|  |  | Associate Professor 
          of Computer ScienceChair of the Department of Computer Science(As of July 1, 2023, I am on sabbatical for the 2023-2024 academic year.In my abscence, Dr. Sandra Joireman
	is acting chair of the department.)
Phone: (804) 287-6671 Fax: (804) 287-6444
 Email: dszajda at richmond dot edu
 Office: 219 Jepson Hall
 Areas of InterestDesign, development, and analysis, of experimental systems and protocols 
        for networking, security, and distributed computations; adversarial machine learning
 
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 ResearchSelected Recent Publications
	  L. Vargas, G. Hazarika, R. Culpepper, K. Butler, T. Shrimpton, D. Szajda, and P. Traynor,
	    Mitigating Risk while Complying with Data Retention Laws, Proceedings of the 25th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS), Toronto, CA, October, 2018.
	  B. Lawson, D. Szajda, and L. Barnett,  Introducing Computer Science within an
	      Integrated Science Course, Proceedings of the 2013 SIGCSE Symposium, March 2013.
L. Gentile, L. Caudill, M. Fetea, A. Hill, K. Hoke, B. Lawson, O. Lipan, M. Kerckhove, C. Parish, K. Stenger, and D. Szajda,
	    Challenging Disciplinary Boundaries in the First Year:
	      A New Introductory Integrated Science Course for STEM Majors, Journal of College Science Teaching. Vol. 41, No. 5, May 2012.
			D. Szajda, M. Pohl, , J. Owen, and B. Lawson, 
			  Toward a Practical Data Privacy Scheme for a Distributed Implementation of the Smith-Waterman Genome Sequence
			  Comparison Algorithm, Proceedings
			  of the 2006 ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2006), 
			  pages 253-265, San Diego, CA, February 2006.
D. Szajda, B. Lawson, and J. Owen,		    Toward An Optimal Redundancy Strategy for Distributed Computations, Proceedings
			  of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2005), 
			  Boston, MA, September 2005.
D. Szajda, J. Owen, B. Lawson, A. Charlesworth, and E. Kenney,
			  An Alternate Multiplicity-2 Task Assignment Scheme for Distributed Computations.
			In Scheduling and Resource Management for Parallel and Distributed
			Systems (SRMPDS 05) in conjunction with The 2005 International
			Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications
			(PDPTA 05), pages 59-65, Las Vegas, NV, June 2005.  
D. Szajda, B. Lawson, and J. Owen, Hardening
              functions for large-scale distributed computations, Proceedings
              of the 2003 IEEE Symposium
            on Security and Privacy, pages 216-224, Berkeley, CA, May 2003.
D. Szajda, Absolute
              Continuity of a class of unitary operators,
            Houston Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2001, pages 189-201.
         Professional Activities
2013 - 2016 ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS),(Steering Group)2012 ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2012, (Steering Group, Program Committee)2011 ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2011, (General Chair)2010 ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2010, (General Chair)2009 ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2009, (General Chair)2008 ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2008, (General Chair)2007 ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2007, San Diego, CA, 
			(Program Commitee, Steering Group, Publications Chair)
			2007 International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), June 25-29, 2007, Toronto, CA, (Program Committee - Security Track)2006 Usenix Security Symposium, August 2007, Vancouver, BC, (Works-in-Progress Chair)2006 ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2007, San Diego, CA, (Publications Chair)
			2005 ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2007, San Diego, CA, (Publications Chair)
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