The Trust Lab

Current Labbies Fellow faculty: Sergey Bratus Christophe Hauser Kyungtae Kim Sami Saydjari My current Ph.D. students: Josh Ackerman (primarily advised by George Cybenko) Zephyr Lucas Ben Kallus (Participating in Dartmouth's annual "Polar Bear Swim" may once have been required to be a funded PhD student in my lab.:) But with all the new faculty, there are many many others!

My Graduated Students

• Sameed Ali, Ph.D., 2025. Applications of Language-Theoretic Security towards System Security.
• Prashant Anantharaman, Ph.D., 2022. Protecting Systems From Exploits Using Language-Theoretic Security.
• J. Peter Brady, Ph.D., 2025. POTSDAM: Pareto Optimization Targeting Security, Data, and Mediation.
• "Scout" Sinclair Brody, Ph.D., 2013. Access Control in and for the Real World.
• Alex Iliev, Ph.D. 2009. Hardware-Assisted Secure Computation
• I. Ray Jenkins, Ph.D. 2020. Defense in Depth of Resource-Constrained Devices.
• Pete Johnson, Ph.D 2016. Towards A Verified Complex Protocol Stack in a Production Kernel: Methodology and Demonstration.
• Vijay Kothari, Ph.D. 2020. Bridging the Gap Between Intent and Outcome: Knowledge, Tools and Principles for Security-Minded Decision-Making.
• John Marchesini, Ph.D. 2005. Secure Hardware Enhanced MyProxy.
• Chris Masone, Ph.D. 2008. Attribute-Based, Usefully Secure Email
• Jason Reeves, Ph.D. 2016. TEDDI: Tamper Event Detection on Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems.
• Rebecca "bx" Shapiro, Ph.D. 2017. Types for the Chain of Trust: No (Loader) Write Left Behind.
• Gabriel Weaver, Ph.D. 2012. Security-Policy Analysis with eXtended Unix Tools
• Meiyuan Zhao, Ph.D. 2005. Performance Evaluation of Distributed Security Protocols Using Discrete Event Simulation.

M.S.:

• Sanket Agrawal, M.S. 2003. Investigation of Third Party Rights Service and Shibboleth Modification to Introduce the Service.
• Yasir Ali, M.S. 2003. Adding Public Key Security to SSH
• Joseph Cooley, M.S. 2011. Screen Capture for Sensitive Systems.
• Nihal D'Cunha, M.S. 2007: Exploring the Integration of Memory Management and Trusted Computing.
• Nicholas C. Goffee, M.S. 2004. Greenpass Client Tools for Delegated Authorization in Wireless Networks
• Shan Jiang, M.S. 2001. WebALPS Implementation and Performance Analysis: Using Trusted Co-Serves to Enhance Privacy and Security of Web Interactions
• Kunal Kain, M.S. 2003. Electronic Documents and Digital Signatures.
• Sung Hoon Kim, M.S. 2004. Greenpass RADIUS Tools for Delegated Authorization in Wireless Networks
• Sidharth Nazareth, M.S. 2003. SPADE: SPKI/SDSI for Attribute Release Policies in a Distributed Environment.
• Ashwin Ramaswamy, M.S. 2009. Autoscopy: Detecting Pattern-Searching Rootkits via Control Flow Tracing.
• Rouslan Solomakhin, M.S. 2010. Predictive YASIR: High Security with Lower Latency in Legacy SCADA.
• Josh Stabiner, M.S. 2005. Providing Compartmented Hardware-based Security on Commodity Machines.
• Eileen Zishuang Ye, M.S. 2002. Building Trusted Paths for Web Browsers.

B.A.:

