Student Alumni

Ph.D. Students Advised to Completion

  1. Daniel Grahn
    • Dissertation Title: “Understanding and Enhancing the Efficiency and Efficacy of Machine Learning-Assisted Software Vulnerability Detection”, Dec. 2023,
    • First Employment: Principal Data Scientist at Altamira Technologies Corporation, Dayton, OH, USA.
  2. Jin Huang
    • Dissertation Title: “Detecting Server-Side Web Applications with Unrestricted File Upload Vulnerabilities”, May 2021,
    • First Employment: Software Engineer at Google Inc, Mountain View, CA, USA.
  3. Yu Li
    • Dissertation Title: “Securing Modern Cyberspace using a Multi-Faceted Approach”, May 2019,
    • First Employment: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University (China), Shenyang, Liaoning, China.
  4. Dae Wook Kim
    • Dissertation Title: “Data-Driven Network-Centric Threat Assessment”, May 2017,
    • First Employment: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY, USA.

M.S. Students Advised to Completion

  1. James Paul MacLennan,
    • Thesis Title: “Path-Safe: Enabling Dynamic Mandatory Access Controls Using Security Tokens”, Aug 2023.
  2. David Elmo
    • Thesis Title: “The Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP) Version 1.6 Cyber Rage A Training and Testing Platform”, May 2023.
  3. Elijah Luke Meyer
    • Thesis Title: “Learning-Based Firmware Analysis”, May 2022.
  4. Daniel Chong
    • Thesis Title: “Automated Image Base Inference for ARM-32 Binaries”, May 2022.
  5. Chuang Li
    • Thesis Title: “Automatically Generate Searchable Signatures for WordPress Plugins”, May 2022.
  6. Jacob Baumgarte
    • Thesis Title: “Automatically Fuzzing PHP Interpreter”, May 2022.
  7. Philip William Lafrance,
    • Capstone Project Title: “Studying Fuzzing Techniques for PHP Interpreter”, May 2022.
  8. Jeremy Porter
    • Thesis Title: “Detecting Malicious Behavior in OpenWrt with QEMU Tracing”, July 2019.
  9. Gregory Buthker
    • Thesis Title: “Automated Vehicle ECU Sensor Location Using Feature-Vector Based Comparisons”, May 2019.
  10. Jin Huang
    • Thesis Title: “Building An AST-Oriented Symbolic Execution Engine”, July 2018.
  11. Ademola Ikusan
    • Thesis Title: “Collaboratively Detecting HTTP-based Distributed Denial of Service Attack using Software Defined Network”, Dec 2017.
  12. Soham Kelkar
    • Thesis Title: “Detecting Information Leakage in Android Malware Using Static Taint Analysis”, Dec 2017.
  13. Steven Kelbley
    • Thesis Title: ““Detecting PHP-based Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities Using Static Program Analysis”, Dec 2016.
  14. Xiaotian Wang
    • Thesis Title: “Mission-Aware Vulnerability Assessment for Cyber-Physical Systems”, Dec 2015.

Undergraduate Students

  1. Jacob Saunders, Honors Project: “Twitter Data Collection for Detection of Defamation”, May 2013.
  2. Malcolm Richmond, Project: “Network Penetration Testing”, May 2013.