Faculty

Alan T. Sherman, Ph.D. (Director)

Position:	Associate Professor
Department:	Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Research Interests:	High-integrity voting systems; key management for large dynamic groups; theoretical cryptology; applied cryptography; and information assurance education
Patents:	6915426, 6845449, 7043024, 7590247
Additional Notes:	Editor of the Cryptologia journal

Timothy J. Brennan, Ph.D.

Position:	Professor
Department:	Public Policy
Research Interests:	Information technology policy

Richard T. Carback III, Ph.D.

Position:	Adjunct Professor
Department:	Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Research Interests:	High-assurance voting; Scantegrity; applied cryptography

Richard F. Forno, Ph.D.

Position:	Cybersecurity Graduate Program Director
Department:	Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Research Interests:	Information age conflict, cybersecurity operations, incident handling & risk communication, social shaping of technology

Anupam Joshi, Ph.D.

Position:	Professor, Computer Science Graduate Program Director
Department:	Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Research Interests:	Distributed systems; networks; and privacy in social networks
Patents:	US 2011/0043330, US 2011/0213706, US 2009/0270091

Samuel J. Lomonaco, Ph.D.

Position:	Professor
Department:	Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Research Interests:	Quantum computation; algebraic coding theory; cryptology; and numerical and symbolic computation

Nagaraj K. Neerchal, Ph.D.

Position:	Professor and Chair
Department:	Mathematics and Statistics
Research Interests:	Time series analysis; analysis of correlated categorical data; general methodology; and data mining and analysis

Dhananjay Phatak, Ph.D.

Position:	Associate Professor
Department:	Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Research Interests:	Computer arithmetic; secure hardware; authentication protocols; homomorphic encryption
Patents:	, US 2011/0231465, US 2010/0306533, US6480871, US7853680

John Pinkston, Ph.D.

Position:	Professor Emeritus
Department:	Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Research Interests:	Information and coding theory; and malicious code

Roy Rada

Position:	Professor
Department:	Information Systems
Research Interests:	Information systems security; health care information systems; and applied machine learning

A. Brooke Stephens, Ph.D.

Position:	Associate Professor
Department:	Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Research Interests:	Cryptology; numberical computation; and malicious code

Mohamed Younis, Ph.D.

Position:	Associate Professor
Department:	Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Research Interests:	Wireless networks; information security; distributed real-time systems; fault tolerant computing; embedded operating systems; and compiler-based analysis
Patents:	US20020144010, US6178522, US6448914

In addition to the faculty listed here, all Cybersecurity Graduate Faculty are members of CISA.

Doctoral Students

Edward J. Birrane

Department:	Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Dissertation:	Path Provisioning in Challenged Networks for Deadline Monotonic Quality of Service, with Applications to the Solar System Internet (Alan T. Sherman, Mohammed Younis; expected May 2013)
Research Interests:	Communication networks; delay-tolerant networks; and disruption-tolerant networks

Josiah Dykstra

Department:	Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Dissertation:	Digital Forensics for Cloud Computing: Framework, Tools, and Legal Analysis for Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud Computing (Alan T. Sherman; expected May 2013)
Research Interests:	Cloud forensics; secure cloud computing; and cloud security visualization
Certifications:	Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge; CISSP; MCSE: Security; MCITP: Enterprise Admin; and NSTISSI 4011 Certificate

Timothy R. Leschke

Department:	Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Dissertation:	Visualizing Change Over Time for Digital Forensics (Penny Rheingans, Alan T. Sherman; expected May 2013)
Research Interests:	Security visualization; forensics visualization; and computer forensics
Additional Notes:	Teaches the Cybersecurity forensics course

Christopher D. Nguyen

Department:	Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Dissertation:	TBD
Thesis:	Reduced Precision Residue Domain Modular Exponentiation: Hardware Implementation and Analysis (Dhananjay Phatak, Alan T. Sherman; expected May 2012)
Degrees Awarded	(B.S. May 2006, CMSC) (B.S. May 2006, MATH)
Research Interests:	Computer arithmetic; cryptographic hardware; and applied cryptography
Certifications:	CompTIA Security+

Michael Oehler

Department:	Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Dissertation:	Security: Chains of Modular Roots of Higher Orders and Their Applications (Dhananjay Phatak)
Degrees Awarded	(M.S. May 2005, CMSC)
Research Interests:	Applied cryptography

Master's Students

Christopher D. Nguyen

Thesis: Reduced Precision Residue Domain Modular Exponentiation: Hardware Implementation and Analysis (Dhananjay Phatak, Alan T. Sherman)

Undergraduate Students

Andrew Duhann

(CMSC) Project: Forensics exercise for the Cyber Battle Lab at Capitol College

Tyler Larkin

John Seymour

(B.S. Dec. 2011, CMSC) Thesis Topic: Analysis of Chaum's Man-in-the-Middle Detection Patent

Alumni

Ph.D.

