Bon K. Sy
SIPPA Solutions LLC
Queens College/City U. of New York
42-306A Bell Blvd
Department of Computer Science
Bayside, NY 11361
Flushing, NY 11367
(347)-696-0231
(718)-997-3566
E-mail: bsy@sippsolutions.com/bon@bunny.cs.qc.cuny.edu URL: http://www.sippasolutions.com/
Citizenship: United States
Marital Status: Married
Executive Position
Founder and Chief Research Officer, SIPPA Solutions LLC.
Academic Position
Tenured Full Professor of Computer Science, Queens College and the University Graduate Center of the City University
of New York.
Adjunct Biometrics Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, NYU-Poly. Sept 2010 –
Visiting Associate Professor of PAMI Group, Systems Design Engineering Department, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. On Sabbatical August 1997 – September 1998.
Education
Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
June, 1988
M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering
June, 1986
Advisor and Thesis committee: Dr. John R. Deller, Jr. (advisor), Dr. Soren Buus, Dr. Michael
Rosen, Dr. Richard Fould, Dr. C.G. Vinkatesh.
Biographical Sketch
Dr. B. K. Sy has secured over one million dollars of research and contract grants and has over 100 publications and
presentations on federally and privately funded research. He is also a security profession certified by CISSP and the
holder of four patents. One of his patents was sold to a private group for intellectual property acquisition. His SIPPA
team was a cohort of the NSF Innovation-Corps program in early 2013. Through the I-Corps program, his team has focused on applying patented technology to tackle secure and private digital health information exchange, synchronization
and consolidation. His team is a finalist of the NYC Innovate Health Tech 2013; and his SIPPA Health technology is
recommended for NSF SBIR funding commencing July 1 2014.
His research spans over multi-disciplinary areas such as privacy preserving secure computation for Health IT, biometric
security and privacy, data mining for pattern learning and discovery, VoIP over wireless network and application of optimization for WiFi AP placement, speaker verification and voice recognition, and application of information-statistical
data analysis for bioinformatics, census, and environmental study. His cross-discipline collaboration has contributed to
better understanding of the climate change and earthquake modeling based on multi-population theory and change point
detection, chromosome classification based on information theory, and dysarthric speech evaluation using computer
based voice recognizer.
Noteworthy Mentoring Track Record
Mentor of the high school student team winning the second place on the NY State Regional Science Fair for their project
on speaker verification evaluation project at 2013.
Mentor of the student participating in the SIPPA team selected for the I-Corps program of NSF at 2013.
Mentor of the student participating in the SIPPA team selected as a finalist for the NYC Innovate Health Tech at 2013
Mentor of the student winning the first place on NYU CSAW biometric voice hacking at 2012.
Mentor of the high school student winning a second place on NAACP competition ACT-SO for his RSA project at 2011.
Mentor of the student team winning the third place on the security contest hosted by Polytechnic University at 2007.
Mentor of the student team winning the first place of the Oracle nationwide first annual student contest at 2001.
Patents
 Probability Model Selection Using Information-Theoretic Optimization Criterion, Patent No. 6,961,685, Serial No.
09/956,593; Patentee: Bon K. Sy; Assignee: N/A; Earliest filing Date: Sept 19 2001; Date of Issue: Nov 1, 2005.
 Time-based Software License Approach, Serial No. 09/989,932; Patentee: N/A; Earliest filing date: Nov 21, 2001; Date of
Allowance: Jan 24, 2007.
 Method for Preserving Privacy of a Reputation Inquiry in a Peer-to-Peer Communication Environment, Serial No. 324969;
Patentee: N/A; Earliest filing date: Nov 28, 2007; Date of Allowance: July 30, 2013.
 SIPPA (Secure Information Processing with Privacy Assurance) and its Application to PPHM (Privacy Preserving Health
Data Management), Serial No. 61505562; Patentee: N/A; Earliest filing date: July 8, 2011; Date of Allowance: Mar 28, 2014.
Representative Services:
1. Organizer of CSAW Nation-wide Biometric Voice Hacking Contest, 2011-2012.
2. Review panelist for the Department of Defense SMART Fellowship, 2012.
3. Review panelist for the National Science Foundation, 1998, 2000, 2004 – 2009.
4. Session Chair: 1st European Conf on Intelligence and Security Informatics EuroISI 2008.
5. Workshop Chair: International Workshop on Application of Data Mining to Security Control, 2006.
6. Session Chair: International Conf. on Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition, 2005.
7. Technology expert witness: NYCC Technology Committee in Government Hearing on “Institutional Net, Telecommunication Infrastructure Funds, & the Possibilities for Expanding Broadband Access in NYC.”
8. Proposal Reviewer: PSC-CUNY Research Foundation.
9. Session Chair: International Conference on Wireless Networking 2003.
10. Session Chair: 2nd International Symposium of AI and Mathematics.
11. Reviewer: I.E.E.E. Transaction; Elsevier Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computation; ETRI Journal; Annals
of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence; International Journal of Approximate Reasoning; Journals of Simulation
and Statistical Computing; International Journal of Mathematical and Computing Modeling; Mathsoft Inc. (software
and e-book evaluation).
Publications
5 Relevant Publications (out of 1 book, 9 book articles, 15 journal papers, 57 conference papers/tech reports)

“Privacy Preserving Biometric Voice Authentication System – SIPPA based Approach,” Proc. of the International
Conference on Systems Engineering 2014, Las Vegas, Aug 2014.

“SIPPA-2.0 - Secure Information Processing with Privacy Assurance (version 2.0),” Proc. of the 9th Annual Conference on Privacy, Security, and Trust, Paris, France, July 2012.
 “Secure Information Processing with Privacy Assurance – Standard based Design and Development for Biometric
Applications,” Proc. of the 8th Annual Conference on Privacy, Security, and Trust, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, August
2010.
 “Slice-based Architecture for Biometrics: Prototype Illustration on Privacy Preserving Voice Verification,” Proc. of
the IEEE 3rd Inter Conf on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, D.C., Sept 2009.
 “Privacy Preserving Reputation Inquiry in a Peer-to-Peer Communication Environment,” Proc. of the IEEE Information Assurance Workshop, West Point NY, June 2007.
5 Additional Significant Publications
 “SIPPA Approach towards a Privacy Preserving Voice-based Identity Solution,” Proc. of the International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'14) Las Vegas, USA, July 21 – 24, 2014.
 “Generation of Cryptographic Keys from Personal Biometrics: An Illustration based on Fingerprints,” New
Trends and Developments in Biometrics, ISBN 980-953-307-576-6, InTech, 2012.
 “Secure Computation for Biometric Data Security-Application to Speaker Verification,” Special Issue on Biometrics,
IEEE Systems Journal, Dec 2009.
 “Integrating Intrusion Alert Information to Aid Forensic Explanation: An Analytical Intrusion Detection Framework
for Distributive IDS,” Special Issue on Computer Security, Journal of Information Fusion, Elsevier Science, 2009.
 Information-Statistical Data Mining and Oracle Basics for Warehouse Building, Kluwer Academic Publishing
(ISBN 1-4020-7650-9), 2003/2004.
List of Collaborators
 Dr. A.Gupta (Distinguished Professor), Statistics and Math Dept., Bowling Green State University.
 Dr. Nasir Memon, NYU-Polytechnic.