CERIAS PhD Graduates
1993 - 1994 - 1995 - 1997 - 1998
2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007
1993
Stephen J. Chapin (COAST)
Scheduling Support Mechanisms for Autonomous, Heterogeneous, Distributed Systems
Associate Professor, Syracuse University
http://www.hpdc.syr.edu/~chapin/
1994
HongHai Shen (COAST)
Advisor: Dewan
Access Control for Collaborative Environments
Google
1995
Sandeep Kumar (COAST)
Advisor: Spafford
Classification and Detection of Computer Intrusions
General Motors
1997
Christoph L. Schuba (COAST)
Advisor: Spafford
On the Modeling, Design, and Implementation of Firewall Technology
Faculty Member, Linkoping University, Sweden
http://www.schuba.com/
1998
Ivan V. Krsul (COAST)
Advisor: Spafford
Computer Vulnerability Analysis
http://www.krsul.org/ivan/
2000
Craig J. McDonough
Advisor: Raskin
Complex Events in an Ontological-Semantic Natural Language Processing System
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
Terran Lane
Advisor: Brodley
Machine Learning Techniques for the Computer Security Domain of Anomaly Detection
Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~terran/
2001
Wenliang (Kevin) Du
Advisors: Atallah, Spafford
A Study of Several Specific Secure Two-Party Computation Problems
Assistant Professor, Syracuse University
http://www.cis.syr.edu/~wedu/
Daniel E. Leaird
Advisor: Weiner
Direct Space-to-Time Pulse Shaping for Ultrafast Optical Waveform Generation
Senior Research Engineer, Purdue University
http://shay.ecn.purdue.edu/~fsoptics
Diego M. Zamboni
Advisor: Spafford
Using Internal Sensors for Computer Intrusion Detection
Researcher, IBM Laboratories (Zurich)
http://diego.zzamboni.org/
2002
Thomas E. Daniels
Advisor: Spafford
Reference Models for the Concealment and Observation of Origin Identity in Store-and-Forward Networks
Assistant Professor, Iowa State
http://home.eng.iastate.edu/~daniels/
Chaogui Zhang
Advisor: Wagstaff
An Extension of the Dickman Function and Its Application
Assistant Professor, Marywood University
http://www.drzhang.net/
Tian Zhao
Advisor: Palsberg
Type Matching and Type Inference for Object-Oriented Systems
http://jiangxi.cs.uwm.edu/
2003
Hoi Chang
Advisor: Atallah
Building Self-Protecting Software with Active and Passive Defenses
Chief Software Architect, Arxan Technologies Inc.
Mukul Gupta
Advisors: Chaturvedi/Mehta/Rees
Essays in Information Security
Department of Information Systems and Technology Management,
University of Texas San Antonio
Md Ahsan Habib
Advisor: Bhargava
Monitoring and Controlling QoS Network Domains: An Edge-to-Edge Approach
Siemens Technology-To-Business Center
Christian F. Hempelmann
Advisor: Raskin
Paronomastic Puns: Target Recoverability Towards Automatic Generation
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Georgia Southern University
http://homepage.mac.com/hempelma
James Joshi
Advisor: Ghafoor
A Generalized Temporal Role Based Access Control Model for Developing Secure Systems
Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~jjoshi/
Jung-Min Park
Advisor: Chong
Efficient Primitives for Ensuring Security in E-commerce Transactions
Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech
http://www.ece.vt.edu/faculty/park.html
Dong-Won Shin
Advisors: Siegel, Chong
Multicriteria Routing for Guaranteed Performance Communications
Senior Member of Technical Staff at KT (former Korea Telecom)
Daejun, Korea (RoK)
2004
Jason Gower
Advisor: Wagstaff
Square Form Factorization
University of Cincinnati
http://math.uc.edu/~gowerj
Ben Kuperman
Advisor: Spafford
A Categorization of Computer Security Monitoring Systems and the Impact on the Design of Audit Sources
Oberlin College
http://www.cs.oberlin.edu/~kuperman/
Yi Lu
Advisor: Bhargava
Adaptive and Heterogeneous Mobile Wireless Networks
Microsoft
Di Ma
Advisor: Palsberg
Bounding the Stack Size of Interrupt-driven Programs
Synopsys
Radu Sion
Advisor: Atallah
Rights Assessment for Discrete Digital Data
Assistant Professory, SUNY Stony Brook
http://www.cs.stonybrook.edu/~sion
Jaideep Vaidya
Advisor: Clifton
Privacy Preserving Data Mining Over Vertically Partitioned Data
Assistant Professor, Rutgers University
http://cimic.rutgers.edu/~jsvaidya/
2005
Florian Bucholz
Advisor: Spafford
Pervasive Binding of Labels to System Processes
Assistant Professor, James Madison University
Jim Early
Advisors: Brodley, Spafford
