Dr. Anupam Joshi is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at UMBC. Earlier, he was an Assistant Professor in the CECS department at the University of Missouri , Columbia . He obtained a B. Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi in 1989, and a Masters and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1991 and 1993 respectively. His research interests are in the broad area of networked computing and intelligent systems. His primary focus has been on data management and security for mobile, pervasive, and sensor systems. He has created agent based middleware to support discovery, composition, and secure access of services/data over both infrastructure based and ad-hoc wireless networks, as well as systems that integrate sensors with the grid.

He is also interested in Semantic Web and Data/Web Mining, where he has worked on creating personalized and secure web spaces using a combination of agents, policies, and soft computing. He has published over 125 technical papers, and has obtained research support from NSF, NASA, DARPA, DoD, IBM, AetherSystens, HP, AT&T and Intel. He has presented tutorials in conferences, served as guest editor for special issues for IEEE Personal Comm., Comm. ACM etc., and served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions of Fuzzy Systems from 99-03. At UMBC, Joshi teaches courses in Operating Systems, Mobile Computing, Networking, Security, and Web Mining. He is a member of IEEE, IEEE-CS, and ACM .