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