virgil gligor
Virgil Gligor
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Co-Director, CyLab
(412) 268-9833
Virgil D. Gligor received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon, Gligor was at the University of Maryland from 1976, and was a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Over the past 29 years, his research interests have ranged from access control mechanisms, penetration analysis, and denial-of-service protection to cryptographic protocols and applied cryptography. Dr. Gligor was a consultant to the Burroughs (1977-1981) and IBM (1984-1999) Corporations, and is currently serving on Microsoft’s Trusted Computing Academic Advisory Board. He served the profession as the chair or co-chair of several conferences and symposia, including the IEEE Security and Privacy Symposium, the Internet Society’s Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium, the IEEE Dependable Computing for Critical Applications, and the IEEE-ACM Symposium on Relaibility in Distributed Software and Databases. He received the outstanding paper award at the 1988 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. He was a member of several U.S. Government INFOSEC Study Groups that set research agendas in information security, and served on a National Research Council panel on information security.