The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

The Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

325 PhD Graduates since 1994


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1993

Chapin, Stephen (COAST)

Advisor: Spafford
PhD Thesis:
Scheduling Support Mechanisms for Autonomous, Heterogeneous, Distributed Systems


1994

Shen, HongHai (COAST)

Advisor: Dewan
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Access Control for Collaborative Environments


1995

Kumar, Sandeep (COAST)

Advisor: Spafford
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Classification and Detection of Computer Intrusions


1997

Schuba, Christoph (COAST)

Advisor: Spafford
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper On the Modeling, Design, and Implementation of Firewall Technology


1998

Krsul, Ivan (COAST)

Advisor: Spafford
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper PhD Thesis: Computer Vulnerability Analysis


2000



2001

Du, Kevin (Wenliang)

Advisor: Atallah
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper A study of several specific secure two-party computation problems



Zamboni, Diego

Advisor: Spafford
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Using internal sensors for computer intrusion detection


2002


Koyuturk, Mehmet

Advisor: Grama
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Comparative analysis of biological networks


Zhang, Chaogui

Advisor: Wagstaff
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper An Extension of the Dickman Function and its Application



2003


Chang, Hoi

Advisor: Atallah
PhD Thesis:
Dissertation: "Building Self-Protecting Software with Active and Passive Defenses" Confidential


Gupta, Mukul

Advisor: Chaturvedi/Mehta
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Essays in information security



Hempelmann, Christian

Advisor: Raskin
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Paronomasic puns: Target recoverability towards automatic generation



Ma, Lingfeng

Advisor: Meunier
PhD Thesis:
Search tools for Internet2



Park, Jung-Min (Jerry)

Advisor: Chong Siegel
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Efficient primitives for ensuring security in e-commerce transactions


Shin, Dong

Advisor: Chong Siegel
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Multicriteria routing for guaranteed performance communications




2004

Dove Smoak, Natalie

Advisor: Rogers
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Emotion reassociation as a prejudice reduction mechanism


Gower, Jason

Advisor: Wagstaff
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Square form factorization


Hammad, Moustafa

Advisor: Elmagarmid
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Query processing in stream database systems


Hefeeda, Mohamed

Advisor: Bhargava
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper A framework for cost-effective peer-to-peer content distribution




Lu, Yi

Advisor: Bhargava
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Adaptive and heterogeneous mobile wireless networks


Ma, Di

Advisor: Palsberg
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Bounding the Stack Size of Interrupt-driven Programs


Palacz, Krzysztof

Advisor: Hosking/Vitek
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Crusoe: Towards a multicomputer execution environment for Java


Sion, Radu

Advisor: Atallah
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Rights assessment for discrete digital data


Vaidya, Jaideep

Advisor: Atallah/Clifton
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Privacy preserving data mining over vertically partitioned data




2005

Buchholz, Florian

Advisor: Spaf
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Pervasive binding of labels to system processes


Carbunar, Bogdan

Advisor: Nita Rotaru
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Coverage problems in wireless sensor and RFID systems


Early, Jim

Advisor: Brodley/Spafford
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Behavioral feature extraction for network anomaly detection


Elfeky, Mohamed

Advisor: Elmagarid/Houstis/Verikos
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Online periodicity mining


Fern, Alan

Advisor: Givan
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Learning models and formulas of a temporal event logic


Frikken, Keith

Advisor: Atallah
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Secure and private online collaboration


Gwadera, Robert

Advisor: Szpankowski/Atallah
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Reliable identification of significant sets of episodes in event sequences


Ioannidis, Ioannis

Advisor: Grama
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Algorithms and data structures for IP lookups



Kulkarni, Sunil

Advisor: Mazumdar Coyle Rosenberg
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Scheduling and MAC protocols for wireless networks


Lin, Eugene

Advisor: Delp
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Video and image watermark synchronization






Wang, Weichao

Advisor: Bhargava
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Securing wireless network topology and routing




2006

Bhatti, Rafae

Advisor: Ghafoor/Bertino/Li
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper A policy engineering framework for federated access management


Cabuk, Serdar

Advisor: Spafford/Brodley
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Network covert channels: Design, analysis, detection, and elimination


Carrier, Brian

Advisor: Spafford
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper A hypothesis-based approach to digital forensic investigations


Fei, Long

Advisor: Brodley/Shields
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Practical runtime identification of program errors


