Faculty

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Dr. Irfan Ahmed

Assistant Professor

  • Department of Computer Science at VCU
  • Office: E4255, East Hall
  • Phone: 804-827-2561
  • Email: iahmed3@vcu.edu
  • Web: http://people.vcu.edu/~iahmed3

Current Students

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Adeen Ayub

PhD Student

  • Research Areas: Digital Forensics, Industrial Control System, and Memory Forensics
  • Office: E2266, East Hall
  • Email: ayuba2@vcu.edu

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Muhammad Haris Rais

PhD Student

  • Research Areas: Smart Manufacturing, Internet of Things, Attack Detection and Recovery
  • Office: E2266, East Hall
  • Email: raismh@vcu.edu

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Syed Ali Qasim

PhD Student

  • Research Areas: Digital Forensics, Industrial Control System, and Protocol Reverse Engineering
  • Office: E2266, East Hall
  • Email: qasimsa@vcu.edu

Past Students

Note that Dr. Irfan Ahmed (co-)supervised these students at his current and former institutions. We maintain this list to acknowledge their association with us.

Postdoctoral Research Associates

  • Hyunguk Yoo
    • PhD from Ajou University, South Korea
    • Current employment: Assistant Professor at University of New Orleans

Doctorate Research Assistants

  • Aisha Ibrahim Ali-Gombe
    • Thesis Title: Malware Analysis and Privacy Policy Enforcement Techniques for Android Applications
    • First employment: Assistant Professor at Towson University, MD
  • Eesa Alsolami
    • Thesis Title: Continuous Biometric Authentication: Keystroke Dynamics
    • First employment: Assistant Professor at University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Masters Research Assistants

  • Pranita Deshpande
    • Thesis Title: Assessment of Two Pedagogical Tools for Cybersecurity Education
    • Publications: ACM SIGCSE’19 (a), and ACM SIGCSE’19 (b)
  • Sharon Elizabeth Blake
    • Thesis Title: MAnanA: A Heuristic Scoring Framework for Concept Map Analysis in Cybersecurity Education
    • Publications: -
  • Sushma Kalle
    • Thesis Title: Semantic-aware Stealthy Control Logic Infection Attack
    • Publications: NDSS BAR’19, and DIMVA’19
  • Jonathan Grimm
    • Thesis Title: Automatic Mitigation of Kernel Rootkits in Cloud Environments
    • Publications: WISA’18
  • Saranyan Senthivel
    • Thesis Title: Automatic Forensic Analysis of PCCC Network Traffic Log
    • Publications: ACSAC ICSS’16, DFRWS’17, and CODASPY’18
  • William Eldon Johnson
    • Thesis Title: Development of Peer Instruction Material for a Cybersecurity Curriculum
    • Publications: ACSAC ICSS’16, USENIX ASE’16, and USENIX ASE’17
  • Anjila Tamrakar
    • Thesis Title: SPICE: A Software Tool for Studying End-user’s Insecure Cyber Behavior and Personality-traits}\
    • Publications: CODASPY’18
  • Dalbir Kaur Chhabra
    • Thesis Title: Feature selection and clustering for malicious and benign software characterization
    • Publications: -

Undergraduate Research Assistants

  • Jose Rene Berlioz Rivera
  • Shrey Dhungana
    • Publications: CODASPY’18
  • Nabeel Gulzar Rana
  • Manish Bhatt
    • Publications: WISA’17, SIGCSE’18, and DFRWS’18
  • Banan Ibrahim
  • Phillip Bradley Reason
  • Philip Schwartz

Other Graduate Research Assistants

  • Sneha Sudhakaran
    • Publications: ACSAC ICSS’16, and IEEE S&P’17
  • Allison Luzader
    • Publications: USENIX ASE’16
  • Nishchal Kush
    • Publications: ICRC’11