Anupam Joshi is the Oros Family Professor and serves as the Vice Provost and Chief AI Officer at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He also serves as the Director of UMBC’s Cybersecurity Institute. He was previously the Chair of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department and the Acting Dean of the College of Engineering and IT. He is a Fellow of IEEE. He has published over 300 technical papers with an h-index of 98 and over 35000 citations (per Google scholar), been granted nine patents, and has obtained research support over $22M from National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), US Dept of Defense (DoD), NIST, IBM, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Northrop Grumman, and Lockheed Martin amongst others.
Dr. Joshi obtained a B.Tech degree from IIT Delhi in 1989, and a Masters and Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1991 and 1993 respectively.
His research interests are at the intersection of AI and Systems. He did some of the earliest work in data management and security for mobile and ad-hoc networks using AI approaches, which was cited in his selection as a Fellow of IEEE. Over the last decade, he has been exploring this intersection to improve Cybersecurity -- using Agent based distributed AI approaches for attack detection and resilience in CPS/IoT systems, and policy driven approaches to security and privacy. This work that has led not just to papers but technology transfer to small Maryland companies. He has also applied AI approaches to various facets of medicine. He has worked with scholars from areas as diverse as medicine, psychology, linguistics, gerontology, and public policy to explore AI based approaches in those domains that has led to publications and extramural funding. This collaboration is recognized by his appointment as affiliate faculty in the School of IT at IIT Delhi, School of Medicine at UM Baltimore and in UMBC’s School of Aging. He has active international collaborations with colleagues in Japan, India and Europe. In his administrative roles, Dr. Joshi has worked to create innovative programs (Data Science, AI, Minor in Computing for non STEM majors) at UMBC, and overseen growth and increased diversity in the student body and faculty.
