Yuval Elovici

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Professional Activities

(a) Positions in Academic Administration

04/2014-Now

Title: Director of BGU Cyber Security Research Center.

Institution: Ben-Gurion University.

12/2005-Now

Director of Telekom Innovation Laboratories at Ben-Gurion University; Ben-Gurion University

The institute’s focus is applied research and its activities include, among others: specifying, developing, and evaluating emerging Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Members of the institute are engaged in applied research based on strategic plans outlined by Deutsche Telekom AG (DTAG). The institute’s research areas currently include: Big Data Analytics, Cyber Security, Android Security. The research is conducted by BGU faculty members (about 10), together with graduate students and scientific programmers (approximately 80). The institute submits one patent per month as well as about 60 scientific publications that are accepted to leading conferences and journals per year.

10/2012-Now

Member of the Doctoral Committee, Ben-Gurion University, Department of Information Systems Engineering.

9/2008-Now

Member of the Curriculum Committee, Ben-Gurion University, Department of Information Systems Engineering.

12/2003-7/2006

Head of the Software Engineering Program, Ben-Gurion University, Faculty of Engineering Sciences.

The Software Engineering Program is a part of the Department of Information Systems Engineering and the Department of Computer Sciences. This unique Israeli program includes over 240 students, who study for four years toward a B.Sc. in Software Engineering.

6/2003-10/2005

Member of the Graduate Studies Committee, Ben-Gurion University, Department of Information Systems Engineering.

8/2001-Now   

Member of the University Committee for Information Security, Ben-Gurion University.

This committee is responsible for defining the university’s strategy with regard to computer and network security, as well as ongoing supervision of the compliance of university authorities with the latest privacy laws.

10/2000-10/2005

Head of the Computing and Infrastructure Committee, Ben-Gurion University, Department of Information Systems Engineering.

When the Department of Information Systems Engineering was established, I was responsible for designing four new computer labs and supervised the purchase of the equipment for the labs. I consulted and assisted the technical team in maintaining the department’s computer and communications infrastructure.

 

(b) Professional Functions outside Universities/Institutions

09/2014-Now

Title: iTrust Research Director

Institution: Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).

01/2013-Now

Title: Member of a national committee that advises the Israeli government in the area of cyber security R&D.

Institution: State of Israel.

1/2012-12/2014

Title: Head of the Scientific and Technological Committee of the Cabarnit Consortium.

Institution: Cabarnit Consortium.

Cabarnit is a consortium of seven computer and network security hi-tech companies and 10 academic groups from various universities in Israel. The consortium’s annual budget is around $7M and is financed by the Israeli Ministry of Trade and Commerce. I was nominated by the consortium to head a scientific and technological committee that is responsible for monitoring scientific and technological developments and identifying new potential members from the industry and academia.

09/2008-9/2010

Title: Member of a national committee that advises the Israeli government in the area of protection of critical infrastructures.

Institution: State of Israel, Prime Minister’s Office. 

11/2004-10/2006

Title: Member of a committee that advises the Israeli Parliament on new laws for protecting personal information stored in digital repositories.

Institution: State of Israel, Ministry of Justice.

The Deputy Chief Prosecutor established a committee mandated to recommend modifications to Israeli privacy laws so these can better meet the new challenges of the Information Age. My role in the committee was to present new IT capabilities and their potential impact on matters of privacy.

 

(c) Editor or member of editorial board of scientific or professional journal

Conferences:

  • Program Committee Member: IEEE Joint Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (JISIC), Hague, Netherlands, September 24-26, 2014. 
  • Program Committee Member: International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction (SBP-2014), Washington, DC, USA, April 2-5, 2013. 
  • Program Committee Member: The 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2013), Ontario, Canada, August  25-28, 2013.
  • Program Committee Member: IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction (SBP-2013), Washington, DC, USA, April 2-5, 2013.
  • Program Committee Member: IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI-2013), Seattle, Washington, USA, June 4-7, 2013.
  • Program Committee Member: IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI-2012). Washington, DC, USA, June 11-14, 2012.
  • Program Committee Member: The 2011 International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining. Kaohsiung, Taiwan, July 25-27, 2011.
  • Program Committee Member: Swarm, Amorphous, Spatial, and Complex Systems Track of the 12th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2010). New York City, USA, September 20-22, 2010.
  • Program Committee Member: IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI-2010). Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 23-26, 2010.
  • Program Committee Member: 23rd Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security (DBSec 2009). Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, July 12-15, 2009.
  • Program Committee Member: IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI-2008). Taipei, Taiwan, June 17-20, 2008.
  • Program Committee Member: IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI-2007). Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, May 23-24, 2007.
  • Program Committee Member: 8th International Symposium on Systems and Information Security (SSI 2006). Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 8-10, 2006.

Workshops:

  • Co-Chair: Second International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Social Networks 2012 (SPSN-2012) in conjunction with IEEE SocialCom 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 3-6, 2012.
  • Program Committee Member: ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI-KDD 2012), Beijing, China, August 12, 2012.
  • Co-Chair: First International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Social Networks (SPSN-2011) in conjunction with IEEE SocialCom 2011, Cambridge, USA, October 9-10, 2012. 
  • Co-Chair: Workshop on Collaborative Methods for Security and Privacy. Washington, USA, August 10, 2010.
  • Program Committee Member: ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Cyber Security and Intelligence Informatics (CSI-KDD 2010). Washington, D.C. on July 25, 2010.
  • Co-Chair: Workshop on Leveraging Social Patterns for Security, Privacy and Network Architectures. Vancouver, Canada, August 29-31, 2009.
  • Program Committee Member: ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Cyber Security and Intelligence Informatics (CSI-KDD 2009). Paris, France, June 28, 2009.
  • Program Committee Member: Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Privacy and Security (ISIPS 2008). New Brunswick, New Jersey, May 12, 2008.
  • Session Chair: NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Security Informatics and Terrorism-Patrolling the Web, Machine Learning Applied to Web-Patrolling Session. Israel, June 4-5, 2007. 
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