Csilla Farkas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Director of the Center for Information Assurance Engineering at the University of South Carolina . Dr. Farkas’ research interests include information security, data inference problem, financial and legal analysis of cyber crime, and security and privacy on the Semantic Web. She is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Career award. The topic of her award is “Semantic Web: Interoperation vs. Security – A New Paradigm of Confidentiality Threats.” Dr. Farkas actively participates in international scientific communities as program committee member and reviewer. Csilla Farkas received her PhD from George Mason University, Fairfax. In her dissertation she studied the inference and aggregation problems in multilevel secure relational databases. She received a MS in computer science from George Mason University and BS degrees in computer science and geology from SZAMALK, Hungary and Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary, respectively.