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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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