Balaji Palanisamy received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2013. He is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Information at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include Blockchains, Data Privacy, Data Security, Privacy-preserving System Design and Scalable and Efficient resource management for Cloud and Edge Computing systems. His publications have appeared in several top journals including IEEE TDSC, TMC, TSC, TNSM, IoTJ, ACM TWEB, TOIT and in highly reputed conferences such as ACM CCS, CODASPY, CIKM, IEEE SRDS, ICDCS, HiPC. His research has received numerous Best Paper awards including the Distinguished Paper award at CCS 2023, the Best Demo award at ICDCS 2024, and Best Paper awards at DBSec 2022, IEEE BigDataCongress 2018, IEEE BigDataCongress 2017, IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2015 and IEEE CLOUD 2012. He was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE TSC, from 2016-2024. He is currently on the Editorial Boards of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE TDSC, the ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, ACM TOPS and the IEEE Transactions on Big Data, IEEE TBD. He is a senior member of the IEEE.