Gopalakrishna, Rajeev

Advisor: Spafford
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Improving software assurance using lightweight static analysis


Grothoff, Christian

Advisor: Vitek/Atallah
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Expressive type systems for object-oriented languages



Koglin, Yunhua

Advisor: Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Security mechanisms for content distribution networks



Li, Jiangtao

Advisor: Atallah/Li
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Privacy enhanced automated trust negotiation




Triezenberg, Katrina

Advisor: Raskin
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper The ontology of emotion


Webster, Nate

Advisor: Weiner
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Reconfigurable direct space-to-time pulse shaping


2007

Blanton , Marina

Advisor: Atallah
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Key management in hierarchical access control systems



Jankovic (Pusara) , Maja

Advisor: Spafford/Brodley
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper An examination of user behavior for user re-authentication




Shehab, Mohamed

Advisor: Ghafoor/Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Secure collaboration in mediator-free environments



Spantzel [Bhargav], Abhilasha

Advisor: Bertino/Spafford
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Protocols and systems for privacy preserving protection of digital identity


Speirs, William

Advisor: Wagstaff
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Dynamic cryptographic hash functions



Topkara [Karahan], Mercan

Advisor: Atallah/Nita-Rotaru
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper New designs for improving the efficiency and resilience of natural language watermarking


2008







Modi, Shimon

Advisor: Elliott/Latif
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Analysis of Fingerprint Sensor Interoperability on System Performance


Nergiz, Mehmet Ercan

Advisor: Clifton/Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Anonymization-based privacy protection


Samuel, Arjmand Micheal

Advisor: Ghafoor
PhD Thesis:
Specification, Composition, and Applications of Spatio-Temporal Role Based Access Control Model


2009



Dong, Jing

Advisor: Nita-Rotaru
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Secure and robust communication in wireless mesh networks



Eyre, William

Advisor: Rogers/Raskin-MS/Raskin/Boyd-PhD
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Privacy, surveillance and the Real ID Act


Khanna, Nitin

Advisor: Delp
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Forensic characterization of image capture devices





Shang, Ning

Advisor: Wagstaff
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Low genus algebraic curves in cryptography


Singh, Sarvjeet

Advisor: Prabhakar, Nita Rotaru
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Database support for uncertain data


Wang, Qihua

Advisor: Li
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Access control policy management




Zhang, Yu

Advisor: Bhargava
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Analysis of port scanning attacks


2010


Idika, Nwokedi

Advisor: Mathur, Aditya
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Characterizing and aggregating attack graph-based security metric


Kamra, Ashish

Advisor: Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Mechanisms for database intrusion detection and response


Khreishah, Abdallah Ali

Advisor: Ness Shroff
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Analysis and design of intersession network coding in communication networks


Kundu, Ashish

Advisor: Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Data in the cloud: Authentication without leaking



Li, Tiancheng

Advisor: Li
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Privacy preservation in data publishing and sharing



Molloy, Ian

Advisor: Li, N.
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Automatic migration to role based access control


Murugesan, Mummorthy

Advisor: Clifton
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Privacy through deniable search


Ni, Qun

Advisor: Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Privacy-aware role based access control


Panta, Rajesh

Advisor: Bagchi
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Remote reprogramming of wireless sensor networks


Rao, Prathima

Advisor: Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Exam: An environment for XACML policy analysis and management


Sellke, Sarah

Advisor: Bagchi
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Analytical characterization of internet security attacks



2011




Kirkpatrick, Michael

Advisor: Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Trusted enforcement of contextual access control


Lee, Wonjun

Advisor: Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Accountability for grid computing systems


Lin, Zhiqiang

Advisor: Xu
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Reverse engineering of data structures from binary


Nahm, Sangil

Advisor: Wagstaff
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Several problems in number theory


Qi, Yinian

Advisor: Prabhakar
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Efficient query processing for uncertain data


Rhee, Junghwan

Advisor: Xu
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Data-centric approaches to kernel malware defense



Thomas, Jacques

Advisor: Vitek
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Accommodative mandatory access control



2012

Eldardiry, Hoda

Advisor: Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Ensemble Classification Techniques for Relational Domains




Kallapalayam Radha, Jayaram

Advisor: Mathur, Aditya
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Engineering Efficient Event-Based Distribution Systems



Mohamed, Nadeel Yoosuf

Advisor: Bertino, Eugster
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Privacy Preserving Access Control on Third-Party Data Management Systems





