Subrata Acharya
Towson University, USA
Biography
Subrata Acharya received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh, 2008 & M.S. in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University,College Station, 2004. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed book chapters, peer-reviewed papers at international conferences and in journals in the area of computer and information security. Acharya has obtained significant extramural funding to support her scholarship efforts, including $450K as PI and $230K as co- PI. of particular note is Acharya’s US patent 7966655 B2, awarded in 2011 with Wang Ge and Greenberg for Method and apparatus for optimizing a firewall. Acharya has also developed new courses in the area of health care informatics. She has mentored various students who have appeared as co-authors on her papers, and has supervised numerous undergraduate research projects, masters’ graduate projects, and doctoral dissertation studies.