CURRICULUM VITAE

Csilla Farkas

 

            EDUCATION HISTORY

 

·         George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, Information Technology, 1995-2000, Ph.D.

·         George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, Computer Science, 1991-1993, M.S.

·         Institution of Computer Science, Budapest, Hungary, Computer Science, 1986-1989, B.S.

·         Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, Geology, 1980-1985, B.S.

 

 

            EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

 

·         2006-present           University of South Carolina                   Associate Professor

·         2000-2006               University of South Carolina                   Assistant Professor

·         1996-2000               George Mason University                      Research Assistant

·         1995-1996               George Mason University                      Teaching Assistant

·         1987-1989               Hungarian Oil and Gas Trust                  Geologist and

                                                                                                      Computer Scientist

·         1985-1987               River Exploration Company, Hungary     Computer Scientist

 

            HONORS AND AWARDS

 

·         National Science Foundation Career Award, 2003-2008

·         IT&E Doctoral Fellowship Award, GMU,VA, 1999

·         IT&E Doctoral Fellowship Award, GMU,VA, 1998

·         IT&E Doctoral Fellowship Award, GMU,VA, 1996-1997

·         Computer Science Graduate Honor Roll Award, GMU, VA, 1994

 

 

LIST OF FUNDED RESEARCH AWARDS

 

·         PI: C. Farkas, “CAREER: Semantic Web: Interoperation vs. Security – A New Paradigm of Confidentiality Threats,” NSF- CAREER,  $400,000, 9/1/03—8/31/08 – awarded

·         PI: C. Farkas, “Anonymous Accountable Self-Organizing Cooperation,” NSF Research Initiating grant,  $18,523, 9/1/03—8/31/08 – awarded

·         PI: C. Farkas , Duncan Buell, Caroline Eastman, Stephen Fenner, Joseph Johnson, “Information Systems Security Education at the University of South Carolina,” NSF, $199,846, 9/1/01-8/31/03. – extended to 8/31/04 – awarded

·         Participating Mentor: C. Farkas in: PI: C. Eastman, “REU Site: Multidisciplinary Research in Computing Sponsor,”  NSF, $224,835  – awarded

·         PI: R. Dougal, Co-PI: C. Farkas, “USC’s Participation in Electric Ship R&D Consortium, ONR Long Range Science and Technology Program 2002- 2006,” ONR, – C. Farkas’ share is 0.5-1 month summer support and support of 1 RA (about 35,000) – administered by the EE Dept., 2002-2006.  – awarded

 

LIST OF REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

           

List of Books 

 

1.      Research Directions in Data and Application Security XVIII, Editors: C. Farkas and P. Samarati, Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2004.

           

Journals and Book Chapters

 

1.       A. Brodsky, C. Farkas, S. Jajodia, “Secure Databases: Constraints, Inference Channels and Monitoring Disclosures,” IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 12(6): 900-919, 2000. 

2.       C. Farkas and M. Huhns, “Making Agents Secure on the Semantic Web,” IEEE Internet Computing, 6(6): 76-79, 2002.

3.       C. Farkas and S. Jajodia “The Inference Problem: A Survey,” SIGKDD Explorations, 4(2): 6-11, 2002.

4.       N. B. Kodali, C. Farkas and D. Wijesekera, “An Authorization Model for Multimedia Digital Libraries,” Journal of Digital Libraries, 4(3): 139-155, 2004.

5.       A. Stoica and C. Farkas, “Ontology guided Security Engine,” Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 23(3): 209-223, 2004.

6.       N.B. Kodali, C. Farkas, and D. Wijesekera, “Specifying Multimedia Access Control using RDF,” Journal of Computer Systems, Science and Engineering,19(3), 2004.

7.       N.B. Kodali, C. Farkas and D. Wijesekera, “Enforcing Semantics Aware Security in Multimedia Surveillance,” Journal on Data Semantics, 2: 199-221, 2005.

