Team
Members of the Center for Secure and Intelligent Critical Systems research group, current graduate advisees, and where alumni have gone on.
Research Staff
Graduate Students
Ph.D. Alumni
- Md Sharif Ullah (Ph.D.)
- Thesis Title: Towards Characterizing Adversarial Opportunity and Behavior in Critical Infrastructure Networks
- Graduation Year: 2021, First Employer: Assistant Professor, University of Central Arkansas
- Md Ali Reza Al Amin (Ph.D.)
- Thesis Title: Cyber Deception for Critical Infrastructure Resiliency
- Graduation Year: 2022, First Employer: Nokia
- Md Ariful Haque (Ph.D.)
- Thesis Title: Cyber Resilience Analytics for Cyber-Physical Systems
- Graduation Year: 2022, First Employer: Siemens
- Kamrul Hasan (Ph.D.)
- Thesis Title: Cyber Defense Remediation in Energy Delivery Systems
- Graduation Year: 2020, First Employer: Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Tennessee State University
- Marco Gamarra (Ph.D.)
- Thesis Title: A Multi-Agent Systems Approach for Analysis of Stepping Stone Attacks
- Graduation Year: December 2019, First Employer: Air Force Research Lab
- Asmah Muallem (Ph.D.)
- Thesis Title: Threat Detection Using Distributed Ensembles of Hoeffding Trees on Streaming Cyber Datasets
- Graduation Year: May 2018, First Employer: Asurion
- Paul McNeil (Ph.D.)
- Thesis Title: SCREDENT: Scalable Real-time Anomalies Detection and Notification of Targeted Malware in Smartphones
- Graduation Year: December 2016, First Employer: Scrappylock
- Kimberly Gold (Ph.D.)
- Thesis Title: Multisensor Fusion for Secure Mobile Proximity Detection
- Graduation Year: December 2016, First Employer: Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane
- Ashraf Al Sharah (Ph.D.)
- Thesis Title: Integrated Game Theoretic and Network Integrity Scheme to Detect and Mitigate Insider Threats in MANET and Colluding Jamming Attacks
- Graduation Year: May 2016
- Biswajit Biswal (Ph.D.)
- Thesis Title: Secure Measurement Based Geolocation to Locate Data in Cloud Data Centers
- Graduation Year: May 2016, First Employer: South Carolina State University
- Sai Kiran Mukkavilli (Ph.D.)
- Thesis Title: Network Traffic Anomaly Detection for IaaS Cloud
- Graduation Year: August 2016, First Employer: Tennessee State University
- Hellen Maziku (Ph.D.)
- Thesis Title: Towards Infrastructure Based Software Defined Security
- Graduation Year: August 2016, First Employer: Tennessee State University
M.S. & M.E. Alumni
- Waled Tayib (M.S.)
- Thesis Title: Machine Learning as a Service using Apache Spark
- Graduation Year: May 2016, First Employer: Asurion
- Divya Guntu (M.S.)
- Thesis Title: User Behavior Modeling for the Prediction, Profiling and Detection of Malware in Mobile Devices
- Graduation Year: August 2016, First Employer: HCA
- Gauree Barve (M.S.)
- Thesis Title: DROIDDOCKER: Dynamic Analysis of Android Applications on Docker
- Graduation Year: August 2016, First Employer: Hitactics
- Kodanda Ram Reddy Tippy Reddy (M.S.)
- Thesis Title: Network-Aware Bandwidth Provisioning for Service Level Agreement Assurance
- Graduation Year: August 2016
- Kamrul Hasan (M.S.)
- Thesis Title: Cross-Layer Attack on GSM Mobile Networks Using Software Defined Radios
- Graduation Year: August 2016, First Employer: Ph.D. student, ODU
- Taiwo Oyedare (M.S.)
- Thesis Title: A Reputation-Based Coalition Game to Detect and Prevent Insider Smart Jamming Attacks in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
- Graduation Year: August 2016, First Employer: Ph.D. student, Virginia Tech
- James Savage (M.S.)
