Statement of Research, Teaching and Service Contributions

As computing systems become an increasingly integral part of our lives, the need for fault-tolerance and security in these systems is constantly growing. These computing systems include telecommunication, power systems, collaborative group-oriented systems, sensor networks and electronic commerce. Also, the faulttolerance requirement of a system tends to evolve with new technology. Hence, one needs to add reliability requirements to them while preserving existing ones. Moreover, these systems need to be adaptive so that the approach used for fault-tolerance and security can be modified based on environmental conditions. With this motivation, our work has focused on design of fault-tolerant and secure systems. In this document, we identify our research, teaching and service activities in the context of fault-tolerant and secure systems.