Graduated MS/PhD Students

2004
E. Michael Maximilien, PhD 2004
Advisor: Munindar Singh
Thesis: Autonomic Web Services Trust and Selection

Xinyuan Wang, PhD 2004
Advisor: Douglas Reeves
Thesis: Tracing Intruders behind Stepping Stones

Michael Gegick, MS 2004
Advisor: Laurie Williams
Thesis: Analyzing Security Attacks to Generate Signatures from Vulnerable Architectural Patterns

Joseph C. Sremack, MS 2004
Advisor: Mladen Vouk
Thesis: Formalizing Computer Forensic Analysis: A Proof-Based Methodology

Erkang Zheng, MS 2004
Advisor: Mladen Vouk
Thesis: Interactive Assistance for Anomaly-Based Intrusion Detection

2003
Pinar Yolum, PhD 2003
Advisor: Munindar Singh
Thesis: Emergent Properties of Referral Networks

Yiquan Hu, MS 2003
Advisor: Peng Ning
Thesis: TIAA: A Toolkit for Intrusion Alert Analysis

Prashant Murthy, MS 2003
Advisor: Douglas Reeves
Thesis: Design and Implementation of a Gnutella-Based Reputation Management System

Alfredo Serrano, MS 2003
Advisor: Peng Ning
Thesis: Integrating Alerts From Multiple Homogeneous Intrusion Detection Systems

2002
Bin Yu, PhD 2002
Advisor: Munindar Singh
Thesis: Emergence and Evolution of Agent-Based Referral Networks

Yun Cui, MS 2002
Advisor: Peng Ning
Thesis: A Toolkit for Intrusion Alerts Correlation Based on Prerequisites and Consequences of Attacks

Brian Goff, MS 2002
Advisor: Mladen Vouk
Thesis: Distributed Resource Monitoring Tool and Its Use in Security and Quality of Service Evaluation

Khurram Khan, MS 2002
Advisor: Douglas Reeves
Thesis: COPS Usage for Managing Media Authorization

Vinay Mahadik, MS 2002
Advisor: Douglas Reeves
Thesis: Detection of Denial of QoS Attacks on DiffServ Networks

Current PhD Students
Mine Altunay, PhD student
Advisor: Greg Byrd
Thesis Topic: Authorization in Grid Systems

Kera Bell, PhD student
Advisor: Mladen Vouk
Thesis Topic: Testing Security

Travis Breaux, PhD student
Advisor: Annie I. Antón
Thesis Topic: Privacy Policy Enforcement

Michael Gegick, PhD student
Advisor: Laurie Williams
Thesis Topic: Design of Secure Applications

Qingfeng He, PhD student
Advisor: Annie I. Antón
Thesis Topic: Deriving Access Control Policies from Requirements Specifications

Keith Irwin, PhD student
Advisor: Ting Yu
Thesis Topic: Privacy Protection in Open-System Trust Management

Qinglin Jiang, PhD student
Advisors: Douglas Reeves and Peng Ning
Thesis Topic: Computing Distributed Trust

Donggang Liu, PhD student
Advisor: Peng Ning
Thesis Topic: Security Mechanisms for Wireless Sensor Networks

Nachiappan Nagappan, PhD student
Advisor: Laurie Williams
Thesis Topic: he Software Testing and Reliability Early Warning (STREW) Metric Suite

Mark Sherriff, PhD student
Advisor: Laurie Williams
Thesis Topic: Certificate-based Reliability Estimation

Sarah Smith, PhD student
Advisor: Laurie Williams
Thesis Topic: Static Analysis for Secure Applications

Hema Srikanth, PhD student
Advisor: Laurie Williams
Thesis Topic: Prioritization of Requirements for Test

William Stufflebeam, PhD student
Advisor: Annie I. Antón
Thesis Topic: Specification and Enforcement of Privacy Policy

Kun Sun, PhD student
Advisors: Peng Ning and Cliff Wang
Thesis Topic: Trustworthy and Resilient Clock Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks

Yathi Udupi, PhD student
Advisor: Munindar Singh
Thesis Topic : Trustworthy Knowledge Sharing

Pan Wang , PhD student
Advisors: Douglas Reeves and Peng Ning
Thesis Topic: Security Mechanisms for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

Yonghong Wang, PhD student
Advisor: Munindar Singh
Thesis Topic : Formal Aspect of Trust in Networks of Agents

Dingbang Xu, PhD student
Advisor: Peng Ning
Thesis Topic: Intrusion Alert Correlation

Hai Yuan, PhD student
Advisor: Annie I. Antón
Thesis Topic: Privacy Policy Specification

Jim Yuill, PhD student
Advisors: Mladen Vouk and Annie I. Antón
Thesis Topic: Modeling Deception

Yan Zhai, PhD student
Advisor: Peng Ning
Thesis Topic: Integrating Security Alerts from Multiple Sources

Qing Zhang, PhD student
Advisor: Ting Yu
Thesis Topic: Trust Management for Mission-Critical Sensor Networks

Qinghua Zhang, PhD student
Advisor: Douglas Reeves
Thesis Topic: Security in Sensor Networks

Jiang Zheng, PhD student
Advisor: Laurie Williams
Thesis Topic: In Regression Testing without Code

Current MS Students
Srinath Anatharaju, MS student
Advisor: Peng Ning
Thesis Topic: Resilient In-Network Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks

Jaideep Mahalati, MS student
Advisor: Peng Ning
Thesis Topic: Methods for Specifying Hyper-Alert Types for Intrusion Alert Correlation

Pratik Shah, MS student
Advisor: Peng Ning
Thesis Topic: Secure Cluster Formation in Wireless Sensor Networks