Leadership
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Ram Krishnan
Executive Director
Lutcher Brown Endowed Chair in Cyber Security
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering -
Farhan Patwa
Associate Director and Chief Architect
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James Benson
Assistant Director of Cloud Security & Privacy Research
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Arielle Benjamin
Administrative Associate II
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Daniel Sigala-Aguayo
Systems Analyst I
Core Members
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Guadalupe Carmona-Dominguez
Professor of Interdisciplinary Learning & Teaching and Executive Director of ConTex
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Mitra Bokaei Hosseini
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
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Murtuza Jadliwala
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Cloud Technology Endowed Professorship -
Jianwei Niu
Professor of Computer Science and Dean of University College
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Anthony Rios
Assistant Professor of Information Systems & Cyber Security
Associate Director of the Cyber Center for Security and Analytics -
Rocky Slavin
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
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Xiaoyin Wang
Professor of Computer Science
Collaborators
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Nicole Beebe
Professor & AVP of Strategic Research Development
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Rajendra V. Boppana
Professor of Computer Science
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Raymond Choo
Professor of Information Systems and Cyber Security
Cloud Technology Endowed Professorship
Assistant Department Chair of ISCS -
Yanmin Gong
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Microsoft President’s Endowed Fellow -
Yuanxiong Guo
Associate Professor of Information Systems and Cyber Security
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering -
Palden Lama
Associate Professor of Computer Science
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Wei-Ming Lin
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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John J. (Jeff) Prevost
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cloud Technology Endowed Professorship -
Chunjiang 'CJ' Qian
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department Chair
Mary Lou Clarke Endowed Professor -
Ravi Sandhu
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
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Ram Tripathi
Professor of Management Science and Statistics
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Carolina Vivas-Valencia
Assistant Professor of Biomedical & Chemical Engineering
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Wei Wang
Associate Professor of Computer Science
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Gregory White
Professor of Computer Science
Director of Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security -
Kefeng Xu
Associate Professor of Management Science and Statistics
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Keying Ye
Professor of Management Science and Statistics
Students
PhD in Progress: 20
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Maryam Abbasihafshejani
Computer Science
Advisor: Murtuza Jadliwala
Topic: TBD -
Omar Aedh
Computer Science
Advisor: Ram Krishnan
Topic: TBD -
Rusul Alhaddad
Computer Engineering
Advisor: Ram Krishnan
Topic: TBD -
Mashin Akram
Computer Science
Advisor: Murtuza Jadliwala
Topic: TBD -
Calix Barrus
Computer Science
Advisors: Xiaoyin Wang, Jianwei Niu
Topic: TBD -
Jingjing Chen
Computer Science
Advisor: Jianwei Niu
Topic: TBD -
Pankaj Chhetri
Computer Science
Advisor: Ram Krishnan
Topic: Machine Learning and Access Control -
Rambod Ghandiparsi
Computer Science
Advisor: Mitra Bokaei Hosseini
Topic: TBD -
Sunzhou Huang
Computer Science
Advisor: Xiaoyin Wang
Topic: Automatic reproduction of software incompatibility bugs -
Sadia Jahan
Computer Science
Advisor: Rocky Slavin
Topic: TBD -
Pragyan K C
Computer Science
Advisor: Mitra Bokaei Hosseini
Topic: TBD -
Sahan Randiak Kalutarage
Computer Science
Advisor: Murtuza Jadliwala
Topic: TBD -
Peng Kang
Computer Science
Advisor: Palden Lama
Topic: TBD -
Aaditya Khant
Computer Science
Advisor: Murtuza Jadliwala
Topic: TBD -
Bhavana Kondeti
Computer Science
Advisor: Xiaoyin Wang
Topic: TBD -
Shadman Latif
Computer Science
Advisor: Mitra Bokaei Hosseini
Topic: TBD -
