142 PhD Graduates since 1994
Advisor: Dewan
PhD Thesis:
Access Control for Collaborative Environments
Current Employer: Google
Advisor: Spafford
PhD Thesis:
Classification and Detection of Computer Intrusions
Advisor: Spafford
PhD Thesis:
On the Modeling, Design, and Implementation of Firewall Technology
Advisor: Spafford
PhD Thesis:
PhD Thesis: Computer Vulnerability Analysis
Current Employer: Artexacta S.R.L. - Founder and General Manager
Advisor: Brodley
PhD Thesis:
Machine learning techniques for the computer security domain of anomaly detection
Current Employer: University of New Mexico - CS Dept.
Advisor: Raskin
PhD Thesis:
Complex events in an ontological-semantic natural language processing system
Current Employer: Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
Advisor: Atallah
PhD Thesis:
A study of several specific secure two-party computation problems
Current Employer: Syracuse University - Departments of EE & CS
Advisor: Weiner
PhD Thesis:
Direct space-to-time pulse shaping for ultrafast optical waveform generation
Current Employer: Purdue University, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Advisor: Spafford
PhD Thesis:
Using internal sensors for computer intrusion detection
Current Employer: CFEngine - Senior Security Advisor
Advisor: Spafford
PhD Thesis:
Reference models for the concealment and observation of origin identity in store-and-forward networks
Current Employer: Iowa State University - Assistant Professor, Department of ECE
Advisor: Grama
PhD Thesis:
Comparative analysis of biological networks
Current Employer: Case Western Reserve University
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Advisor: Wagstaff
Current Employer: Case Western Reserve University, Department of Math
Advisor: Palsberg
PhD Thesis:
Type Matching and Type Inference for Object-Oriented Systems
Current Employer: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, CS
PhD Thesis:
Static checking of interrupt-driven software
Current Employer: Marquette University - Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science
Advisor: Atallah
PhD Thesis:
Confidential
Current Employer: Arxan Technologies, Inc.
- Vice President of Technology
Advisor: Chaturvedi/Mehta
PhD Thesis:
Essays in information security
Current Employer: University of Texas San Antonio, Department of Information Systems and Technology Management
Advisor: Bhargava
PhD Thesis:
Monitoring and controlling QOS network domains: An edge-to-edge approach
Current Employer: SIMS, Berkeley
UC Berkeley, School of Information
Advisor: Raskin
PhD Thesis:
Paronomasic puns: Target recoverability towards automatic generation
Current Employer: Texas A & M University - Dept of Commerce
Advisor: Ghafoor
PhD Thesis:
A generalized temporal role based access control model for developing secure systems
Current Employer: University of Pittsburgh - Assistant Professor in the School of Information Sciences
Advisor: Meunier
PhD Thesis:
Search tools for Internet2
Advisor: Weiner
PhD Thesis:
Direct space-to-time pulse shaping and applications in arbitrary electromagnetic waveform generation
Current Employer: U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Microwave Photonics Section of SFA, Inc. - Research Scientist
Advisor: Chong Siegel
PhD Thesis:
Efficient primitives for ensuring security in e-commerce transactions
Current Employer: Virginia Tech
- Associate Professor (ECE)
Advisor: Chong Siegel
PhD Thesis:
Multicriteria routing for guaranteed performance communications
Advisor: Meunier
PhD Thesis:
A method for reusing Web browsing experience to enhance Web information retrieval
Current Employer: Penn State University - Assistant Professor of IST
Advisor: Shields
PhD Thesis:
Abstractions and efficient implementation of automatically reconfigurable network testbeds
Current Employer: Concurrent Technologies Corp.
