The Data Security and Privacy Lab Alumni

• Mustafa Sefa Ozdayi (Ph.D.)
  
• Thesis title: Towards Trustworthy Machine Learning
  
• Graduation year: Dec. 2023, First Employer: Qualtrics
• Vibha Chandramouli Belavadi (Ph.D.) (co-advised with Prof. Thuraisingham)
• Thesis title: Adversarial Machine Learning for Social Good
• Graduation year: Aug 2022, First Employer: Adobe
  
• Harsh Bimal Desai (Ph.D.)
• Thesis title: Using Public and Private Blockchains for Secure Data Sharing and Analytics
• Graduation year: Aug 2022, First Employer: Mandiant
  
• Aref Asvadishirehjini (Ph.D.)
• Thesis title: Ensuring Integrity, Privacy and Fairness for Machine Learning using Trusted Execution Environments
• Graduation year: Dec 2021, First Employer: Facebook
• Imrul Anindya (Ph.D.)
• Thesis title: Understanding and Mitigating Privacy Risks Raised By Record Linkage
  
• Graduation year: Dec 2020, First Employer: Microsoft
• Kelvin Mai (Ph.D.) (co-advised with Alvaro Cardenas)
  
• Thesis title: Anomaly Detection in SCADA Networks Using  Expert Models and Machine Learning Based Techniques
  
• Graduation year: Dec 2020, First Employer: Department of Defense
  
• Fahad Shaon (Ph.D.)
• Thesis title: Secure Cloud Data Analytics with Trusted Processors
  
• Graduation year: Dec 2019, First Employer: DataSecTech
  
• Ceren Abay (Ph.D.) (co-advised with Prof. Thuraisingham)
  
• Thesis title: Using Machine Learning Techniques for Prediction and Data Generation
  with Applications to Data Privacy
  
• Graduation year: Dec 2019, First Employer: Visa Inc.
  
• Yasmeen Alufaisan (Ph.D.)
• Thesis title: Towards Algorithmic Accountability in Data Mining
  
• Graduation year: August 2018, First Employer: Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University
• Huseyin Ulusoy (Ph.D.)
• Thesis title: Towards Accountable Big Data Management Systems
  
• Graduation year: Dec 2015, First Employer: SAP
  
• Erman Pattuk (Ph.D.)
• Thesis title: Enhancing Privacy in Cloud-Based Data Management Services
• Graduation year: May 2015, First Employer:Linkedin

• Saiful Islam (Ph.D.)
• Thesis title: Security Issues Due to Outsourcing Sensitive Data to the Untrusted Remote Server
  
• Graduation year: May 2014, First Employer: Microsoft
• Vaibhav Khadilkar  (co-advised with Prof. Thuraisingham) 
• Thesis title:Assured Information Sharing Using the Cloud
  
• Graduation year: December 2013, First Employer: NutraSpace LLC  
• Mehmet Kuzu (Ph.D.)
• Thesis title: Practical Privacy Preserving Record Integration and Search
  
• Graduation year: August 2013, First Employer: Google
• Robert Nix (Ph.D.)
• Thesis title: Efficient incentive compatible secure data sharing
• Graduation year: December 2012, First Employer: Lipscomb University
• Raymond Heatherly (Ph.D.)
• Thesis title: Privacy-preserving social network analysis
• Graduation year: August 2011, First Employer: Vanderbilt University
• Mustafa Canim (Ph.D.)
• Thesis title: Exploiting modern hardware for secure data management
• Graduation year: May 2011, First Employer: IBM Watson Research Center
• Ali Inan (Ph.D.)
• Thesis title: A hybrid approach to private record linkage
• Graduation year: August 2010, First Employer: Isik University
• Ryan Layfield (Ph.D.) (co-advised with Prof. Thuraisingham)

• Thesis title: Using game theory to mitigate the effects of a bioterrorist attack.
• Graduation year: 2008, First Employer: Cisco
• Li Liu (Ph.D.) (co-advised with Prof. Thuraisingham)  

• Thesis title: Perturbation based privacy preserving data mining techniques for real-world data.
• Graduation Year: 2008, First Employer: Ebay
   
• Kanchan Waikar (M.S.)
  
• Thesis title: Big Data Sanitization Using Scalable In-Memory Frameworks
• Graduation year: May 2017, First Employer: Amazon
  
• Ankit Malhotra (M.S.)
• Thesis title: Privacy preserving Data Stores for Mobile Platforms
• Graduation year: May 2014, First Employer: Verizon
• Abhijith Shastry (M.S.)
• Thesis title: Behavioral analysis resistant malware for mobile phones
• Graduation year: August 2011, First Employer: Google
• Jack Lindamood (M.S.)

• Thesis title: Privacy preserving methods in social networking data
• Graduation Year: 2008, First Employer: Facebook