Sun, Xin

Advisor: Rao, Sanjay
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper A systematic approach for migrating enterprise networks


2013

Angin, Pelin

Advisor: Bhargava
PhD Thesis:
Autonomous Agents-Based Mobile-Cloud Computing








Sundaram, Vinaitheerthan

Advisor: Eugster
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Lightweight tracing for wireless sensor networks diagnostics


2014


Choi, Sunoh

Advisor: Bertino



Fry, Donald

Advisor: DeLaurentis


Gates, Chris

Advisor: Ninghui Li
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Leveraging machine learning for security related decision making


Gupta, Aditi

Advisor: Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Secure platforms for enforcing contextual access control


Jain, Rohit

Advisor: Prabhakar
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Trustworthy data from untrusted databases



Lee, Jaewoo

Advisor: Clifton
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Achieving practical differential privacy


Moreno, Sebastian

Advisor: Jennifer Neville
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Network hypothesis testing for relational data


Potharaju, Rahul

Advisor: Nita-Rotaru
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Data-driven approaches to improve dependability of cloud services



Sultana, Salmin

Advisor: Ghafoor
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Digital Provenance - Models, Systems, and Applications


Wallrabenstein, John

Advisor: Clifton
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Rational multiparty computation


Wang, Shumiao

Advisor: Atallah
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Secure and private outsourcing to untrusted cloud servers


2015

Alam, S. M. Iftekharul

Advisor: Fahmy
PhD Thesis:
Enhancing Trustworthiness and Reliability of Wireless Sensor Networks while Reducing Energy Consumption


Almeshekah, Mohammed

Advisor: Spafford
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Using Deception to Enhance Security: A Taxonomy, Model, and Novel Uses


Almutairi, Abdulrahman

Advisor: Ghafoor
PhD Thesis:
Risk-aware virtual resource management for access controlled cloud data centers


Chen, Jing

Advisor: Proctor


Deng, Zhui

Advisor: Xu
PhD Thesis:
Binary Instrumentation and Transformation for Software Security Applications


Gu, Zhongshu

Advisor: Xu
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Securing Virtualized System via Active Protection


Guariniello, Cesare

Advisor: DeLaurentis


Hoque, Md endadul

Advisor: Nita-Rotaru
PhD Thesis:
Ensuring specification compliance, robustness, and security of wireless network protocols


Khechen, Robert

Advisor: Dyrenfurth
PhD Thesis:
An Approach to Near Field Data Selection in Radio Frequency Identification


Maji, Amiya Kumar

Advisor: Bagchi
PhD Thesis:
Dependability where the Mobile World Meets the Enterprise World


Neema, Kartavya

Advisor: DeLaurentis


Pan, Abhisek

Advisor: Pai


Peng, Wei

Advisor: Feng Li (fengli@iupui.edu)


Ranchal, Rohit

Advisor: Bhargava
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Cross-Domain Data Dissemination And Policy Enforcement




Task, Christine

Advisor: Clifton
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Privacy-preserving Social Network Analysis


2016

Azarmi, Mehdi

Advisor: Bhargava
PhD Thesis:
End-to-end security in service-oriented architecture




Falk, Courtney

Advisor: Spafford/Raskin-MS/ Taylor/Raskin-PhD
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Knowledge Modeling of Phishing Emails






Stephen, Julian

Advisor: Eugster
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Securing Cloud-Based Data Analytics" A Practical Approach





Yang, Weining

Advisor: Li, Ninghui
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Improving the Eco-System of Passwords


2017


Avery, Jeffrey

Advisor: Bagchi/Spafford
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper The Application of Deception to Software Security Patching




Gutierrez, Christopher

Advisor: Bagchi, Spafford
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Deceptive Memory Systems



Kim, Chung Hwan

Advisor: Xu
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Protecting Production Systems from Performance Anomalies


Mancuhan, Koray

Advisor: Clifton
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Data Classification for l-diversity


Oluwatimi, Oyindamola

Advisor: Elisa Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Applications of Secure Context-Aware Systems in Enterprise Environments



2018

Albabtain, Yazeed

Advisor: Yang
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Digital Forensics and Security Vulnerabilities in GPU



Burow, Nathan

Advisor: Payer
PhD Thesis:
Taking Back Control: Closing the Gap Between C/C++ and Machine Semantics




Jero, Samuel

Advisor: Nita-Rotaru
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Analysis and Automated Discovery of Attacks in Transport Protocols