Advisor: Rogers
PhD Thesis:
Emotion reassociation as a prejudice reduction mechanism
Current Employer: Illinois Wesleyan University - Assistant Professor, Psychology
Advisor: Wagstaff
PhD Thesis:
Square form factorization
Current Employer: University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA)
Advisor: Elmagarmid
PhD Thesis:
Query processing in stream database systems
Current Employer: Google, Inc
Advisor: Bhargava
PhD Thesis:
A framework for cost-effective peer-to-peer content distribution
Current Employer: Simon Fraser University - Assistant Professor in Computer Science
Advisor: Mehta
PhD Thesis:
Essays on privacy and the value of information in adverse selection markets
Advisor: Spafford
PhD Thesis:
A categorization of computer security monitoring systems and the impact on the design of audit sources
Current Employer: Oberlin College
- Associate Professor and Information Security Researcher
Advisor: Bhargava
PhD Thesis:
Adaptive and heterogeneous mobile wireless networks
Current Employer: Microsoft
Advisor: Palsberg
PhD Thesis:
Bounding the Stack Size of Interrupt-driven Programs
Current Employer: Synopsys
Advisor: Hosking/Vitek
PhD Thesis:
Crusoe: Towards a multicomputer execution environment for Java
Current Employer: Sun Microsystems Laboratories - Staff Engineer
Advisor: Atallah
PhD Thesis:
Rights assessment for discrete digital data
Current Employer: Stony Brook University - Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
Advisor: Atallah/Clifton
PhD Thesis:
Privacy preserving data mining over vertically partitioned data
Current Employer: Rutgers - Assistant Professor in Computer Information Systems
Advisor: Botan
PhD Thesis:
Building and maintaining relationships online: A framework for analyzing the public relations website experience
Current Employer: Purdue University, Dept of Computer Graphics Technology & Dept of Technology Leadership & Innovation - Assistant Professor
Advisor: Proctor
PhD Thesis:
Influences of a prior incompatible location mapping on tasks for which stimulus location is irrelevant
Current Employer: California State University, Long Beach - Department of Psychology
Advisor: Spaf
PhD Thesis:
Pervasive binding of labels to system processes
Current Employer: James Madison University - Assistant Professor, CS(10/07)
Advisor: Nita Rotaru
PhD Thesis:
Coverage problems in wireless sensor and RFID systems
Current Employer: Motorola
Advisor: Mathur, A.
Advisor: Brodley/Spafford
PhD Thesis:
Behavioral feature extraction for network anomaly detection
Current Employer: SUNY Oswego - Department of Computer Sciences
Advisor: Elmagarid/Houstis/Verikos
PhD Thesis:
Online periodicity mining
Advisor: Givan
PhD Thesis:
Learning models and formulas of a temporal event logic
Advisor: Atallah
PhD Thesis:
Secure and private online collaboration
Current Employer: Miami University of Ohio
- Assistant Professor, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Advisor: Szpankowski/Atallah
PhD Thesis:
Reliable identification of significant sets of episodes in event sequences
Current Employer: Universita della Svizzera Italiana - Hasler Foundation Researcher,
Advisor: Grama
PhD Thesis:
Algorithms and data structures for IP lookups
Advisor: Clifton
PhD Thesis:
Privacy-preserving distributed data mining and processing on horizontally partitioned data
Current Employer: University of Texas - Assistant Professor
Advisor: Mazumdar Coyle Rosenberg
PhD Thesis:
Scheduling and MAC protocols for wireless networks
Advisor: Delp
PhD Thesis:
Video and image watermark synchronization
Current Employer: Federal Government Agency
Advisor: Raskin
PhD Thesis:
Digital identity management domain for ontological semantics: Domain acquistion methodology and practice
Current Employer: Purdue University, American Sign Language and Linguistics
Advisor: Raskin Atallah
PhD Thesis:
Extending ontological semantics for the domain of tourism: The case of Egypt as a destination
Current Employer: Cairo University - Assistant Professor of English
Advisor: Anderson
PhD Thesis:
An investigation of the relationships among perceptions of parenting, level of self-control, and sexual outcomes for adolescents
Current Employer: IUPUI - Visiting Assistant Professor, Sociology
Advisor: Li
PhD Thesis:
A theory based on security analysis for comparing the expressive power of access control models
Current Employer: University of Waterloo - Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Advisor: Bhargava
PhD Thesis:
Securing wireless network topology and routing
Current Employer: University of Kansas - Assistant Professor, EE and CS
Advisor: Spafford
PhD Thesis:
