He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Wayne State University in 2004. His major areas of expertise are data privacy and anonymity, privacy in statistical databases, and data management. He has served on the program committee of various conferences such as International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), ACM Symposium of Applied Computing (SAC), and International Symposium on Data, Privacy, and E-Commerce (ISDPE). He received the Yahoo Research! Best Paper Award for Privacy, Security, and Trust in KDD 2008 (PinKDD) for the paper “A Clustering Approach for Data and Structural Anonymity in Social Networks” in 2008. For more information, including the list of research publications please see: http://www.nku.edu/~trutat1/research.html.