- Sungmin (Kevin) Hong (Ph.D.), 2023
- Suraj Shamsundar Jain (M.S., first employment: Goldman Sachs), 2023
- Evelyn Crowe (M.S., first employment: Chevron Corp.), 2023
- Abner Mendoza (Ph.D., first employment: belizing.com), 2022
- Phakpoom Chinprutthiwong (Ph.D., first employment: Sisaket Rajabhat University, Thailand), 2022
- Zihao Zheng (M.S., first employment: Advanta Seeds), 2022
- Yangyong Zhang (Ph.D., first employment: DiDi labs U.S.), 2021
- Raj Vardhan (M.S., first employment: Arista Networks), 2021
- Alok Chandrawal (M.S., first employment: Siemens Technology), 2021
- Michael Chacko (B.S., first employment: Microsoft), 2021
- Arbin Bhuiyan (B.S., first employment: PwC), 2021
- Hao Jin (MS, first employment: Fortinet), 2021
- Jonathan Grimes (MS, first employment: Sandia National Laboratories), 2020
- Lei Xu (PhD, first employment: Palo Alto Networks), 2019
- Guangliang Yang (PhD, first employment: postdoc at Georgia Tech), 2019
- Haopei Wang (PhD, first employment: DataVisor), 2018
- Jingyu Hong (MS, first employment: PwC), 2018
- Visvanathan Thothathri (MS, first employment: Zscaler), 2017
- David Cox (BS, first employment: Apple), 2016
- Jialong Zhang (PhD, first employment: IBM Research T.J. Watson), 2016
- Kyle Fisher (BS, will be MS student at Stanford University), 2016
- Robert Baykov (will be PhD student at University of Maryland), 2016
- Srinath Nadimpalli (MS, first employment: Cisco), 2015
- Yan Xu (MS, first employment: Microsoft), 2015
- Aurea Del Moral (B.S., first employment: Austin Sigma), 2015
- Joshua Rispoli (B.S., first employment: IBM), 2015
- Zhaoyan Xu (PhD, first employment: Palo Alto Networks), 2014
- Chao Yang (PhD, first employment: Aruba Networks/HP), 2014
- Seungwon Shin (PhD, first employment: KAIST, Korea, tenure-track assistant professor), 2013
- Lingfeng Chen (MS, first employment: NVIDIA), 2012
- Vijayasenthil VC (MS, first employment: Amazon), 2012
- Harihara Narayanan (MS, first employment: Schlumberger), 2012
- Louis Lang (BS, first employment: NSA), 2011
- Shardul Vikram (MS, first employment: Microsoft), 2011
- Robert Harkreader (MS, first employment: Cisco), 2011
- Yimin Song (MS, first employment: Juniper Networks), 2010
Formal Students
Faculty
Guofei Gu
Eppright Professor in Engineering
Presidential Impact Fellow
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Texas A&M University
Office: HRBB 417A
Email: guofei [AT] cse.tamu.edu
Dr. Guofei Gu is a professor and holder of the Eppright Professorship in Engineering in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Texas A&M University (TAMU). Before coming to Texas A&M, he received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests are in network and systems security, such as software-defined programmable security (e.g., SDN/NFV/Cloud/Edge/5G), malware/intrusion detection, AI security, Web/Web3 security, and mobile/IoT security.
Dr. Gu is an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Distinguished Member. He is a recipient of 2010 NSF CAREER Award, 2013 AFOSR Young Investigator Award, Texas A&M Dean of Engineering Excellence Award, Presidential Impact Fellow, Charles H. Barclay Jr. ’45 Faculty Fellow, TEES Faculty Fellow, TEES Research Impact Award, and Google Faculty Research Award. He has pioneered several new research directions such as botnet detection and software-defined network (SDN) security. His research also received 2010 IEEE S&P Best Student Paper Award, 2015 ICDCS Best Paper Award, 2022 ASIACCS Best Paper Award, and 2023 ACSAC Test of Time Award.
Dr. Gu has frequently served on the program committees of top-tier security conferences such as IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, USENIX Security, and NDSS. He is a Senior Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (T-IFS) and on the Steering Committee of ACSAC and SecureComm.
He is currently directing the SUCCESS Lab at TAMU. For more information, please visit his personal website.
Students
Current Students
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Jianwei HuangEmail: jwhuang [AT] tamu.edu Jianwei is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering(CSE) at Texas A&M University. His research interests focus on System Security & Network Security. Besides that, he is active in finding vulnerabilities in various applications. |
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Shreyas KumarEmail: shreyas.kumar [AT] tamu.edu Shreyas is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He is interested in fintech and credit card security. Shreyas has worked in security engineering leadership roles at Deserve, Uber, Adobe and Oracle. He has also taught at San Jose State University. |
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Huancheng ZhouEmail: hczhou [AT] tamu.edu Huancheng is a Ph.D. student (starting Spring 2021) in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. He is interested in Network Security and System Security. He is currently exploring SDN security. |
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Mengxiao (Jackson) WangEmail: jacksonwang [AT] tamu.edu Mengxiao is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. He is interested in web security and in exploiting vulnerabilities in new technologies. |
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Wanda GuoEmail: wdguo [AT] tamu.edu Wanda is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. He is interested in 5G and network security. |
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Nathan McClaranEmail: nmcclaran [AT] tamu.edu Nathan is a Master’s student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. He is interested in network security, Internet of Things security. |
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Sridatta Raghavendra ChintapalliEmail: dattu046 [AT] tamu.edu Sridatta is a Master’s student in the department of Multi Disciplinary Engineering Specializing in Cybersecurity. He is interested in Web application security and Cloud security. |
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Ariela MitraniEmail: amitrani [AT] tamu.edu Ariela is an undergraduate computer science major at Texas A&M. She is interested in cybersecurity and math. |
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Patralika (Nora) GhoshEmail: ghoshpatralika [AT] tamu.edu Nora is an undergraduate computer science major at Texas A&M. She is interested in cybersecurity and statistics. |