The Intelligent Systems Security Lab
is housed the Department of Computer Science, University of Dayton. The lab was founded in August 2015, and directed by Dr. Phu H. Phung. We are always looking for highly-motivated students interested in doing research in computer security, please click on the link below for the details.
Ph.D. positions Research directions
- 2022/05/17 - The research work from Huu Ha Nguyen's MSc Thesis has been accepted (acceptance rate 32,8% for full paper) for publication at the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (IEEE SCC 2022). Congratulations, Ha (Summer)!.
- 2022/04/01 - Dr. Phung has been appointed as the Interim Chairperson of the Department, effectively July 1, 2022.
- 2021/03/19 - Dr. Phung has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure, effectively with the beginning of the 2021-2022 academic year.
- 2021/03/10 - Dr. Phung with lab members Huu Ha Nguyen (Central IoT Data Marketplace), and Aishwarya Marghatta Nandeesh (Enforcing Privacy Policy for Hybrid Mobile Applications) presented their research at Ohio Information Security Conference 2021.
- 2021/02/26 - Panchakshari (Praveen) Hiremath sucessfully defended his Masters thesis "A Novel Approach for Analyzing and Classifing Malicious Webpages". He is now a Software Developer in a national bank. Congratulations Praveen!
- 2020/12/07 - Our $247K National Science Foundation award EAGER: Crowd-AI Sensing Based Traffic Analysis for Ho Chi Minh City Planning Simulation joint with Dr. Tam V. Nguyen is featured on the College Newsroom.
- 2020/06/18 - Our extended work on MyWebGuard has been published in Springer-Nature Computer Science!
- 2020/05/16 - Congratulations to Zachary Rowland, Han Le, Kelly Ngoc Hoang, and Jack Armentrout for being awarded the UDayton College Arts and Sciences (CAS) Dean's Summer Fellowship and joining our lab in Summer 2020.
- 2020/04/21 - Our joint work with Dr. Tam V. Nguyen and his Vision and Mixed Reality Lab "Secure Captchas via Object Segment Collages", funded by UDayton STEM Catalyst grant, has been published in the IEEE Access Journal.
- 2020/03/11 - Dr. Phung presented his talk "Built-in Security Mindfulness for Software Developers" at Ohio Information Security Conference 2020.
- 2020/02/16 - Our work "A Multi-Party, Fine-Grained Permission and Policy Enforcement Framework for Hybrid Mobile Applications" has been accepted to publish in the Journal of Computer Security. Congratulations to our former lab members Rakesh, Steven, and Tony!
- 2020/01/06 - Welcome new member Huu Ha Nguyen joining our lab as a Graduate Research Assistant under a research grant from Novobi LLC.
- 2019/11/20 - Our work "HIT4Mal: Hybrid Image Transformation for Malware Classification" is published in Wiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies.
- 2019/11/20 - Praveen, Jack present our MyWebGuard paper in ACM Student Chapter at University of Dayton.
- 2019/10/16 - The lab was awarded $76,800.00 from Novobi LLC for the project Security Issues and Solutions for a Software-as-a-Service Product in 2 years 2020-2021.
- 2019/09/20 - The work from our lab summer 2019 project MyWebGuard has been accepted at The 6th International Conference on Future Data and Security Engineering 2019, and will be published in LNCS 11814 - Springer Verlag. Congratulations to Praveen, Jack, and Son!
- 2019/09/15 - Rakesh started his job as a Software Engineer at Pearson Technology after getting 3 competitive offers. Congratulations, Rakesh!
- 2019/07/25 - Jack presented his summer work joint with Son and Praveen at UD Summer duate Research Symposium (SURS).
- 2019/07/22 - Rakesh sucessfully defended his Masters thesis, the first thesis carried out in the lab. Congratulations Rakesh!
Mohammad Ali, BSc Student, 2022-Present 
Nathan Joslin, BSc Student, Honors Thesis Advisee, 2022-Present 