8.       V. Gowadia, C. Farkas, M. Valtorta, “PAID: A Probabilistic Agent-Based Intrusion Detection System,” Journal of Computers and Security, 24(7), 529-545, 2005.

9.       C. Farkas, “Data Confidentiality on The Semantic Web: Is There an Inference Problem?,” book chapter in Web and Information Security, Editors E. Ferrari and B. Thuraisingham, Idea Group Inc., 73-90, 2005.

10.   G. Ziegler, C. Farkas, A. Lorincz, “A Framework for Anonymous but Accountable Self-Organizing Communities,” Journal of Information and Software Technologies, 48(8), 726-744, August 2006.

11.   V. Gowadia and C. Farkas, “Tree Automata for Schema-level Filtering of XML Associations,” Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology (JRPIT), 38(1), 97-109, February 2006.

12.   K. Alghathbar, D. Wijesekera, C. Farkas, “Secure UML Information Flow using FlowUML,” Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology (JRPIT), 38(1), 111-120, February 2006.

13.   C. Farkas, A. Brodsky, and S. Jajodia, “Unauthorized Inferences in Semi-Structured Databases,” Information Sciences, 176(22), 3269-3299, 2006.

 

 

Refereed Conferences and Workshops

 

1.      A. Brodsky, C. Farkas, D. Wijesekera, S. X. Wang, “Constraints, Inference Channels and Secure Databases,” Proc. Sixth International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, 98-113, 2000.

2.      C. Farkas, T. Toland, C. Eastman, “The Inference Problem and Updates in Relational Databases,” Proc. 15th IFIP WG11.3 Working Conference on Database and Application Security, 181-194, 2001.

3.      C. Farkas, G. Ziegler, A. Meretei, and A. Lorincz, “Anonymity and Accountability in Self-Organizing Electronic Communities,” Proc. Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, in association with the 9th ACM CCS Conference, 81-90, 2002. 2002

4.      A. Stoica and C. Farkas, “Secure XML Views,” Proc. 16th IFIP WG11.3 Working Conference on Database and Application Security, 133-146, 2002.

5.      V. Gowadia, C. Farkas, and M. Valtorta, “Agent-Based Intrusion Detection with Soft Evidence,” Proc. of  IRMA International Conference, 2003.

6.      C. Eastman and C. Farkas, “Information Systems Security in the Information Systems Curriculum,” Proc. of  IRMA International Conference, 2003.

7.      C. Eastman and C. Farkas, “Information Systems Security: Distributed Modules or Centralized Course?,” Proc. of  ASEE Southeast Section Annual Conference, 2003.

8.      C. Farkas and A. Stoica, “Correlated Data Inference in Ontology Guided XML Security Engine,” Proc. of  IFIP 17th  WG 11.3 working conference on Data and Application Security, 2003.

9.      V. Gowadia, C. Farkas, “RDF Metadata for XML Access Control,” Proc. Workshop on XML Security, in association with the 9th ACM CCS Conference, 39- 48, 2003.

10.  N. Kodali, C. Farkas, D. Wijesekera,  “Multimedia Access Control using RDF-Metadata,”  Proc. Workshop on Metadata for Security, in connection to ODBASE, 718-731, 2003.

11.  C. Farkas, A. Stoica, and P. Talekar, “APTA: an Automated Policy Translation Architecture,” In Proc. of International Conference on Computer, Communication and Control Technologies, 2003.

12.  N. Kodali, C. Farkas, D. Wijesekera, “Enforcing Integrity in Multimedia Surveillance,” Proc. IFIP 6th WG 11.5, Working Conference  on Data Integrity and Control in Information Systems, 2003.

13.  C. Farkas, T.C. Wingfield, J.B. Michael, D. Wijesekera, “THEMIS: Threat Evaluation Metamodel for Information Systems,” Proc. of the 2nd Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics, 2004.

14.  N. Kodali, C. Farkas, D. Wijesekera, “SECRETS: A Secure Real-Time Multimedia Surveillance System,” Proc. of the 2nd Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics, 2004.

