Current Students
1) LT Tim Beach, United States Navy, MSEE
Master's Thesis: Mobility Modeling and Estimation for Delay Tolerant Unmanned Ground Vehicle Networks
Graduation Date: June 2013
2) LT Guillermo Baltra, Chilean Naval Forces, MSEE
Master's Thesis: Efficient Strategies for for Active Interface Level Network Topology Discovery
Graduation Date: September 2013
3) LTJG Yavuz Sagir, Turkish Naval Forces, MSEE
Master's Thesis: Dynamic Bandwidth Provisioning Using Markov Chain Based on RSVP
Graduation Date: September 2013
4) LT Kevin A. White, United States Navy, MSEE
Master's Thesis: Tactical Network Load Balancing in Multi-Gateway Wireless Sensor Networks
Graduation Date: December 2013
5) LT Michael A. Woods, United States Navy, MSEE
Master's Thesis: Interference Aware Routing Using Spatial Reuse in Wireless Sensor Networks
Graduation Date: December 2013
6) LT Nicholas D. Lange, United States Navy, MSCS
Master's Thesis: Design and Evaluation for the End-to-End Detection of TCP/IP Header Manipulation
Graduation Date: March 2014
7) Capt. Audrey F. Callanan, United States Marine Corps, MSEE
Master's Thesis: Achieving Sink Node Anonymity Under Energy Constraints in Wireless Sensor Networks
Graduation Date: June 2014, ECE Outstanding Thesis Award
8) Maj. Alan Stephens, SE, United States Army, MSSE
Master's Thesis: Secure IP Links over Low Power Wireless
Networks
Expected Graduation Date: June 2016
9) Maj. Mitch Rubinstein, ECE, United States Marine Corps
Master's Thesis: Testbed for Characterization and
Assessment of Commercial Maritime Electronics
Expected Graduation Date: September 2016
10) LT Dave Courtney, United States Navy, MSEE
Master's Thesis: Vulnerability Analysis for Low Power
Wireless Sensor Networks Using 6LoWPAN
Expected Graduation Date: September 2016, ECE Outstanding Thesis Award
11) LT Richard Thompson, United States Navy, MSEE
Master's Thesis: Analysis of Group Key Management for
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarms
Graduation Date: December 2016, NPS AFCEA Award
12) Maj. Tom Haakensen, United States Marine Corps, MSEE
Master's Thesis: Achieving Sink Node Anonymity in Tactical Sensor Networks using a Reactive Routing Protocol
Graduation Date: June 2017
13) Capt. Kelvin Chew, United States Marine Corps, MSEE
Master's Thesis: Symmetric Link Key Management for Secure Neighbor Discovery in a Decentralized Wireless Sensor Network
Graduation Date: September 2017, ECE Outstanding Thesis Award
14) LT Brandon Wyatt, United States Navy, MSEE
Master's Thesis: Performance Analysis of Wireless Networks for Industrial Automation-Process Automation (WIA-PA)
Graduation Date: September 2017
15) Mr. Cheng Hai Ang, Singapore Defence Science Technology Agency, MSEE
Master's Thesis: A Security Strategy for Cyber Threats on Neighbor Discovery in 6LoWPAN Networks
Graduation Date: December 2017
16) Mr. Keane Wang, Singapore Defence Science Technology Agency, MSEE
Master's Thesis: Secure Routing Protocol over Mobile Internet of Things (IoT) Wireless Sensor Networks
Graduation Date: March 2018, NPS Outstanding International Student
17) Maj. Sergio Sandoval, ECE, United States Marine Corps
Master's
Thesis: Communications Authentication Protocols for Unmanned Aerial
Systems Running the Military Robot Operating SystemExpected Graduation:
Graduation Date: September 2018
18) LCDR Jose Fernandez, ECE, United States Navy
Master's Thesis: Evaluation of Cybersecurity Communication Protocols in ROS 2 for Unmanned Systems