CuPIDS: Increasing information system security through the use of dedicated co-processing
Current Employer: Wright-Patterson AFB OH - Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Chief, Computer Sci and Eng Div
Advisor: Bhargava
PhD Thesis:
Formalization of dynamic trust and uncertain evidence for user authorization
Current Employer: Southwest China Normal University
Advisor: Ghafoor/Bertino/Li
PhD Thesis:
A policy engineering framework for federated access management
Current Employer: Oracle
Advisor: Spafford/Brodley
PhD Thesis:
Network covert channels: Design, analysis, detection, and elimination
Current Employer: Deloitte LLP - Senior Manager
Advisor: Spafford
PhD Thesis:
A hypothesis-based approach to digital forensic investigations
Current Employer: Basis Technology - Director of Digital Forensics
Advisor: Brodley/Shields
PhD Thesis:
Practical runtime identification of program errors
Current Employer: Synopsys
Advisor: Spafford
PhD Thesis:
Improving software assurance using lightweight static analysis
Current Employer: Intel
Advisor: Vitek/Atallah
PhD Thesis:
Expressive type systems for object-oriented languages
Current Employer: University of Denver - Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Advisor: Yau/Xu
PhD Thesis:
Enabling Internet worms and malware investigation and defense using virtualization
Current Employer: North Carolina State University - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science
Advisor: Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Security mechanisms for content distribution networks
Current Employer: Cisco
Advisor: Atallah/Li
PhD Thesis:
Privacy enhanced automated trust negotiation
Current Employer: Intel
Advisor: Wagstaff
PhD Thesis:
Elliptic curve factoring method via FFTs with division polynomials
Current Employer: Key Bank
Advisor: Ghafoor
PhD Thesis:
Scalable and effective test generation for access control systems
Current Employer: College of Aeronautical Engineering - Teaching at the Faculty of Avionics
Advisor: Ghafoor/Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Access control management and security in multi-domain collaborative environments
Current Employer: Rutgers University - Research Assistant Professor
Advisor: Raskin
PhD Thesis:
The ontology of emotion
Current Employer: RiverGlass
Advisor: Weiner
PhD Thesis:
Reconfigurable direct space-to-time pulse shaping
Current Employer: Raytheon Company
Advisor: Atallah
PhD Thesis:
Key management in hierarchical access control systems
Current Employer: University of Notre Dame - Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department
Advisor: Li/Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Toward privacy-preserving database management systems --- Access control and data anonymization
Current Employer: Oracle Corp
Advisor: Spafford/Brodley
PhD Thesis:
An examination of user behavior for user re-authentication
Current Employer: Ab Initio
Advisor: Bagchi
PhD Thesis:
Mitigation of control and data traffic attacks in wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks
Current Employer: United Arab Emirates University - Assistant Professor, College of Information Technology
Advisor: Xu
PhD Thesis:
Adaptive virtual distributed environments for shared cyberinfrastructures
Current Employer: University of Mississippi - Department of Computer and Information Science
Advisor: Ghafoor/Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Secure collaboration in mediator-free environments
Current Employer: UNC Charlotte
- Assistant Prof, SIS Department
Advisor: Wagstaff
PhD Thesis:
Finite fields of low characteristic in elliptic curve cryptography
Current Employer: Huawei
Advisor: Bertino/Spafford
PhD Thesis:
Protocols and systems for privacy preserving protection of digital identity
Current Employer: Intel
- Security Specialist
Advisor: Wagstaff
PhD Thesis:
Dynamic cryptographic hash functions
Current Employer: Factset - Security Assurance Engineer
Advisor: Atallah
PhD Thesis:
Information security applications of natural language processing techniques
Current Employer: IBM - Research Staff Member
Advisor: Atallah/Nita-Rotaru
PhD Thesis:
New designs for improving the efficiency and resilience of natural language watermarking
Current Employer: IBM Watson - Post doc
Advisor: Park
Current Employer: Amazon.com - Seattle
Advisor: Fahmy
PhD Thesis:
A device independent router model: From measurements to simulations
Current Employer: Arista Networks, Inc. - Software developer
Advisor: Brodley
PhD Thesis:
A multi-layer approach towards high-performance wireless mesh networks
Advisor: Clifton
PhD Thesis:
Incentive-driven and privacy-preserving collaborative computing
Current Employer: Missouri University of Science and Technology
