PhD in Progress: 29

• Patricia Akello

  Info Systems and Cyber Security
  Advisor: Raymond Choo
  Topic: Cloud-based insider threat risk identification and mitigation

• Richard Alvarez

  Info Systems and Cyber Security
  Advisors: Raymond Choo, Nicole Beebe
  Topic: Cheating behavior online and blockchain accountability

• Safwa Ameer

  Computer Science
  Advisor: Ravi Sandhu
  Topic: Secure smart home IoT

• Shahira Amin

  Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Advisor: Yanmin Gong
  Topic: Resource management for federated learning over wireless networks

• Shuvra Chakraborty

  Computer Science
  Advisors: Ravi Sandhu, Ram Krishnan
  Topic: ABAC policy mining

• Huashan Chen

  Computer Science
  Advisor: Shouhuai Xu
  Topic: Cyber security metrics

• Kyle Everett

  Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Advisor: Jeff Prevost
  Topic: Securing cloud-based IoT infrastructure using software defined networking and deep learning

• Eric Ficke

  Computer Science
  Advisor: Shouhuai Xu
  Topic: Cyber intrusion data analytics

• Beatriz A. Galarza

  Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching
  Advisor: Guadalupe Carmona
  Topic: Computational thinking in cyber security and cloud computing

• Zhidong Gao

  Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Advisor: Yanmin Gong
  Topic: Cybersecurity and AI

• Md. Farhan Haque

  Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Advisor: Ram Krishnan
  Topic: Secure cyber threat information sharing

• Rui Hu

  Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Advisor: Yanmin Gong
  Topic: Security and privacy on machine learning

• Sunzhou Huang

  Computer Science
  Advisor: Xiaoyin Wang
  Topic: Automatic reproduction of software incompatibility bugs

• Peng Kang

  Computer Science
  Advisors: Palden Lama
  Topic: TBD

• Randy Klepetko

  Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Advisors: Ram Krishnan
  Topic: Malware detection using machine learning

• Kavita Kumari

  Computer Science
  Advisor: Murtuza Jadliwala
  Topic: Security models and mechanism design

• Sherifdeen Lawal

  Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Advisor: Ram Krishnan
  Topic: Attribute based access control review

• Xue Li

  Computer Science
  Advisors: Palden Lama
  Topic: TBD

• Naiwei Liu

  Computer Science
  Advisors: Ravi Sandhu, Meng Yu
  Topic: Side channel attacks

• Mohammad Nur Nobi

  Computer Science
  Advisors: Ram Krishnan, Ravi Sandhu
  Topic: Deep learning based access control

• Mir M. A. Pritom

  Computer Science
  Advisor: Shouhuai Xu
  Topic: Malware data analytics

• David Rodriguez

  Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Advisor: Ram Krishnan
  Topic: Adversarial machine learning

• Rodney Rodriguez

  Computer Science
  Advisor: Xiaoyin Wang
  Topic: Static analysis of scripts for understanding information flows in file systems

• Mohd. Amjad Sabra

  Computer Science
  Advisor: Murtuza Jadliwala
  Topic: Web and application security

• Mehrnoosh Shakarami

  Computer Science
  Advisor: Ravi Sandhu
  Topic: ABAC policies and enforcement models

• Samir Talegaon

  Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Advisor: Ram Krishnan
  Topic: Access control in Android

• Van Trieu-Do

  Mechanical Engineering
  Advisor: Yusheng Feng
  Topic: Networking modeling and prediction for cyber security

• (Brian) Keith Turner

  Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Advisor: Ram Krishnan
  Topic: TBD

• Nisha Vinayaga Sureshkanth

  Computer Science
  Advisor: Murtuza Jadliwala
  Topic: Human activity recognition

• Raveen Wijewickrama

  Computer Science
  Advisor: Murtuza Jadliwala
  Topic: Web and application security

• Bushra Zahed

  Computer Science
  Advisor: Ravi Sandhu
  Topic: Secure cloud computing

• Xueling Zhang

  Computer Science
  Advisors: Jianwei Niu, Xiaoyin Wang
  Topic: Privacy leaks to 3rd parties & dynamic guided static information flow analysis

• Zhenxiao Zhang

  Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Advisors: Yanmin Gong
  Topic: Cybersecurity in machine learning