Radu Sion

Rank/Position Title:

Assistant Professor

Home Page:

http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~sion

Date of original appointment to this faculty, followed by dates and ranks of advancement:

joined Spring 2005

Degrees:

Conferences, workshops, and professional development:

Teaching Workshop, Purdue University 1999

Other related computing experience:

Department, college, and/or university committee membership:

Graduate Admission Committee

Principal publications of the last five years.

• R. Natarajan, R. Sion, C. Apte, I. Narang "A Grid Based Approach for Enterprise-Scale Data Mining", Workshop on Data Mining and the Grid (DM-Grid) at the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2004
• R. Sion, "Rights Assessment for Discrete Digital Data", Ph.D. dissertation, Computer Sciences, Purdue University, August 2004
• R. Sion, M. Atallah, S. Prabhakar, "Resilient Rights Proofs for Sensor Streams", accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the Conference on Very Large Databases VLDB 2004, Toronto, Canada, August 2004 (acc. rate: 16.1%, 81/504)
• R. Sion, M. Atallah, S. Prabhakar, "Ownership Proofs for Categorical Data", to appear in the IEEE Journal of Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering IEEE TKDE, subject to revisions
• M. Atallah, S. Prabhakar, K. Frikken, R. Sion, “Digital Rights Protection”, invited paper for the IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 2004
• R. Sion, M. Atallah, S. Prabhakar, "Protecting Rights for Relational Data using Watermarking", IEEE Journal of Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering IEEE TKDE, Vol. 16, No. 6, June 2004 (patent pending)
• R. Sion, "Proving Ownership over Categorical Data", Proceedings of the IEEE Intl. Conference on Data Engineering IEEE ICDE 2004, pp. 584-596, Boston, March 2004 (acc. rate: 14.2%, 63/441)
• Y. Tu, S. Prabhakar, A. Elmagarmid, R. Sion, "QuaSAQ: An Approach to Enabling End-to-End QoS for Multimedia Databases", International Conference on Extending Database Technology EDBT 2004, Heraklion - Crete, Greece, March 2004 (acc. rate: 14.2%, 42/294)
• R. Sion, M. Atallah, S. Prabhakar, "Rights Protection for Relational Data through Watermarking", Proceedings of the IEEE Intl. Conference on Data Engineering (demo) IEEE ICDE 2004, pp. 863-864, Boston, March 2004
• R. Sion, "Rights Protection beyond Multimedia", Proceedings of the EDBT/ICDE PhD Workshop, pp. 109-118, Boston, March 2004 (acceptance rate: 25.5%, 22/86)

Other scholarly activity: grants, sabbaticals, software development, etc.:

• Patent at Purdue University , with M. Atallah, S. Prabhakar , "Method and System for Rights Assessment over Digital Data through Watermarking", (P-03060.00.US)
• Patent at IBM Research, with R. Natarajan, I. Narang, “System for Enterprise-Scale Parallel Data Mining” (pending)
• Referee Activities: ACM TODS (Transactions on Database Systems), TKDE (Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering), ICDE (International Conference on Data Engineering), EuroPAR (Intl. Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing), ACM SAC (ACM Symposium on Applied Computing), IEEE S&P (IEEE Security and Privacy), HiPC (High Performance Computing), IEEE IPSJ (IEEE Symposium on Applications and the Internet), IS (Journal of Information Sciences), SE&P (Software Engineering and Practice), IEEE SP (Transactions on Signal Processing), ACM SACMAT (Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies), JDL (Journal of Digital Libraries), ACM TISSEC (Transactions on Information and Systems Security), DAPD (Journal on Distributed and Parallel Databases)

Scientific, professional, and honor societies of which you are a member:

Inducted in the Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) Honor Society for Computer Science in 2001

Honors and awards:

• Nominated for the ACM Dissertation Award by Purdue University in the 2004 competition
• Recipient of the 2004 CERIAS Diamond Award for Academic Excellence

Courses taught this and last academic year term-by-term section of the same course separately.

Academic advising:

Assigned advisor for 18 undergraduate students during 2004/2005 academic year

Brief description of major research and scholarly activities:

Research in the area of Computer Security.