Jiang, Shuxian

PhD Thesis:
Quantum Annealing for Solving Optimization Problems


Kwon, Yonghwi

Advisor: Xiangyu Zhang
PhD Thesis:
Combatting Advanced Persistent Threat Via Causality Inference and Program Analysis


Lerums, James

Advisor: Dietz
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Measuring the State of Indiana's Cybersecurity



Park, Gilchan

Advisor: Taylor
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Towards Ontology-Based Phishing Detection


Rafiul Hussain, Syed

Advisor: Bertino


Ruan, Yefeng

Advisor: Durresi
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper A Trust Management Framework for Decision Support Systems


2019


Bhargava, Radhika

Advisor: Chris Clifton
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Assumption-Driven Design


Chaitanya Chaduvula, Siva

Advisor: Atallah, Panchal


Chau, Sze Yiu

Advisor: Ninghui Li and Aniket Kate


Clements, Abraham

Advisor: Bagchi
PhD Thesis:
Protecting Bare-metal Systems from Remote Exploitation


Ma, Shiqing

Advisor: Xu, co-advisor Zhang
PhD Thesis:
Effective and Efficient Computation System Provenance Tracking


Minaei, Mohsen

Advisor: Aniket Kate
PhD Thesis:
Privacy Preserving Systems With Crowd Blending


Nyre-Yu, Megan

Advisor: Barrett S. Caldwell
PhD Thesis:
Determining System Requirements for Human-Machine Integration in Cyber Security Incident Response


Rao, Fang-Yu

Advisor: Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Privacy-Enhancing Techniques for Data Analytics


Ray, Abhishek

Advisor: Karthik Kannan
PhD Thesis:
Scalability and Business Outcomes: Essays on Managing Trade-Offs when Fringe Technologies go Mainstream


Shawly, Tawfeeq

Advisor: Arif Ghafoor
PhD Thesis:
Design and Evaluation of Hidden Markov Model Based Architectures for Detection of Interleaved Multi-Stage Network Attacks


Tsai, Shin-Yeh

Advisor: Yiying Zhang
PhD Thesis:
Building Fast, Scalable, Low-Cost, and Safe Rdma Systems in Datacenters


Ulybyshev, Denis

Advisor: Bhargava
PhD Thesis:
Data Protection in Transit and at Rest with Leakage Detection


2020

Almakhdhub, Naif

Advisor: Mathias Payer, Saurabh Bagchi
PhD Thesis:
Internet of Things Systems Security: Benchmarking and Protection


Biswas, Priyam

Advisor: Mathias Payer
PhD Thesis:
Usage of Dynamic Analysis to Strengthen Control-Flow Analysis


Chou, Chih-Yuan

Advisor: Linda Naimi
PhD Thesis:
An Exploratory Study on The Trust of Information in Social Media


Daghistani, Anas

Advisor: Arif Ghafoor
PhD Thesis:
Attack-Resilient Adaptive Load-Balancing in Distributed Spatial Data Streaming Systems


Deng, Haotian

Advisor: Chunyi Peng
PhD Thesis:
Enhancing Mobility Support in Cellular Networks With Device-Side Intelligence


Goindani, Mahak

Advisor: Goldwasser
PhD Thesis:
Social Reinforcement Learning


Jajoo, Akshay

Advisor: Y. Charlie Hu
PhD Thesis:
Exploiting the Spatial Dimension of Big Data Jobs for Efficient Cluster Job Scheduling


Jeon, Yuseok

Advisor: Mathias Payer
PhD Thesis:
Practical Type and Memory Safety Violation Detection Mechanisms


Katz, Eric

Advisor: Marcus K. Rogers
PhD Thesis:
Differentiating Users Based on Changes in the Underlyingblock Space of Their Smartphones


Lee, I-Ta

Advisor: Dan Goldwasser
PhD Thesis:
Commonsense Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Statistical Script Learning


Mani, Ganapathy

Advisor: Bharat Bhargava
PhD Thesis:
Deep Learning Based Models for Cognitive Autonomy and Cybersecurity Intelligence in Autonomous Systems


Mehnaz, Shagufta

Advisor: Elisa Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Fine-Grained Anomaly Detection For In Depth Data Protection


Mitra, Aritra

Advisor: Shreyas Sundaram
PhD Thesis:
New Approaches to Distributed State Estimation, Inference and Learning with Extensions to Byzantine-Resilience


