RICCARDO BETTATI

Professor

Email: bettati@cse.tamu.edu
Phone: 979/845-5469
Office: HRBB 509C
http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/bettati/

Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 1994
Dipl. Informatics Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, 1988

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Distributed real-time systems, scheduling algorithms, communication protocols, traffic analysis, and anonymity and privacy, computer-supported security education

AWARDS

Chevron Faculty Fellowship Award, 2008-2009

Best Paper Award, 2006 EuroMicro Conference on Real-Time Systems

Tenneco Meritorious Teaching Award, 2005

BP Amoco Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence, 2002

Best Student Paper, 1998 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference

EXPERIENCE

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, September 2007 - present

Director, Texas A&M University Center for Information Assurance and Security, January 2009 - present

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, September 2001 - 2007

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, July 1995 - August 2001

Visiting Post-Doctorate Research Engineer, Electronics Research Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, 1994-1995

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, 1993-1994

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE

Program Vice-Chair (parallel embedded systems) for 2004 International Conference on Parallel Processing, Toronto, Canada, 2004.

General Chair, 9th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, Toronto, Canada, May 27-30, 2003.

Program Chair, 8th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS'02), San Jose, CA, September 2002.

Program Committee Member, 32nd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2011), Porto, Portugal, Dec. 2011.

Program Committee Member, 26th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Taichung, Taiwan, March 2011.

Program Committee Member, The Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE), Fairborn, OH, June 2011.

Program Committee Member, ICT as Key Technology for the Fight against Global Warming (ICT-GLOW 11), Toulouse, France, Aug. 2011.

Program Committee Member, 25th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Sierre, Switzerland, March 2010.

Program Committee Member, IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium 2010 (RTAS 2010), Stockholm, Sweden, April 2010.

Program Committee Member, 8th Workshop on Java Technology for Real-time and Embedded Systems (JTRES 2010), Prague, Czech Republic, August 2010.

IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2010), San Diego, CA, Dec. 2010.

Program Committee Member, 3rd International Workshop On Real-Time Service-Oriented Architecture and Applications (RTSOAA 2010), Miami, Florida, July 2010.

Program Committee Member, 2009 IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2009), Washington, DC, Dec. 2009.

Program Committee Member, 3rd International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2009), Gold Coast, Australia, July 2009.

Program Committee Member, Second International Workshop of Real-Time Service-Oriented Architecture and Applications (RTSOAA 2009), Seattle, Washington, July 2009.

Program Committee Member, Second International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (WCPS2009), Montreal, Canada, June 2009.

Program Committee Member, Communication and Information Systems Security

(CISS) Symposium June 14.-18. 2009, Dresden, Germany Program Committee Member, 2009 International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing - Computer and Network Security Symposium) Program Committee Member, 11th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2009), Lyon, France, 2009.

Program Committee Member, 24th Symposium of Applied Computing 2009 (RTS-SAC2009), Honolulu, March 2009.

Program Committee Member, IFIP International Workshop on Network and System Security (NSS 2008), Shanghai, China, Sept. 2009.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Cifuentes, L., Mercer, R., Alvarez, O., and Bettati, R., "An Architecture for Case-based Learning," TechTrends, Springer Verlag, Vol. 55, No. 6, pp. 44-50, Nov.-Dec. 2010.

W. Yu, Nan Zhang, Xinwen Fu, R. Bettati, and W. Zhao, "Localization Attacks to Internet Threat Monitors: Modeling and Countermeasures," IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 59, No. 12, pp. 1655 - 1668, December 2010.

S. Wang, Y. Ahn, and R. Bettati, "Schedulability Analysis in Hard Real-Time Systems Under Thermal Constraints," Real-Time Systems, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 160 -- 188, 2010.

S. Wang, D. Xuan, R. Bettati, and W. Zhao, "Toward Statistical QoS Guarantees in a Differentiated Services Network," Telecommunication Systems, Springer, Vol. 43, No. 3-4, pp. 253 - 263, April 2010.

Y. Zhu, X. Fu, B. Graham, R. Bettati, and Wei Zhao, "Correlation-Based Traffic Analysis Attacks on Anonymity Networks," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 21, No. 7, pp 954 -- 967, July 2010.

Ye Zhu and R. Bettati, "Compromise Anonymous Communication Systems Using Blind Source Separation," ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), Vol. 13, No. 1, Article 8, pp. 8:1, Publication Date: October 2009. - 8.31.

R. Bettati, "Modern Traffic Analysis and Its Capabilities," The NEXUS, Directorate of the Combined Arms Center (CAC) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, March 2009 Edition. (Invited paper to electronic journal)

Ye Zhu and R. Bettati, "Information Leakage as a Model for Quality of Anonymity Networks," IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Systems, Vol. 20(4), pp. 540-552, April 2009.

S. Cho and R. Bettati, "Use of Competition Detection in TCP in Simple Topology Networks," Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, Elsevier North-Holland, Inc., Vol. 53(11), pp. 1903-1925, July 2009.