James Joshi
Associate Professor & Lead Faculty Member
Information Assurance Program
James Joshi is the lead faculty member for the iSchool's world-class track of study in information assurance and security in both the Information Science and Telecommunications programs. This track's success led to Pitt being designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the National Security Agency and the US Department of Homeland Security. The curriculum has been certified by the Committee on National System Security (CNSS) as meeting the national standards for information security education; the program has five such certifications -- one of only 13 universities to have this many. This cutting-edge field will produce the next generation of leaders keeping information secure for businesses and government agencies.
James directs the Laboratory of Education and Research on Security Assured Information Systems (LERSAIS), an iSchool research center that harnesses the technical expertise of the University's faculty to address multidimensional problems in information assurance. LERSAIS hosts high-impact research on two key aspects of information assurance (security and availability) and develops and supports high-quality education in security and information assurance.
In 2006, James was awarded a prestigious, five-year, $416,419 National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for his work on the project, "A Trust-Based Access Control Management Framework for Secure Information Sharing and Multimedia Workflows in Heterogeneous Environments."
The goal of James' research is to address the complex security and management issues related to emerging multidomain application environments. The results of this research are expected to have a long-term impact on the development of secure data application environments and to contribute significantly to efforts to protect complex systems and infrastructures such as the national- and global- information grids.
James Joshi is pictured here with Saman Taghavi Zargar, a PhD student in the Telecommunications and Networking Program at the iSchool.
