A Secure and Privacy-aware Cloud-based Architecture for Online Social Networks

Authors

Kasun Senevirathna is currently a Master's student of the department of Applied Computer Science of the University of Winnipeg. He received his B.Sc. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from The University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. His research interests are information security, privacy issues in social networks, securing cloud computing, and data networks.

Dr. Pradeep K. Atrey is an Associate Professor at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore, M.S. in Software Systems and B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from India. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory, University of Ottawa, Canada. His current research interests are in the area of Multimedia Computing with a focus on Multimedia Surveillance and Privacy, Image/Video Security, and Social Media. He has authored/co-authored over 73 research articles at reputed ACM, IEEE, and Springer journals and conferences. Dr. Atrey is on the editorial board of several journals including ACM Trans. on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications and ETRI Journal. He has been associated with over 20 international conferences in various roles such as General Chair, Program Chair, Publicity Chair, Web Chair, and TPC Member. Dr. Atrey was a recipient of the ETRI Journal Best Editor Award (2012), ETRI Journal Best Reviewer Award (2009) and the two University of Winnipeg Merit Awards for Exceptional Performance (2010 and 2012). He was also recognized as “ICME 2011—Quality Reviewer”.