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SUCCESS Lab

SUCCESS Lab

Texas A&M University College of Engineering

People

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

(979) 845-2475

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 malware and APT defense, software-defined programmable security (e.g., SDN/NFV), mobile and IoT security, and intrusion/anomaly detection.

Dr. Gu is a recipient of 2010 NSF CAREER Award, 2013 AFOSR Young Investigator Award, 2010 IEEE S&P Best Student Paper Award, 2015 ICDCS Best Paper 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 is an active member of the security research community and has pioneered several new research directions such as botnet detection/defense and SDN security. Dr. Gu has served on the program committees of top-tier security conferences such as IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, USENIX Security, and NDSS, among many others. He is an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Distinguished Member, an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (T-IFS) and the Steering Committee co-chair for International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm). He recently co-chaired the 2018 NSF Workshop on Programmable System Security in a Software Defined World. He is currently directing the SUCCESS Lab at TAMU. For more information, please visit his personal website.

Students

Current Students

Sungmin (Kevin) Hong

Email: ghitsh [AT] tamu.edu

Kevin is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. He is interested in SDN and systems security.

Phakpoom (Patrick) Chinprutthiwong

Email: cpx0rpc [AT] tamu.edu

Patrick is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. He is interested in web and mobile security, specifically related to Progressive Web Apps (PWA) and service workers.

Jianwei Huang

Email: 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.

Shreyas Kumar

Email: 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.

Vicram Rajagopalan

Email: vicram [AT] tamu.edu

Vicram is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. He is interested in security and privacy issues in machine learning systems, such as their vulnerability to adversarial inputs.

Huancheng Zhou

Email: hczhou [AT] tamu.edu

Huancheng is a new 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.

Nathan McClaran

Email: nmcclaran [AT] tamu.edu

Nathan is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. He is interested in network security, Internet of Things security.

Suraj

Suraj Shamsundar Jain

Email: surajsjain [AT] tamu.edu

Suraj is a Master’s student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. He is interested in Web3 security and is currently working towards building a risk analysis system for different Web3 technologies.

Evelyn Crowe

Email: evelyn.crowe [AT] tamu.edu

Evelyn is an undergraduate student majoring in Computer Science and focusing on Cybersecurity. She is researching privacy and the Internet of Things with SUCCESS lab and looks forward to further specialization as she learns more about cybersecurity.

 

Alumni

Formal Students

  • Zihao Zheng (M.S.), 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
  • Abner Mendoza (PhD)
  • 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: a secret startup company), 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

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