PhD Alumni: 35

Graduation Year 2021: 1

• • Safwa Ameer

    Computer Science, August 2021
    Advisor: Ravi Sandhu
    User-to-Device Access Control Models for Cloud-Enabled IoT with Smart Home Case Study

Graduation Year 2020: 6

• • Abdullah Al-Alaj

    Computer Science, August 2020
    Advisors: Ravi Sandhu and 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 and 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

• • Richard Garcia-Lebron

    Computer Science, August 2019
    Advisors: 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

• • 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

• • 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

• • 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

• • 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

• • 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

• • 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 2012: 0

Graduation Year 2011: 1

• • Murillo Pontual

    Computer Science, December 2011
    Advisor: Jianwei Niu

    Practical user obligation systems that affect and depend on authorizations

Graduation Year 2010: 1

• • Timothy Paul Parker

    Computer Science, December 2010
    Advisor: Shouhuai Xu

    Protecting cryptographic keys and functions from malware attacks