Student Alumni
Ph.D. Students Advised to Completion
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- James Paul MacLennan,
- Thesis Title: “Path-Safe: Enabling Dynamic Mandatory Access Controls Using Security Tokens”, Aug 2023.
- David Elmo
- Thesis Title: “The Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP) Version 1.6 Cyber Rage A Training and Testing Platform”, May 2023.
- Elijah Luke Meyer
- Thesis Title: “Learning-Based Firmware Analysis”, May 2022.
- Daniel Chong
- Thesis Title: “Automated Image Base Inference for ARM-32 Binaries”, May 2022.
- Chuang Li
- Thesis Title: “Automatically Generate Searchable Signatures for WordPress Plugins”, May 2022.
- Jacob Baumgarte
- Thesis Title: “Automatically Fuzzing PHP Interpreter”, May 2022.
- Philip William Lafrance,
- Capstone Project Title: “Studying Fuzzing Techniques for PHP Interpreter”, May 2022.
- Jeremy Porter
- Thesis Title: “Detecting Malicious Behavior in OpenWrt with QEMU Tracing”, July 2019.
- Gregory Buthker
- Thesis Title: “Automated Vehicle ECU Sensor Location Using Feature-Vector Based Comparisons”, May 2019.
- Jin Huang
- Thesis Title: “Building An AST-Oriented Symbolic Execution Engine”, July 2018.
- Ademola Ikusan
- Thesis Title: “Collaboratively Detecting HTTP-based Distributed Denial of Service Attack using Software Defined Network”, Dec 2017.
- Soham Kelkar
- Thesis Title: “Detecting Information Leakage in Android Malware Using Static Taint Analysis”, Dec 2017.
- Steven Kelbley
- Thesis Title: ““Detecting PHP-based Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities Using Static Program Analysis”, Dec 2016.
- Xiaotian Wang
- Thesis Title: “Mission-Aware Vulnerability Assessment for Cyber-Physical Systems”, Dec 2015.
Undergraduate Students
- Jacob Saunders, Honors Project: “Twitter Data Collection for Detection of Defamation”, May 2013.
- Malcolm Richmond, Project: “Network Penetration Testing”, May 2013.