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D-Index
42
Citations
10636
World Ranking
8224
National Ranking
3528

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for Distinguished Contributions to Cybersecurity, Trust, and Privacy
  • 2023 - Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Information Association (AAIA)
  • 2023 - IEEE Fellow for Contributions in Access Control and Privacy
  • 2017 - ACM Distinguished Member
  • 2013 - ACM Senior Member
  • 2013 - Fellow of the Society of Information Reuse and Integration (SIRI)

Overview

James Joshi is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States and works primarily in the field of Computer Science. Their research spans multiple subfields, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems, Computer Networks and Communications, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

Their work predominantly addresses topics related to Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data, Cryptography and Data Security, Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting, Access Control and Trust, Blockchain Technology Applications and Security, IoT and Edge/Fog Computing, and Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning.

James Joshi has published extensively, with recent papers including:

  • An Automatic Attribute-Based Access Control Policy Extraction From Access Logs, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  • Semantic Encryption/Decryption: Utilizing Preprocessing of Data as a Security Mechanism in Machine Learning Models, 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • NN-EMD: Efficiently Training Neural Networks Using Encrypted Multi-Sourced Datasets, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  • TAPFed: Threshold Secure Aggregation for Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning, 2024, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  • FedV: Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning over Vertically Partitioned Data, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent coauthors in their work include:

  • Runhua Xu
  • Leila Karimi
  • Mai Abdelhakim
  • Chao Li
  • Maryam Aldairi

The scientist has published primarily in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  • Computers & Security
  • ACM Transactions on Internet Technology
  • IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

James Joshi has been recognized as an ACM Distinguished Member since 2017 and an ACM Senior Member since 2013.

Best Publications

  • Security and Privacy Challenges in Cloud Computing Environments

    H Takabi;J B D Joshi;G Ahn

  • A Survey of Defense Mechanisms Against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Flooding Attacks

    Saman Taghavi Zargar;James Joshi;David Tipper

  • A generalized temporal role-based access control model

    J.B.D. Joshi;E. Bertino;U. Latif;A. Ghafoor

  • Security models for web-based applications

    James B. D. Joshi;Walid G. Aref;Arif Ghafoor;Eugene H. Spafford

  • Secure interoperation in a multidomain environment employing RBAC policies

    B. Shafiq;J.B.D. Joshi;E. Bertino;A. Ghafoor

  • Digital Government Security Infrastructure Design Challenges

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  • Digital government security infrastructure design challenges

    J. Joshi;A. Ghafoor;W.G. Aref;E.H. Spafford

  • Access-control language for multidomain environments

    J.B.D. Joshi

  • X-GTRBAC: an XML-based policy specification framework and architecture for enterprise-wide access control

    Rafae Bhatti;Arif Ghafoor;Elisa Bertino;James B. D. Joshi

  • LoT-RBAC : A location and time-based RBAC model

    Suroop Mohan Chandran;J. B. D. Joshi

  • SecureCloud: Towards a Comprehensive Security Framework for Cloud Computing Environments

    Hassan Takabi;James B. D. Joshi;Gail-Joon Ahn

  • IPv6 Security Challenges

    C.E. Caicedo;J.B.D. Joshi;S.R. Tuladhar

  • Towards active detection of identity clone attacks on online social networks

    Lei Jin;Hassan Takabi;James B.D. Joshi

  • Temporal hierarchies and inheritance semantics for GTRBAC

    James B D Joshi;Elisa Bertino;Arif Ghafoor

  • XML-based specification for Web services document security

    R. Bhatti;E. Bertino;A. Ghafoor;J.B.D. Joshi

  • Access Control in Dynamic XML-Based Web-Services with X-RBAC.

    Rafae Bhatti;James B. D. Joshi;Elisa Bertino;Arif Ghafoor

  • Exploring trajectory-driven local geographic topics in foursquare

    Xuelian Long;Lei Jin;James Joshi

  • An adaptive risk management and access control framework to mitigate insider threats

    Nathalie Baracaldo;James Joshi

  • Dependencies and separation of duty constraints in GTRBAC

    James B. D. Joshi;Basit Shafiq;Arif Ghafoor;Elisa Bertino

  • OSNAC: An Ontology-based Access Control Model for Social Networking Systems

    Amirreza Masoumzadeh;James Joshi

  • A generalized temporal role based access control model for developing secure systems

    James B. D. Joshi;Arif Ghafoor

Frequent Co-Authors

Elisa Bertino
Elisa Bertino Purdue University West Lafayette
Arif Ghafoor
Arif Ghafoor Purdue University West Lafayette
Eugene H. Spafford
Eugene H. Spafford Purdue University West Lafayette
George Varghese
George Varghese University of California, Los Angeles
Larry L. Peterson
Larry L. Peterson Princeton University
Saurabh Bagchi
Saurabh Bagchi Purdue University West Lafayette
Rajiv Ramaswami
Rajiv Ramaswami Nortel (Canada)
Mei-Ling Shyu
Mei-Ling Shyu University of Missouri–Kansas City
Bhavani Thuraisingham
Bhavani Thuraisingham The University of Texas at Dallas

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