Students

Current Students

Summer 2009

Alex Nelson, University of California at Santa Cruz

Research topic: Sector Discrimination

Aleatha Parker-Wood, University of California at Santa Cruz

Ascription of carved data

Sept 2009 Graduation

Capt. James Regan

Thesis topic: Recovery of Deleted Data from Flash Memory Devices.

Jessy Cowan-Sharp

Thesis title: "Collaboration Metrics Using Email Metadata"

March 2010 Graduation

Kristian P. Kearton

Thesis Topic: "Visualization Framework for Tempoiral Analysis of Social Networks"

Graduated Students

2008

Steven D. Bassi Jr.

Thesis: 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

Thesis: 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.

2009

Lt. Paul Farrell

Thesis: 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

LT Andrew Slack

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