Students

Current Students

March 2011 Graduation

• Ryan Mayer

Graduated Students

2010

Stephen Lavelle

Thesis: Fabricating Synthetic Data In Support Of Training For Domestic Terrorist Activity Data Mining Research.

Outstanding Thesis recognition

Kenneth Nathan Phillips

Thesis: Correlating Personal Information Between DoD411, LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace with Uncommon Names

Outstanding Thesis recognition

Aaron D. Pickett

Thesis: Vulnerabilities for Malicious Data Fusion from Unprotected U.S. Navy Personnel Information

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

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

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

Capt. James Regan

Thesis: Recovery of Deleted Data from Flash Memory Devices

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.

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.