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86
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47681
World Ranking
750
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397

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2002 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the field of information and system security.
  • 2001 - ACM Fellow For technical contributions to the field of information and system security, notably access control models and systems, and professional leaderhip in research journals and conferences.

Overview

Ravi Sandhu is affiliated with The University of Texas at San Antonio in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on computer science and social sciences, with significant contributions in several subfields such as artificial intelligence, information systems, sociology and political science, computer networks and communications, and management information systems.

Their research work broadly covers topics including access control and trust, cryptography and data security, privacy-preserving technologies in data, internet traffic analysis and secure e-voting, blockchain technology applications and security, cloud data security solutions, and IoT and edge/fog computing.

Sandhu's recent papers illustrate a focus on access control, secure communication, and artificial intelligence applications in various technology ecosystems. Notable recent publications include:

  • "An Attribute-Based Access Control for Cloud Enabled Industrial Smart Vehicles," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
  • "Secure V2V and V2I Communication in Intelligent Transportation Using Cloudlets," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
  • "Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Systems for the Cooperative Smart Farming Ecosystem," 2020, IEEE Access
  • "Attribute-Based Access Control for AWS Internet of Things and Secure Industries of the Future," 2021, IEEE Access
  • "Recurrent Neural Networks Based Online Behavioural Malware Detection Techniques for Cloud Infrastructure," 2021, IEEE Access

Their collaborative network features frequent co-authors such as Maanak Gupta, James Benson, Safwa Ameer, Ram Krishnan, and Smriti Bhatt, with the highest number of joint publications occurring with Maanak Gupta.

Sandhu's research outputs have been disseminated primarily through venues including arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, and IEEE Transactions on Services Computing.

Over their career, they have been recognized with several fellowships and awards. These include being named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2020, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2008, an IEEE Fellow in 2002 for contributions to information and system security, and an ACM Fellow in 2001 for technical contributions to access control models and systems alongside professional leadership roles in research journals and conferences.

Best Publications

  • Role-based access control models

    R.S. Sandhu;E.J. Coyne;H.L. Feinstein;C.E. Youman

  • Proposed NIST standard for role-based access control

    David F. Ferraiolo;Ravi Sandhu;Serban Gavrila;D. Richard Kuhn

  • Access control: principle and practice

    R.S. Sandhu;P. Samarati

  • The NIST model for role-based access control: towards a unified standard

    Ravi Sandhu;David Ferraiolo;Richard Kuhn

  • The UCONABC usage control model

    Jaehong Park;Ravi Sandhu

  • Lattice-based access control models

    R.S. Sandhu

  • Configuring role-based access control to enforce mandatory and discretionary access control policies

    Sylvia Osborn;Ravi Sandhu;Qamar Munawer

  • The ARBAC97 model for role-based administration of roles

    Ravi Sandhu;Venkata Bhamidipati;Qamar Munawer

  • Database security - concepts, approaches, and challenges

    E. Bertino;R. Sandhu

  • Role-based authorization constraints specification

    Gail-Joon Ahn;Ravi Sandhu

  • Towards usage control models: beyond traditional access control

    Jaehong Park;Ravi Sandhu

  • Task-Based Authorization Controls (TBAC): A Family of Models for Active and Enterprise-Oriented Autorization Management

    Roshan K. Thomas;Ravi S. Sandhu

  • A unified attribute-based access control model covering DAC, MAC and RBAC

    Xin Jin;Ram Krishnan;Ravi Sandhu

  • Role-based Access Control

    Ravi S. Sandhu

  • The typed access matrix model

    R.S. Sandhu

  • Framework for role-based delegation models

    E. Barka;R. Sandhu

  • Role-based access control on the web

    Joon S. Park;Ravi Sandhu;Gail-Joon Ahn

  • PBDM: a flexible delegation model in RBAC

    Xinwen Zhang;Sejong Oh;Ravi Sandhu

  • Usage control : A vision for next generation access control

    Ravi S. Sandhu;Jaehong Park

  • Formal model and policy specification of usage control

    Xinwen Zhang;Francesco Parisi-Presicce;Ravi Sandhu;Jaehong Park

Frequent Co-Authors

Xinwen Zhang
Xinwen Zhang Samsung (South Korea)
Elisa Bertino
Elisa Bertino Purdue University West Lafayette
Sushil Jajodia
Sushil Jajodia George Mason University
Shouhuai Xu
Shouhuai Xu University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Gail-Joon Ahn
Gail-Joon Ahn Arizona State University
Jianwei Niu
Jianwei Niu Beihang University
Bhavani Thuraisingham
Bhavani Thuraisingham The University of Texas at Dallas
Pierangela Samarati
Pierangela Samarati University of Milan
Paul Ammann
Paul Ammann George Mason University
Anupam Joshi
Anupam Joshi University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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