Recent Visitors and Postdoctoral Scholars

• James (Hongjian) Wang, Senior Network Security Engineer, State Key Laboratory of Information Security (SKLOIS), Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Visiting Research Scholar, from January 2007 to January 2008.
• Dr. Stephen Drape, postdoctoral researcher from January 2006 to June 2007.
• Simson Garfinkel, postdoctoral visitor for the month of August 2005.
• Antoine Monsifrot, postdoctoral scholar from March 2003 to March 2005.
• Akito Monden, sabbatical visitor from June 2003 to March 2004.

PhD Students Supervised by Clark Thomborson

1. Anirban Majumdar, Design and Evaluation of Software Obfuscations, co-supervised by Dr Stephen Drape, University of Auckland, 2008. Winner of departmental "Best Published Paper" award, 2007. Postdoc at U Trento (Italy) 2007-8. From November 2008, working for SAP Research Germany, in Dresden.
2. William Zhu, Concepts and techniques in software watermarking and obfuscation, University of Auckland, August 2007. Research fellow: October 2006 - September 2007. As at 2008, Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, UESTC, Chengdu, China.
3. Jasvir Nagra, Threading software watermarks, University of Auckland, February 2007. Research Fellow at the University of Auckland, from April 2006 through December 2006; then a post-doc at U Trento (Italy). As at July 2011, a Software Engineer at Google Inc. in Palo Alto who twitters.
4. Andrew Michael Colarik, A secure patch management authority, University of Auckland, November 2003. Primary supervisor: Associate Professor Lech Janczewski. As at 2006, an independent information security consultant.
5. Belle Wei, Synthesis and optimization of VLSI prefix circuits, Ph.D. dissertation, Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley, May 1987. As at 2006, Dean of Engineering at San Jose State University, California (USA).
6. Prabhakar Raghavan, Randomized rounding and discrete ham-sandwich theorems: provably good algorithms for routing and packing problems, Ph.D. dissertation, Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley, May 1986. As at 2006, Head of Research at Yahoo, Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, Editor in Chief of J. ACM.

