1989. (with Dr. H. Wechsler)

Office of Naval Research - Co-sponsoring Advanced Study Institute on Active Perception

and Robot Vision.. Principal

Investigator, $10,078, July 1989.

Planning Research Corporation - Isolation of objects in Real Sciences. Principal

Investigator, $24,000, 1988-89.

TRW and Virginia Center for Innovative Technology -Parallelism in Acoustic Signal

Processing. Investigator, 1988-89

.

(

Principal Investigator - Dr. E. Norris)

U.S. Army Tank Automotive Command - Research in the Field of Vetronics: Databases and

Networks. Principal

Investigator, $66,843, l986-l988.

National Technical Information Service, U.S. Dept. of Commerce - Travel grant to attend

and report on IWDM 87, in

Japan, October 1987.

Industrial Product and Productivity Research Institute - Research in Vehicle Diagnosis

Expert Systems and Collision

Avoidance Techniques. Principal Investigator, $ll0,000, May l985 - September l986.

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Michigan Automated Vehicle Research Consortium - Investigations in autonomous vehicles:

Principal Investigator,

$9,392, January -May, l986.

U.S. Army Tank Automotive Command - Research in the Field of Vetronics: Principal

Investigator, $395,993, July

l983 - October l985 (Other Principal Investigators: Dr. E. R. Fisher and Dr. C.

Friedlander).

NATO grant for organizing and conducting an Advanced Study Institute in the area of

Relational Database Machine

Architecture, July l4-25, l985, France, Director, $35,000. (Co-sponsored by Wayne State

University and Ford Motor

Company). General Dynamics - Land Systems Division - Data Fusion Techniques and

Application to Military

Environment: Principal Investigator, $ll,993, January l984 - July l984. (Co-Principal

Investigators: Dr. E. R. Fisher and Dr.

C. Friedlander).

General Motors Corporation - Computer Integrated Manufacture of Special Tools; Principal

Investigator, $9,900, June

l982 - August l982.

Ford Motor Company - Automated System for Testing Microprocessor Based Engine Controller:

Principal Investigator,

$39,890,. October l982 - April l983.

U.S. Department of Transportation - Engine Deficiency Indicator: Co-Principal

Investigator, $86,630, September l98l -

December l982. (Principal Investigator: Dr. N.A. Henein)

U.S. Army Tank Automotive Command - Vetronics Project - Integrated Computer, Control and

Communication System

for Military Vehicles: Investigator, Contract No. DAAE07-82-M9028,

$13,524

May 1982 -

January 1983. (Principal

Investigator: Dr. E. R. Fisher; Investigator: Dr. C. Friedlander)

PH.D. STUDENTS SUPERVISED

A.

K. Perez - Lopez - Management of Scientific Image Databases Using Wavelets May

1995.

M. Konchady - High Performance Parallel Algorithms for Scientific Computing with

Application to a Coupled Ocean

Model, November 1996.

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R. Klausewitz - Large Array Decomposition for Parallel Processing by Array Base Shifting

November, 1997.

P. Mundur -- An Integrated Approach to End-to-End Analysis of Distributed Video-on-Demand

Systems. April 2000

(Robert Simon -- co -- thesis director).

H. Tran Haskett Spectral-Spatial Automatic Target Detection of Small Targes Using

Hyperspectral Imagery, November

2000.

J. Nolan An Agent-based Architecture for Distributed Imagery and Geospatial Computing.

April 2003

J. Solomon Computer-assisted Segmentation and Tracking of Brain Lesions in Magnetic

Resonance Images Based on

Probabilistic Reasoning in Space and Time, April 2005

HONORS

DeVlieg Faculty Research Award, l983-84

DeVlieg Faculty Research Award, l984-85

Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Scholarship, l966

I.I.T. Delhi Merit Scholarship, l964-65

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

Senior Member, IEEE Computer Society

Member, Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi

Member, Sigma Xi

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Program Co-Chair, ACM Computer Science Conference, February l990.

IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Administrative Committee l990-l992.

Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Special Issue on

Unmanned Vehicles and Intelligent

Robotics (Guest Associate Editors: M. Herman, M. M. Trivedi, and H. Wechsler),

November/December l990.

Program Co-Chair, SPIE Conference on Application of Artificial Intelligence, l99l.

Guest Editor, IEEE Micro Special Issue on Database Machines, December l99l.

Member, Editorial Board IEEE Micro, 1992 - 1996.

Vice Chair, IEEE Technical Segment Committee on Multimedia Technologies, 1994.

Member, Editorial Board IEEE Multimedia, 1994 - 1995.

Associate Editor, Automatica, 1994 - 1996.

Conference Chair, IEEE 2nd International Conference on Multimedia Computing and

Systems, Tysons Corner, May 1995.

Associate Editor, Journal of the Franklin Institute, 1998 -

BOOKS PUBLISHED

1. Database Machines: Modern Trends and Applications, edited by A. K. Sood and A. H.

Qureshi, Springer-Verlag, 1986.