Palacios Interiano, Servio Ernesto

Advisor: Bharat Bhargava
PhD Thesis:
Auditable Computations on (Un)Encrypted Graph-Structured Data


Park, Hogun

Advisor: Jennifer Neville
PhD Thesis:
Neural Representation Learning for Semi-Supervised Node Classification and Explainability


Prasad, Amritha

Advisor: Shreyas Sundaram
PhD Thesis:
Heterogeneity- and Risk-Aware Algorithms for Task Allocation To Mobile Agents


Savvides, Savvas

Advisor: Patrick Eugster
PhD Thesis:
Practical Confidentiality-Preserving Data Analytics in Untrusted Clouds


Sutar, Soubhagya

Advisor: Vijay Raghunathan
PhD Thesis:
Memory-based Hardware-intrinsic Security Mechanisms for Device Authentication in Embedded Systems


Villarreal-Vasquez, Miguel

Advisor: Dark/Raskin MS non thesis; Bertino PhD
PhD Thesis:
Anomaly Detection and Security Deep Learning Methods under Adversarial Situation


Wang, Xuan

Advisor: Shaoshuai Mou
PhD Thesis:
Distributed Control and Optimization in Multi-Agent Systems


Ye, Lintao

Advisor: Shreyas Sundaram
PhD Thesis:
Algorithmic and Graph-Theoretic Approaches for Optimal Sensor Selection in Large-Scale Systems


2021

Abusalah, Bara

Advisor: Ghafoor
PhD Thesis:
Fault Tolerance in Big Data Frameworks and Resource Management Systems


Barsallo Yi, Edgardo

Advisor: Saurabh Bagchi
PhD Thesis:
Dependable Wearable Systems


Bolaji, Adefolarin

Advisor: John Springer
PhD Thesis:
Community Detection of Anomaly in Large-Scale Network



Darivandpour, Javad

Advisor: Mikhail J. Atallah
PhD Thesis:
Efficient and Secure Equality-based Two-party Computation


Gunasinghe, Hasini

Advisor: Elisa Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Privacy Enhancing Techniques for Digital Identity Management


Harsha, Benjamin

Advisor: Jeremy Blocki
PhD Thesis:
Modeling Rational Adversaries: Predicting Behavior and Developing Deterrents


Javed, Yahya

Advisor: Arif Ghafoor
PhD Thesis:
Design and Development of Intelligent Security Management Systems: Threat Detection and Response in Cyber-based Infrastructures


Ju, Peizhong

Advisor: Xiaojun Lin
PhD Thesis:
Robustness of Learning and Control


Kim, Taegyu

Advisor: Dongyan Xu
PhD Thesis:
Cyber-Physical Analysis and Hardening of Robotic Aerial Vehicle Controllers


Le, Duc

Advisor: Aniket Kate
PhD Thesis:
Efficient Cryptographic Constructions For Resource-Constrained Blockchain Clients


Lee, Sangjun

Advisor: Byung-Cheol Min
PhD Thesis:
Secure Multi-Robot Systems: Threat Identification and Countermeasure Development


Mendez Mena, Diego

Advisor: Baijian Yang
PhD Thesis:
Blockchain-Based Security Framework for the Internet of Things and Home Networks


Merrill, Shawn

Advisor: Chris Clifton
PhD Thesis:
Privacy in Complex Sample Based Surveys


Peng, Hui

Advisor: Mathias Payer
PhD Thesis:
Fuzzing Hard-to-Cover Code


Ringenberg, Tatiana

Advisor: Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar, Julia Rayz
PhD Thesis:
The DVL in the Details: Assessing Differences in Decoy, Victim, and Law Enforcement Chats with Online Sexual Predators


Salamh, Fahad

Advisor: Marcus K. Rogers
PhD Thesis:
A 3-Dimensional Uas Forensic Intelligence-Led Taxonomy (U-Fit)



Tian, Ye

Advisor: Gesualdo Scutari
PhD Thesis:
Distributed Optimization for Machine Learning: Guarantees and Tradeoffs


Wang, Tianhao

Advisor: Ninghui Li
PhD Thesis:
Analyzing Sensitive Data with Local Differential Privacy



2022


Ayano, Oluwafolake

Advisor: John Springer
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Node Centric Community Detection and Evolutional Prediction in Dynamic Networks






Kim, Kyungtae

Advisor: Dave (Jing) Tian
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Securing System and Embedded Software via Fuzzing


