Students / Postdocs / Visiting Researchers

James B D Joshi

Updated: Sept 18, 2024

 


PhD Committee Chair

 

Currently in Program

 

1.         Liou Tang (started in Fall, 2024)

2.         Peilin He (started in Fall, 2023)

3.         Maryam Aldairi (started in Fall, 2017), Dissertation proposal done.

 

Graduated

 

4.         Dr. Leila Karimi (Graduated in Summer, 2021), Current: Meta (Software Engineer); Previous: Datometry Inc. (Research Scientist in Cybersecurity) [LinkedIn]

5.         Dr. Runhua Xu (Graduated in Summer, 2020), Current: Professor, Beihang University; Previous: Research Staff at IBM Almaden  (Interned and worked at IBM Almaden Research) [LinkedIn]

6.         Dr. Nathalie Baracaldo (Graduated in Summer 2016), Technical Manager of AI Security and Privacy Solutions; senior Research Scientist & Master Inventor, IBM Almaden Research, (Interned at IBM Almaden Research two times) [LinkedIn]

7.         Dr. Xuelian Long (Graduated in Summer 2015), Facebook Inc. (Interned at TripAdvisor) [LinkedIn]

8.         Dr. Amir Maxoumzadeh (Graduated in Summer, 2014) – Associate Professor, CS, SUNY, Albany (LinkedIn]

9.         Dr. Saman T. Zargar (Graduated in Summer, 2014)- Software Development Manager at Amazon EMR Spark; Previous: Cisco, Salesforce (Interned at Cisco twice) [LinkedIn]

10.      Dr. Daniel Takabi (Graduated in Summer 2013), Director of School of Cybersecurity, Old Dominion University; Previous: University of North Texas and Georgia State University (Interned at Cisco) [LinkedIn]

11.      Dr. Yue Zhang, (Graduated in Summer 2010), Current: Senior Software Engineer, Yahoo; Previous: Google, Inc (Interned at IBM Watson) [LinkedIn]

 

PhD Committee Member

12.      Ajesh Koyatan Chathoth, (CS, SCI, University of Pittsburgh)

13.      Jingzhe  Wang (DINS, SCI, University of Pittsburgh)

14.      Kuheli Sai (DINS, SCI, University of Pittsburgh) – not graduated

15.      Faris Alotibi (DINS, SCI, University of Pittsburgh)

16.      Xiaoyu Liang (CS, SCI, University of Pittsburgh)

17.      Chao Li, (DINS, SCI, University of Pittsburgh)

18.      Jinlai Xu (DINS, SCI, University of Pittsburgh

19.      Farhod Yuldashev, (PhD in GSPIA, University of Pittsburgh)

20.      Kornporn Panyim (Tel, University of Pittsburgh)

21.      Thaier Saleh Hayajneh (Tel, University of Pittsburgh),

22.      Tanapat Anusas-Amornkul (Tel, University of Pittsburgh)

23.      Saowaphak Sasanus (Telcom, University of Pittsburgh)

24.      Haidong Xia (CS, University of Pittsburgh),

25.      Phongsak Kiratiwintakorn (Tel, University of Pittsburgh)

26.      Siqing Du (IS, University of Pittsburgh), 2007

27.      Jiang Zheng (CS, University of Pittsburgh), 2008

28.      Ricardo Villamarin-Salomon (CS, University of Pittsburgh), 2008

29.      Siam University, Thailand (2012)

 

External PhD Reviewer

 

30.      Harsha Pussewalage, Agder University, Norway (Summer, 2019) – as an Opponent.

31.      Sadhana Jha, IIT Kharagpur, India (Summer, 2018)

32.      Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora, (Advisor: Elena Ferrari and Barbara Carminati), Universitàdegli Studi dell’Insubria – Varese (2013)

33.      Igor Nai Fovino, Universitàdegli Studi di Milano (Main Advisor: Elisa Bertino; graduated.

34.      Giovanni MellaUniversità degli Studi di Milano (Main Advisor: Elisa Bertino; graduated).

35.      Stefano Franzoni (CS, PhD Candidate), University of Milan, graduating in 2007.

 

Post-Doctoral Students

 

1.         Dr. Youna Jung, PhD, from Ajou University, South Korea (Topics: Security in Ubiqiutous Environments & Multi-agent Systems) (2008, 2 Years)

2.         Dr. Minsoo Kim, PhD, from  Ajou University in South Korea (Topics: Security in Ubiqiutous Environments & Multi-agent Systems)  (2008, 2 Years)

3.         Dr. Jun-Hyung Park, PhD, from South Korea, (Topic: Grid Security and Survivability, Computer Forensics), (2006, 1 Year)

4.         Zhaohui, PhD, Student in China, (Topic: Access Control in OS and embedded systems), 2007

 

Visiting Researchers Hosted

 

1.         Jianfeng Lu, Assoicate Professor, School of Mathematics-Physical & Information Engineering, Zhejiang Normal University, (Topic: Advanced Role Based Access Control Models – theory) (2013, 1 Year)

2.         Dr. HyungHyo Lee, Associate Professor, Wonkwang University, Rep. of Korea  (2011, 1 Year)

3.         Dr. Guo Yanhui, Associate Professor, BUPT (Topic: Recommendation Systems)  (2009, 1 Year)

 

MS Thesis

 

1.         Angela Horneman (SFS Student), "Examining Threat Groups from the Outside: Generating High-Level Overviews of Persistent and Traditional Compromises." Master's Thesis, University of Pittsburgh. December 2013 (Co-Advisor)

2.         J. Spring, "Large Scale DNS Traffic Analysis of Malicious Internet Activity with a Focus on Evaluating the Response Time of Blocking Phishing Sites", MS Thesis, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, April 2010 (Committee Member)

3.         Summit R. Tuladhar, "Inter-Domain Authentication for Seamless Roaming in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks", MS Thesis, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, December 2007 (Advisor)