Students

Current Students

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)

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

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

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.

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

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

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.