My Students

These are my students; I’m very proud of them!

Current Students

These students are currently working with me. They are both Masters’ and Ph.D. students. Some students who start out in the Ph.D. program change goals as their interests change, and decide to leave with a Master’s. Others start out in the Master’s program, and decide they want to get a Ph.D. The people who have advanced to candidacy are well into the Ph.D. track, so I’ve identified them—congratulations to them all! But whether the students are in the Master’s program or the Ph.D. program, they are all doing interesting, important work.

Bhume Bhumiratana, Ph.D. candidate
S. Terry Brugger, Ph.D. candidate
Sophie Engle, Ph.D. candidate
Nina Gholami
Deborah May, Ph.D. candidate
B.J. Orvis
Sean Whalen, Ph.D. candidate

Past Students

These students all completed theses under my supervision. All have all graduated. Where I know of their current affiliation, I’ve listed it. I’d greatly appreciate any corrections and updates to this list, especially if I’ve forgotten someone or gotten the place or year wrong!

Adam Carlson, M.S. (2006)
THESIS TITLE: The Unifying Policy Hierarchy Model
Lisa Clark, M.S. (2007)
THESIS TITLE: Sanitizing Data to Prevent Disclosing Exact Network Topology
AFFILIATION: SBC
Joel Dodson, M.S. (1996)
THESIS TITLE: Specification and Classification of Generic Security Flaws for the Tester’s Assistant Library
George Fink, Ph.D. (1996)
THESIS TITLE: Discovering Security and Safety Flaws using Property-Based Testing
AFFILIATION: Sun Microsystems
Andrew Gross, UC San Diego (1997); co-advised with Prof. Réné Cruz
THESIS TITLE: Analyzing Computer Intrusions
Eric Haugh, M.S. (2002)
THESIS TITLE: Testing C Programs for Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
AFFILIATION: Google
Damien Howard, M.S. (2007)
THESIS TITLE: Developing an Attack Tool Database
John Hughes, M.S. (2000)
THESIS TITLE: Conservation of Flow as a Security Mechanism in Network Protocols
Vincent Law, M.S. (2003)
THESIS TITLE: Vulnerability Database Integration with Intrusion Detection Systems
Patrick LeBlanc, M.S. (2002)
THESIS TITLE: A Property-Based Static Code Analysis
George Lin, M.S. (1995)
THESIS TITLE: Counting Cleartext Passwords
Guillermo Marro, M.S. (2003)
THESIS TITLE: Attacks at the Data Link Layer
AFFILIATION: Flowgate Security Consulting
Peter Mell, M.S. (1998)
THESIS TITLE: Automatic Policy Satisfaction and Verification for Intranet Wide Defense Systems Using Signature Based Intrusion Detection and Response Systems
AFFILIATION: Computer Security Division, Information Technology Laboratory, NIST
David Peterson, M.S. (2002)
THESIS TITLE: A Flexible Containment Mechanism for Executing Untrusted Code
Sean Peisert, Ph.D., UC San Diego (2007); unofficially co-advised with Prof. Sid Karin
THESIS TITLE: A Model of Forensic Analysis Using Goal-Oriented Logging
Elliot Proebstel, M.S. (2008)
THESIS TITLE: Characterizing and Improving Distributed Network-based Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS): Timestamp Synchronization and Sampled Traffic
AFFILIATION: Sandia National Laboratories
Tom Ristenpart, M.S. (2005)
THESIS TITLE: Time Stamp Synchronization of Distributed Sensor Logs: Impossibility Results and Approximation Algorithms
AFFILIATION: Graduate student in computer science at UC San Diego
Deanna Rogers, M.S. (2004)
THESIS TITLE: Host-level Deception as a Defense against Insiders
AFFILIATION: Intel
Tom Walcott, Ph.D. (2004)
THESIS TITLE: Malfeasance: A Model to Describe Traducement, Libel, Heresy, And Other Traditional Security Policies
Patrick Wheeler, M.S. (2006)
THESIS TITLE: Techniques for Improving the Performance of Signature-Based Network Intrusion Detection Systems
Jingmin Zhou, Ph.D. (2008)
THESIS TITLE: Alert Reduction for Network Intrusion Detection
AFFILIATION: Packet Motion

Graduate life—it’s not just a job, it’s an indenture.

Last updated on Friday, April 11, 2008 at 05:37:21AM PDT