Researchers

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/

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/

Apurva Sista

Apurva Sista is a Computer Science undergraduate student at Penn State. 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, image analyzers, and vendor authorship analysis.

Lynn K. Takahashi

Lynn is a former Cal Poly Pomona Computer Science student. 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, image analyzers, and vendor authorship analysis.

Minh Khoi Tran

Khoi is an undergraduate student studying Computer Engineering 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 with the implementation of recommender systems able to automatically detect criminal hacking sites.

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 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 involved on CAPTCHA solvers, image analyzers, and vendor authorship analysis.

Austin Celestino

Austin is a former Cal Poly Pomona Computer Science student. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building machine learning models to automatically solve CAPTCHA challenges.

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.

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.

Adrian Alcoreza

Adrian is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building recommender systems to find and recommend credible websites including criminal hacking content.

Brianna Ha

Brianna is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. Her research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building recommender systems to find and recommend credible websites including criminal hacking content.

Matthew Kwong

Matthew is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building recommender systems to find and recommend credible websites including criminal hacking content.

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 illicit drug-related data from the dark web to develop intelligence models for drug-crime mapping and prevention.

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 illicit drug-related data from the dark web to develop intelligence models for drug-crime mapping and prevention.

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 illicit drug-related data from the dark web to develop intelligence models for drug-crime mapping and prevention.

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. He is also working on automating CAPTCHA solvers with machine learning.

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. She is also working on models to predict hacker engagement.

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. He is also working on automating CAPTCHA solvers with machine learning.

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. He is also working on models to predict hacker engagement.

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 illicit drug-related data from the dark web to develop intelligence models for drug-crime mapping and prevention.

Sonia Pandey

Sonia is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. Her research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building machine learning models to automatically solve CAPTCHA challenges.

Mayela Ancheta

Mayela 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.

Sidharth Basam

Sidharth 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 hacker data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models.

Lucas Tran

Sidharth 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 hacker data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models.

Aidan Zimmerman

Aidan 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 hacker data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models.

Yuvraj Narwal

Yuvraj 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 hacker data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models.

FNU Ritika 

Ritika is a former Computer Science master's student 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 former Computer Science master's student at Cal Poly Pomona. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building machine learning models to automatically solve 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 recommend 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.

Stephanie Pocci

Stephanie is a master's student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. Her research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacker data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models. She is also interested in designing and building recommender systems to find and recommend credible websites including criminal hacking content.

Shreyas Chaudhary

Shreyas is a master's student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacker data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models. He is also interested in designing and building recommender systems to find and recommend credible websites including criminal hacking content.

Anupama Singh

Anupama is a master's 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.