2. Active Perception and Robot Vision, edited by A. K. Sood and H. Wechsler, Springer-

Verlag, 1993

PUBLICATIONS

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l. C.P. Neuman and A. Sood, "The W ilkie-Perkins Low Order Sensitivity Model -

Revisited", IEEE Trans. on Automatic

Control, AC-l8, l, February l97l.

2. C.P. Neuman and A. Sood, "Sensitivity Functions for Single-Input Linear Time Invariant

Systems", J. of the Franklin

Inst., 29l, 3, March l97l.

3. C.P. Neuman and A. Sood, "Sensitivity Functions for Multi-Input Linear Time -

Invariant Systems", Int. J. of Control,

13, 6 June l97l.

4. C.P. Neuman and A. Sood, "Sensitivity Models of Canonical Form Delay - Differential

Systems", IEEE Trans. on

Automatic Control AC-l6, 4, August l97l.

5. C.P. Neuman and A. Sood, "Sensitivity Functions for Linear Discrete Systems with

Applications", IEEE Trans.

Aerospace and Electronics Systems, AES-8, 6, November l97l.

6. C.P. Neuman and A. Sood, "On the Linear Two-Point-Boundary-Value Problem", J. of

Optimization Theory and

Applications, 8, l97l.

7. C.P. Neuman and A. Sood "Sensitivity Functions for Mu lti-Input Linear Time -

Invariant Systems II - Minimal Order

Models", Int. J. of Control, l5, 3, l97l.

8. A. Sood, G. Funk and A.C. Delmastro, "Dynamic Optimization of Natural Gas Pipeline

Using a Gradient Search

Technique", Int. J. of Control, l4, 6, l97l.

9. C.P. Neuman, A. Sood, "Parameter Sensitivity in Linear Systems - A Controllability

Viewpoint", Proc. IEE, ll8, August

l972.

l0. A. Sood, "An Approach to the Allocation of R&D Funds", presented at the Symposium on

Project Planning and

Management, organized by the Ministry of Defense, New Delhi, February, l973.

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153. Arun Sood, "Exposure Time - A Metric For Proactive Security Risk Management",

http://www.riskbloggers.com/arunsood/2007/07/exposure-time-a-metric-for-proactive-

security-risk-

management, 23 July 2007.

154. Naresh Verma, Yih Huang, and Arun Sood, "Proactively Managing Security Risk",

http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1896, 07 November 2007.

155. Andy Purdy and Arun Sood, International Cyber Center, Quarterly Meridian

Newsletter, vol 2 no 2, April 2008.

156. Arun Sood and Andy Purdy, Self Cleansing Intrusion Tolerance - Another layer of

server protection, ENISA

Quarterly Review, vol 4, no 1, 2008.

157. Anantha K. Bangalore and Arun K Sood, Securing Web Servers Using Self Cleansing

Intrusion Tolerance

(SCIT), Proc The Second International Conference on Dependability (DEPEND 2009)June 18-

23, 2009 -

Athens/Vouliagmeni, Greece.

158. Quyen Nguyen and Arun Sood, Quantitative Approach to Tuning of a Time-Based

Intrusion-Tolerant System

Architecture, 3rd Workshop on Recent Advances in Intrusion Tolerant Systems, Portugal,

June 29, 2009.

159. Arun Sood, Beyond Intrusion Prevention and Detection Intrusion Tolerance,

Workshop on Cyber Security and

Global Affairs, Oxford University, August 4, 2009.

160. Arun Sood, SCIT: Intrusion tolerant approach that scales to server farms, Adaptive

and Resilient Computing

Security Workshop, ARCS 2010, 1 June 2010

161. Ajay Nagarajan and Arun Sood, "SCIT and IDS Architectures for Reduced Data Ex-

filtration" 4th Workshop on

Recent Advances in Intrusion-Tolerant Systems, Chicago,IL, USA, June 28 2010 p 164 169

(International

Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W), 2010

10.1109/DSNW.2010.5542601)

162. Quyen L. Nguyen and Arun Sood, "Realizing S-Reliability for Services via Recovery-

driven Intrusion Tolerance

Mechanism", 4th Workshop on Recent Advances in Intrusion-Tolerant Systems, Chicago,IL,

USA, June 28

2010. (International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W),

2010 Digital

Object Identifier: 10.1109/DSNW.2010.5542599 Publication Year: 2010, Page(s): 176 - 181)

163. Arun Sood, Intrusion Tolerance to Mitigate Attacks that Persist, Second Workshop

on Cyber Security and

Global Affairs, ETH, Zurich, 6 July 2010.

164. David Pham and Arun K Sood, "An Intrusion Tolerance Approach to Enhance Single Sign

On Server

Protection", Proc The Third International Conference on Dependability (DEPEND 2010) July

18-25, 2010 -

Venice/Mestre, Italy.

165. Quyen L. Nguyen and Arun Sood, "Multiclass S-Reliability for Services in SOA", The

Fifth International

Conference on Software Engineering Advances, ICSEA 2010, Nice, France, August 22-27, 2010

166. Quyen Nguyen and Arun Sood, Comparative Analysis of Intrusion-Tolerant System

Architectures, IEEE

Security and Privacy. To Appear July-August 2011. Preprint Online at IE

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