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Sanjay Goel is an Associate Professor in the Information Technology Management Department in the School of Business at the University at Albany, SUNY (UAlbany). He is also the Director of Research at the New York State Center for Information Forensics and Assurance at the University which is a collaborative effort between the NYS Office of Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure Coordination (CSCIC), NYS Police and UAlbany in improving information security. He also represents UAlbany as part of the Capital Region Cyber Crime Partnership which is a joint partnership with the NYS Police and the New York Prosecutors Training Institute that focuses on assisting law enforcement in dealing with computer-related crime. Dr. Goel received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research group at the University is engaged in several projects including: investigation of computer security threats such as botnets and malware propagation, risk analysis, information classification, business continuity, disaster recovery, security modeling, and self-organization in complex systems. His latest research on self-organizing systems includes traffic light coordination, nano-bio computing and social networks. He and his team have worked with CSCIC in developing the information classification policy for New York State. He won the promising Inventor’s Award in 2005 from the SUNY Research Foundation. In 2006, he was awarded the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, the UAlbany Excellence in Teaching Award, and the Graduate Student Organization Award for Faculty Mentoring. He has received grant funding from multiple sources including: National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Education, National Science Foundation, Region II University Transportation Research Center, and New York State Energy Research and Development Agency (NYSERDA). He was recently named one of the three AT&T Industrial Ecology Faculty Fellows for 2009-2010.