The Team
Kathleen Lowe
Kathleen has over a decade of industry experience, including process, reliability, and quality engineering. In 2016, she completed the SANS Institute’s week-long course, SEC 301 Introduction to Information Security, which covered fundamental security principles, cryptography, network security, host security, and protecting assets. During August of 2017, she was a member of the CyberStart program during which she received instruction in a variety of penetration techniques such as webpage vulnerability exploitation via SQL injection, as well as the creation of python scripts for exploiting password and communication protocol vulnerabilities. She contributed to all aspects of the project and led the design of the UI and the MySQL database.
Timothy Muller
Tim is currently a senior in college pursuing his CSE degree. He is especially interested in cybersecurity and has been an active participant in the Nevada Cyber Club. He has participated in numerous cybersecurity competitions, including placing 4th out of 155th in the NCL team-based competition. He has also attended numerous coding competitions during his college career. Tim contributed to all parts of the project and led the design of encryption, integration, and testing.
Alexander Parr
Alexander has extensive coding experience from 7+ years of programming contests. He was also one of the earliest members of the Nevada Cyber Club and has captained their cybersecurity contest team for the past 1.5 years. He is fairly familiar with a lot of programming and cybersecurity techniques but has never worked on a large-scale team project. Alexander contributed to all parts of the project and led the networking and security aspects of the project.
The Advisor
Shamik Sengupta
Our external advisor is Dr. Shamik Sengupta. He teaches the networking and internet security courses at UNR and is the executive director of the UNR Cybersecurity Center. Dr. Sengupta is also involved with active cybersecurity research projects. More information about Dr. Sengupta can be found here.
The Instructors
Sergiu Dascalu
Sergiu Dascalu is a professor at UNR for the CS 426 class and the advisor for the project from the course. More information about him can be found here.
Devrin Lee
Devrin Lee is the other instructor for the CS 426 class.