Current Researchers
Ben Hallihan
Sophomore, Computer Science and Mathematics
Ben joined the lab in the Spring 2019. He is a member of the Randall Research Scholars program conducting a research project called "Using Isochrones to Examine Transportation Modalities." Ben's other research interests include the dark web, artificial intelligence, and data science. His career interests include software development and data analytics.
Md Shariful Haque
PhD Student, Computer Science
Md Shariful Haque received his B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering in 2008 from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is now a Ph.D. student in the department of Computer Science at the University of Alabama and has been working as a part of the Digital Forensics and Control Systems Security Lab since August 2015. His research interests lie in the areas of cloud security and privacy.
Michael Lee
PhD Student, Computer Science
Michael joined the lab in Fall 2017. Michael is working on enhancing performance of Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks by optimising performance around intersections in conjunction with Dr. Hong. His research interests include graph theory, machine learning, and algorithms.
Harry May
PhD Student, Computer Science
Harry joined the lab in Fall 2014. His research centers around the detection and mitigation of various wormhole attacks in wireless and mobile ad hoc networks. Harry is specifically interested in the detection and mitigation of wormhole attacks in applications using Ad Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) Routing.
Myles McLeroy
Sophomore, Computer Science and Mathematics
Myles joined the lab in Fall 2018. He is conducting a research project titled "Using Isochrones to Examine Transportation Modalities" in conjunction with the Randall Research Scholars Program. His research interests lie
in the limitless applications of machine learning, and in particular the potential of deep reinforcement learning. He looks forward to interning with Qubos on the Brain team at Google this summer where he will be utilizing advanced machine learning optimization techniques to reduce ad latency across the web.
Abigail Payne
Junior, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Abigail joined the lab in Fall 2017. She is working on her research topic of License Plate Detection and Recognition in conjunction with the Randall Research Scholars Program at The University of Alabama.
Her research interests include the broad field of artificial intelligence; specifically in machine learning and biometric computer vision.
Vaughn Poe
PhD Student, Computer Science
Leete Skinner
Senior, Mechanical Engineering
Leete joined the lab in Fall 2017. He enjoys building and analyzing datasets generated from public websites via scraping. Specifically, he is intrigued by the flow of information between media platforms like news outlets, social media, and lower traffic websites, and how users interact with content and each other. Furthermore, he is interested in the application of unsupervised classification algorithms to extract hidden information from data sets. Leete also is fascinated by network security, and is continually learning more about networking and security systems, as well as data mining and artificial intelligence techniques.
Jake Wachs
Junior, Computer Science
Jake joined the lab in Fall 2018. He enjoys conducting cybersecurity-related research including mesh networks for parallel computing, penetration testing, and malware reverse engineering. His interests focus on leveraging advanced technology in applications that could potentially be helpful to the U.S. national defense posture.
Nehal Vora
Sophomore, Computer Science and Mathematics
Nel joined the lab in Fall 2018.
Blake Wright
Sophomore, Management Information Systems
Blake joined the lab in Spring 2018. He is part of the Randall Research Scholars Program and working on a project titled “Using Isochrones to Examine Transportation Modalities”. His other research interests include technology in the workplace and sports analytics.
Past Researchers
Tzofi Klinghoffer (2017-2018) MIT Lincoln Lab - Lexington, MA
Miclain Keffeler (2016-2018) Autozone - Memphis, TN
Sungkyun (Sung) Kim (2016-2018)
Luke Herbert (2014-2017) Cybirical - Mandeville, LA
Matthew Leeds (2016-2017) Endless Computers - San Francisco, CA
Eric Mallmann (2016-2016)
Kyle Galloway (2015-2016) Lockheed Martin - Huntsville, AL
Sean Semple (2013-2016)
Bronwyn Mullen (2015-2015)
Stanislav Ponomarev (2012-2015) BBN Technologies - Cambridge, MA
Nathan Wallace (2011-2014) Cybirical - Mandeville, LA
James Poore (2011-2014) Alert Logic - Houston, TX
Harley Davis (2014-2015)
Megan Ford (2013-2015)
Christian Dean (2013-2015)
Jordan Lafont (2012-2015)
Juan Flores (2010-2012) American Greetings
Jan Durand (2010-2012) Seismic Exchange - Houston, TX
Rodney Chism (2011-2015)
Robbert Plummer (2011-2015)
Joshua Hammons (2010-2015)