Li, Zitao

Advisor: Ninghui Li
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Differential Privacy in Distributed Settings




McKee, Derrick

Advisor: Mathias Payer
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Novel System Compartmentalization and Reverse Engineering Methods


Nesen, Alina

Advisor: Bharat Bhargava
PhD Thesis:
Deep Neural Networks for Detection of Rare Events, Novelties, and Data Augmentation in Multimodal Data Streams


Pacheco Gonzales, Maria

Advisor: Dan Goldwasser
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Neural-Symbolic Modeling for Natural Language Discourse


Sullivan, Kirsen

Advisor: Bowei Xi
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper A Graybox Defense Through Bootstrapping Deep Neural Network


Sundaram, Arvind

Advisor: Dr. Hany Abdel-Khalik
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Covert Cognizance: Embedded Intelligence for Industrial Systems


Suresh, Susheel

Advisor: Jennifer Neville
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Models and Representation Learning Mechanisms for Graph Data



Zhao, Xuejun

Advisor: William B. Haskell
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Data-Integrated Supply Chain Contracts: Learning to Price Under Uncertainty


2023

Alhasan, Isslam

Advisor: Dr. Ida Ngambeki / John Springer
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Human Factors in Cybersecurity: A Cross-Cultural Study on Trust


Ayano, Kehinde

Advisor: Dr Seigfried-Spellar
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Deep Learning-Based Anomaly Detection in TLS Encrypted Traffic


Bai, Wenjie

Advisor: Jeremiah Blocki
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Mechanism Design in Defense Against Offline Password Attacks


Bhat, Adithya

Advisor: Aniket Kate
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Pipelined Byzantine Fault Tolerance and Applications




Kim, I Luk

Advisor: Xiangyu Zhang
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Identification of web security threats to online business models


Kuwaranancharoen, Kananart

Advisor: Shreyas Sundaram
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Analyses and Scalable Algorithms for Byzantine-Resilient Distributed Optimization


Master, Alexander

Advisor: Eric Dietz, Eugene Spafford
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Modeling and Characterization of Internet Censorship Technologies


Mirza, Mohammad Meraj

Advisor: Dr. Umit Karabiyik
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Towards a Transdisciplinary Cyber Forensics Geo-Contextualization Framework


Misra, Kanishka

Advisor: Julia Taylor Rayz
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper On Semantic Cognition, Inductive Generalization, and Language Models


Prematilake, Malin

Advisor: Vijay Raghunathan
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Design Techniques for Secure IoT Devices and Networks




Solaiman, KMA

Advisor: Dr. BHARAT BHARGAVA
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Multimodal Data Management in Open-world Environment


Srivastava, Prashast

Advisor: Mathias Payer
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Practical Methods for Fuzzing Real-World Systems


Wu, Jianliang

Advisor: Dongyan Xu
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Securing Bluetooth Protocols through Formal Analysis and Debloating


Xin, Lei

Advisor: Shreyas Sundaram
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Finite Sample Guarantees for Learning the Dynamics of Systems



2024

Alsalem, Aala

Advisor: Bharat Bhargava
PhD Thesis:
Secure Authentication and Privacy-Preserving Techniques in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks


Cardona, Daniel

Advisor: Arman Sabbaghi
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Practicality in Generative Modeling & Synthetic Data


Chen, Jiayu

Advisor: Vaneet Aggarwal
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Temporal Abstractions in Multi-agent Learning


Dankwa, Boakye

Advisor: Spafford
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Anomaly Detection in Hard Real-Time Embedded Systems


Haider, Chowdhury Mohammad Rakin

Advisor: Christopher Clifton
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Identifying Induced Bias in Machine Learning


Khan, Shoaib

Advisor: Prof. Mikhail Atallah
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Garbled Computation: Hiding Software, Dataand Computed Values


Li, Jiacheng

Advisor: Prof. Ninghui Li
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Membership Inference Attacks and Defenses in Classification Models


Li, Zhen

Advisor: Wenhai Sun
PhD Thesis:
On the Automatic Repair of Smart Contracts in Blockchain



Morton, Robert

Advisor: Spafford/Rogers PhD
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Measuring Data Protection: A Causal Artificial Intelligence Modeling Approach





Ye, Qianchuan

Advisor: Benjamin Delaware
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Language-Based Techniques for Policy-Agnostic Oblivious Computation