Graduation Date: June 2019
19) Maj. Zhaolin Chen, ECE, Singapore Air Force
Master's Thesis: ROS 2 Network Performance Under Varying QoS and Security Constraints for Tactical Ground Systems
Graduation Date: Sept. 2019
20) CDR Vincent Chan, ECE, Singapore Navy
Master's Thesis: Using a K-Nearest Neighbors Machine Learning Approach to Detect Cyber Attacks on the Navy Smart Grid
Graduation Date: Sept. 2020, ECE Outstanding Thesis Award
21) LT Carolyn Schiesser, ECE, United States Navy
Master's Thesis: Malicious Threat Detection for the NAVFAC Based
Smart Grid Network Using Bayesian Classification and Machine Learning
Graduation Date: Sept. 2020
22) ME5 Yu Kheng Denny Cheng, ECE, Singapore Navy
Master's
Thesis: Performance Analysis of An Unmanned Systems
Communications Network Using Data Distribution Service in a Lossy
Environment
Graduation Date: March 2021, NPS AFCEA Award
23) ME5 Wee San Ng, ECE, Singapore Air Force
Master's
Thesis: Validation of Machine Learning Algorithm on the Intrusion Detection System of Navy Smart Grid
Graduation Date: September 2021
24) Mr. Jason Yap, ECE, DSO National Labs Singapore
Master's
Thesis: A Network Intrusion Detection System Using Decision Tree Machine Learning on an ISTN Architecture
Graduation Date: March 2022
25) LT Cody Vernon, ECE, United States Navy
Master's
Thesis: LS-AODV: A Routing Protocol Based on Lightweight Cryptographic Techniques for a Fanet of Nano Drones
Graduation Date: March 2022, ECE Outstanding Thesis Award
26) LT Preston Musgrave, ECE, United States Navy
Master's
Thesis: Anomaly Detection for the Naval Smart Grid System using Autoencoder Neural Networks
Graduation Date: June 2022
27) LT Ashley Edmond, ECE, United States Navy
Master's
Thesis: Detection of Synthetic Anomalies on an Experimentally Generated 5G Data Set Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Graduation Date: September 2022
28) CPT Uriel Frydman, ECE, Israeli Defense Forces
Master's
Thesis: Cognitive Radio Clustering Algorithm for Swarms Using Neural Networks
Graduation Date: September 2022
29) Capt. Robert Lindstrom, ECE, United States Marine Corps
Master's
Thesis: Performance Characterization of a Mobile Microgrid
Graduation Date: September 2022
30) Capt. David Jones, ECE, United States Marine Corps
Master's
Thesis: Reliability and Resilience Evaluation of a Stand-Alone Mobile Microgrid-Analyis and Experimental Measurements
Graduation Date: September 2022
31)
Capt. Joshua Ashley, ECE, United States Marine Corps
Master's
Thesis: Modeling, Simulation and Experimental Validation of An
Energy Management System on a Tactical Microgrid Built with Commercial
Off the Shelf Components
Graduation Date: September 2023
32) Kim K. Trabandt, University of Armed Forces, Munich, Germany
Master's
Thesis: A New Age of Energy Security: Supervised Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection in 5G-Enabled Microgrids
Graduation Date: December 2023
VTEC Interns:
1) Mr. Michael Hackett (March 2022-Feb. 2023)
2) Mr. Jared Seville (March 2022-April 2023)
3) Ms. Malia Gonzalez (January 2024-Dec. 2024)
Phd Committee Member:
Mr. Ryan Craven, Graduation Date: June 2014
LCDR Ashley McAbee, Graduation Date: September 2020
CDR Ken St. Germain, Graduation Date: June 2021
LT Vikram Kanth, Graduation Date: June 2022
LCDR Bryan Martin, Graduation Date: March 2024
LCDR Sean Kennedy, Graduation Date: September 2024
Capt Stephen Sweetnich, Graduation Date: December 2024