6 out of 7 of our PhD graduates from the past 4 years have been recruited as faculty members, making the positive difference to the world of academia. Not to say that the 7th one is not a special one too — he is holding the cybersecurity fort at the US government. Truly exceptional pool of students I have been fortunate to work with.
Those six:
- Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad (@TAMU, Fall 2019 to Summer 2025; thesis title “New Frontiers in Authentication and Side Channels in Emerging Platforms: 2FA Attacks, Sensor Exploits and AR/VR Security”; now an Assistant Professor of EECS at Ohio University)
- Mashari Alatawi (@TAMU, Spring 2019 to Spring 2024; thesis title “On the Security of End-to-End Encrypted Messaging and Calling Applications”; now an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the College of Computer and Information Sciences at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia).
- Zengrui Liu (@TAMU, Fall 2018 – Fall 2023; thesis title “An Exposition of User Privacy on the Web: Fingerprinting and Tracking”, now an Assistant Professor at College of Information Engineering at the Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China)
- Cagri Arisoy (since Fall 2018 – Fall 2023; thesis title “A Neurophysiological Exploration Of Human Behavior In User-Centered Cybersecurity”, now an Assistant Professor at College Engineering Computer Engineering department at the Yozgat Bozok University. Turkey).
- Shalini Saini (@TAMU; Fall 2019 – Summer 2023; thesis title “Privacy and Security of Emerging Technologies in Changing Healthcare Paradigms”; now an Assistant Professor of the Computer Science and Engineering Technology department at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore)
- Anuradha Mandal (@UAB; Fall 2019 – Summer 2022; thesis title “On the Privacy Leakage via Neural Devices”; now a Visiting Assistant Professor to tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department at the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY)
That one (outlier?):
- Payton Walker (@TAMU; Fall 2019 – Summer 2022; thesis title “An Exposition of Speech-based Threats in the Face of Emerging Technology”; now a Researcher and Project Leaer at the MITRE, recruited as part of the National Security Accelerator Program (NSAP))
