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

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

323 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

Lane, Terran

Advisor: Brodley
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Machine learning techniques for the computer security domain of anomaly detection


McDonough, Craig

Advisor: Raskin
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Complex events in an ontological-semantic natural language processing system


2001

Du, Kevin (Wenliang)

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


Leaird, Daniel

Advisor: Weiner
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Direct space-to-time pulse shaping for ultrafast optical waveform generation


Zamboni, Diego

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


2002

Daniels, Tom

Advisor: Spafford
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Reference models for the concealment and observation of origin identity in store-and-forward networks


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


Zhao, Tian

Advisor: Palsberg
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Type Matching and Type Inference for Object-Oriented Systems


2003

Brylow, Dennis

PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Static checking of interrupt-driven software


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


Habib, Md Ahsan

Advisor: Bhargava
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Monitoring and controlling QOS network domains: An edge-to-edge approach


Hempelmann, Christian

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


Joshi, James

Advisor: Ghafoor
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper A generalized temporal role based access control model for developing secure systems


Ma, Lingfeng

Advisor: Meunier
PhD Thesis:
Search tools for Internet2


McKinney, Jason

Advisor: Weiner
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Direct space-to-time pulse shaping and applications in arbitrary electromagnetic waveform generation


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


Song, Guangfeng

Advisor: Meunier
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper A method for reusing Web browsing experience to enhance Web information retrieval


Telfer, Chris

Advisor: Shields
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Abstractions and efficient implementation of automatically reconfigurable network testbeds


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


Jaisingh, Jeevan

Advisor: Mehta
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Essays on privacy and the value of information in adverse selection markets


Kuperman, Ben

Advisor: Spafford
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper A categorization of computer security monitoring systems and the impact on the design of audit sources


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


Vorvoreanu, Mihaela

Advisor: Botan
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Building and maintaining relationships online: A framework for analyzing the public relations website experience


Vu, Kim Phuong

Advisor: Proctor
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Influences of a prior incompatible location mapping on tasks for which stimulus location is irrelevant


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


Kantarcioglu, Murat

Advisor: Clifton
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Privacy-preserving distributed data mining and processing on horizontally partitioned data


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


Malaia, Evgueniya ("Evie")

Advisor: Raskin
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Digital identity management domain for ontological semantics: Domain acquistion methodology and practice


Mohamed, Dina

Advisor: Raskin Atallah
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Extending ontological semantics for the domain of tourism: The case of Egypt as a destination


Rainey, Michelle

Advisor: Anderson
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper An investigation of the relationships among perceptions of parenting, level of self-control, and sexual outcomes for adolescents


Tripunitara, Mahesh

Advisor: Li
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper A theory based on security analysis for comparing the expressive power of access control models


Wang, Weichao

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


Williams, Paul

Advisor: Spafford
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper CuPIDS: Increasing information system security through the use of dedicated co-processing


Zhong, Yuhui

Advisor: Bhargava
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Formalization of dynamic trust and uncertain evidence for user authorization


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


Jiang, Xuxian

Advisor: Yau/Xu
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Enabling Internet worms and malware investigation and defense using virtualization


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


Li, Zhihong

Advisor: Wagstaff
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Elliptic curve factoring method via FFTs with division polynomials


Masood, Ammar

Advisor: Ghafoor
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Scalable and effective test generation for access control systems


Shafiq, Basit

Advisor: Ghafoor/Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Access control management and security in multi-domain collaborative environments


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


Byun, Ji-won

Advisor: Li/Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Toward privacy-preserving database management systems --- Access control and data anonymization


Jankovic (Pusara) , Maja

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


Khalil, Issa

Advisor: Bagchi
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Mitigation of control and data traffic attacks in wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks


Ruth, Paul

Advisor: Xu
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Adaptive virtual distributed environments for shared cyberinfrastructures


Shehab, Mohamed

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


Shen, Shuo

Advisor: Wagstaff
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Finite fields of low characteristic in elliptic curve cryptography


