Elisa Bertino is a Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University, where she leads multi-disciplinary research in IoT security, data security and privacy, 4G and 5G cellular networks and mobile systems security, analytics for security, and digital identity management. She has made pioneering contributions for over 30 years to data management and data security theory and systems, and has worked to broaden participation in computing via professional leadership and mentoring. Her work in data security and privacy includes context-based access control, privacy-preserving analytics, and data protection from insider threats. She led the development of Purdue Computational Research Infrastructure for Science (CRIS), released as open-source software in 2016.
She served as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing and as coordinating Co-Editor-in-Chief of Very Large Database Systems Journal (VLDB). She chaired ACM’s Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC) from 2009–2013. In 2011, she co-founded ACM’s Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), now considered the main forum for high-quality research on data privacy and security.
Bertino is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and AAAS. She received the 2019–2020 ACM Athena Lecturer Award and was named to GSMA’s Mobile Security Research Hall of Fame for her work on 4G and 5G cellular network security. She received the 2014 ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award for her seminal research and outstanding leadership in data security and privacy over 25 years, the 2002 IEEE CS Technical Achievement Award for her contributions to database systems and security and advanced data management systems, and the 2005 IEEE CS Tsutomu Kanai Award for pioneering and innovative research contributions to secure distributed systems.