Students

Current Students:

  • Rusul Alhaddad
    PhD in ECE (joined Fall 2024)
    Topic: TBA
    Advisor: Ram Krishnan
  • Omar Aedh
    PhD in CS (joined Fall 2022)
    Topic: Social Engineering Attack Mitigation
    Advisors: Ram Krishnan and Ravi Sandhu
  • Pankaj Chhetri
    PhD in ECE (joined Spring 2019)
    Topic: Machine Learning and Secure IoT
    Advisor: Ram Krishnan
  • Enrique Navarro Espino
    PhD in ECE (joined Spring 2023)
    Topic: TBA
    Advisor: Ram Krishnan
  • John Yunger
    MS in ECE (joined Fall 2024)
    Topic: TBA
    Advisor: Ram Krishnan

Past Students (PhD):

  1. David Rodriguez, PhD in ECE
    “Toward Security and Privacy Enhanced Deep Neural Networks“, August 2023
    Advisor: Ram Krishnan
  2. Randy Klepetko, PhD in ECE
    “CNN Analysis on Security Data: Deriving Natural Order in a Nonnatural World“, December 2022
    Advisor: Ram Krishnan
  3. Mohammad Nur Nobi, PhD in CS
    “Towards Machine Learning Based Access Control“, August 2022
    Advisors: Ram Krishnan and Ravi Sandhu
    First employment: FedEx
  4. Sherifdeen Lawal, PhD in ECE
    “Policy Review in Attribute Based Access Control“, December 2021
    Advisor: Ram Krishnan
  5. Samir Talegaon, PhD in ECE
    “Role Based Access Control for Android“, December 2020
    Advisor: Ram Krishnan
    First employment: UTSA
  6. Abdullah Al-Alaj, PhD in CS
    “Role Based Access Control for Software Defined Networking: Formal Models and Implementation“, July 2020
    Advisors: Ravi Sandhu and Ram Krishnan
    First employment: Virginia Wesleyan University
  7. Mahmoud Abdelsalam, PhD in CS
    “Online Malware Detection in Cloud Auto-Scaling Systems using Performance Metrics“, December 2018
    Advisors: Ravi Sandhu and Ram Krishnan
    First employment: Manhattan College
  8. Jiwan Ninglekhu, PhD in ECE
    “Attribute-Based Administration of Role-Based Access Control“, Dec 2017
    Advisor: Ram Krishnan
    First employment: InterDigital, Inc.
  9. Navid Pustchi, PhD in CS
    “Authorization Federation in Multi-Tenant Multi-Cloud IaaS“, April 2016
    Advisors: Ravi Sandhu and Ram Krishnan
    First employment: Turbonomic
  10. Khalid Zaman Bijon, PhD in CS
    “Constraints for Attribute Based Access Control with Application in Cloud IaaS“, May 2015
    Advisors: Ravi Sandhu and Ram Krishnan
    First employment: MosaixSoft
  11. Xin Jin, PhD in CS
    “Attribute-Based Access Control Models and Implementation in Cloud Infrastructure as a Service”, May 2014
    Advisors: Ravi Sandhu and Ram Krishnan
    First employment: Amazon AWS

Past Students (MS Thesis):

  1. Md. Farhan Haque (MS Thesis) “A Framework to Detect “Device Related” Data Collection Violations of Android Apps”, August 2015.
  2. Sanket Lawangare (MS Thesis), “Integrating Kerberos in OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure as a Service”, August 2015.
  3. Sazzad Masud (MS Thesis), “Kerberos-Based Authentication for OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure as a Service”, December 2014.
  4. Jiwan Ninglekhu (MS Thesis), “Securing Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators Using Smartphones”, August 2013.
  5. Nagasaikrishna Narra (MS Thesis), “Fail-Safe Decentralized Architecture for Advanced Metering Infrastructure”, December 2012.
  6. Santhosh Chandana Golagani (MS Thesis, Co-Advised with Dr. David Akopian), “Developing Learning Technologies on Mobile Platforms and Studying Mobile-Server Interactivity”, December 2012.