Xue Li
Computer Science
Advisor: Palden Lama
Topic: TBD -
Gabriel Morales
Computer Science
Advisor: Rocky Slavin
Topic: TBD -
Enrique Navarro
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Advisor: Ram Krishnan
Topic: TBD -
Kimia Razani
Computer Science
Advisor: Murtuza Jadliwala
Topic: TBD -
Turquoise Richardson
Info Systems and Cyber Security
Advisor: Nicole Beebe
Topic: TBD -
Nisha Vinayaga Sureshkanth
Computer Science
Advisor: Murtuza Jadliwala
Topic: Human activity recognition
PhD Alumni: 52
Graduation Year 2024: 2
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Richard Alvarez
Info Systems and Cyber Security, July 2024
Advisor: Raymond Choo, Nicole Beebe
It’s Not What You Say It’s How You Say It! Leveraging Social Engineering Cues for Phishing Cyber Awareness Training -
Raveen Wijewickrama
Computer Science, July 2024
Advisor: Murtuza Jadliwala
Friend or Foe? Evaluating Motion Sensor-based Information Side-Channels and Covert Communication Channels on Modern Wearable Devices
Graduation Year 2023: 3
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Beatriz A. Galarza
Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching, Aug 2023
Advisor: Guadalupe Carmona
Epistemic Network Analysis to Study Gender Equity in Cyber Security: Women’s Contributions to Computational Thinking in Model-Eliciting -
David Rodriguez
Electrical Engineering, Aug 2023
Advisor: Ram Krishnan
Toward Security and Privacy Enhanced Deep Neural Networks -
Mohd Amjad Sabra
Computer Science, May 2023
Advisor: Murtuza Jadliwala
Addressing Privacy Challenges in Modern Audio-Video Communication Systems and Applications
Graduation Year 2022: 8
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Patricia Akello
Info Systems and Cyber Security, Aug 2022
Advisor: Raymond Choo
Understanding Security Threats in Cloud-Based Shadow It Work-from-Home Applications Using the General Strain Theory Lens -
Eric Ficke
Computer Science, May 2022
Advisors: Ravi Sandhu, Shouhuai Xu
Reconstructing Alert Trees for Cyber Triage -
Randy Klepetko
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dec 2022
Advisor: Ram Krishnan
CNN Analysis on Security Data: Deriving Natural Order in a Nonnatural World -
Kavita Kumari
Computer Science, Aug 2022
Advisor: Murtuza Jadliwala
When and How to Protect? Modeling Repeated Interactions with Computing Services Under Uncertainty -
Mohammad Nur Nobi
Computer Science, Aug 2022
Advisors: Ram Krishnan, Ravi Sandhu
Towards Machine Learning Based Access Control -
Mir M. A. Pritom
Computer Science, Aug 2022
Advisors: Ravi Sandhu, Shouhuai Xu
Defending against Malicious Websites: Themed Threats, Detection, and Law-Enforcement -
Rodney Rodriguez
Computer Science, May 2022
Advisor: Xiaoyin Wang
Static File Path Analysis for Reliable Resource Locating -
Mehrnoosh Shakarami
Computer Science, May 2022
Advisor: Ravi Sandhu
Operation and Administration of Access Control in IoT Environments
Graduation Year 2021: 5
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Safwa Ameer
Computer Science, August 2021
Advisor: Ravi Sandhu
User-to-Device Access Control Models for Cloud-Enabled IoT with Smart Home Case Study -
Shuvra Chakraborty
Computer Science, December 2021
Advisors: Ravi Sandhu, Ram Krishnan
Feasibility Analysis of Access Control Policy Mining -
Huashan Chen
Computer Science, December 2021
Advisors: Ravi Sandhu, Shouhuai Xu
A Framework for Quantifying Security Effectiveness of Cyber Defenses -
Sherifdeen Lawal
Electrical and Computer Engineering, December 2021
Advisor: Ram Krishnan
Policy Review in Attribute-Based Access Control -
Xueling Zhang
Computer Science, 2021
Advisors: Jianwei Niu, Xiaoyin Wang
Reducing False Negatives in Taint Analysis via Hybrid Source Inference
Graduation Year 2020: 6
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Abdullah Al-Alaj
Computer Science, August 2020
Advisors: Ravi Sandhu, Ram Krishnan
Role Based Access Control for Software Defined Networking: Formal Models and Implementation -
Foyzul Hassan
Computer Science, May 2020
Advisor: Xiaoyin Wang
Tackling Build Failures in Continuous Integrations -
John Heaps
Computer Science, August 2020
Advisors: Jianwei Niu, Xiaoyin Wang
Code Element Vector Representations Through the Application of Natural Language Processing Techniques for Automation of Software Privacy Analysis -
Naiwei Liu
Computer Science, December 2020
Advisors: Ravi Sandhu, Meng Yu
Cache-Based Attack and Defense on ARM Platform -
Samir Talegaon
Electrical and Computer Engineering, December 2020
Advisor: Ram Krishnan
Role Based Access Control Models for Android -
Xue Qin
Computer Science, May 2020
Advisor: Xiaoyin Wang
