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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
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