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, Umut

Advisor: Atallah
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Information security applications of natural language processing techniques


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

Chertov, Roman

Advisor: Fahmy
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper A device independent router model: From measurements to simulations


Das, Saumitra

Advisor: Brodley
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper A multi-layer approach towards high-performance wireless mesh networks


Jiang, Wei

Advisor: Clifton
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Incentive-driven and privacy-preserving collaborative computing


Kim, Hyojeong

Advisor: Park
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Memory Balancing For Large-scale Network Simulation In Power-law Networks


Kisselburgh, Lorraine

Advisor: Sypher
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper The social structure and construction of privacy in sociotechnological realms


Kukula, Eric

Advisor: Elliott
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Design and evaluation of the Human-Biometric Sensor Interaction Method


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

Baggili, Ibrahim

Advisor: Rogers
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Effects of anonymity, pre-employment integrity and antisocial behavior on self-reported cyber crime engagement: An exploratory study


Chen, Hong

Advisor: Li
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Analysis of access control policies in operating systems


Dong, Jing

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


Elmongui, Hicham

Advisor: Atallah
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Rank aggregation techniques for context-aware database management systems


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


Mao, Ziqing

Advisor: Li, N.
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Improving real-world access control systems by identifying the true origins of a request


Nehme, Rimma

Advisor: Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Efficient query processing for rich and diverse real-time data


Riley, Ryan

Advisor: Xu
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Architectural approaches for code injection defense at the user and kernel levels


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


Wang, Ta-Wei "David"

PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Essays on information security from an economic perspective


Wu, Yu-Sung "Hank"

Advisor: Bagchi
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Achieving high survivability in distributed systems through automated response


Zhang, Yu

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


2010

Chin, Jren-Chit

Advisor: Yau
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Efficient and robust solutions for sensor network detection and localization


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


Kwon, Juhee

Advisor: Rees
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Essays on information risk management in electronic markets


Li, Tiancheng

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


Ma, Chris

Advisor: Yau
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Mobility in mobile sensor networks: A study of sensing performance and privacy


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


Zage, David

Advisor: Nita Rotaru
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper A platform for creating efficient, robust, and resilient peer-to-peer systems


2011

Hashim, Matthew

Advisor: Rees
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Nudging the digital pirate: Piracy and the conversion of pirates to paying customers


Jeyaraman, Sundararaman

Advisor: Atallah
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Practical automatic determination of causal relationships in software execution traces


Khosla, Ravish

Advisor: Bagchi
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Improving Internet Infrastructure: BGP Predictability and Cloud DNS Performance


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


Seigfried-Spellar, Kathryn

Advisor: Rogers
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper The role of individual differences in predicting the type of images collected by internet child pornography consumers


Thomas, Jacques

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


Torres, Ruben

Advisor: Rao
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Measurement-driven Characterization of Emerging Trends in Internet Content Delivery


2012

Eldardiry, Hoda

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


Fang, Yi

Advisor: Luo
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Differentiation of cancer cells in 2D and 3D breast cancer models by Raman spectroscopy


Fouad, Mohamed

Advisor: Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Privacy Risk and Scalability of Differentially-Private Data Anonymization


Kallapalayam Radha, Jayaram

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


Liles, Samuel

Advisor: Rogers
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Cyber warfare as a form of conflict: Evaluation of models of cyber conflict as a prototype to conceptual analysis


Mohamed, Nadeel Yoosuf

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


Seibert, Jeffrey

Advisor: Nita-Rotaru
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Security and Economic Implication of Localizing Traffic in Overlay Networks


Shanklin, Teresa

Advisor: Dark
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper An Agent-Based Model for Navigation Simulation in a Heterogeneous Environment


Shin, Donghoon

Advisor: Bagchi, Shroff
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Algorithms for distributed monitoring in multi-channel ad hoc wireless networks


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


Chaudhry, Hina

Advisor: Matson
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper A theoretical secure enterprise architecture for multi revenue generating smart grid sub electric infrastructure


