Dr. Tarau has been the director of the Intelligent Distributes Software Systems Laboratory for the last 4 years. His research areas include agent infrastructures, P2P agent communication protocols, agent and mobile code security and knowledge based content scanning of natural language documents. As an instructor of graduate and undergraduate programming languages, compilers and operating system courses, Dr. Tarau has covered a variety of security aspects ranging from code encryption to secure distributed programming. Dr. Tarau is also the developer of the Jinni 2003 agent programming infrastructure which supports deployment of standalone knowledge processing Web services that interoperate through secure agent communication protocols.