Elisa Bertino is a professor of computer science at

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and is acting as the research director of CERIAS, the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security, an institute attached to Purdue University. Bertino's research interest include

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and

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Education

Bertino received her Ph.D. from the

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in 1980 under the supervision of Costantino Thanos. After postdoctoral research on

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at the

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, and then working for the

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, she returned to academia. She was for many years on the faculty of the

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, and chaired the computer science department there.

Publications

She has authored or co-authored more than 250 journal articles, more than 450 conference papers, 9 books, and 35 edited volumes, with over 300 co-authors.. She has been co-editor-in-chief of the ''GeoInformatica Journal'' and ''VLDB Journal'', program co-chair of ICDE 1998, and program chair of ECOOP 2000, SACMAT 2002, and EDBT 2004.Biosketch
, 2013, retrieved 2015-06-16.

Honors and awards

* 2002 - Elected as a fellow of the

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"for contributions to the theory of object-oriented databases, temporal databases, and database security." * 2003 - Became a fellow of the

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"for contributions to secure database systems".

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retrieved 2015-06-16. * 2002 - Winner of an IEEE Technical Achievement Award in 2002 * 2005 - Winner of

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Tsutomu Kanai Award * 2021 - IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award

References

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