15.  N. Kodali, C. Farkas, D. Wijesekera, “Creating non-decomposable Multimedia Stream bundles in Multimedia Surveillance,” Proc. of Workshop on Secure Web Services, in association with the 10th ACM CCS Conference, 2004.

16.  V. Gowadia and C. Farkas, “Tree Automata for Schema-level Filtering of XML Associations,” Proc. of Workshop on Security in Information Systems, 136-145, 2005.

17.  Zs. Palotai, C. Farkas, A. Lorincz, “Selection in Scale-Free Small World,” accepted as a short paper for the 4th International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (CEEMAS'05), 2005.

18.  K. Alghathbar, D. Wijesekera, C. Farkas, “Secure UML Information Flow using FlowUML,” Proc. of Workshop on Security in Information Systems, 229-238, 2005.

19.  I. Youn, C. Farkas, B. Thuraisingham, “Multilevel Secure Teleconferencing over Public Switched Telephone Network,” accepted for IFIP 19th  WG 11.3 working conference on Data and Application Security, 2005.

20.  Toland, C. Farkas, and C. Eastman, “Dynamic Disclosure Monitor (D2Mon): An Improved Query Processing Solution,” in Proc. of the Secure Data Management Workshop, in connection with VLDB, 2005.

21.  Zs. Palotai, C. Farkas, and A Lorincz, “Is selection optimal for scale- free small worlds?,” in Proc. of European Conference for Complex Systems, 2005.

22.  C. Farkas, A. Jain, D. Wijesekera, A. Singhal, B. Thuraisingham, “Semantic-Aware Data Protection in Web Services,” in Proc. of IEEE Workshop on Web Services, 2006.

23.  S. Kaushik, C. Farkas, D. Wijesekera, and P. Amman, “An Algebra for Ontologies,” in Proc. of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems, (FOIS 2006), Maryland, 2006.

24.  K. Lazar and C. Farkas, “Security in TNMP Systems,” in Proc. of Workshop on Security in Information Systems, 2007.

25.  M. Hartong, R. Goel, C. Farkas, D. Wijesekera, “PTC-VANET Interactions to Prevent Highway Rail Intersection Crossing Accidents,” Proc. of The 65th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, April 2007, Ireland.

26.  A. Jain and C. Farkas, “Secure Resource Description Framework: an Access Control Model,” in Proc. of ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT), 2006.

27.  C. Farkas, A. Jain, D. Wijesekera, A. Singhal, and B. Thuraisingham, “Semantic-Aware Data Protection in Web Services,” in Proc. of IEEE Workshop on Web Services Security (WSSS 2006), in connection with the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2006.

28.     S. Valentine and C. Farkas, “PLC Code Vulnerabilities through SCADA Systems,” Presentation at the First IFIP WG 11.10 International Conference on Critical Infrastructure Protection, USA, March 2007.

 

LIST OF ABSTRACTS AND UNREFEREED PUBLICATIONS

 

1.       C. Farkas, “The Inference Problem in Databases,” Ph.D. Dissertation, Information Technology, George Mason University, 2000

2.       D. A. Buell, C. Farkas, M. N. Huhns, J. R. Rose, and M. Valtorta, “Information Reputation in and Environment of Ubiquitous Computing,” Phoenix Conference on Information Warfare, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 2001

3.       E. Eastman and C. Farkas, “Information Systems Security: Distributed Modules or Centralized Course?,” SIGCSE 2002, Faculty Poster

4.       S. De, C. Eastman, and C. Farkas, “Secure Access Control in a Multi-User Database,” ESRI User Conference, 2002

5.       C. Farkas, A. Stoica, and P. Talekar, “APTA: an Automated Policy Translation Architecture,” USC CSCE 2001-007

6.       C. Farkas, S. Fenner, and M. Tiwari, “Incorporating Role Templates in Role-Based Access Control,” USC CSCE 2001-006