Data and Application
Security Laboratory
Director:
Csilla Farkas, farkas@cse.sc.edu
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Current
Students John
Ravan, jravan@email.sc.edu Theppatorn Rhujittawiwat, theppatorn@gmail.com Recent
Graduates Dr.
Ahmed Saaudi, 2019 Dr.
Hatim Alsuwat, 2019 Dr.
Emad Alsuwat, 2019 Dr.
Mouiad AlWahal, 2018 Dr.
Mark Daniels, 2017 |
Current
research topics of the students and faculty affiliated with the Information
Security Laboratory (ISL)
can be categorized in the following areas: 1) Data security and privacy,
2) Security for IoT systems, 3) Adversarial attacks against machine
learning systems, and 4) Semantics-based data provenance and integrity
for HPC. |
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PH.D. Graduates |
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Name |
Year |
Title or Topic |
Hatim Alsuwat |
2019 |
Cybersecurity
Issues in the Context of Cryptographic Shuffling Algorithms and Concept
Drift: Challenges and Solutions. (Doctoral dissertation). Available at https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/5590/ (Currently: Faculty, Iraq) |
Ahmed Saaudi |
2019 |
Insider’s
Misuse Detection: From Hidden Markov Model to Deep Learning. (Doctoral
dissertation). Available at https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/5544/ (Currently: Faculty, Saudi Arabia) |
Emad Alsuwat |
2019 |
Challenges
in Large-Scale Machine Learning Systems: Security and Correctness. (Doctoral
dissertation). Available at https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/5596/ (Currently: Faculty, Saudi Arabia) |
Mouiad AlWahal |
2019 |
Semantic-Based
Access Control Mechanisms in Dynamic Environments. (Doctoral dissertation). Available
at https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/5224 (Currently: Faculty, Iraq) |
Mark Daniels |
2018 |
Ontology-Guided
Pre-Release Inference Disruption. (Doctoral dissertation). Available at https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/4578 (Currently: Director of IT Systems, Medical University of South
Carolina) |
Annamaria Victoria Kish |
2016 |
Efficient Partitioning and Allocation of Data for Workflow
Compositions. (Doctoral
dissertation). Available at https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/3824/ |
Aspen Olmstead |
2014 (Ph.D.) |
Web Service Transaction Correctness. (Doctoral dissertation). Available at https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/2728/ (Currently: Professor and Program Director of Information Technology
at Fisher College Melrose, Massachusetts) |
Sidney Valentine |
2013 (Ph.D.) |
PLC Code Vulnerabilities Through SCADA Systems. (Doctoral dissertation).
Available at https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/803/ (Currently: Vice President, Academic Affairs and Student Services, South Florida State College) |
Ousmane Dia |
2012 (Ph.D.) |
Access Control Frameworks for Rapidly Evolving Business Enterprise. (Doctoral dissertation).
Available at https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/778/ (Currently: Research Scientist, Amazon) |
Maryam Jafari-Lafti |
2010 (Ph.D.) |
P2F: A User-Centric Privacy Protection Framework. (Doctoral dissertation).
Available at https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/194/ (Currently:
Senior Lead | Cyber Risk at Deloitte Canada Deloitte, Canada) |
Amit Jain |
2008 (Ph.D.) |
RDF Security (Currently: Graph BigData Researcher and Developer for Health Care domain, Hyderabad, India) |
Vaibhav Gowadia |
2007 (Ph.D.) |
Semantic-Aware XML Security (Currently: Security Engineer II at Amazon Seattle, Washington) |
Tyrone Toland |
2005 (Ph.D.) |
Inference Problem in Dynamic Databases (Currently: Professor, University of South Carolina, Upstate) |
Naren Kodali |
2004 (Ph.D.) |
Enforcing Semantics-Aware Security in Multimedia Documents (Currently: IT Security Architecture and Compliance/Audit Consultant, Faculty at Stratford University) |
Andrei Stoica |
2004 (Ph.D.) |
Integrated Security Framework for Semantically Enhanced
Semi-Structured Data (Currently: Vice President, Global Systems Development at IMS Health, Philadelphia) |
Previous
research topics on secure semantic web; vehicular ad-hoc networks; database
inference problem; and secure, anonymous self-organizing systems can be found here.