AssurableNet Research Center

Faculty

• Ehab Al-Shaer Director and Investigator
• Will Marrero Investigator
• Gregory B. Brewster Investigator
• John McDonald Investigator
• Iyad Kanj Collaborator
• Radha Jagadeesan Collaborator
• James Riely Collaborator
• Corin Pitcher Collaborator
• Bamshad Mobasher Collaborator

Current Students

• Bin Zhang PhD Candidate, Thesis: On Optimizing Policy Configuration and Information Correlation for Network Security
• Adel El-Atawy PhD Candidate, Thesis: Modeling and Analysis of Security Attacks and Counter-measures based on Network Behavior
• Mohamed Taibah PhD Student, Modeling and Defense of Sanning Worm
• Taghrid Samak PhD Candidate, Thesis: "Modeling, Discovery and Analysis of Network Access Control Policies"
• Khalid Elbadawi PhD Student

Previous Students

• Hazem Hamed PhD (Cisco System), Thesis: “Verification and Optimization of Firewall Policies”, 2005
• Shimeng Feng MS Studnet , Project: "Security Policy Visualization"
• Tung Tran MSc (U Waterloo), Thesis: “Security Policy Visualization and Debugging”, 2008
• Khalid Alsubhi MSc (U Waterloo), Thesis: “Automatic Alert Prioritization in Intrusion Detection Systems”, 2006-current
• Kyle Smith MS Studnet , Thesis: Spam Botnet Detection
• Anh Le MSc (U Waterloo), Thesis: “Load Balancing in Distributed Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems”, 2008
• Mohammed Ashraf Khan PhD Student (PhD Student at UNCC)
• Sk. Kajal Imon PhD Student
• Walter Goulet MSc (Motorola) , Thesis: “IPSecRMS: Automatic Generation of IPSec Security Policies Considering Mission Objectives and Risk Analysis”, Oct 2007
• Shridhar Sheth MSc, Thesis: “Firewall Query Engine”, Nov 2006
• Kerilyn O'Donnell MSc (Motorola) , Thesis: “Implementation of Network Simulator Interfaces for LAN and WAN”, March 2004
• Luis G Rodriguez MSc (Motorola) , Master Project: “Implementation Network Simulator Interfaces for Wireless, DiffServ and Multicast Services and Trace Analyzer”, Jan 2004
• Erez Har Tal MSc, Project: “Adaptive Error Control for Real-time H.264+ Vide Streams”, May 2003
• Dongxian Yao MSc, Project: “Adaptive Multimedia Streaming Server for Distance Learning”, Nov 2002
• Daniel Gavenda MSc, Project: “Study and Evaluation of Audio Quality Assessment Techniques”, May 2002
• Farouq Hasan MSc, Project: “Implementing YUV-RGB/RGB-UYV Converter and H.263 for Solaris ”, May 2002
• Lopamudra Roychoudhuri PhD, Thesis: Proactive Rate and Error Control for Packet Multimedia Transmission Based on Loss Prediction”, 2007
• Peter Nyberg MSc, Thesis: “Interoperability Architectures for Reliable Multicasting Protocols”, Jan 2000
• Walid Ibrahim BSc, Project: “Implementing H.263 Video Encoder for Windows”, 2000
• Yongning Tang PhD (Assis. Prof. Illinois State University)
• Michael Saccotelli BSc, Project: “Implementing H.263 Video Decoder for Windows”, 1999