William C. Garrison

Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, Teaching Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
    Awards
  • Summer Undergraduate Research Award (Mentor) Joan Campana and William C. Garrison III, “The Manifestation of Beauty Archetypes in Selfies,” Awarded by Office of Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (Dietrich), April 2020
  • Innovation in Education Award “A Flexible and Scalable Approach to Multidisciplinary Introductory Computer Science,” Awarded by Office of the Provost (University of Pittsburgh), April 2019
  • Curiosity Grant (Mentor) Andrew Stengel and William C. Garrison III, “Driver Distraction Mitigation Techniques,” Awarded by Office of Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences), December 2018
  • Summer Undergraduate Research Award (Mentor) Andrew Stengel and William C. Garrison III, “Driver Distraction Mitigation Techniques,” Awarded by Office of Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (Dietrich), March 2018
  • SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-up “Techniques for ApplicationAware Suitability Analysis of Access Control Systems,” Awarded by ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit, and Control (SIGSAC), October 2016
  • Summer Undergraduate Research Award (Mentor) George Hoesch and William C. Garrison III, “Private But Not Broken: Practically Blocking Web Trackers without Extensive Configuration,” Awarded by Office of Undergraduate Research, Scholarship,
  • dB-SERC Mentor-Mentee Evidence-Based Teaching Award William C. Garrison III and Adam J. Lee, Awarded by the Discipline-Based Science Education Research Center (University of Pittsburgh), March 2015
  • Outstanding Paper Award William C. Garrison III, Yechen Qiao, Adam J. Lee, “On the Suitability of Dissemination-centric Access Control Systems for Group-centric Sharing,” in Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security
  • Research Competition Winner “Suitability and Dissemination-centric vs. Groupcentric Sharing,” in 14th Annual Computer Science Day, Awarded by the Department of Computer Science (University of Pittsburgh) and Compunetix, March 2014
Recent Publications

W. Garrison III and A. Lee, "Decomposing, Comparing, and Synthesizing Access Control Expressiveness Simulations," 28th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF 2015), pp. 18-32, Verona, Italy, July 2015.

W. Garrison III, A. Lee, and T. Hinrichs, "An Actor-Based, Application-Aware Access Control Evaluation Framework," 19th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT 2014), pp. 199-210, London, ON, Canada, June 2014.

W. Garrison III, Y. Qiao, and A. Lee, "On the Suitability of Dissemination-centric Access Control Systems for Group-centric Sharing," Fourth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY 2014), pp. 1-12, San Antonio, TX, March 2014.

T. Hinrichs, D. Martinoia, W. Garrison III, A. Lee, A. Panebianco, and L. Zuck, "Application-Sensitive Access Control Evaluation using Parameterized Expressiveness," 26th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF 2013), pp. 145-160, New Orleans, LA, June 2013.

W. Garrison III, A. Lee, and T. Hinrichs, "The Need for Application-Aware Access Control Evaluation," 2012 New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW 2012), pp. 115-126, Bertinoro, Italy, September 2012.