• Jessie Anderson, B.A. 2018, Honors. Securing, Standardizing, and Simplifying Electronic Health Record Audit Logs Through Permissioned Blockchain Technology
• Ivan Antoniv, B.A. 2014, Honors. GCS 2.0: Improved Simulation of PKI in the Smart Grid.
• Katelin Bailey, B.A. 2010, High Honors. Virtual Container Attestation: Customized Trusted Containers for On-Demand Computing. 1st place in the Sigma Xi Christopher Reed competition at the 2010 Wetterhahn Science Poster Symposium.
• Marco Barreno, B.A. 2002, Honors. The Future of Cryptography under Quantum Computers
• Alex Barsamian, B.A. 2004, Honors. Software Compartmentalization and Attestation Using SELinux and the TPM/TCPA.
• Rishav Chakravarty, B.A. 2025. 3Tree: Segmented CPU Caching for Speed and Eviction Set Security..
• Ruslan Dimov, B.A. 2008, Honors. Making RBAC Work in Dynamic, Fast-Changing Corporate Environments
• Twum Djin, B.A. 2005, High Honors. Managing Access Control in Virtual Private Networks.
• Wyatt Ellison, B.A. 2025, High Honors (Engineering). Detection of Spectre Attacks Using Hardware-based Cache Access Patterns. (Co-advised with Peter Chin.)
• Andrew Flynn, B.A. 2007, High Honors. WikiD: A Dartmouth Wiki Implementing Fine-Grained, Decentralized Access Control.
• Emily Freebairn, B.A. 2012. An Introduction to Belay and its Applications to EMR Systems.
• Allen Harvey, B.A. 2006, Honors. Tunable Trust: Surveying Security for Resource-Limited Scenarios.
• Emily Holt, B.A. 2016. The Implications of Vulnerability Discovery in IoT Devices.
• Elena Horton, B.A. 2018, Honors. Balancing patient control and practical access policy for electronic health records via blockchain technology
• Alex Iliev, B.A. 2001, Honors. An Armored Data Vault
• Dan Kang, B.A. 2003, Honors. Strengthening Voice Authentication with Splicing Detection for User with Untrusted Clients
• Evan Knop, B.A. 2001. Secure Public-Key Services for Web-Based Mail.
• Marissa Le Coz, B.A. 2017, Honors. NovenaNetwork: A Catholic Social Media iOS Application for Praying Novenas as a Community. (Co-advised with X.D. Yang.)
• Rich MacDonald, B.A. 2002. Boosting Security: Toward Combining Trusted Hardware and Trusted Operating Systems. (outcome)
• Alex Mercado, B.A. 2012. Adapting SSFNet for PKI Scalability in the Smart Grid.
• Christopher Novak, B.A. 2017, Honors. Modeling Aggregate Security with User Agents that Employ Password Memorization Techniques.
• Fernando Orta, B.A. 2008, High Honors (Engineering). Project Coco (Proprietary and Confidential)
• Mindy Pereira, B.A. 2003, Honors. Trusted S/MIME Gateways
• Kimberly Powell, B.A. 2004, Honors. Testing the Greenpass Wireless Security System
• Sean Richardson, B.A. 2001, Honors. Whom can you trust? Designing a System to Evaluate and Represent the Security State of Machines using PKI.
• Loren Sands-Ramshaw, B.A. 2010, Honors. Creating Large Disturbances in the Power Grid: Methods of Attack After Cyber Infiltration.
• Nick Santos, B.A. 2006, High Honors. Limited Delegation (Without Sharing Secrets) in Web Applications.
• David Schnur, B.A. 2005, Honors. GPUGrid: A Framework for Distributed Computing Across GPU Networks.
• Oleg Seletsky, B.A. 2009, Honors. Developing an Improved, Web-Based Classroom Response System with Web Services.
• Paul Seligman, B.A. 2003, Honors. An Implementation of Machine Learning Algorithms to Detect Abnormal Data Access from Online Journal Archives.
• Shikhar Sinha, B.A. 2021. Honors. Implementation and Optimization of PEG Parsers for Use on FPGAs
• Manya Sleeper, B.A. 2008, Honors. Key Management for Secure Power SCADA.
• Evan Sparks, B.A. 2007, High Honors. A Security Assessment of Trusted Platform Modules. (see also this page)
• Stephanie Trudeau, B.A. 2009, Honors. The Effects of Introspection on Computer Security Policies.
• Gabe Vanrenen, B.A. 2003, High Honors. Distributed SEM: Extending SEM for Use on Distributed, Trusted Third Parties.
• Jerry Wang, B.A. 2004. An Evaluation of Code Attestation in Trusted Computing Platforms.
• Yifei Wang, 2012, High Honors. The Effects of Distance Between Policy Crafters and Actions in Electronic Health Record System.
• Tucker Ward, B.A. 2013, High Honors. Grid Cryptographic Simulation: A Simulator to Evaluate the Scalability of the X.509 Standard in the Smart Grid.
• Jacob Weiss, B.A. 2016, High Honors. Bloon: Software and Hardware for Data Collection and Real-Time Analysis. (Co-advised with Kristina Lynch of Physics.)

Ninjas (because WISPies doesn't sound sufficiently empowering):

Fabeah Adu-Oppong '11 Katelin Bailey '10 Casey Gardiner '11 Kelsey Harris '11 Lauren Kwan '14 Alexis Lim '11 Nathalie Rivest '10 Chang Tang '11 Stephanie Trudeau '09 Linden Vongsathorn '10 Yifei Wang '12 Geetha Wunnava '10 (Wellesley) Lillian Xia '11 Yizhi Zhang '13 Qianqian Zhao '11

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