Alumni
CCT Research Graduates
Abdullah Alshaya
Ph.D. dissertation: “Software-Defined Networking Security Techniques and the Digital Forensics of the SDN Control Plane”
Arash Amini
B.S.
Charlotte Barbrick
M.S. thesis: “Public Understanding of AI-Enabled Cyber Threats and Its Impact on Cybersecurity Governance in the United States”
Brad Baudin
M.S. thesis: “Distributed File Carving”
Charles Beam
B.S.
Lillian Beck
M.S. thesis: “From Network Packets to Physical Consequences: Network-Level Spoofing and Loss of Visibility in Industrial Control Systems”
Joseph Brown
M.S. thesis: “From Devices to the Cloud: Digital Forensics in the Changing Social Media Landscape”
Sarah Buckley
M.S. thesis: “An Analysis and Ontology of Teaching Methods in Cybersecurity Education”
George Buras
M.S. thesis: “Quantitative Risk Analysis for Elections”
Brennen Calato
M.S. thesis: “IIScan: Detection and Analysis of IIS Native Modules in Volatile Memory”
Naireet Chakravorty
M.S. thesis: “Statistical Analysis of Memory Samples Read by the Volatility Framework Using a FUSE Filesystem”
John Luke Denny
M.S. thesis: “Effects of Code Scaffolding in Increasing Student Confidence in Programming Cryptography”
Daniel Donze
M.S. thesis: “Improving Kernel Artifact Extraction in Linux Memory Samples using SLUB Allocator”
Joshua Thomas Dufrechou
B.S.
Joshua Duke
M.S. thesis: “Memory Forensics Comparison of Apple M1 and Intel Architectures Using the Volatility Framework”
Arushi Ghildayal
B.S.
Charles Glass
M.S. thesis: “Malware and Memory Forensics on M1 Macs”
Sam Hildebrand
M.S. thesis: “Large-Scale File Fragment Classification via Multi-View Learning”
Adam Ben Hmida
B.S.
Connor Hummel
M.S. thesis: “Command and Control Mechanisms for Post-Exploitation”
Mohammad Jalalzai
Ph.D. dissertation: “Secure and Efficient BFT Consensus for Blockchains”
Adam Kardorff
M.S. thesis: “Detection and Affects of Cyber Attacks against Industrial Control Systems”
Tre Landaiche
M.S. thesis: “Recovery and Validation of Fragmented RAR Files Through the Scalpel3 Application”
Darrin Lea
M.S. thesis: “Optimizing LLM x86 Assembly Code Comprehension through Fine-Tuning”
Nathan Lewis
M.S. thesis: “Memory Artifacts in the Windows Subsystem for Linux”
Ryan Maggio
Ph.D. dissertation: “Improving Memory Forensics Through Emulation and Program Analysis”
Modhuparna Manna
Ph.D. dissertation: “Using Memory Forensics to Analyze Programming Language Runtimes”
Abdel R. Mansour
B.S.
Joshua Mccain
M.S. thesis: “Explaining and Interpreting Byte-Level File Type Classification in Deep Learning Models”
Kyle McCleary
M.S. thesis: “Time-Robust Evaluation for Multi-Dataset Intrusion Detection Reveals Temporal Shortcuts and Strong Baselines”
Raphaela Mettig
M.S. thesis: “Improving Memory Forensics Capabilities on Apple M1 Computers”
Olame Akim Muliri
B.S.
Jacob Nguyen
B.S.
Abdur Onik
M.S. thesis: “So Fresh, So Clean: Cloud Forensic Analysis of the Amazon iRobot Roomba Vacuum”
Augustine Orgah
Ph.D. dissertation: “MemForC: Memory Forensics Corpus Creation For Malware Analysis”
Shravya Paruchuri
M.S. thesis: “A Dynamic Stress Testing Framework for the Sleuthkit Tools”
Katherine Perez
M.S. thesis: “Privacy at Scale: A Study of Mobile App Privacy Practices”
Chendu Rasiraju
B.S.
Ethan Riley
B.S.
Joshua Rovira
M.S. thesis: “AI-Based Accessibility Widget (AIBAW) Shortcomings for Blind Web Users”
LaSean Salmon
M.S. thesis: “Developing a Framework for Conducting Efficient SCADA HMI Forensic Investigations and the Ignition Forensic Artifact Carving Tool (IFACT)”
Steven Seiden
B.S.
Austin N. Sellers
M.S. thesis: “Automated Extraction of Network Activity From Memory Resident Code”
Arian Shahmirza
M.S. thesis: “High Performance Fuzzing of Memory Forensics Frameworks”
Abby Shinogi
M.S. thesis: “Automated Multi-Platform Testing Infrastructure with Terraform”
Kaitlyn Smith
Publication: “MARS: The first line of defense for IoT incident response”
Nathalia Soares
M.S. thesis: “Evaluating Attack Surface Management in an Industrial Control System (ICS) Environment: Leveraging a Recon FTW for Threat Classification and Incident Response”
Devi Sowjanya
M.S. thesis: “Security Analysis of the Anonabox Pro”
Trevor Spinosa
M.S. thesis: “Money on My Mind: Forensic Investigation of Mobile Payment Transactions Using Cloud-Based API Data from Venmo”
Aditya Srivastava
B.S.
Sneha Sudhakaran
Ph.D. dissertation: “Performing Memory Forensics for Object Recovery from Android Application Memory”
Nicholas Ryan Tanet
B.S.
Clinton Walker
Ph.D. dissertation: “Digital Forensics and AI: Artifact Analysis and Using AI in the Digital Forensics Domain”
Brandon Walton
Publication: “Exploring Large Language Models for Semantic Analysis and Categorization of Android Malware. 2024 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference Workshops”
Edward Wilson
M.S. thesis: “Finding Forensic Evidence in the Operating System's Graphical User Interface”