Bio

Jaideep Vaidya
Distinguished Professor
Rutgers University

Jaideep Vaidya is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Information Systems at Rutgers University, the Director of the Rutgers Institute for Data Science, Learning, and Applications. He received the B.E. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai, the M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Purdue University. His general area of research is in security, privacy, data mining, and data management. He has published over 200 technical papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, and has received several best paper awards from the premier conferences in data mining, databases, digital government, security, and informatics. He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist, an IEEE and AAAS Fellow and served as the Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. Notably, the team he led won the first prize in the US-UK Privacy Enhancing Technologies Challenge in the Financial Crime Track.