Cyber Adaptive Learning System Laboratory (CALSys Lab)

Researchers

 

Director

Dr. Ericsson Marin

Dr. Marin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona). As the director of CALSys Lab, Dr. Marin leads a team of researchers who explore proactive cyber-threat intelligence. He can be reached at santanamarin@cpp.edu for research inquiries. His faculty site is available at https://www.cpp.edu/faculty/santanamarin/

 

Lab Manager

Wesley Kwan

Wesley is a former Cal Poly Pomona Computer Science student. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacking data from the darkweb. In addition, Wesley coordinates all the lab's research projects that utilize this data to develop cyber-threat intelligence models. He can be reached at whkwan@cpp.edu for research inquiries. His personal site is available at https://www.wesleyhkwan.com/

 

Undergraduate students currently supervised

Apurva Sista

Apurva Sista is a Computer Science undergraduate student conducting REU project at Cal Poly Pomona. Her research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacking data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models. She is also involved on CAPTCHA solvers and on hacker image analyzer problems.

Lynn K. Takahashi

Lynn is a Computer Science undergraduate student conducting REU project at Cal Poly Pomona. Her research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacking data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models. She is also involved on CAPTCHA solvers and on hacker image analyzer problems.

 

Minh Khoi Tran

Khoi is a Computer Science undergraduate student conducting REU project at Cal Poly Pomona. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacking data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models. He is also involved in building Hacker Sites Recommender Systems.

Jason T. Phan

Jason is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building models to anticipate viral malicious cascades on darkweb forums.

Nathan Pham

Nathan is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacking data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models. He is also involved on hacker image analyzer problems.

Austin Celestino

Austin is a former Cal Poly Pomona Computer Science student. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacking data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models. He is also building technology for CAPTCHA solvers.

Dhanush Karthikeyan

Dhanush is a former Cal Poly Pomona Computer Engineering student. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building models to anticipate viral malicious cascades on darkweb forums.

Christian Williams

Christian is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacking data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models.

Van Huynh

Joshua is a former Cal Poly Pomona Computer Science student. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacking data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models.

Lokaranjan Munta

Lok is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacking data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models.

Michael Phu

Michael is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacking data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models.

Giselle Avila

Giselle is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. Her research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacking data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models.

 

Aisling Gonzalez

Aisling is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. Her research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes drug dealers data from the darkweb for the production of crime prevential models.

UyenNghi H. Nguyen

UyenNghi is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. Her research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes drug dealers data from the darkweb for the production of crime prevential models.

 

John Huang

John is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacking data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models.

Ryan Larson

Ryan is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacking data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models.

Tiffany Lo

Tiffany is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. Her research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacking data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models.

Richard Pacheco

Richard is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacking data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models.

Ayanna Kalia

Ayanna is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. Her research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacking data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models.

Abhishek Sarepaka

Abhishek is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacking data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models.

Katelyn Mijares

Katelyn is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. Her research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacking data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models.

 

Graduate students currently supervised 

FNU Ritika 

Ritika is a master's student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. Her research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building machine learning models to predict software vulnerability exploitation.

Siva Charan Mallena

Siva is a master's student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building machine learning models to automatically break CAPTCHA challenges.

Andy Munoz

Andy is a master's student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building recommender systems to find and indicate credible websites including criminal hacking content.

Harshitha Patnaik

Harshitha is a master's student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. Her research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building machine learning models to predict hacker engagement.

Chanrady Ho

Chanrady is a master's student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building machine learning models to predict software vulnerability exploitation.

Anjali Rai

Anjali is a master's student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. Her research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building models to anticipate viral malicious cascades on darkweb forums.

 

Sravani Reddy

Sravani is a master's student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. Her research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building models to identify key-hackers on darkweb forums.

 

Past undergraduate students supervised

Siewen Wang (Victor) Michael A. Melkonian Anthony Spencer Arsham Mehrani Feng Ru Yang (Flora)
Jordan Williams (REU student) Vincent C. Lee Saul Barajas Leonardo Langgeng Gabrielle Lake (REU student)
Sebastian A. Chinen Julia Ybanez Pablo Duenas Alondra R. Marin Daniel Pasion
Ian Chow Vaibhavi Jhawar Cameron A. Lee Samin Hossain Kevin Gautier Foyet Towa
Hoang Tu Huynh Sunjay N. Guttikonda Kyle J. Just Justin Son Jonathan R. Pena
Kimtaiyo Mech Alexander G. Eckert Van T. Huynh Anita Mehrazarin Leo Jiang
Joshua A. Furman Rida Siddiqui Jimmy C. Peng Palmer M. Du Justin M. Nguye
Megan Bee Priyanshu Shekhar Joshua Estrada Joey Cindass Parth Singh
Vincent Terrelonge Kimtaiyo Mech

 

Past graduate students supervised

Casey L. Cannon Brandon Yu Seungyun Lee Jasmit S. Mahajan

 

 

Recruitment

CALSys Lab is currently accepting graduate and undergraduate students to conduct the proposed research. For Fall, all paid positions have been already flled, but volunteers are still welcome. If you are interested in participating, please contact prof. Marin. Spring positions will be announced soon.