Richard T. Carback III, Ph.D.

(Ph.D. Dec. 2010, CMSC) Dissertation: Engineering Practical End-to-End Election Systems (Alan T. Sherman)

(M.S. May 2008, CMSC) Thesis: Security Innovations in the Punchscan Voting System (Alan T. Sherman)

(B.S. May 2005, CMSC)

Russell A. Fink, Ph.D.

(Ph.D. Dec. 2010, CMSC) Dissertation: Applying Trustworthy Computing to End-to-End Electronic Voting (Alan T. Sherman)

John F. Krautheim, Ph.D.

(Ph.D. May 2010, CMPE) Dissertation: Building Trust into Utility Cloud Computing (Dhananjay Phatak), IASP Scholar

Muhammad Rabi, Ph.D.

(Ph.D. Aug. 1998 CMSC) Dissertation: Relationships Among Algebraic and Security Properties of Cryptographic Functions, and a Security Architecture for Intelligent Agents (Timothy Finin, Alan T. Sherman)

M.S.

Nikhil Joshi

(M.S. Dec. 2011) Thesis: Experimental Evaluation and Implementation of the Spread Identity Framework (Dhananjay Phatak, Alan T. Sherman)

Travis Mayberry

(M.S. Dec. 2010) Thesis: Implementing Range Voting and Instant Runoff in Punchscan and Scantegrity: Impact on System Complexity and Usability

William Newton

(M.S. Dec. 2010) Thesis: Chaum's Protocol for Detecting Man-in-the-Middle: Explanation, Implementation, and Analysis

Vivek G. Relan

(M.S. May 2010) Thesis: Location Authentication Through Powerline Communication: Design, Protocol, and Analysis of a New Out-of-band Strategy

Bhushan E. Sonawane

(M.S. May 2010) Thesis: Spread Identity: A New Dynamic Address Translation Mechanism for Anonymity and DDoS Defense

Allen B. Stone

(M.S. May 2007) Thesis: EBIDS-SENLP: A System to Detect Social Engineering Email Using Natural Language Processing

Kevin Fisher

(M.S. Dec. 2006, CMPE) Thesis: Security Analysis of the Punchscan High-Integrity Voting System

Nicholas Dickerson

(M.S. Dec. 2004) Thesis: Arpdefender: Detecting and Recovering from ARP Cache Poisoning Attacks

Brian Blackburn

(M.S. May 2005, CMSC)

Terrie Peterson

(M.S. May 2005, IS)

Brian Roberts

(M.S. May 2005, CMSC)

(B.S. 2003, CMSC)

John Simmons

(M.S. May 2005, CMSC)

(B.S. 2003, CMSC)

Qi He

(M.S. May 1997) Thesis: A New Electronic Cash Scheme with Exible Denominations

Thomas R. Cain

(M.S. May 1993) Project: How to Break Gifford's Cipher

Kirthivasan Venkatraman

(M.S. May 1992) Project: The Vowel-Count Method in Solving Single Columnar Transposition Ciphers: Its Effectiveness and Improvement

Kiran S. Panesar

(M.S. Dec. 1991) Project: The Vowel-Count for Solving Single Columnar Transposition Ciphers: Quantification, Analysis, and Improved Tests

B.S.

John Conway

(B.S. May 2010) Scantegrity

Cory Jones

(B.S. Dec. 2009) IASP Scholar

Barry Herman

(B.S.) Penetration testing and vulnerability analysis

Lee Linkoff

(B.S. Dec. 2006, CMSC)

Emily Pass

(B.S. May 2006, CMSC)

Natalie Podrazik

(B.S. May 2006, CMSC)

Zachary Radtka

(B.S. May 2006, CMPE)

Steven Silva

(B.S. May 2006, CMSC)

Bruce Howell II

(B.S. Dec. 2005, CMPE)

Michael Cohn

(B.S. May 2005, CMSC)

Nick Dickerson

(B.S. May 2005, CMSC)

Christopher G. Howard

(B.S. May 2005, CMPE)

Nathan Smith

(B.S. May 2005, MATH)