272 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, Ta-Wei "David"

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

Wang, Qihua

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

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

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)

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

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