Directory Profile

Gail-Joon Ahn

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

 

Gail-Joon Ahn joined ASU in 2008. He has authored more than 90 refereed research papers. Prior to ASU, he was an Associate Professor of College of Computing and Informatics and Founding Director of Center for Digital Identity and Cyber Defense Research and Laboratory of Information Integration, Security and Privacy at UNC Charlotte. His principal research and teaching interests are in information and systems security. His research foci include vulnerability and risk management, access control, and security architecture for distributed systems. His research has been supported by NSF, NSA, DoD, DoE, Bank of America, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is a recipient of Department of Energy CAREER Award and the Educator of the Year Award from the Federal Information Systems Security Educators' Association (FISSEA).

Education

Ph.D. George Mason University 2000

Contact Info

Office Location: BYENG 486
Phone: 480.965.9007
Email: gahn@asu.edu
Website: http://www.public.asu.edu/~gahn1/

Research/Areas of Expertise

- Authentication and Access Control
- Formal Models for Computer Security
- Network and Distributed Systems Security
- Vulnerability and Risk Assessment
- Cyber Crime Analysis

Courses Taught

- CSE 465 Introduction to Information Assurance

Honors and Distinctions

- Early Career Principal Investigator Award, Department of Energy, 2003
- Educator of the Year Award, Federal Information Systems Security Educators' Association, 2005
- Editorial Review Board, Journal of Database Management, 2001 onwards
- Information Director, ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC), 2002 onwards
- Guest Editor, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, Vol.10, No.1, February 2007
- NSA Award, Detecting and Responding Network-centric Attack through Visual Analysis, 2007 to 2009
- NIJ Award, Examining The Creation, Distribution and Function of Malware On-Line, 2007 to 2009
- NSF Award, Secure Information Sharing in Internet-based Collaborative Applications, 2003 to 2008

Selected Publications

Karsten Sohr, Michael Drouineaud, Gail-Joon Ahn, and Martin Gogolla, Analyzing and Managing Role-Based Access Control Policies, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 20, No.7, 2008.

B. Tolone, Gail-Joon Ahn, T. Pai and S. Hong, Access Control in Collaborative Systems, ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 37, No. 1, ACM, March 2005.

Longhua Zhang, Gail-Joon Ahn and Bill Chu, A Rule-Based Framework for Role-Based Delegation and Revocation, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, Vol.6, No.3, August 2003.

Gail-Joon Ahn, S. Hong and M. Shin, Reconstructing a Formal Security Model, Information and Software Technology, Vol. 44, No. 11, Elsevier Science, August 2002 .

Joon Park, Gail-Joon Ahn and Ravi Sandhu, Secure Attribute Services on the Web, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, Vol. 4, No. 1, February 2001.

Gail-Joon Ahn and Ravi Sandhu, Role-based Authorization Constraints Specification, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, pages 207-226, Vol. 3, No. 4, ACM, November 2000.

Please see http://www.public.asu.edu/~gahn1/ for an updated list of publications

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