Rutgers University, USA
Brief info
Jaideep Vaidya is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Information Systems and Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research 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 at the intersection of security, privacy, data mining, data management, and artificial intelligence. He has published over 200 technical papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, and has received best paper awards from the premier conferences in data mining, databases, digital government, security, and informatics. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACMI, AIMBE, IAHSI, IEEE, and IFIP as well as an ACM Distinguished Scientist. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, proposed the IEEE Transactions on Privacy, and was the 2024 Vice President of Publication for IEEE Computer Society. Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Internet Technology. He has received several awards including the 2025 IFIP TC11 Kristian Beckman Award, the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) Outstanding Research Award, and the IEEE Technical Community on Services Computing Research Innovation Award. Notably, the team he led won the first prize in the US-UK Privacy Enhancing Technologies Challenge in the Financial Crime Track in 2023.