Michael Reiter :: Ph.D. Students

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Future students

If you are interested in joining my research group at Duke as a Ph.D. student, a formal application to the Department of Computer Science or Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is a necessary first step. Please see the graduate application instructions for more information. You are welcome to send me email to introduce yourself, but do not be discouraged if I do not respond; I might just be putting off applications until the usual internal decision-making schedule. I will do my best to look at all applications that indicate me as a potential advisor. Evidence of research aptitude (projects, publications, or even just well-formed thoughts about your research interests) will strengthen your application substantially.

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Present students

I currently advise the following Ph.D. students:

• Adam Humphries
• Zonghao Huang
• Mridu Nanda
• Andrew Reed
• Sara Schwarz-Iglesias
• Xinyuan Zhang
• Yujie Zhang

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Past students

The following students have completed a Ph.D. under my supervision.

• Michael Abd-El-Malek, Ph.D., 2010.
  Thesis: File System Virtual Appliances
• Darrell Bethea, Ph.D., 2015.
  Thesis: WACCO and LOKO: Strong Consistency at Global Scale
• Andrew Chi, Ph.D., 2023.
  Thesis: Verifying the Behavior of Security-Impacting Programs
• Robby Cochran, Ph.D., 2016.
  Thesis: Symbolic Verification of Remote Client Behavior in Distributed Systems
• Michael Collins, Ph.D., 2008.
  Thesis: A Protocol Graph Based Anomaly Detection System
• Debin Gao, Ph.D., 2007.
  Thesis: Gray-box Anomaly Detection Using System Call Monitoring
• Scott Garriss, Ph.D., 2008.
  Thesis: Efficient, Usable Proof-Construction Strategies for Distributed Access-Control Systems
• James Hendricks, Ph.D., 2009.
  Thesis: Efficient Byzantine Fault Tolerance for Scalable Storage and Services
• Victor Heorhiadi, Ph.D., 2017.
  Thesis: Expression and Composition of Optimization-Based Applications for Software-Defined Networking
• Peng Li, Ph.D., 2014.
  Thesis: Replication and Placement for Security in Distributed Systems
• Sheng Liu, Ph.D., 2021.
  Thesis: Efficient and Safe Migration of Network Functions Using Software-Defined Networking
• Jonathan McCune, Ph.D., 2009.
  Thesis: Reducing the Trusted Computing Base for Applications on Commodity Systems
• Michael Merideth, Ph.D., 2009.
  Thesis: Efficient Survivability for Highly Replicated Services
• Alina Oprea, Ph.D., 2007.
  Thesis: Efficient Cryptographic Techniques for Securing Storage Systems
• Florian Oprea, Ph.D., 2008.
  Thesis: Quorum Placement on Wide-Area Networks
• Asad Samar, Ph.D., 2006.
  Thesis: Quiver on the Edge: Consistent Scalable Edge Services
• Vyas Sekar, Ph.D., 2010.
  Thesis: Effective Network Management via System-Wide Coordination and Optimization
• Ke Coby Wang, Ph.D., 2021.
  Thesis: Federated Detection of Cross-Site Credential Vulnerabilities and Attacks
• Lei Wei, Ph.D., 2013.
  Thesis: Privacy-Preserving Regular Expression Evaluation on Encrypted Data
• Qiuyu Xiao, Ph.D., 2019.
  Thesis: Efficient Data Protection by Noising, Masking, and Metering
• Ting-Fang Yen, Ph.D., 2011.
  Thesis: Detecting Stealthy Malware Using Behavioral Features in Network Traffic
• Yinqian Zhang, Ph.D., 2014.
  Thesis: Cache-Based Side-Channel Attacks in Multi-Tenant Public Clouds and Their Countermeasures
• Ziqiao Zhou, Ph.D., 2020.
  Thesis: Evaluating Information Leakage by Quantitative and Interpretable Measurements

I have also worked closely with several other students on their Ph.D. thesis research (but not as their official advisors).

• Scott Coull, Ph.D., 2009.
• Garth Goodson, Ph.D., 2004.
• Qatrunnada Ismail, Ph.D., 2018.
• Fabian Monrose, Ph.D., 1999.
• Rob Reeder, Ph.D., 2008.
• Mahmood Sharif, Ph.D., 2019.
• Kami Vaniea, Ph.D., 2012.
• XiaoFeng Wang, Ph.D., 2004.
• Jay Wylie, Ph.D., 2005.
• Yinglian Xie, Ph.D., 2005.