Prof Roy Campbell

Roy Campbell is the Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Director of Graduate Programs, Director of the NSA Designated Center for Academic Excellence and Research in Information Assurance, Director of the Air Force funded Assured Cloud Computing Center at the Information Trust Institute, and 2013-2014 Chair of the University Senate. He is also an Affiliate Faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and member of both the Coordinated Sciences Laboratory and Information Trust Institute. He received his Honors B.S. Degree in Mathematics, with a Minor in Physics from the University of Sussex in 1969 and his M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees in Computer Science from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1972 and 1976, respectively. Professor Campbell's research interests are the problems, engineering and construction techniques of complex system software. Cloud computing, big data, security, distributed systems, continuous media, and real-time control pose system challenges, especially to operating system designers. Past research includes path expressions as declarative specifications of process synchronization, real-time deadline recovery mechanisms, error recovery in asynchronous systems, streaming video for the web, real-time internet video distribution systems, object-oriented parallel processing operating systems, CORBA security architectures, and active spaces in ubiquitous and pervasive computing. Current research interests include cloud computing, map/reduce scheduling and resource allocation, big data storage issues, distributed monitoring, and Power Grid SCADA security. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.