Junjie Zhang

Junjie Zhang

Associate Professor · Director of the Cyber Security Program

Student Alumni

Ph.D. Students Advised to Completion

  1. Daniel J. Grahn, Dissertation: “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: “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: “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: “Data-Driven Network-Centric Threat Assessment,” May 2017, First employment: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY, USA.

M.S. Students Advised to Completion

  1. Chirag Bhaveshkumar Soni, Thesis: “Cluster-Aware Vulnerability Detection: A Systematic Evaluation Across Imbalance Ratios,” Jul. 2026.

  2. Neelima Gurram, Thesis: “Do Graph Neural Network Explanations Hold Under Adversarial Attack? A Robustness Study of GNNExplainer,” Apr. 2026.

  3. Atul Pokharel, Thesis: “REFUN: A Reasoning-Guided Multi-Modal Mixture-of-Experts Framework for Open-Vocabulary Function Name Inference from Stripped Binaries,” Apr. 2026.

  4. Hootan Alavizadeh, Thesis: “Re-Parameterizing Adversarial Reprogramming in Low-Dimensional Subspace for Efficient Software Vulnerability Detection,” Apr. 2025.

  5. James Paul MacLennan, Thesis: “Path-Safe: Enabling Dynamic Mandatory Access Controls Using Security Tokens,” Jul. 2023.

  6. David Elmo II, Thesis: “The Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP) Version 1.6 Cyber Range A Training and Testing Platform,” Apr. 2023.

  7. Jacob S. Baumgarte, Thesis: “Fuzzing PHP Interpreters By Automatically Generating Samples,” Apr. 2023.

  8. Elijah Luke Meyer, Thesis: “Evaluating Similarity of Cross-Architecture Basic Blocks,” Apr. 2022.

  9. Daniel Chong, Thesis: “Automatically Inferring Image Bases of ARM32 Binaries,” Apr. 2022.

  10. Chuang Li, Thesis: “Automatically Generating Searchable Fingerprints For WordPress Plugins Using Static Program Analysis,” Apr. 2022.

  11. Jeremy Porter, Thesis: “Detecting Malicious Behavior in OpenWrt with QEMU Tracing,” Jul. 2019.

  12. Gregory S. Buthker, Thesis: “Automated Vehicle Electronic Control Unit (ECU) Sensor Location Using Feature-Vector Based Comparisons,” Apr. 2019.

  13. Jin Huang, Thesis: “Building an Abstract-Syntax-Tree-Oriented Symbolic Execution Engine for PHP Programs,” Apr. 2018.

  14. Ademola A. Ikusan, Thesis: “Collaboratively Detecting HTTP-based Distributed Denial of Service Attack using Software Defined Network,” Dec. 2017.

  15. Soham Kelkar, Thesis: “Detecting Information Leakage in Android Malware Using Static Taint Analysis,” Dec. 2017.

  16. Steven M. Kelbley, Thesis: “Detecting PHP-based Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities Using Static Program Analysis,” Dec. 2016.

  17. Xiaotian Wang, Thesis: “Mission-Aware Vulnerability Assessment for Cyber-Physical System,” Aug. 2015.

Undergraduate Students

  1. Jacob Saunders, Honors project: “Twitter Data Collection for Detection of Defamation,” May 2013.