| Partner: Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany) |
TU Darmstadt is Germany's premier Technical University and especially for Computer Science. Within the CS department, the DEEDS (Dependable Systems and SW) Group specifically targets research for the development, assessment and validation of systems, services and protocols as an infrastructural basis for trustworthy systems and services. The DEEDS group is internationally renowned for its unique composite coverage of dependability + security research and has garnered extensive ongoing support from the European Commission, US NSF, US DARPA, Airbus, Audi, Saab, Volvo, Daimler Chrysler, NASA, IBM, Boeing, Microsoft and Intel among others. The DEEDS group also leads the technical efforts for an existing FP6 IP on component based dependable embedded systems (DECOS) and as part of the Dependability/Security NoE ReSIST. The DEEDS prior EU involvements include dependability STREPS of NextTTA, FIT, Dbench, as well as extensive ongoing EC project review and evaluation activities. Based on (a) its established competences in composite dependable & secure computing, and (b) its joint EU-US profile, TUD/DEEDS will contribute to INCO-TRUST in establishing the technical themes in specifying, designing and assessing resilient systems and services. The emphasis will cover protocols and middleware arenas in the emerging ultra-large scale next generation networks. Using its extensive US background, TUD/DEEDS will also help develop the US NSF/DoD, US academia, Australian and Japanese links. Role in INCO-TRUST and related experience: TUD will lead WP2, which will define and establish the core Platform for International Collaboration and consensus building with a focus on partnerships between researchers from the developed countries with the goal of coordinating the multiple research efforts underway in the areas of cyber trust, security and dependability. The DEEDS group at TUD has extensive ongoing experience in developing, assessing and validating composite dependable and secure protocols. With a primary protocols and middleware background, the group is active in running an EC IP, involved in an NoE and with multiple STREP roles. The active contact with EU, US and international industry complements DEEDS academic and professional profile and will enable them to carry out their tasks within INCO-TRUST. Dr. Suri was actively involved in the two Workshops held in November 2006 and April 2007, including Co-Chairman of the Workshop 2 Session on Theme 1. Architectures, Protocols and Environments for S&D of future Polymorphic Networked ICT Systems and Future Testbeds. Key personnelProfessor Neeraj Suri received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He currently holds the TU Darmstadt Chair Professorship in "Dependable Embedded Systems and Software" at TU Darmstadt, Germany and is also affiliated with the University of Texas at Austin. His earlier academic appointments include the Saab Endowed Professorship and faculty earlier at Boston University. His research interests focus on design, analysis and assessment of "trusted systems & services" dealing with the composite issues of dependablity, security and privacy. His group's research activities have garnered funding support from US - DARPA, NSF, ONR; European Commission; Microsoft, Google, NASA, Boeing, Intel, Saab, Daimler Chrysler and Hitachi among others. He is also a recipient of the US NSF CAREER award. He is an active consulting expert on Trust, Security and Dependability topics for the US NSF, DHS and the European Commission, including EC FP6/FP7 keynote talks, project evaluations and program scoping. In his professional activities, Suri serves as an associate Editor in Chief for IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, and on the editorial boards for IEEE Transactions for Software Engineering, ACM Computing Surveys covering Embedded Systems and Real-Time, Journal of Security and Networks, and has been an editor for the IEEE Trans. On Parallel and Distributed Systems. He is a member of IFIP WG 10.4 on Dependability, and a member of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board. He is the Technical Program Chair for the premier international Dependability and Security Conference, DSN 2008, www.dsn.org.
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