Mikhail Atallah

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Mikhail Atallah
Alma mater Johns Hopkins University
Scientific career
Fields Computer Science
Institutions Purdue University
Doctoral advisor S. Rao Kosaraju

Mikhail Jibrayil (Mike) Atallah is a Lebanese American computer scientist, a distinguished professor of computer science at Purdue University.

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Biography

Atallah received his bachelor's degree from the American University of Beirut in 1975. He then moved to Johns Hopkins University for his graduate studies, earning a master's degree in 1980 and a Ph.D. in 1982 under the supervision of S. Rao Kosaraju. Since that time he has been a member of the Purdue University faculty. [1] [2]

In 2001, Atallah co-founded Arxan Technologies, Inc., a provider of internet anti-piracy and anti-tampering software, and in 2007, he became its chief technology officer. [3]

Research

Atallah has published over 200 papers on topics in algorithms and computer security. [4]

Atallah's thesis work was on the subject of parallel algorithms, [2] and he continued working in that area as a faculty member. Algorithmic research by Atallah includes papers on parallel and dynamic computational geometry, [5] finding the symmetries of geometric figures, [6] divide and conquer algorithms, [7] and efficient parallel computations of the Levenshtein distance between pairs of strings. [8] With his student Marina Blanton, Atallah is the editor of the Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook (CRC Press, 2nd ed., 2009, ISBN   978-1-58488-818-5).

Atallah's more recent research has been in the area of computer security. His work in this area has included techniques for text-based digital watermarking. [9] [10] and the addition of multiple guard points within software as an anti-piracy measure. [11]

Awards and honors

In 2006, Atallah was elected as a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for his "contributions to parallel and distributed computation". [12] He has also been a fellow of the IEEE since 1997. [1] [13]

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References

  1. 1 2 Department faculty profile, Purdue University, retrieved 2011-09-29.
  2. 1 2 Mikhail Jibrayil Atallah at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ Arxan Appoints Dr. Mikhail J. Atallah as Chief Technology Officer Archived 2012-01-29 at the Wayback Machine , Arxan Technologies, retrieved 2011-09-29.
  4. ↑ DBLP listing of Atallah's publications, retrieved 2011-09-29.
  5. ↑ Atallah, Mikhail J. (1985), "Some dynamic computational geometry problems", Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 11 (12): 1171–1181, doi:10.1016/0898-1221(85)90105-1, MR   0822083 . Atallah, Mikhail J.; Goodrich, Michael T. (1986), "Efficient parallel solutions to some geometric problems", J. Parallel Distrib. Comput., 3 (4): 492–507, doi:10.1016/0743-7315(86)90011-0 .
  6. ↑ Atallah, Mikhail J. (1985), "On symmetry detection", IEEE Transactions on Computers, 34 (7): 663–666, doi:10.1109/TC.1985.1676605, MR   0800338, S2CID   1341755 .
  7. ↑ Atallah, Mikhail J.; Cole, Richard; Goodrich, Michael T. (1989), "Cascading divide-and-conquer: a technique for designing parallel algorithms", SIAM Journal on Computing, 18 (3): 499–532, doi:10.1137/0218035, MR   0996833, S2CID   1752195 .
  8. ↑ Apostolico, Alberto; Atallah, Mikhail J.; Larmore, Lawrence L.; McFaddin, Scott (1990), "Efficient parallel algorithms for string editing and related problems", SIAM Journal on Computing, 19 (5): 968–988, CiteSeerX   10.1.1.100.9057 , doi:10.1137/0219066, MR   1059665 .
  9. ↑ "Word order may stump hackers", Times Higher Education , May 4, 2001.
  10. ↑ "Purdue Team Develops Watermark To Protect Electronic Documents", ScienceDaily, April 27, 2001
  11. ↑ "Multiple "guards" foil hackers", USA Today Magazine, June 1, 2003.
  12. ↑ ACM Fellow award citation, retrieved 2011-09-29.
  13. ↑ Fellows in Region 4 Archived 2011-08-05 at the Wayback Machine , IEEE, retrieved 2011-09-29.
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