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Dr. Jorge Crichigno

Professor
Integrated Information Technology

Dr. Elie Kfoury

Assistant Professor
Integrated Information Technology Department

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Jose

Dr. Jose Gomez

Assistant Professor
Integrated Information Technology Department

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AliAlSabeh

Dr. Ali AlSabeh

Assistant Professor
Integrated Information Technology Department

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Ali Mazloum

Ph.D. Student (08/2021 - present)
Integrated Information Technology Department

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Shahrin Sharif

M.S. Student (09/2019 - 09/2021)
Integrated Information Technology Department

 

Christian Vega

Research Visitor (09/2021-02/2022)
Integrated Information Technology Department

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Sergio Elizalde

Ph.D. Student (01/2024 - present)
Integrated Information Technology Department

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Samia Choueiri

Ph.D. Student (08/2023 - present)
Integrated Information Technology Department

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Amith

Amith G.S.P.N

Ph.D. Student (08/2024 - present)
Integrated Information Technology Department

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Liwaa Albanna

Ph.D. Student (01/2026 - present)
Integrated Information Technology Department

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Laura Sofia Salazar Reyes

Ph.D. Student (01/2026 - present)
Integrated Information Technology Department

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Shamreen Shakil Shaikh

Ph.D. Student (01/2026 - present)
Integrated Information Technology Department

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Dr. Jorge Crichigno

is an Associate Professor in the College of Engineering and Computing at the University of South Carolina (USC). He has over 10 years of experience in the academic and industry sectors. Prior to joining USC, Dr. Crichigno was an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Engineering at Northern New Mexico College. Dr. Crichignos research focuses on practical implementation of high-speed networks and network security. These include the design and implementation of high-speed switched networks, TCP optimization, experimental evaluation of congestion control algorithms tailored for frictionfree environments, and scalable flow-based intrusion detection systems. His work has been funded by Google, NSF, and the Department of Energy. He received his PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of New Mexico in 2009, and his Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from the Catholic University of Paraguay in 2004.

Dr. Elie Kfoury

Elie Kfoury received the Ph.D. degree in Informatics from the University of South Carolina (USC), in 2023. He is currently an assistant professor in the Integrated Information Technology department at USC. As a member of the Cyberinfrastructure Laboratory, he developed training materials using virtual labs on high-speed networks, TCP congestion control, programmable switches, SDN, and cybersecurity. He is the co-author a book “High-Speed Networks: A Tutorial”, that is being used nationally for deploying, troubleshooting, and tuning Science DMZ networks. His research interests include P4 programmable data planes, computer networks, cybersecurity, and Blockchain. He previously worked as a research and teaching assistant in the computer science department at the American University of Science and Technology in Beirut.

Dr. Jose Gomez

Jose is an Assistant Professor at the Katz School of Business, Fort Lewis College. He earned his Ph.D. in Informatics from the University of South Carolina in 2024, where he was part of the Cyberinfrastructure Lab (CI Lab). During his doctoral studies, he developed training materials for virtual labs on P4, OSPF, IPv6, and perfSONAR. Jose’s research focuses on P4 programmable data planes, TCP congestion control, passive measurements, and experimentation testbeds. Currently, he is developing a system based on P4 switches to enhance the fairness of flows with different Round-Trip Times (RTTs) in legacy networks.

Dr. Ali AlSabeh

Ali earned his Ph.D. in Informatics from the University of South Carolina in 2024, where he was a member of the CyberInfrastructure Lab (CI Lab). During his doctoral studies, he developed training materials for hands-on activities on network protocols (e.g., OSPF and BGP), network and host security, Software-Defined Networking (SDN), and cloud security. His research interests include malware analysis and security in high-speed programmable networks.

Mr. Ali Mazloum

Ali is a Ph.D. student in the College of Engineering and Computing at the University of South Carolina (USC) in the United States of America. Prior to joining USC, he received his bachelor’s in computer science from the American University of Beirut (AUB). His research focuses on P4 programmable data planes, network monitoring, data collection and visualization, and packet acceleration techniques.

Mrs. Shahrin Sharif

Shahrin Sharif is a M.Sc. student at the University of South Carolina in the United States of America. Previously she worked as a teaching assistant in the School of Engineering at American International University-Bangladesh.

