I successfully defended my PhD Dissertation on July 7th, 2008, in Computer Science & Engineering from University of South Carolina, Columbia. The slides of my presentation are present on this web site. My research advisor was Dr. Farkas. My research was focused on developing a "Semantic Aware Authorization Framework (SAAF) for Distributed Computing Environments" (TM). The title of my PhD dissertation is "Security on the Web: A Semantic-Aware Authorization Framework for Secure Data Sharing". This framework enables the use of data and application semantics for providing access control permissions on XML data. The framework also defines an authorization model for applying security on RDF Ontological data. This model is useful for providing syntax independent authorizations in distributed computing environments, specifically for providing Semantic-Aware Security for Web Services, since Web Services are the most widely used and successful distributed computing model so far.

My areas of interest are Web Services Security, Semantic Integration, Natural Language Processings and Metadata Security. I'm interested in development of models for use in Unstructured Data Processing using Semantic Intelligence, Information Security Systems, Semantic Web Data models such as RDF security and Ontology security, Semantic Web Services, metabases, RDF Access Control Models and Ontology Authorization Models. During my PhD, I was a part of Center for Information Assurance Engineering as a research assistant. To find out more about my personal life or my professional life and my research, please follow the links on the menu. I would be modifying this website with more updated information as time progresses. Any comments, questions or comments are welcome.