Advisor: Park
PhD Thesis:
Memory Balancing For Large-scale Network Simulation In Power-law Networks
Current Employer: Cisco Systems Inc
Advisor: Sypher
PhD Thesis:
The social structure and construction of privacy in sociotechnological realms
Current Employer: Purdue University - Assistant Professor, Dept of Communication
Advisor: Elliott
PhD Thesis:
Design and evaluation of the Human-Biometric Sensor Interaction Method
Current Employer: Noblis
Advisor: Elliott
PhD Thesis:
Analysis of Fingerprint Sensor Interoperability on System Performance
Current Employer: George Mason University
Cybersecurity Consultant at Accenture Technology Labs - Adjunct Faculty
Cybersecurity Consultant
Advisor: Clifton/Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Anonymization-based privacy protection
Current Employer: Sabanci Universit Orhanli - Tuzla, 34956 Istanbul,Turkey Post-Doctoral Researcher
Advisor: Ghafoor
PhD Thesis:
Specification, Composition, and Applications of Spatio-Temporal Role Based Access Control Model
Current Employer: Microsoft
Advisor: Rogers
PhD Thesis:
Effects of anonymity, pre-employment integrity and antisocial behavior on self-reported cyber crime engagement: An exploratory study
Current Employer: Zayed University - Assistant Professor and Director of the Advanced Cyber Forensics Research Laboratory
Advisor: Li
PhD Thesis:
Analysis of access control policies in operating systems
Current Employer: Knight Capital Group
Advisor: Nita-Rotaru
PhD Thesis:
Secure and robust communication in wireless mesh networks
Current Employer: Knight Capital Group - Software Engineer
Advisor: Atallah
PhD Thesis:
Rank aggregation techniques for context-aware database management systems
Current Employer: Amazon.com - Software Developer Engineer II
Advisor: Raskin/Boyd
PhD Thesis:
Privacy, surveillance and the Real ID Act
Current Employer: U.S. Senate
- IT Security
Advisor: Delp
PhD Thesis:
Forensic characterization of image capture devices
Current Employer: Purdue University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Post doc Jan 2010
Advisor: Li, N.
PhD Thesis:
Improving real-world access control systems by identifying the true origins of a request
Current Employer: Facebook
Advisor: Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Efficient query processing for rich and diverse real-time data
Current Employer: Microsoft Jim Gray Systems Lab
Advisor: Xu
PhD Thesis:
Architectural approaches for code injection defense at the user and kernel levels
Current Employer: Qatar University - Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Wagstaff
PhD Thesis:
Low genus algebraic curves in cryptography
Current Employer: Microsoft
Advisor: Prabhakar, Nita Rotaru
PhD Thesis:
Database support for uncertain data
Current Employer: Google Inc
PhD Thesis:
Essays on information security from an economic perspective
Advisor: Li
PhD Thesis:
Access control policy management
Current Employer: IBM Almaden Research Center,
Advisor: Bagchi
PhD Thesis:
Achieving high survivability in distributed systems through automated response
Current Employer: National Chiao Tung University - Tenure-track Assistant Professor, department of computer science
Advisor: Bhargava
PhD Thesis:
Analysis of port scanning attacks
Advisor: Yau
PhD Thesis:
Efficient and robust solutions for sensor network detection and localization
Current Employer: Microsoft - Software Development Engineer
Advisor: Mathur, Aditya
PhD Thesis:
Characterizing and aggregating attack graph-based security metric
Current Employer: MIT, Lincoln Labs
Software Theoretic (subcontracting firm that does classified work for the government)
- Director of Research
Advisor: Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Mechanisms for database intrusion detection and response
Current Employer: EMC
Advisor: Ness Shroff
PhD Thesis:
Analysis and design of intersession network coding in communication networks
Current Employer: Temple University - Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Technology
Advisor: Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Data in the cloud: Authentication without leaking
Current Employer: IBM TJ Watson Research Center - Research Scientist
Advisor: Rees
PhD Thesis:
Essays on information risk management in electronic markets
Advisor: Li
PhD Thesis:
Privacy preservation in data publishing and sharing
Current Employer: Google Inc. - Software Engineer
Advisor: Yau
PhD Thesis:
Mobility in mobile sensor networks: A study of sensing performance and privacy
Current Employer: Advanced Digital Sciences Center, University of Illinois and Urbana Champain (ADSC)
- Post Doc Researcher
Advisor: Li, N.
