Professional services

I have served the international research community through scientific leadership roles,
editorial board memberships, conference and workshop organization, program committees,
research evaluation activities, and panels in the areas of security, privacy, data management,
services computing, and trustworthy distributed systems.

Awards & Recognition

  • 2026 — IEEE Big Data Security Woman of Achievement Award,
    for contributions to Big Data Security and Privacy research and education
    and for leadership in the field.
  • 2022 — ACM Distinguished Member,
    for outstanding scientific contributions to computing.
  • 2019 — Test of Time Award,
    ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT),
    for the paper
    “Enforcing relationships privacy through collaborative access control in web-based social networks.”
  • 2018 — Best Paper Award,
    IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS),
    for the paper
    “Confidential Business Process Execution on Blockchain.”
  • 2018 — Best Paper Award,
    IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC),
    for the paper
    “AutoBotCatcher: Blockchain-based P2P Botnet Detection for the Internet of Things.”
  • 2011 — Best Paper Award,
    IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT),
    for the paper
    “Secure Information Sharing on Support of Emergency Management.”
  • 2004 — MITRE Best Paper Award,
    for the paper
    “Selective and Authentic Third-Party Distribution of XML Documents.”

Scientific Leadership

  • Vice-Chair, ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC), since July 2025.
  • Secretary/Treasurer, ACM SIGSAC, 2013–2017.
  • Co-chair, Steering Committee of ACM CODASPY.
  • Member, ACM SACMAT Steering Committee, 2017–2019.

Editorial Service

  • Member of the Editorial Board, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, since 2019.
  • Member of the Editorial Board, Online Social Networks and Media, Elsevier, since 2019.
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2017–2023.
  • Editor-in-Chief, Computer Standards & Interfaces, Elsevier, January 2009–June 2015.
  • Member of the Editorial Board, Computer Standards & Interfaces, Elsevier, June 2006–January 2009.
  • Guest Editor of the special issue “Secure Semantic Web”, Computer Standards & Interfaces, 2008.
  • Member of the editorial board for the book Community-built Databases: Research and Development, Springer.

Conference and Workshop Organization

  • Program Chair, IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC), 2021.
  • Program Chair, IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC), 2021.
  • Program Chair, ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), 2021.
  • Research PC Vice Chair, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2020.
  • Program Co-chair, ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), 2020.
  • Security Track Chair, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, 2018.
  • Research Track Chair, IEEE International Congress on Big Data, 2015.
  • Program Co-chair, International Conference on Network and System Security, 2014.
  • Program Co-chair, IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications, 2013.
  • Program Co-chair, IEEE CollaborateCom, 2012.
  • Program Chair, ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT), 2010.
  • General Chair, ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT), 2009.
  • Program Co-chair of several international workshops on secure service computing, secure semantic web, collaborative social networks, and personalized access management.

Program Committees and Reviewing

I have served as program committee member of more than 100 international conferences
and workshops, including major venues in data management, security, privacy, web technologies,
services computing, and distributed systems.

Selected venues include VLDB, WWW, ICDE, SIGMOD, SACMAT, CODASPY, PADM,
PinKDD, IEEE ICWS, IEEE SCC, IEEE CIC, IEEE CloudCom, IEEE Big Data, CollaborateCom,
NSS, ARES, PST, and COMPSAC.

Research Evaluation and Expert Service

  • Evaluator for international research agencies and institutions since 2010.
  • Evaluator for ANR – Agence Nationale de la Recherche.
  • Evaluator for the Austrian Research Promotion Agency.
  • Evaluator for the Kazakhstan National Centre of Science and Technology Evaluation.
  • Evaluator for the Luxembourg National Research Fund.

Panels and Community Activities

  • Panelist, “Enforcement of Laws and Privacy Preferences in Modern Computing Systems”, ACM CODASPY 2022.
  • Panel moderator, “Security and Privacy Fostering Collaboration”, IEEE CollaborateCom 2011.
  • Panelist, “Security and Privacy in Mobile Cloud Computing”, IEEE WoWMoM / Data Security and Privacy in Wireless Networks, 2011.
  • Panelist, “Privacy and Security in Online Social Networks: Problems, Visions and Research Challenges”, KU Leuven, 2009.