Modelo-Howard, Gaspar

Advisor: Bagchi
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Secure Configuration of Intrusion Detection Sensors for Dynamic Enterprise-Class Distributed Systems


Pervaiz, Zahid

Advisor: Ghafoor
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Mining roles and access control for relational data under privacy and accuracy constraints


Qardaji, Wahbeh

Advisor: Li, N.
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Differentially private data publishing: From histograms to transaction sets


Stanley, Dannie

Advisor: Spafford
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Improved Kernel Security Through Code Validation, Diversification, and Minimization


Sumner, William

Advisor: Xiangyu Zhang
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Automatic Failure Inducing Chain Computation through Aligned Execution Comparison


Sundaram, Vinaitheerthan

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


2014

Arshad, Fahad

Advisor: Bagchi
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Failure characterization and error detection in distributed web applications


Choi, Sunoh

Advisor: Bertino


Fernando, Ruchith

PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Privacy in Social Messaging and Identity Management


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


Lee, Hyojeong

Advisor: Killian
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Automated performance attack discovery in distributed system implementations


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


Ritchey, Philip

Advisor: Rego
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Synthetic Steganography: Methods for Generating and Detecting Covert Channels in Generated Media


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


Sharevski, Filipo

Advisor: Dark
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper The Impact of Mobile Network Forensics Evidence on the Criminal Case Processing Performance in Macedonia: An Institutional Analysis Study


Tan Creti, Matthew

Advisor: Bagchi
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Software and Hardware Approaches for Record and Replay of Wireless Sensor Networks


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


Barthur, Ashrith

Advisor: Dietz/Cleveland
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Computational Environment for Modeling and Analysing Network Traffic Behaviour using the Divide and Recombine Framework


Cen, Lei

Advisor: Luo
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper A study of security issues of mobile apps in the android platform using machine learning approaches


Falk, Courtney

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


Holzer, Corey

Advisor: Dietz
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper The Application of Natural Language Processing to Open Source Intelligence for Ontology Development in the Advanced Persistent Threat Domain


Midi, Daniele

Advisor: Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Security Techniques for Sensor Systems and the Internet of Things


Misata , Kelley

Advisor: Spafford/Rogers
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Gap Analysis Identifying the Current State of Information Security within Organizations Working with Victims of Violence


Saltaformaggio, Brendan

Advisor: Xu
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Convicted by Memory: Automatically Recovering Spatial-Temporal Evidence from Memory Images


Stephen, Julian

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


Su, Dong

Advisor: N. Li
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Differentially private data publishing for data analysis


Waziri, Ibrahim

Advisor: Raskin/Taylor
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Packet Filter Performance Monitor (Anti-DDoS Algorithm for Hybrid Topologies)


Wood, Paul

Advisor: Saurabh Baghci
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Improving The Resilience of Cyber-Physical Systems Under Strategic Adversaries


Yang, Weining

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


2017

Anandan, Balamurugan

Advisor: Clifton
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper A Provenance-Aware Multi-Dimensional Reputation System For Online Rating Systems


Avery, Jeffrey

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


Carr, Scott

Advisor: Payer
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Compiler-based Mitigations of Vulnerabilities in Systems Software


Cheolhyeon, Kwon

Advisor: Hwang
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper High Assurance Control of Cyber-Physical Systems with Application to Unmanned Aircraft Systems


Gutierrez, Christopher

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


Hota, Ashish Ranjan

Advisor: Sundaram
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Impacts of Game-Theoretic and Behavioral Decision-Making on the Robustness and Security of Shared Systems and Network


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


Sivakumar, Ashiwan

Advisor: Rao
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Scalable Redundant Proxy Execution for Low-Latency Web Over Cellular Networks


2018

Albabtain, Yazeed

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


Bond, Jacob

Advisor: Goins
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper On the Computation and Composition of Belyiˇ Maps and Dessins D'enfants


Burow, Nathan

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


Chong, Rylan

Advisor: Elliott MS; Dark PhD
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper The relationships of social cognitive career theory factors and cybersecurity research self-efficacy.


