{"id":18,"date":"2017-07-07T20:21:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T20:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utsaengineer.wpengine.com\/faculty-page-example\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2025-08-29T13:38:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T18:38:55","slug":"students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ceid.utsa.edu\/rkrishnan\/students\/","title":{"rendered":"Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Current PhD Students:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rusul Alhaddad<br \/>\nPhD in ECE (joined Fall 2024)<br \/>\nTopic: TBA<br \/>\nAdvisor: Ram Krishnan<\/li>\n<li>Omar Aedh<br \/>\nPhD in CS (joined Fall 2022)<br \/>\nTopic: Social Engineering Attack Mitigation<br \/>\nAdvisors: Ram Krishnan and Ravi Sandhu<\/li>\n<li>Pankaj Chhetri<br \/>\nPhD in ECE (joined Spring 2019)<br \/>\nTopic: Machine Learning and Secure IoT<br \/>\nAdvisor: Ram Krishnan<\/li>\n<li>Enrique Navarro Espino<br \/>\nPhD in ECE (joined Spring 2023)<br \/>\nTopic: TBA<br \/>\nAdvisor: Ram Krishnan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Past Students (PhD):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>David Rodriguez, PhD in ECE<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/ceid.utsa.edu\/rkrishnan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2024\/09\/DavidRodriguez_2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toward Security and Privacy Enhanced Deep Neural Networks<\/a>&#8220;<\/em>, August 2023<br \/>\nAdvisor: Ram Krishnan<\/li>\n<li>Randy Klepetko, PhD in ECE<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/ceid.utsa.edu\/rkrishnan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2024\/09\/RandyKlepetko_2022.pdf\">CNN Analysis on Security Data: Deriving Natural Order in a Nonnatural World<\/a>&#8220;<\/em>, December 2022<br \/>\nAdvisor: Ram Krishnan<\/li>\n<li>Mohammad Nur Nobi, PhD in CS<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/ceid.utsa.edu\/rkrishnan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2024\/09\/MohammadNurNobi_2022.pdf\">Towards Machine Learning Based Access Control<\/a>&#8220;<\/em>, August 2022<br \/>\nAdvisors: Ram Krishnan and Ravi Sandhu<br \/>\nFirst employment: FedEx<\/li>\n<li>Sherifdeen Lawal, PhD in ECE<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/ceid.utsa.edu\/rkrishnan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2024\/09\/SherifdeenLawal_2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Policy Review in Attribute Based Access Control<\/a>&#8220;<\/em>, December 2021<br \/>\nAdvisor: Ram Krishnan<\/li>\n<li>Samir Talegaon, PhD in ECE<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/ceid.utsa.edu\/rkrishnan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2024\/09\/SamirTalegaon_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Role Based Access Control for Android<\/a>&#8220;<\/em>, December 2020<br \/>\nAdvisor: Ram Krishnan<br \/>\nFirst employment: UTSA<\/li>\n<li>Abdullah Al-Alaj, PhD in CS<br \/>\n&#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/ceid.utsa.edu\/rkrishnan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2024\/09\/AbdullahAlAlaj_2020.pdf\">Role Based Access Control for Software Defined Networking: Formal Models and Implementation<\/a><\/em>&#8220;, July 2020<br \/>\nAdvisors: Ravi Sandhu and Ram Krishnan<br \/>\nFirst employment: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vwu.edu\/\">Virginia Wesleyan University<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mahmoud Abdelsalam, PhD in CS<br \/>\n&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/ceid.utsa.edu\/rkrishnan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2018\/12\/Mahmoud_Abdelsalam_Dec_2018.pdf\"><em>Online Malware Detection in Cloud Auto-Scaling Systems using Performance Metrics<\/em><\/a>&#8220;, December 2018<br \/>\nAdvisors: Ravi Sandhu and Ram Krishnan<br \/>\nFirst employment: <a href=\"https:\/\/manhattan.edu\/academics\/schools-and-departments\/school-of-science\/.computer-science-dept\/faculty\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manhattan College<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jiwan Ninglekhu, PhD in ECE<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/ceid.utsa.edu\/rkrishnan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2018\/01\/Jiwan_Ninglekhu_Dissertation_Dec_2017.pdf\">Attribute-Based Administration of Role-Based Access Control<\/a>&#8220;<\/em>, Dec 2017<br \/>\nAdvisor: Ram Krishnan<br \/>\nFirst employment: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interdigital.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">InterDigital, Inc.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Navid Pustchi, PhD in CS<br \/>\n&#8220;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/utsaengineer.wpengine.com\/rkrishnan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2017\/08\/Dissertation_Navid_Pustchi.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Authorization Federation in Multi-Tenant Multi-Cloud IaaS<\/a><\/em>&#8220;, April 2016<br \/>\nAdvisors: Ravi Sandhu and Ram Krishnan<br \/>\nFirst employment: <a href=\"https:\/\/turbonomic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Turbonomic<\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Khalid Zaman Bijon, PhD in CS<br \/>\n&#8220;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/utsaengineer.wpengine.com\/rkrishnan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2017\/08\/Dissertation_Khalid_Bijon.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Constraints for Attribute Based Access Control with Application in Cloud IaaS<\/a><\/em>&#8220;, May 2015<br \/>\nAdvisors: Ravi Sandhu and Ram Krishnan<br \/>\nFirst employment: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mosaixsoft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MosaixSoft<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Xin Jin, PhD in CS<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/utsaengineer.wpengine.com\/rkrishnan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2017\/08\/Dissertation_Xin_Jin.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>&#8220;Attribute-Based Access Control Models and Implementation in Cloud Infrastructure as a Service&#8221;<\/em><\/a>, May 2014<br \/>\nAdvisors: Ravi Sandhu and Ram Krishnan<br \/>\nFirst employment: <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon AWS<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Past Students (MS Thesis):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Md. Farhan Haque (MS Thesis) <em>&#8220;A Framework to Detect \u201cDevice Related\u201d Data Collection Violations of Android Apps&#8221;<\/em>, August 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Sanket Lawangare (MS Thesis), <em>&#8220;Integrating Kerberos in OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure as a Service&#8221;<\/em>, August 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Sazzad Masud (MS Thesis), <em>&#8220;Kerberos-Based Authentication for OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure as a Service&#8221;<\/em>, December 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Jiwan Ninglekhu (MS Thesis), <em>&#8220;Securing Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators Using Smartphones&#8221;,<\/em> August 2013.<\/li>\n<li>Nagasaikrishna Narra (MS Thesis), <em>&#8220;Fail-Safe Decentralized Architecture for Advanced Metering Infrastructure&#8221;<\/em>, December 2012.<\/li>\n<li>Santhosh Chandana Golagani (MS Thesis, Co-Advised with <a href=\"https:\/\/ceid.utsa.edu\/%7Edakopian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. David Akopian<\/a>), <em>&#8220;Developing Learning Technologies on Mobile Platforms and Studying Mobile-Server Interactivity&#8221;,<\/em> December 2012.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current PhD 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 &hellip; 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