- Thesis Title: Detection of Co-Resident Virtual Machines using Network Traffic Patterns
- Graduation Year: August 2016, First Employer: HealthTrust Purchasing Group
- Prasanthi Yughandhar (M.S.)
- Thesis Title: Dynamic Analysis of Android Malware using Droidbox
- Graduation Year: May 2016
- Priya Chaurasia (M.S.)
- Thesis Title: Dynamic Analysis of Android Malware using Droidbox
- Graduation Year: December 2015, First Employer: Take Care Health Systems
- Ayodeji Borode (M.S.)
- Thesis Title: Cloud Based Opportunistic Access for Cognitive Radio Networks
- Graduation Year: May 2015, First Employer: Community Health Systems
- Sabah Alzharani (M.S.)
- Thesis Title: Scalable Network Traffic Analysis on Cloud Computing Platform
- Graduation Year: May 2015, First Employer: Ph.D. student, TSU
- Laila Almutairi (M.S.)
- Thesis Title: Scalable Evolutionary Computation for Efficient Information Extraction from Remote Sensed Imagery
- Graduation Year: December 2014, First Employer: Ph.D. student, TSU
- Gao Pan (M.S.)
- Thesis Title: Exploration of Genetic Algorithm Optimal Parameters for Feature Extraction from Remotely Sensed Imagery
- Graduation Year: December 2014, First Employer: CommVault
- Manu Misra (M.S.)
- Thesis Title: Network Bandwidth Provisioning for Ensuring Service Level Agreement (SLA)-Based Service Guarantees
- Graduation Year: December 2014, First Employer: V-soft Consulting
- Prachi Mandil (M.S.)
- Thesis Title: Cloud Based Detection System to Protect Android Smartphone Devices from Man-in-the-Middle Attacks
- Graduation Year: December 2013, First Employer: eClinicalWorks
- Khurram Raza (M.S.)
- Thesis Title: Secure Radio Resource Management in Cloud Computing Based Cognitive Radio Networks
- Graduation Year: December 2013
- Husam Adas (M.S.)
- Thesis Title: Cloud Computing Based Detection of Malicious URL Attacks on Android Smartphones
- Graduation Year: December 2013, First Employer: Asurion
- Swetha Reddy Lenkala (M.S.)
- Thesis Title: Risk Assessment of Cloud Carrier
- Graduation Year: December 2012, First Employer: Towers Watson
- Asmah Muallem (M.S.)
- Thesis Title: Visualizing Geolocation of Spam Email
- Graduation Year: December 2012, First Employer: Asurion
- Hellen Maziku (M.S.)
- Thesis Title: Enhancing the Classification Accuracy of IP Geolocation
- Graduation Year: May 2012, First Employer: Ph.D. student, TSU
- Ermias Tedla (M.S.)
- Thesis Title: Intercepting Filter Approach to Detect and Prevent SQL Injection Attacks on Vulnerable SQL Codes
- Graduation Year: December 2011
- Kodzo Agbedanu (M.E.)
- Thesis Title: Spectrum Access in Multi-User Multi-Channel Environment Using the Hungarian and Greedy Algorithms in a Cognitive Radio Network
- Graduation Year: December 2010, First Employer: Verizon
Postdoctoral & Research Staff Alumni
- Md Shirajum Munir — Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of West Georgia
- Bikash Singh — Assistant Professor, California State University, Fresno (Fresno State)
- Xueping Liang — Assistant Professor, Florida International University
- Deepak Tosh — Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso
- Uttam Ghosh — Associate Professor, Meharry Medical College
- Juan Zhao — Postdoctoral Research Associate, Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University
- Yu Wang — Big Data Developer, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Vasanth Iyer — Visiting Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Oklahoma State University
- Xuebiao Yuchi — Research Scientist, China Internet Network Information Center
- Lingchen Zhang — Research Scientist, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Tan Le — Assistant Professor, Hampton University
- Yan Lu — Assistant Professor, Christopher Newport University
- Masud Rana — Assistant Professor, Old Dominion University
- Sarada Prasad — Assistant Professor, IIT Jammu