Current Researchers

Mahmoud Srewa
PhD Student, Computer Science

Mahmoud joined the lab in the Spring 2024.

Ahmed Bakr
PhD Student, Computer Science

Ahmed joined the lab in the Spring 2024. Ahmed received the BS and MS degrees (Hons.) in Electrical Engineering from Benha University, Egypt, in 2014 and 2020, respectively. He has more than seven years of experience in the automotive software industry. His research interests include security and privacy in IoT, vehicular ad hoc networks, and automotive software development

Zachary Weske
PhD Student, Computer Science

Zach joined the lab in the Spring 2024. Zach's research interests are open-source software security. This interest comes fro recent vulnerabilities found in recent open-source software projects, such as the xz lib with ssh.

Abul Kalam Azad
PhD Student, Computer Science

Abul Kalam has joined the lab in the Fall of 2023. He received BSc (Engg) in Computer Science and Telecommunication Engineering from Noakhali Science and Technology University, Bangladesh in 2010, and MSc in Information and Communication Technology from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh in 2016. He has about 10 years of academic experience. His research interest includes Machine Learning, Cyber Security, and the Internet of Things.

Ridwan Bello
PhD Student, Computer Science

Ridwan joined the lab in the Fall 2023. He is broadly interested in Deep Learning, Explainable AI, and Affective Computing. His current research focuses on developing fair and robust Explainable Machine Learning models and applying them to applications such as facial expression and facial pain intensity recognition systems.

Alex Gundrum
BS Student, Computer Science

Alex joined the lab in the Fall 2023.

Evan Hardt
BS Student, Computer Science

Evan joined the lab in the Fall 2023.

Ella Dierlam
BS Student, Computer Science

Ella joined the lab in the Fall 2023.

Liam Tucker
BS Student, Computer Science

Liam joined the lab in the Fall 2023.

Adbulaziz Almousa
PhD Student, Computer Science

Adbulaziz joined the lab in the Spring 2023. His reserach areas of interest are in computer vision and machine learning. Currently, he is focused on advancing object detection techniques, particularly for occluded objects.

Kelvin Ovabor
PhD Student, Computer Science

Kelvin joined the lab in the Fall of 2022. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering as well as two distinct MS degrees, one in Information Technology and the other in Medical Statistics. He has about ten years of academic and industrial experience. Currently, his research concentration lies in developing and implementing innovative algorithms to address security challenges in constrained systems. His areas of interest include Machine learning, Cyber Security, Control Systems, Data Science, e-health, and Mathematical Modeling.

Lucas Underbakke
BS Student, Computer Science

Lucas joined the lab in the Fall 2021.

Anderson Liddle
BS and MS Student, Computer Science

Anderson joined the lab in the Spring 2021.

Sinan Al Ani
PhD Student, Computer Science

Sinan joined the lab in the Spring 2020. His reserach focuses on cybers ecurity, data aggregation, IoT, and intelligent transportation systems (ITS) security. His research introduces a predictive approach using long short-term memory (LSTM) models to detect and mitigate Sybil attacks in adaptive traffic signal controllers (ATSC), enhancing security in the ITS realm. With a focus on developing secure data aggregation techniques and addressing Sybil, jamming, and timing attacks, Sinan is dedicated to advancing secure and efficient data communication methods in both IoT and ITS.

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.




Past Researchers

 Andrew Renniger (2021-2024)

 Reaghan Dougherty (2022-2024)

 Sarah Scott (2021-2024)

 Rubana Hossain Munia (2022-2023)

 Hana Park (2021-2023)

 Nick Callahan (2021-2023)

 Ashton Johnson (2021-2023)

 Stephen Kirby (2020-2023)

 Nicholas Muscolino (2020-2023)

 Chen Wang (2019-2023)

 Jonah Sussman (2020-2022)

 Ashley Phan (2019-2022)

 Savannah Grasmick (2020-2022)

 Cole Robbins (2019-2022)

 Chandler Staggs (2019-2022)

 Inyene Akpan (2019-2021)

 Russell Weas (2020-2021)

 Stephen Sottosanti (2020-2021)

 Laura Malis (2018-2021)

 Ben Hallihan (2019-2021)

 Michael Lee (2017-2021)

 Abigail Payne (2017-2021)

 Md Shariful Haque (2015-2020)

 Myles McLeroy (2018-2020)

 Leete Skinner (2017-2020)

 Jake Wachs (2018-2020)

 Nehal Vora (2018-2020)

 Vaughn Poe (2015-2019)

 Blake Wright (2018-2019)

 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

 Harley Davis (2014-2015)

 Megan Ford (2013-2015)

 Christian Dean (2013-2015)

 Jordan Lafont (2012-2015)

 Rodney Chism (2011-2015)

 Robert Plummer (2011-2015)

 Joshua Hammons (2010-2015)

 Nathan Wallace (2011-2014) Cybirical - Mandeville, LA

 James Poore (2011-2014) Alert Logic - Houston, TX

 Juan Flores (2010-2012) American Greetings

 Jan Durand (2010-2012) Seismic Exchange - Houston, TX