Dr. Doug Gregor

Open Systems Laboratory, Indiana University

Doug is a post-doctoral researcher in the Open Systems Laboratory at Indiana University. His research focuses on the Generic Programming methodology for the development of efficient, reusable software libraries, and especially on the application of Generic Programming to the areas of high-performance parallel computing and graph theory. Doug is the primary author and maintainer of the Parallel Boost Graph Library.

Professor Cristina Nita-Rotaru

Purdue University Computer Science

Cristina Nita-Rotaru is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University where she established the Dependable and Secure Distributed Systems Laboratory (DS^2). She is a member of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) and is associated with the Center for Wireless Systems and Applications (CWSA). Her research interests lie in designing distributed systems, network protocols and applications that are dependable and secure, while maintaining acceptable levels of performance. Current research focuses on : designing intrusion-tolerant architectures for distributed services that scale to wide-area networks, studying attacks and defenses in overlay networks, investigating survivable routing in wireless ad hoc networks, and designing group services for wireless mesh networks. Cristina Nita-Rotaru is a recipient of the NSF Career Award in 2006 and a recipient of the Purdue Teaching for Tomorrow Award in 2007. She has served on the Technical Program Committee of numerous conferences in security, networking and distributed systems. Her work is funded by the Center for Education and Research in Information Security and Assurance (CERIAS), by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Professor Kiduk Yang

Indiana University School of Library and Information Science

Dr. Kiduk Yang studied Computer Science as an undergraduate in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), after which he began a career as an application programmer and systems developer. While working over 14 years as an IT professional, he earned a Master's degree and Ph.D in Information Science at the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-CH. At present, Dr. Yang is an assistant professor at the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University.

Dr. Yang's research area is information retrieval with emphasis on leveraging human knowledge for information discovery on the Web. In 2002, Dr. Yang established the WIDIT (Web Information Discovery Integrated Tool) Research Laboratory, which currently engages three faculty members and a number of graduate students in a wide range of projects. As the director of the WIDIT Laboratory, Dr. Yang has been coordinating the research and development of such WIDIT system modules as the dynamic indexer, taxonomy crawler, fusion classifier, and intelligent Web agent. Dr. Yang is also responsible for facilitating Indiana University's participation in the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) for the past several years.

Professor Melanie Wu

Indiana University Informatics, Indiana University Computer Science

Professor Wu has recently completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She earned her M.S. degree from IU Bloomington in December 1999 and an M.S./B.S. degree from Peking University, China. Dr. Wu completed research internships at IBM Almaden Research Center as well as Microsoft Research in 2002 and 2003. Prof. Wu joined IU in 2004 as an assistant professor of informatics and an adjunct assistant professor of computer science.

Prof. Wu is one of the founders of the TIMBER project under development at the University of Michigan, a high performance native XML database system capable of operating at large scale, through use of a carefully designed tree algebra and judicious use of novel access methods and optimizations techniques. Prof. Wu's research covers XML data storage, XML indexing, query processing, query optimization, query parsing and rewriting, and focuses on cost-based query optimization of XML queries.

Prof. Wu is leading the research project on Access Control for XML (ACCESS) at Indiana University, focusing on developing a framework for flexible access constraint specification, representation and efficient enforcement.

Prof. Wu is also involved in research related to data integration, data mining, and knowledge discovery.

Professor Tanu Malik

Purdue University Cyber Center

Tanu Malik is a Research Assistant Professor with the Cyber Center in Discover Park at Purdue University. She obtained her Phd and Masters degrees in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Her primary research interests are in scientific data management, data caching, query processing and optimization, physical design of database systems and transactional web database systems. Her main research project is Bypass-Yield Caching, which is to build an open-source proxy cache for scientific data federations. Tanu is a founding member of the Open SkyQuery project (http://www.openskyquery.net), and is responsible for its overall design and query capabilities. She is also a member of the SDSS project (http://www.sdss.org), contributing to several tools that enable efficient querying and search on its massive database.

Professor Dirk Van Gucht

Indiana University Computer Science

Professor Van Gucht is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Data and Search Informatics. Dr. Van Gucht's general area of research is that of database theory and data mining.

Ruchith Fernando

Member, Apache Software Foundation
Senior Software Engineer, WS02

Ruchith Fernando is an active contributor to Apache Web services security projects. He founded the Apache Rampart project which implements WS-Security related specifications in 2005. His contributions to the Apache Axis2 and Apache Axiom Projects earned him Apache Membership this year. He has also implemented WS-Secure Conversation and WS-Trust on Apache Axis which is the predecessor of Axis2. The resident Web services security expert at WSO2, Ruchith has initiated many projects including WSO2 Identity Solution as well contributed to WSO2 Web Services Application Server. He represent s WSO2 in the Web Services Secure Exchange (WS-SX) technical committee of the of the international standards organization OASIS and W3C working group for Web services policy. Ruchith has presented at many technical conferences including ApacheCon, Web Services Security Conference and Internet Identity Workshop (IIW). Ruchich earned B.Sc. in Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in 2004.

Professor Amitabh Chaudhary

University of Notre Dame Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Amitabh Chaudhary is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Indian Institutes of Technology at Kharagpur and Mumbai, and a doctoral degree from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. His research interests include online algorithms, spatial data structures, and graph theory.

Byung-Won On, Ph.D.

Pennsylvania State University Information, Knowledge, and wEb (PIKE) Research Group

Byung-Won On received a M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Korea University at Seoul, Korea in May 2000, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University at University Park, PA, USA in August 2007. Prior to his Ph.D. program, he worked as a senior research manager for two years at Research Center, Gluesys Co., Ltd., Seoul, Korea. Dr. On is currently a research associate at the Pennsylvania State University at University Park, PA, USA. In addition, he has visited as a visiting researcher at AT&T Labs at Florham Park, NJ, USA. His research interests include Conventional Database Research Agenda, Data Mining, Web Services and Semantic Web, Digital Libraries, and Information Retrieval. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society. He has numerous publications, and was a winner of the first runner-up award in the competition for Web Services Discovery and Composition at IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2005).