Mr. Christian Vega

Christian is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree with the Electric Engineering Department at the University of Concepción - Chile. In addition, he is currently Adjunct Professor at CESMAG University in Colombia. He earned his electronics and telecommunications master's degree at the University of Cauca – Colombia in 2017 and his bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Nariño – Colombia in 2008. Christian has over 13 years of experience in applied science projects and teaching. His research has been funded by ANID, FONDECYT, FONDEF-IDEA, CORFO, MINEDUC-Chile, and UofSC. His area of research focuses on Science-DMZ, congestion and rate control supported by data planes, machine learning, and engineering education.


 

Research Group, March 2025

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Research Group, Dec. 2021


 

Undergraduate Students

 

Implementing Security Functions Using P4 [pdf, poster]
  • Andrew Pringle (Summer 2025)
  • Grayson Li (Summer 2025)
  • Jharna Patel (Summer 2025)
Encrypted Malware Detections [pdf, poster, video]
  • Harikrushna Patel (Fall 2024)
  • Alana Mireles (Fall 2024)
Brute-force Attacks [pdf, poster, video]
  • Caleb Lanier (Fall 2024)
Reconnaissance and Scan Attacks [pdf, poster, video]
  • Robert Schmidt (Fall 2024)
  • Jordana Maciel (Fall 2024)
Geoblocking [pdf, poster, video]
  • Tessa Orwat (Fall 2024)
  • Ashley McAlister (Fall 2024)
Application Identification [pdf, poster, video]
  • Kharis Greear (Fall 2024)
  • Heather Howe (Fall 2024)
DNS Sinkhole [pdf, poster, video]
  • Chris Moore (Spring 2024)
  • DeAngelo Clark (Spring 2024)
SYN Attack Prevention [pdf, poster, video]
  • John Mullen (Spring 2024)
  • Andrea Capraru (Spring 2024)
Mitigating UDP Abuses [pdf, poster, video]
  • Maryelizabeth McDonald (Spring 2024)
  • William Ferri (Spring 2024)
BGP Hijacking [pdf, poster, video]
  • Nathaniel Auten (Spring 2024)
  • Rick Jiang (Spring 2024)
Protecting a Web Application against Brute-force Attacks[pdf, pptx, video, poster]
  • Yousef Afshar (Fall 2023)
  • Chasey Kilcrease (Fall 2023)
Implementing a Stateful Packet Filter Using a P4 Programmable Switch[pdf, pptx, video, poster]
  • Andrew Smith (Fall 2023)
  • Nolan Pelino (Fall 2023)
Reconnaissance Protection [pdf, pptx, video, poster]
  • Denzel Martin (Fall 2023)
  • Favour Agho (Fall 2023)
DDoS Defense using NGFW [pdf, pptx, video, poster]
  • Jacob Sherer (Fall 2023)
  • Matthew Kleeman (Fall 2023)
Implementing a Packet Filter using a P4 Programmable Switch [pdf, pptx, video, poster]
  • Caroline Boozer (Summer 2022)
  • Anaia Prather (Summer 2022)
  • Camila Pereira (Summer 2022)
SYN Attack Prevention [pdf, pptx, video, poster]
  • Sean Batchelder (Summer 2022)
  • Ephraim Zimmerman (Summer 2022)
Implementing a Monitoring Device using a P4 Programmable Switch [pdf, pptx, video]
  • Samuel Dao (Spring 2022)
  • Mark-Anthony Box (Spring 2022)
Geolocation and Geoblocking [pdf, pptx, video]
  • Andrew Clements (Spring 2022)
  • Avery Schiro (Spring 2022)
Implementing a Packet Filter using a P4 Programmable Switch [pdf, pptx, video]
  • Gabriella Pinto (Spring 2022)
  • Cameron McDuffie (Spring 2022)
Using External Dynamic List for Live Threat Updates [pdf, pptx, video]
  • David Williams (Spring 2022)
  • Tucker Baron (Spring 2022)