MSc/ME Students Supervised by Clark Thomborson

1. Yu-Cheng Tu, (ME Second Class, July 2008: A Preliminary Security Analysis of New Zealand's igovt System). Since May 2009, conducting PhD research under my supervision on ``Transparency in Software Engineering''.
2. Gilbert Notoatmodjo, (MSc First Class, Exploring the Weakest Link: A Study of Personal Password Security, submitted for assessment, July 2007; revised for internet publication, December 2007). As at March 2009, working in the IT Advisory Services group of KPMG Singapore.
3. Jinho Lee, (ME First Class, September 2006: Perceptions of HIPAA Security Requirements by US Dental Schools). As at August 2007, working for FirstData Utilities as a software engineer.
4. Jason (Lei) Wang, (MSc, September 2006: A Constant Encoding Algorithm Which Tamper-proofs the CT-Watermark). 780 project student March-June 2005. As of July 2010, working as a Software Specialist (Treasury and Financial Markets) for ASB.
5. Teng Teng, (MSc Second Class First Division, July 2006: Unauthorized Detection of CT Watermarks Based on Pattern Analysis Methods). 780 project student March-June 2005. As of March 2007, working for Datacom.
6. Han Zhang, (MSc Second Class Second Division, July 2006: Formal Security Modeling and Analysis in B2B e-commerce), co-supervised by Gerald Weber. ICT Academy project on Secure P2P Message Exchanging in a Test Harness, 14 February 2005, co-supervisor Gerald Weber, industry mentor Barry Dowdeswell. As at March 2007, working for Flipmind.
7. Mike Stay (MSc First Class, 2005: Truth and Light: Physical Algorithmic Randomness), co-supervised by Prof Cris Calude. As at 2006, PhD student in Physics at UC Riverside, California (USA).
8. Matt Barrett (BSc Hons, 2003; MSc First Class, 2005: Towards an Open Trusted Computing Framework). Co-author of Using NGSCB to Mitigate Existing Software Threats (preliminary version), in Certification and Security in Inter-Organizational E-Services, eds. Narelli and Talamo, IFIP Vol. 177, Springer, ISBN 0-387-25087-5, pp. 55-74, 2005. Author of "Using NGSCB to Solve Existing Software Vulnerabilities", project report, November 2003.
9. Benjamin Lai (MSc First Class, February 2004: Trust in Online Trading Systems). As at June 2007, working as a Developer at TelstraClear Limited.
10. Yong (Charles) He, (MSc, 2002: Tamperproofing a Software Watermark by Encoding Constants). As at June 2005, working for the ACC.
11. Jihong Li, (MSc, Second Class Division 1, 2002: A Fifth Generation Messaging System).
12. Qiang Dong, (MSc, 2002: Workflow Simulation for International Trade). As at December 2004, working for Vasco Data Security of Brisbane. Alternate email address.
13. John (Ching Yi) Tsai (MSc, 2000: A comparative study of two astronomical software packages). As at March 2009, enrolled in the Master in Management programme at Massey (Albany campus), with expected completion at the end of 2009. 2001-2008: employed at Ulead Systems, Inc. (Taiwan)
14. Yale (Yuanhua) Yu (MSc, 2000: Measuring Data Cache and TLB Parameters under Linux), and co-author of a conference paper by the same title. As at September 2009, working at HP Australia.
15. Petrus Mursanto (MSc, 1999: Automatic Detection of Vehicular Axle Distance at Tollgates). As at December 2005, working at the Computer Science Department of the University of Indonesia.
16. Douglas Low (MSc, 1998: Java Control Flow Obfuscation), primary supervisor: Christian Collberg. PhD dissertation: Network Processor Memory Hierarchy Designs for IP Packet Classification, Summer 2005, Computer Science Department of the University of Washington, advisor Jean-Loup Baer. Employment as at May 2006: Intel, Folsom CA, USA.
17. Leon Quiding (MSc, 1999: A Formal Model and General Theory for Comparator Networks).
18. Yi Sun, Delay optimization of carry lookahead adders using dynamic programming, Master's project, Computer Science Department, UMN-Duluth, May 1993.
19. Xun Zhao, An interface for transforming information from TimberWolf into RanTer, Master's project, Computer Science Department, UMN-Duluth, June 1992. Zhao's project report is published as UMD-CS TR 92-02.
20. Yanzhang Lu, Solving combinatorial optimization problems by simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, and neural networks, Master's thesis, Computer Science Department, UMN-Duluth, September 1991.
21. Renato Milanesi, Optimal look-ahead adders, Master's thesis, Computer Science Department, UMN-Duluth, July 1991.
22. Sree Rama Peyyety, A proposal for measurement study of Ethernet traffic, Master's project, Computer Science Department, UMN-Duluth, May 1991.
23. Clyde Rogers, Enhancements to Ziv-Lempel data compression, Master's thesis, Computer Science Department, UMN-Duluth, May 1989.
24. Simon Kahan, Problems in recognizing handprinted characters, Master's project, Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley, May 1985.
25. William Zurafleff, A personal computer network via CB radio links, Master's project, Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley, May 1985.
26. Michael Wolfe, Musical instrument pitch analyzer, Master's project, Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley, May 1983.
27. Andy Judkis, Net Funicello: a simple microcomputer network, Master's project, Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley, May 1982.
28. David J. Hathaway, A universal debugger for microcomputer software, Master's project, Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley, May 1982.
29. Yi-Hsien Do, Interface the Biomation 610 Transient Recorder to the PDP 11/10 Computer, Master's project, Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley, May 1982.

Dissertation and Project Students (partial listing)

• James Restall (BSc Hons First Class, June 2009: Threat of Return-Oriented Programming: A Roadmap to Widespread Use).
• David Leung, undergraduate research associate from November 2006 to March 2007.
• Dong Zhang, (BSc Hons dissertation, 2006: Form-Oriented Security Analysis of The WrecDirect Web Application). Primary supervisor Gerald Weber, industry mentor Barry Dowdeswell. As at November 2009, working for Ernst & Young in Sydney.
• Glenn McCord, ICT Academy project on ITBC Systems and IT Phase 1, co-supervised with Ewan Tempero, February 2006.
• Horace Haoqing Guo, ICT Academy project on Analysis of Development of AS2 in EDIS, February 2005. Co-supervisor: Gerald Weber. Industry mentor: Barry Dowdeswell.
• Jun Ho Huh, ICT Academy project on EDIS Security and Non-Repudiation, February 2005. Co-supervisor: Gerald Weber. Industry mentor: Barry Dowdeswell. As at March 2010, a doctoral student at Oxford University Computing Laboratory.
• Shelly Mutu-Grigg (BSc, 2003). Examining Fifth Generation Messaging Systems, project report, January 2003.
• Guanglun Yu, summer project on Record and Playback for Java Software Watermarking, February 2001.
• Hongying (Jenny) Lai, summer project on A comparative survey of Java obfuscators available on the internet, February 2001.
• Michael (Duc) Ta (BTech Hons, 1998: Test-bed for Distributed Object Technologies using Java), now working for Zivo Internet Solutions (New Zealand). Co-supervisor: Radu Nicolescu.
• Terry (Tiejun) Xiao, Memory accounting system, 1998.
• Robert Plotkin, mrandom 3.0: An interface for pseudorandom number generators, Bachelor's thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, May 1993.
• Antony P-C Ng, undergraduate research associate at UC Berkeley, 1986-87. Co-author of three papers including one at the 1986 ACM Design Automation Conference.