Students

Graduated Students

2016

Alex Nelson, PhD Thesis, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2016 (Committee Member)

2014

Matthew Roy

An Analysis of The Applicability of Federal Law Regarding Hash-Based Searches of Digital Media, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2014. Outstanding Thesis Award

Riqui Schwamm

Effectiveness of factory reset on a mobile device, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2014. Outstanding Thesis Award. (Second Reader)

2013

Josiah Dykstra

Digital Forensics for Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud Computing, PhD Thesis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, May 2013 (Committee Member)

Glenn Henderson

Triage Visualization for Digital Media Exploitation, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2013

James K. Taguchi

Optimal sector sampling for drive triage, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2013

Michael R. McCarrin

Exploration and Validation of the sdhash parameter space, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2013

2012

Kristina Foster

Using distinct sectors in media sampling and full media analysis to detect presence of documents from a corpus, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2012

Trek Poter

An Evaluation Methodology To Mitigate Non-Malicious Insider Threats By Balancing Usability And Security In Cloud-Based File Sharing Technologies, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2012

2011

LCDR Greg Cardwell

Residual Network Data Structures in Android Devices, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, September 2011.

LT Ryan Mayer

Filetype Identification Using Long, Summarized N-Grams, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, March 2011.

2010

Maj. Stephen Lavelle

Fabricating Synthetic Data In Support Of Training For Domestic Terrorist Activity Data Mining Research, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, September 2010.

Outstanding Thesis recognition

Capt. Kenneth Nathan Phillips

Correlating Personal Information Between DoD411, LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace with Uncommon Names, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, September 2010

Outstanding Thesis recognition

LT Aaron D. Pickett

Vulnerabilities for Malicious Data Fusion from Unprotected U.S. Navy Personnel Information, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, September 2010

Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper Computer Science Award; Outstanding Thesis recognition; Graduation with Distinction.

LCDR Kristian P. Kearton

Correlating Temporal Rules to Time-Series Data with Rule-Based Intuition, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, March 2010

2009

LT Paul Farrell

A Framework for Automated Digital Forensic Reporting, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, March 2009.

Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper Computer Science Award; Outstanding Thesis recognition.

2009 Gary Kildall Award

Other publications: Practical Applications of Bloom filters to the NIST RDS and hard drive triage, Farrell, Garfinkel and White, ACSAC 2008

Capt. James Regan

Recovery of Deleted Data from Flash Memory Devices, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA September 2009

Outstanding Thesis Recognition.

LT Andrew Slack

Affects of Digital Authentication for Official Bulk Email, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2009

2008

Steven D. Bassi Jr.

An Automated Acquisition System for Media Exploitation, Master's Thesis, June 2008

Maj. James Migletz

Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper Computer Science Award

Automated Metadata Extraction, Master's Thesis, June 2008

Cpt. Daniel Huynh

Exploring and Validating Data Mining Algorithms for use in Data Ascription, Master's Thesis, June 2008

LT Simon McLaren

Reliability of Iris recognition as a means of identity verification and future impact on transportation worker identification credential. Master's Thesis, March 2008.