Eldardiry, Omar

Advisor: Caldwell
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Improving Information Alignment and Distributed Coordination for Secure Information Supply Chains


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


Moreno-Sanchez, Pedro

Advisor: Kate
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Credit Network Payment Systems: Security, Privacy, and Decentralization


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

Beckman, Joseph

Advisor: Dark
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Comparing Learning Gains in Cryptography Concepts Taught Using Different Instructional Conditions and Measuring Cognitive Processing Activity of Cryptography Concepts


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


Cole, Kelly

Advisor: Rogers
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Investigating Cyber Performance: An Individual Differences Study


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)


Shirey, Russell

Advisor: Sanjay Rao and Shreyas Sundaram co-advised
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Data-Driven and Control Theoretic Approaches for Real-Time Sensor Data Transmission Over Unmanned Aerial Systems Networks


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


Yang, Shih-Feng

Advisor: Julia Rayz
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Deceptive Review Identification via Reviewer Network Representation Learning


2022

Ahmad, Adil

Advisor: Dr. Byoungyoung Lee
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Defeating Critical Threats to Cloud User Data in Trusted Execution Environments


Ayano, Oluwafolake

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


Block, Alexander

Advisor: Jeremiah Blocki
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Exploring the Composition of Coding Theory and Cryptography through Secure Computation, Succinct Arguments, and Local Codes


Ge, Huangyi

Advisor: Ninghui Li
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Using Randomness to Defend Against Adversarial Examples in Computer Vision


Gupta, Shruti

Advisor: Marcus Rogers
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper User Attribution in Digital Forensics Through Modeling Keystroke and Mouse Usage Data Using Xgboost


Jiang, Chuan

Advisor: Sanjay G. Rao
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Resilient Wide Area Network Routing Algorithms For Meeting Service Level Objectives


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


Lu, Donghang

Advisor: Aniket Kate
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Efficient Building Blocks for Secure Multiparty Computation and Their Applications


Mangipudi, Easwar Vivek

Advisor: Aniket Kate
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Realizing Information Escrows and Efficient Key-Management Using Threshold Cryptography


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


Taylor, Elise

Advisor: Sorin Matei
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper I'll Send All Positive Thoughts Out to You: Detecting Hyperpersonal Relationships Through Self-Disclosure


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


Farrukh, Habiba

Advisor: Berkay Celik
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Leveraging Multimodal Sensing for Enhancing the Security and Privacy of Mobile Systems


Karim, Imtiaz

Advisor: Dr. Elisa Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper A Systematic Framework for Analyzing the Security and Privacy of Wireless Communication Protocol Implementations


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


Serag, Khaled

Advisor: Dongyan Xu
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Proactive Vulnerability Identification and Defense Construction -- the Case for CAN


Shu, Juan

Advisor: Bowei Xi
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Toward Robust and Interpretable Graph and Image Representation Learning


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


Yao, Tong

Advisor: Shreyas Sundaram
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper New Approaches Towards Online, Distributed, and Robust Learning of Statistical Properties of Data


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


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:
Membership Inference Attacks and Defenses in Classification Models


Li, Zhen

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


Liu, Peiyuan

Advisor: Jeremiah Blocki
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper New Theoretical Techniques For Analyzing And Mitigating Password Cracking Attacks


Palanisamy Sundar, Agnideven

Advisor: Dr. Xukai Zou
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Investigation of Backdoor Attacks and Design of Effective Countermeasures in Federated Learning


Stankovic, Milos

Advisor: Umit Karabiyik
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Discovering Location Patterns in iOS Users Utilizing Machine Learning Methods For Purposes of Digital Forensics Investigations


Weiner, Roberta

Advisor: Dr. Linda Pfeiffer
PhD Thesis:
Link to Paper Experiencing and interpreting privacy in the context of consumer "smart" surveillance: A mixed-methods phenomenological investigation


Ye, Qianchuan

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