Current Students

• • Kshitiz Aryal (PhD, Starting Spring 2021 - Present)

  • Tanjila Mawla (PhD, Starting Spring 2021 - Present)

  • Lopamudra Praharaj (PhD, Starting Fall 2021 - Present)

  • Charan Kumar Akiri (PhD, Starting Spring 2023  - Present)

  • Marlana Hatcher (PhD, Starting Spring 2023 - Present)

  • Pradip Kunwar (PhD, Starting Fall 2023 - Present)

  • Daniel Simpson (Expected MS Fall 2023)

  • Elena Becker (Expected MS Fall 2023)

  • Quincy Card (Expected MS Spring 2024)

  • Yoshinori Agari (Expected MS Spring 2024)

Past Graduate Students

1. Ahsan Ayub (PhD Spring 2023)

Thesis: A Data-Driven Approach for Early Detection of Cryptographic Windows Ransomware

First Employer: TBD

2. Austin M Brown (MS Summer 2022)

Thesis: Automated Machine Learning for Malware Detection with Deep Learning

First Employer: Department of Defense

3. Philip A Brown (MS Summer 2022)

Thesis: Online Malware Classification with System-Wide System Calls in the Cloud 

First Employer: Department of Defense

4. Jeffrey C Kimmel (MS Spring 2022)

Thesis: Analyzing and Explaining Machine Learning based Online Malware Detection in Cloud 

First Employer: Oak Ridge National Laboratory

5. Sina Sontowski (MS Spring 2022)

Thesis: Exploration and Detection of Denial-of-Service Attacks on Cyber-Physical Systems

First Employer: Los Alamos National Laboratory 

6. Mary A Adkisson (MS Spring 2022)

Thesis: Detection and Classification of Polyglot Files Using Machine Learning

First Employer: Sandia National Laboratory

7. Andrew D McDole (MS Spring 2021)

Thesis: Analyzing Online Behavioral Malware Detection in Cloud using Convolutional Neural Networks

First Employer: Federal Bureau of Investigation

Past Associated Students

8. Arvin Sanchez 

9. Jessica E Baugh

10. Hayden Keller

11. Glen Cathey (BS Summer 2022)

12. Thanh Pham Kim (BS Spring 2021)

13. Jacob Strikler (BS Spring 2021)

14. Marlana Hatcher

15. Pallavi Zambare