Poovendran, Radha

Radha Poovendran is a Professor and founding director of the Network Security Lab (NSL) in the Electrical Engineering (EE) Dept. at the University of Washington (UW). He is a founding member and the associate director of research of the University of Washington Center for Excellence in Information Assurance Research and Education. He has also been a member of the advisory boards of Information Security Education as well as Networking Education Outreach of the University of Washington. His research interests are in the areas of wireless and sensor network security, adversarial modeling, privacy and anonymity in public wireless networks, control-security, games-security and Information Theoretic-Security in the context of wireless mobile networks. He has collaborated with the most brilliant doctoral students of the University of Washington in each of these areas. The impact of the research is reflected by the positions his students are taking in the US industry, academia and in the defense sectors, making excellent contributions as team members. Professor Poovendran is a recipient of the NSA LUCITE Rising Star Award (1999), National Science Foundation CAREER (2001), ARO YIP (2002), ONR YIP (2004), and PECASE (2005) for his research contributions to multi-user wireless security. He is also a recipient of the Outstanding Teaching Award and Outstanding Research Advisor Award from UW EE (2002), Graduate Mentor Award from Office of the Chancellor at University of California San Diego (2006), and Pride@Boeing award (2009). He was co-author of IEEE PIMRC Best Paper Award (2007), IEEE&IFIP William C. Carter Award Paper (2010), AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems best session paper award (2010, 2012), WiOpt Best Paper Award (2012). He was a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (2007). He co-edited a book titled Secure Localization and Time Synchronization in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks; Served as a co-guest editor for an IEEE JSAC special issue on wireless ad hoc networks security (2006). He has co-chaired multiple conferences and workshops including the first ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec) in 2008 and NITRD-NSF National workshop on high-confidence transportation cyber-physical systems in 2009, trustworthy aviation information systems at the 2010 and 2011 AIAA Infotech@Aerospace and 2011 IEEE Aerospace. He was chief editor for the Proceedings of the IEEE special issue on cyber-physical systems (2012). He is currently an editor of IEEE TMC and ACM TOSN. He is co-guest editor for two special issues on security and privacy (IEEE Networks 2013; IEEE TPDS 2013).