August 11, 2006Professor Receives Fulbright Scholar Award
Bren School of ICS Associate Dean to teach and research at University of Rome, Italy
Gene Tsudik, Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine's Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and research at the University of Rome, Italy during the 2006-07 academic year, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Professor Tsudik, also the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies will lecture and conduct research on the privacy in computing and networking. Tsudik's primary interests lie in computer/network security and applied cryptography. Much of his recent work is in secure group communication, in particular, group key agreement, group signatures and group access control. He also is interested in database security and public key cryptography.
Tsudik is one of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to some 150 countries for the 2006-07 academic year through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program's purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries.
The Fulbright Program, America's flagship international educational exchange activity, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Over its 60 years of existence, thousands of U.S. faculty and professionals have studied, taught or done research abroad, and thousands of their counterparts from other countries have engaged in similar activities in the United States. They are among more than 266,600 American and foreign university students, K-12 teachers, and university faculty and professionals who have participated in Fulbright exchange programs.
Recipients of the Fulbright Scholar awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and because they have demonstrated extraordinary leadership potential in their fields.