Implementing a NAT Device using a P4 Programmable Switch [pdf, pptx, video]
  • Samuel Kelley (Spring 2022)
  • Talha Gill (Spring 2022)
Protection against Brute-force Attacks [pdf, pptx, video]
  • Timothy Dao (Spring 2022)
  • Dillon Barnhardt (Spring 2022)
BGP Hijacking [pdf, pptx,video]
  • Jeremy Gill (Fall 2021)
  • Hannah Gardner (Fall 2021)
UDP Abuses [pdf, pptx, video]
  • Collins Khuu (Fall 2021)
  • Tucker Baron (Fall 2021)
SYN Attacks [pdf, pptx, video]
  • Cameron McDuffie (Fall 2021)
  • Jesse Leonard (Fall 2021)
DNS Attack [pdf, pptx, video]
  • Christian Tsirlis (Fall 2021)
  • Brad Wilson (Fall 2021)
P4 Programmable Data-Plane Switches [pdf, pptx]
  • Joseph Telaak (Summer 2021)
Effectiveness of Application Identification in Next-Generation Firewalls [pdf, pptx, video]
  • Christian Tsirlis (Spring 2021)
  • Brad Wilson (Spring 2021)
External Dynamic List [pdf, pptx, video]
  • Bryson Livingston (Spring 2021)
  • Zachary Fowler (Spring 2021)
Policy-based Forwarding [pdf, pptx, video]
  • Jack Sadle (Spring 2021)
  • Matthew Driver (Spring 2021)
Connecting Remote Sites Securely using a Firewall-Based IPsec Virtual Private Network [pdf, pptx]
  • Ryan Tallent (Spring 2021)
Geolocation and Geoblocking [pdf, pptx, video]
  • Nathan Long (Spring 2021)
  • Ty Love-Baker (Spring 2021)
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection with Next Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) [pdf, pptx, video]
  • Dakota McDaniels (Fall 2020)
  • Brian Nelson (Fall 2020)
Protection against Reconnaissance and Scan Attacks [pdf, pptx, video]
  • Kyle Radzak (Fall 2020)
  • Christopher Ngo (Fall 2020)
Mitigating Routing Hijacking Attacks [pdf, pptx,video]
  • Jack Sadle (Fall 2020)
  • Matthew Driver (Fall 2020)
An Open-Source Library for Computer Networks and Cybersecurity [pdf, pptx, video]
  • Keegan Sprankle (Fall 2020)
Site to site VPN with routers [pdf, pptx]
  • Ryan Tallent (Fall 2020)
Protection against Bruteforce Attacks with NGFW (ncrack) [pdf, pptx, video]
  • Lauren Waddell (Fall 2020)
  • Brendan Curran (Fall 2020)
Site to site VPN with NGFWs [pdf, pptx, video]
  • Josue Hernandez (Fall 2020)
  • Nathan Bohmer (Fall 2020)
SDN, MPLS
  • Keegan Sprankle (Summer 2020)
Routing Protocols - BGP Hijacking [pdf]
  • Nathan Plenzler (Spring 2020)
  • Thomas Cox (Spring 2020)
  • Chris Weidner (Spring 2020)
  • James Jones (Spring 2020)
Routing Protocols - Open Shortest Path First
  • McDakota McDaniels (Fall 2019)
High-Speed Networks
  • David Wright (Fall 2019)
  • Mason Gaymon (Fall 2019)
  • Jack Stavrakas (Fall 2019)
  • Nicholas Rebarick (Fall 2019)
Zeek Intrusion Detection
  • Hriday Patel (Summer 2019)
  • Joseph Martin (Summer 2019)
perfSONAR Network Monitoring [pdf, pptx]
  • Rebecca Purser (Spring 2019)
  • Brandon Finnerty (Spring 2019)
  • Joseph Lannamann (Spring 2019)
The Intersection of the Fourth Amendment and IoT [pdf]
  • Jessica McMinn (Spring 2019, Honors College)
Performance Tests of BBR Congestion Control in a 40Gbps Network [pdf, pptx]
  • Adam Wellner (Fall 2018)
  • Christos Belegrinos (Fall 2018)
  • Grant Sharpe (Fall 2018)
  • Michael Wright (Fall 2018)
  • Juan De Filippis (Fall 2018)

 

Former Master's Students

 

  • Aastha Bapna (2018)
  • Sai Kuruvella (2018)
  • Jahnavi Ayyanki (2018)

 

Collaborators