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James earned his Ph.D. degree in computer engineering and the M.S. degree in computer science from Purdue University, USA.and the B.E. degree in computer science and engineering (CSE) from Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College in India. From 1993 to 1996, he worked as a lecturer of CSE at Kathmandu University (KU). At KU, he designed and implemented the first formal CSE undergraduate degree program in Nepal. At Purdue, his doctorate study was funded by the Center of Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), a premier center in the US for research in information security.

Since August, 2003, James has been working as an assistant professor of School of Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a cofounder and coordinator of the Laboratory of Education and Research on Security Assured Information Systems (LERSAIS) at Pitt. In January, 2006, he was awarded a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (NSF-CAREER) award for his research titled “A Trust-Based Access Control Management Framework for Secure Information Sharing and Multimedia Workflows in Heterogeneous Environments,” “The (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the NSF's most prestigious awards in support of the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organization.”

Earlier, he had led the efforts resulting in the designation of the University of Pittsburgh as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (NCAE/IAE) by the US’s National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). He had also led the LERSAIS efforts to develop an Information Assurance and Security program, which he currently directs, that has been certified as meeting all the five of the NSA established national IA education standards. Only 12 institutes in the US currently have all the five certifications.

He has published five book chapters, 11 journal papers (in the IEEE Computer and Internet Computing magazines; IEEE Transactions on: Multimedia, Knowledge and Data Engineering, and Dependable and Secure Computing; the Communications of the ACM and the ACM Transactions on Information and System Security), and several conference/workshop papers and technical reports. He serves on the editorial review boards for the International Journal for Network Security, and the International Journal for E-Business Research. He is a Program co-chair of the IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, 2006, and the Workshop on Information Assurance, 2006; and a Workshop co-Chair for The 2nd International Conference on Collaborative Computing, 2006 (CollaborateCom - 2006). He has served as a technical program committee member of more than 15 conferences/workshops. Invited talks he has delivered include venues like CERIAS at Purdue, Carnegie Mellon University, and CyCare at Virginia Tech.

James was a student of Siddhartha Vanasthali School, Balaju. He was placed in the 7th position in Nepal in the SLC examination. He was selected by the school as a member of the team representing Nepal in the international event “The Children’s Assembly – Banner of Peace” held in Bulgaria in 1985. Later in 1995, he was selected by the Japanese government as a part of the team representing Nepal in an International Youth Exchange program in Japan. He is a recipient of the Colombo Plan Scholarship for his B.E. degree. Before coming for his graduate studies, in 1996, he also produced a solo music album, titled “Bhulidiun Ma Afulai”, with 12 songs (in English, Nepali and Newari) – all written, composed and sung by himself.

Current Research Grants

* James B. D. Joshi (PI), “A Trust-based Access Control Management Framework for Secure Information Sharing and Multimedia Workflows in Heterogeneous Environments”, NSF-CAREER (IIS), 2006-2010.
* James B. D. Joshi (PI), P. Krishnamurthy, D. W. Tipper, M. B. Spring, CIAG Cisco Equipment Grant Winners of Spring 2005.
* James B. D. Joshi , P. Krishnamurthy, D. W. Tipper, M. B. Spring, "Laboratory of Education and Research on Security Assured Information Systems (LERSAIS)," (Internal grant), 2005.
* James B. D. Joshi , P. Krishnamurthy, D. W. Tipper, M. B. Spring, "Partnership with the Information Resource Management College (IRMC) of the National Defense University (NDU). (DoD IASP Annex 1)," DoD IA Scholarship Program Grant.
* James B. D. Joshi , "An Adaptive Framework For Security-Assured Survivable Information Systems," CRDF, University of Pittsburgh, 2004-2006.
* M. B. Spring, P. Krishnamurthy (PI), D. Tipper, James B. D. Joshi , "A Curriculum in Security Assured Information Systems," NSF - Federal Cyber Service - Scholarship for Service" (2004-2006).

Sample Publication

* James B. D. Joshi, Elisa Bertino, Arif Ghafoor, "Analysis of Expressiveness and Design Issues for a Temporal Role Based Access Control Model," Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, April-June 2005
* James B. D. Joshi, Elisa Bertino, Usman Latif, Arif Ghafoor, "Generalized Temporal Role Based Access Control Model," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol 7, No. 1, Jan, 2005.
* James B. D. Joshi, Rafae Bhatti, Elisa Bertino, Arif Ghafoor, “An Access Control Language for Multidomain Environments”, IEEE Internet Computing, Nov-Dec, 2004.
* James B. D. Joshi, Kevin Li, Husni Fahmi, Basit Shafiq, Arif Ghafoor, "A Model for Secure Multimedia Document Database System in a Distributed Environment", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia: Special Issue of on Multimedia Datbases, Vol. 4, No. 2, June , 2002.pages 215-234.
* James B. D. Joshi, Walid G. Aref, Arif Ghafoor and Eugene H. Spafford, "Security models for web-based applications," Communications of the ACM , 44, 2 (Feb. 2001), Page 38-44.

Awards/Honors

* Honored for faculty accomplishments in 2004 Honors Convocation of the University of Pittsburgh.
* Listed in “Who’s Who in America” and “Who’s Who in Science and Engineering.”
* Student Author Travel Award, International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, August 2000, New York
* Colombo Plan Scholarship for pursuing BE Computer Science & Engineering degree at MNREC
* Gold medal (given by School) for standing 7th in Nepal in SLC Examination