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Contact University of Illinois Assistant (Jenny Applequist): +1 (217) 244-8920 | Professional Background
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Research InterestsHead of the Performability Engineering Research Group (PERFORM).
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Short BiographyWilliam 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.
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