Mikhail Atallah

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

Mikhail Atallah
Alma materJohns Hopkins University
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsPurdue University
Doctoral advisorS. Rao Kosaraju

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]

References
  1. Department faculty profile, Purdue University, retrieved 2011-09-29.
  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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