CERIAS PhD Graduates

1993 - 1994 - 1995 - 1997 - 1998
2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004
2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009
2010 - 2011

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)

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

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

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 Horticulture

Mahesh Tripunitara

Advisors: Li, Spafford
A Theory Based on Security Analysis for Comparing the Expressive Power of Access Control Models
Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo http://www.ece.uwaterloo.ca/People/faculty/tripunitara.html

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://www.rafaebhatti.com

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, North Carolina State University http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/jiang/

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: Ghafoor, Bertino
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

Toward Privacy-Preserving Database Management Systems —- Access Control and Data Anonymization
Oracle Corp.
Redwood City, CA

Issa Khalil

Advisor: 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: Ghafoor, Bertino
Secure Collaboration in Mediator-free Environments

Shuo Shen

Finite Fields of Low Characteristic in Elliptic Curve Cryptography
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

2008

Roman Chertov

Advisor: Fahmy
A Device Independent Router Model: From Measurements to Simulations Santa Barbara Labs

Arjmand Micheal Samuel

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

Wei Jiang

Advisor: Clifton
Incentive-Driven and Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Computing
Missouri University of Science
http://web.mst.edu/~wjiang/

Lorraine Kisselburgh

Advisor: Sypher
The Social Structure and Construction of Privacy in Sociotechnological Realms Purdue Communications Department

Eric Kukula

Advisor: Elliott
Design and Evaluation of the Human-Biometric Sensor Interaction Method
Purdue Industrial Technology Department

Shimon Modi

Advisor: Elliott
Analysis of Fingerprint Sensor Interoperability on System Performance
Purdue Research Director at Biometrics Lab

Hyojeong Kim

Advisor: Park
Memory Balancing for Large-Scale Network Simulation in Power-Law Networks
Cisco

Mehmet Ercan Nergiz

Advisor: Clifton, Bertino
Anonymization-Based Privacy Protection
Post-Doctoral Researcher in Sabanci University, Turkey

2009

Ibrahim Baggili

Advisor: Rogers
Effects of Anonymity, Pre-Employment Integrity and Antisocial Behavior on Self-Reprted Cyber Crime Engagement: An Exploratory Study
Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates; Assistant Professor and Director of the Cyber Forensics Laboratory

William Eyre

Advisors: Raskin, Boyd
Privacy, Surveillance and the Real ID Act
U.S. Senate in Washington, D.C.

Ning Shang

Advisor: Wagstaff
Low genus algebraic curves in cryptography
Microsoft
http://rmal.info

Sarvjeet Singh

Advisors: Prabhakar, Nita Rotaru
Database Support for Uncertain Data
Google Headquarters in Mountain View, CA

Qihua Wang

Advisor: Li
Access Control Policy Management
IBM Almaden Research Center

Ta-Wei “David” Wang

Advisors: Rees, Kannan
Essays on Information Security from an Economic Perspective
Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting, College of Management, National Taiwan University

Yu Zhang

Advisor: Bhargava
Analysis of Port Scanning Attacks

Yu-Sung “Hank” Wu

Advisor: Bagchi
Achieving High Survivability in Distributed Systems Through Automated Response
Assistant Professor, National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan

2010

Ashish Kamra

Advisor: Bertino
Mechanisms for Database Intrusion Detection and Response
EMC, New Jersey Office

David Zage

Advisor: Nita Rotaru
A Platform for Creating Efficient, Robust, and Resilient Peer-to-Peer Systems
Senior Technical Staff, Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, NM

Ian Molloy

Advisor: Ninghui Li
Automatic Migration to Role Based Access Control
IBM TJ Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY

Jren-Chit Chin

Advisor: Yau
Efficient and Robust Solutions for Sensor Network Detection and Localization
SDE at Microsoft in Redmond, WA

Juhee Kwon

Advisor: Rees
Essays on Information Risk Management in Electronic Markets

Mummorthy Murugesan

Advisor: Clifton
Privacy Through Deniable Search
Teradata

Nwokedi Idika

Advisors: Mathur, Aditya
Characterizing and Aggregating Attack Graph-based Security Metric
Director of Research at Software Theoretic

Prathima Rao

Advisor: Bertino
Exam: An Environment for XACML Policy Analysis and Management

Qun Ni

Advisor: Bertino
Privacy-aware Role-Based Access Control
Software Engineer at Intel in Hillsboro, OR

Sarah Sellke

Advisor: Bagchi
Analytical Characterization of Internet Security Attacks
Purdue University, Visiting Assistant Professor, Statistics Department

Tiancheng Li

Advisor: Li
Privacy Preservation in Data Publishing and Sharing
Software Engineer at Google in Mountain View, CA

Abdallah Ali Khreishah

Advisor: Shroff
Analysis and Design of Intersession Network Coding in Communication Networks
Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Technology at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA.

Chris Ma

Advisor: Yau
Post Doc Researcher at Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC) in Singapore.

2011

Mohamed Fouad

Advisor: Bertino

Matthew Hashim

Advisor: Rees
University of Arizona Tuscon

Ravish Khosla

Advisor: Bagchi
Improving Internet Infrastructure: BGP Predictability and Cloud DNS Performance

Michael Kirkpatrick

Advisor: Bertino
Trusted Enforcement of Contextual Access Control
Assistant Professor at James Madison University

Samuel Liles

Advisor: Rogers
Associate Professor at National Defense University

Zhiqiang Lin

Advisor: Xu
Reverse Engineering of Data Structures from Binary
University of Texas, Dallas

Sangil Nahm

Advisor: Wagstaff
Several Problems in Number Theory
Samsung Insurance Company in Seoul, South Korea

Junghwan Rhee

Advisor: Xu
Data-Centric Approaches to Kernel Malware Defense
NEC Labs

Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar

Advisor: Rogers
The Role of Individual Differences in Predicting the Type of Images Collected by Internet Child Pornography Consumers
Adjunct Faculty Computer Crime at Seattle University

Ruben Torres

Advisor: Rao
Measurement-driven Characterization of Emerging Trends in Internet Content Delivery
Narus in Sunnyvale, CA