Elisa Bertino is a professor of computer science at Purdue University

Purdue University

Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...

 and currently is acting as the research director of CERIAS

CERIAS

The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security of Purdue University, USA, is a center for research and education in areas of information security for computing and communication infrastructures....

, the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security, an institute attached to Purdue University. Professor Bertino's research interest include a variety of topics mainly in data privacy and security. She has authored or co-authored more than 500 research articles published in international refereed conferences and journals. She also authored, co-authored, or edited 19 books. Professor Bertino received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Pisa

University of Pisa

The University of Pisa , located in Pisa, Tuscany, is one of the oldest universities in Italy. It was formally founded on September 3, 1343 by an edict of Pope Clement VI, although there had been lectures on law in Pisa since the 11th century...

 on 1980 and she is currently a fellow of IEEE and Association for Computing Machinery

Association for Computing Machinery

The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...

(since 2003).