Group Members

Faculty

Dr. Rakibul Hasan Dr. Rakibul Hasan
Director of Persue Lab.
Assistant professor in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence at ASU.
Other affiliations: Cybersecurity and Trusted Foundations, Human, Artificial Intelligence, and Robot Teaming, and Learning Engineering Institute at ASU.
Email: rhasan3@asu.edu
Education:

PhD Students

Syed Zami-Ul-Haque Navid Syed Zami-Ul-Haque Navid
PhD Researcher
Email: snavid2@asu.edu
Education: PhD at Arizona State University

Research: I am developing an automated pipeline that interacts with Android applications while monitoring their behavior. Our research provides more granular insight than prior works into how apps access and transmit users’ sensitive data. Additionally, we aim to investigate whether apps handle user information differently across various geolocations.

Khalid Alasiri Khalid Alasiri
PhD Researcher
Email: kalasir1@asu.edu
Education: PhD at Arizona State University

Research: I am working to develop proactive cyber defense mechanisms that will dynamically adapt to the attacker’s behaviors and attack strategy.

Wesley Kwan Wesley Kwan

PhD Researcher

Education: PhD at Arizona State University

Research: Previously, I researched ways to predict hacker behavior for cyber-threat intelligence by designing systems to collect and analyze data from forums and marketplaces on the dark web. At PERSUE Lab, I aim to uncover and understand mechanisms behind the decisions of digital actors through causal machine learning, particularly as it pertains to user privacy and system security.

Master Students

Sri Harsha Gajavalli Sri Harsha Gajavalli
Graduate Researcher
Email: sgajaval@asu.edu
Education: Master at Arizona State University

Undergraduate Students

Easton Kelso Easton Kelso
Undergraduate Researcher
Email: eakelso@asu.edu
Education: Undergraduate at Arizona State University

Research: I am researching to unveil the privacy and security hurdles within the education technology (edtech) landscape in regards to Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The first stretch of research has uncovered the challenges that HEIs face during the acquisition process of these edtechs. Our first study, uncovered the EdTech acquisition process in the HEI context including the consideration of security and privacy issues throughout that process, the pain points of HEI personnel in establishing adequate protection mechanisms in service contracts, and their struggle in holding vendors accountable due to a lack of visibility into their system and power-asymmetry, among other reasons. Continued research involves understanding the differing technologies that faculty use at HEIs that are unsanctioned by their institutions to uncover any privacy and security concerns that are involved.

Junichi Koizumi Junichi Koizumi
Undergraduate Researcher
Email: jkoizum1@asu.edu
Education: Undergraduate at Arizona State University

Mrinaal Ramachandran Mrinaal Ramachandran
Undergraduate Researcher
Email: mrinaalr@icloud.com
Education: Undergraduate at Arizona State University

Saharsh Goenka Saharsh Goenka
Undergraduate Researcher
Email: sgoenka1@asu.edu
Education: Undergraduate at Arizona State University

Adit Prabhu Adit Prabhu
Undergraduate Researcher
Email: adprabh2@asu.edu
Education: Undergraduate at Arizona State University

Asish Panda Asish Panda
Undergraduate Researcher
Email: apanda13@asu.edu
Education: Undergraduate at Arizona State University

Bio and Research interest: I am a Computer Science Junior at Arizona State University, part of the Barrett Honors College and the Grand Challenges Scholar Program. Being passionate about AI, I focus on human-robot interactions, machine learning, and autonomous vehicles. As a National Master in chess, I have honed my strategic thinking and problem-solving skills. Representing my chess team from middle school to now has strengthened my leadership, teamwork, and decision-making abilities under pressure.