PhD Thesis:
Automatic migration to role based access control
Current Employer: IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Advisor: Clifton
PhD Thesis:
Privacy through deniable search
Current Employer: Teradata
Advisor: Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Privacy-aware role based access control
Current Employer: Intel - Software Engineer
Advisor: Bagchi
PhD Thesis:
Remote reprogramming of wireless sensor networks
Current Employer: AT&T Labs - Researcher
Advisor: Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Exam: An environment for XACML policy analysis and management
Current Employer: Salesforce
Advisor: Bagchi
PhD Thesis:
Analytical characterization of internet security attacks
Current Employer: Purdue University - Visiting Assistant Professor, Statistics Dept.
Advisor: Nita Rotaru
PhD Thesis:
A platform for creating efficient, robust, and resilient peer-to-peer systems
Current Employer: Sandia National Labs - Senior Technical Staff
Advisor: Rees
PhD Thesis:
Nudging the digital pirate: Piracy and the conversion of pirates to paying customers
Current Employer: University of Arizona
Advisor: Atallah
PhD Thesis:
Practical automatic determination of causal relationships in software execution traces
Current Employer: Cisco Systems
- Senior Software Engineer
Advisor: Bagchi
PhD Thesis:
Improving Internet Infrastructure: BGP Predictability and Cloud DNS Performance
Current Employer: Ericsson Silicon Valley - Systems Engineer
Advisor: Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Trusted enforcement of contextual access control
Current Employer: James Madison University - Assistant Professor
Advisor: Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Accountability for grid computing systems
Advisor: Xu
PhD Thesis:
Reverse engineering of data structures from binary
Current Employer: University of Texas
Advisor: Wagstaff
PhD Thesis:
Several problems in number theory
Current Employer: Samsung Insurance Co.
Advisor: Prabhakar
PhD Thesis:
Efficient query processing for uncertain data
Current Employer: Oracle
Advisor: Xu
PhD Thesis:
Data-centric approaches to kernel malware defense
Current Employer: NEC Labs
Advisor: Rogers
PhD Thesis:
The role of individual differences in predicting the type of images collected by internet child pornography consumers
Current Employer: Seattle University
- Adjunct Faculty Computer Crime
Advisor: Vitek
PhD Thesis:
Accommodative mandatory access control
Current Employer: Amazon
Advisor: Rao
PhD Thesis:
Measurement-driven Characterization of Emerging Trends in Internet Content Delivery
Current Employer: Narus - Boeing Research
Advisor: Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Ensemble Classification Techniques for Relational Domains
Current Employer: Palo Alto Research Center - Research Scientist
Advisor: Luo
Current Employer: Santa Clara University
- Department of Computer Engineering
Advisor: Bertino
PhD Thesis:
Privacy Risk and Scalability of Differentially-Private Data Anonymization
Current Employer: Google, Inc. - Software Engineer
Advisor: Rogers
PhD Thesis:
Cyber warfare as a form of conflict: Evaluation of models of cyber conflict as a prototype to conceptual analysis
Current Employer: Purdue University - Associate Professor, CIT
Advisor: Bertino, Eugster
PhD Thesis:
Privacy Preserving Access Control on Third-Party Data Management Systems
Current Employer: Oracle - Software Engineer
Advisor: Nita-Rotaru
PhD Thesis:
Security and Economic Implication of Localizing Traffic in Overlay Networks
Current Employer: MIT Lincoln Labs - Technical Staff
Advisor: Dark
PhD Thesis:
An Agent-Based Model for Navigation Simulation in a Heterogeneous Environment
Current Employer: Sypris
Advisor: Bagchi, Shroff
Current Employer: Arizona State Post Doc - Post Doc