Contact

University of Illinois
451 Coordinated Science Laboratory, MC-228
1308 West Main Street
Urbana, IL 61801-2307
USA
Tel: +1 (217) 333-0345
Fax: +1 (217) 244-3359
E-mail: whs AT illinois.edu

Assistant (Jenny Applequist): +1 (217) 244-8920

Professional Background

• Acting Director, Coordinated Science Laboratory, UIUC, 2008-Present.
• Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC, 2005-Present.
• Director, Information Trust Institute, UIUC, 2004-Present.
• Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC, 1998-Present.
• Research Professor, Coordinated Science Laboratory, UIUC, 1998-Present.
• Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC, 1994-1998.
• Research Associate Professor, Coordinated Science Laboratory, UIUC, 1994-1998.
• Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Comp. Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1994.
• Assistant Professor, Dept. of Elect. and Comp. Engineering, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1988-1994.
• Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, 1988.
• M.S.E., Computer, Information and Control Engineering, University of Michigan, 1985.
• B.S.E., Computer Engineering, University of Michigan, 1983.

Research Interests

Head of the Performability Engineering Research Group (PERFORM).

• Dependability/security evaluation
• Fault-tolerant computing
• Reliable and secure distributed systems
• Computer networks and protocols

 

Editorships

• On the editorial board of Performance Evaluation

 

Recent Conference Organizational Activities

• Local Organizing Committee member, 6th Symposium on Understanding Complex Systems (UCS 2006)
• International Liaison Chair, 2005 European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC-5)
• Steering Committee Chair, QEST (International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems, 2004-present.
Publicity Co-Chair, SRDS 2004 (23rd Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems)
• General Chair of the 2003 Illinois International Multiconference on Measurement, Modelling, and Evaluation of Computer-Communication Systems
• Program Co-Chair of PNPM 2003 (the 10th International Workshop on Petri Nets and Performance Models)
• Program Co-Chair of Performance TOOLS 2003 (13th International Conference on Modelling Techniques and Tools for Computer Performance Evaluation)
• Program Co-Chair of the ACM SIGMETRICS 2003: the International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems

Short Biography

William H. Sanders is a Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering, the Director of the Information Trust Institute, and Acting Director of the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois. He is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Affiliate Professor in the Department of Computer Science. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the ACM. He is a past Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Fault-Tolerant Computing and past Vice-Chair of the IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing. In addition, he serves on the editorial board of Performance Evaluation.

Dr. Sanders's research interests include performance/dependability evaluation, dependable computing, and reliable distributed systems. He has published more than 200 technical papers in these areas. He is currently the Director and PI of two centers at Illinois, the NSF/DOE/DHS Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid (TCIP) Center, and the Boeing Trusted Software Center. He is a co-developer of three tools for assessing computer-based systems: METASAN, UltraSAN, and Möbius. Möbius and UltraSAN have been distributed widely to industry and academia; more than 500 licenses for the tools have been issued to universities, companies, and NASA for evaluating the performance, dependability, and security of a variety of systems.