Understanding User Interface for Intelligent Software Analysis and Exploration
Graduation Year 2019: 3
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Richard Garcia-Lebron
Computer Science, August 2019
Advisor: Shouhuai Xu
A Framework for Characterizing Cyber Attack Reconnaissance Behaviors -
Jin Han
Computer Science, December 2019
Advisors: Ravi Sandhu, Meng Yu
Enhancing Security in Clouds through Virtual Machine Placement -
Mitra Bokaei Hosseini
Computer Science, May 2019
Advisors: Jianwei Niu
Information Retrieval and Semantic Inference from Natural Language Privacy Policies
Graduation Year 2018: 4
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Mahmoud Abdelsalam
Computer Science, December 2018
Advisor: Ravi Sandhu
Online Malware Detection in Cloud Auto-Scaling Systems using Performance Metrics -
Asma Alshehri
Computer Science, March 2018
Advisor: Ravi Sandhu
Access Control Models for Cloud-Enabled Internet of Things -
Smriti Bhatt
Computer Science, August 2018
Advisor: Ravi Sandhu
Attribute-based Access and Communication Control Models for Cloud and Cloud-enabled Internet of Things -
Maanak Gupta
Computer Science, December 2018
Advisor: Ravi Sandhu
Secure Cloud Assisted Smart Cars and Big Data: Access Control Models and Implementation
Graduation Year 2017: 5
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Tahmina Ahmed
Computer Science, December 2017
Advisor: Ravi Sandhu
Expressive power, safety and cloud implementation of attribute and relationship based access control models ... -
Prosunjit Biswas
Computer Science, May 2017
Advisors: Ravi Sandhu, Ram Krishnan
Enumerated authorization policy ABAC models: expressive power and enforcement -
Jiwan Ninglekhu
Electrical and Computer Engineering, December 2017
Advisor: Ram Krishnan
Attribute-based administration of role-based access control ... -
Marcus Pendleton
Computer Science, December 2017
Advisors: Shouhuai Xu
System call anomaly detection in multi-threaded programs ... -
Rocky Slavin
Computer Science, August 2017
Advisor: Jianwei Niu
Applying semantic analysis for the alignment of natural language privacy policies with application code
Graduation Year 2016: 3
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Navid Pustchi
Computer Science, May 2016
Advisors: Ravi Sandhu, Ram Krishnan
Authorization federation in multi-tenant multi-cloud IaaS -
Moustafa Saleh
Computer Science, May 2016
Advisor: Shouhuai Xu
Detection and classification of obfuscated malware -
Yun Zhang
Computer Science, December 2016
Advisor: Ravi Sandhu
Secure information and resource sharing in cloud IaaS
Graduation Year 2015: 1
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Khalid Zaman Bijon
Computer Science, May 2015
Advisors: Ravi Sandhu, Ram Krishnan
Constraints for attribute based access control with application in cloud IaaS
Graduation Year 2014: 7
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Yuan Cheng
Computer Science, May 2014
Advisors: Ravi Sandhu, Jae Park
Access control for online social networks using relationship type patterns -
Xin Jin
Computer Science, May 2014
Advisors: Ravi Sandhu, Ram Krishnan
Attribute-based access control models and implementation in cloud infrastructure as a service -
Dang Nguyen
Computer Science, August 2014
Advisors: Ravi Sandhu, Jae Park
Provenance-based access control models -
Bo Tang
Computer Science, August 2014
Advisor: Ravi Sandhu
Multi-tenant access control for cloud services -
Li Xu
Computer Science, August 2014
Advisor: Shouhuai Xu
Detecting and characterizing malicious websites -
Zhenxin Zhan
Computer Science, May 2014
Advisor: Shouhuai Xu
A statistical framework for analyzing cyber attacks -
Qingji Zheng
Computer Science, May 2014
Advisor: Shouhuai Xu
Verifiable delegated computation on outsourced data
Graduation Year 2013: 3
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Omar Haider Chowdhury
Computer Science, August 2013
Advisor: Jianwei Niu
Formally ensuring the permissibility of obligations in security and privacy policies -
Andreas Robert Gampe
Computer Science, December 2013
Advisor: Jeffery von Ronne
A framework for composing security-typed languages -
Hui "Catherine" Shen
Computer Science, May 2013
Advisor: Jianwei Niu
A formal framework for analyzing sequence diagram
Graduation Year 2011: 1
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Murillo Pontual
Computer Science, December 2011
Advisor: Jianwei Niu
Practical user obligation systems that affect and depend on authorizations
Graduation Year 2010: 1
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Timothy Paul Parker
Computer Science, December 2010
Advisor: Shouhuai Xu
Protecting cryptographic keys and functions from malware attacks