Feature Extraction to Describe Attribute Behavior
Visiting Assistant Professor, Purdue Department of Computer Science
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/earlyjp
Keith Frikken
Advisor: Atallah
Secure and Private Online Collaboration
Assistant Professor, Miami University of Ohio
Robert Gwadera
Advisors: Szpankowski, Atallah
Reliable Identification of Significant Sets of Episodes in Event Sequences
Post-doc, University of Helsinki
Murat Kantarcioglu
Advisor: Clifton
Privacy - Preserving Distributed Data Mining and Processing on Horizontally Partitioned Data
Assistant Professor, UT Dallas
Eugene Lin
Advisor: Delp
Video and Image Watermark Synchronization
FBI Laboratories, Quantico
Evguenia ("Evie") Malaia
Advisor: Raskin
Digital Identity Management Domain for Ontological Semantics: Domain Acquisition Methodology and Practice
Post-doc, Purdue
Katrina Triezenberg
Advisor: Raskin
The Ontology of Emotion
Ontological research support with Prof. David Salt, Purdue Dept. of Horiculture
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~kattriez/cv.html
Mahesh Tripunitara
Advisors: Li, Spafford
A Theory Based on Security Analysis for Comparing the Expressive Power of Access Control Models
Motorola Laboratories
http://homes.cerias.purdue.edu/~tripunit/
Weichao Wang
Advisor: Bhargava
Securing Wireless Network Topology and Routing
Assistant Professor, University of Kansas
http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~weichaow/
Paul Williams
Advisor: Spafford
CUPIDS: Increasing Information System Security Through the Use of Dedicated Co-Processing
Assistant Professor, Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT)
www.afit.edu
2006
Rafae Bhatti
Advisor: Ghafoor
A Policy Engineering Framework for Federated Access Management
Post-doc, IBM Almaden Labs
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~bhattir
Serdar Cabuk
Advisors: Spafford, Brodley
Network Covert Channels: Design, Analysis, Detection, and Elimination
HP Labs, Bristol, United Kingdom
Brian Carrier
Advisor: Spafford
A Hypothesis-Based Approach to Digital Forensic Investigations
Research Staff, Basis Technology
http://www.digital-evidence.org
Long Fei
Advisors: Brodley, Shields
Detecting Network Denial of Services Attacks
Rajeev Gopalakrishna
Advisors: Spafford, Vitek
Improving Software Assurance Using Lightweight Static Analysis
Researcher, Intel Laboratories
http://homes.cerias.purdue.edu/~rgk/
Xuxian Jiang
Advisor: Xu
Enabling Internet Worm and Malware Investigation and Defense Using Virtualization
Assistant Professor
Department of Information and Software Engineering
http://www.ise.gmu.edu/~xjiang/
Yunhua Koglin
Advisor: Bertino
Security Mechanisms for Content Distribution Networks
Cisco (Richardson, TX)
Jiangtao Li
Advisors: Atallah, Li
Privacy Enhanced Automated Trust Negotiation
Security Architect, Intel
http://homes.cerias.purdue.edu/~jtli/
Zhihong Li
Advisor: Wagstaff
Elliptic Curve Factoring Method via FFTS with Division
Key Bank, Cleveland
Ammar Masood
Advisor: Ghafoor
Model-Based Testing of Access Control Systems
Basit Shafiq
Advisors: Bertino, Ghafoor
Access Control Management and Security in Multi-Domain Collaborative Environments
Rutgers University Center for Information Management, Integration, and Connectivity
http://cimic.rutgers.edu/
2007
Marina Blanton
Advisor: Atallah
Key Management in Hierarchical Access Control Systems
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Notre Dame
Ji-won Byun
Oracle Corp.
Redwood City, CA
Issa Khalil
Advisor: Saurabh Bagchi
Mitigation of Control and Data Traffic Attacks in Wireless AD-HOC and Sensor Networks
Dependable Computing Systems Lab (DCSL)
Maja Pusara
Advisor: Spafford, Brodley
An Examination of User Behavior for Re-Authentication
Paul M. Ruth
Advisor: Xu
Adaptive Virtual Distributed Environments for Shared Cyberinfrastructures
http://www.cs.olemiss.edu/people/faculty/ruth.html
Mohamed Shehab
Advisor: Bertino, Li
Secure Collaboration in Mediator-free Enviornments
Shou Shen
Finite Fields of Low Characteristic in Elliptic Curve Crytography
Huawei
William Speirs
Advisor:Wagstaff
Cryptographic Hashing Algorithm
Umut Topkara
Advisor: Atallah
Information Security Applications of Natural Language Processing
Mercan Topkara [Karahan]
Advisor: Atallah, Nita-Rotaru
Natural Language Watermarking: Watermarking Text-Meaning Representation Trees
IBM
