Xiaoyan (Sherry) Sun

Current Students

PhD Students

• Haowen Xu — B.S., Nanjing University
• Tran Ngoc Bao Huynh — B.S., California State University, Sacramento; M.S., Arizona State University

Co-advised PhD Students

• Chao Wang — B.S., Jilin University; M.S., WPI
• Cooper Dean — B.S., WPI
• Zhihao Zhang — B.S., Fudan University
• Brian Almaguer — B.S., California State University, Sacramento

Alumni and Projects

Master Students

First reader students advised

1. Gargi Prabhugaonkar, Deep IoT Monitoring: Filtering IoT traffic using Deep Learning, First reader, Sac State, Fall 2021; Now with Glassdoor/Indeed.
2. Neha Maiya, AI-enabled Intelligent Tutoring for Computer Science Education, First reader, Sac State, Spring 2021; Now with Paypal.
3. Amit Kulkarni, Predicting Future Security Events through Deep Learning, First reader, Sac State, Fall 2020
4. Uday Soni, Anomaly Detection on Big Data System Logs using Deep Learning, First reader, Sac State, Fall 2020; Now with Rubrik.
5. Ravi Nitinkumar Patel, Scalable Bayesian Network for Identification of Zero-day Attack Paths, First reader, Sac State, Fall 2020; Now with MarketAxess.
6. Riya Rahul Shah, Blockchain Based Decentralized Freelancing Application, First reader, Sac State, Spring 2020; Now with Amyris.
7. Anand Surendra Masurkar, Decentralized artificial intelligence with data privacy, First reader, Sac State, Fall 2019; Now with Erthos.
8. Rajani Mohan Suryavanshi, Ranking System Object Instance Graph, First reader, Sac State, Fall 2018; Now with Micron.
9. Aditya Singh, System Call Analysis and Visualization, First reader, Sac State, Fall 2018
10. Nikhita Kamble, Developing a Secure Bug Tracking System, First reader, Sac State, Spring 2018; Now with NVIDIA.
11. Sushmitha Bachu, Three Steps Authentication for an ATM, First reader, Sac State, Fall 2017; Now with Kaiser Permanente.
12. Pallavi Vardhamane, Malware Detection in Cloud Computing, First reader, Sac State, Fall 2017; Now with Level Access.
13. Pranavi Appana, Instant Communication System for Sac State, First reader, Sac State, Fall 2017; Now with Intel.

Second Reader Students

1. Jitender Singh, Visualization of Social Media Data in Solving Crime, Second reader, Sac State, Spring 2022
2. Amirush Ramdas Javare, RFID Based Real-time Recognition of Ongoing Gesture with Adversarial Learning, Second reader, Sac State, Summer 2022
3. Ricky Christian, A Rapid and Reliable Cost Optimization Automated Dynamic Approach for Cloud Migration, Second reader, Sac State, Fall 2022
4. Rasika Kulkarni, Openstack Installation and Automation, Second reader, Sac State, Fall 2021
5. Shamika Joshi, Enabling Performance Monitoring on Openstack Dashboard, Second reader, Sac State, Fall 2021
6. Devika Manohar, Roundtable - A Social Networking Android Mobile Application for Drop-in Audio Chat, Second reader, Sac State, Fall 2021
7. Arun Reddy, On the Usability and Security of CAPTCHAs, Second reader, Sac State, Fall 2021
8. Niteesh Reddy Thota, Early Rumor Detection on Social Media with Recursive Neural Network and Graph Convolutional Network, Second reader, Sac State, Fall 2021
9. Mittali Kumari, Fruit Recognition & Ripeness Detection from Images using STGCN, Second reader, Sac State, Fall 2021
10. Kushal Topnani, AI Based Wildfire prediction and tracking, Second reader, Sac State, Fall 2021
11. Sheryl Bernard, Monitoring Vital Signs Using Multiple Sensors of Smartphone, Second reader, Sac State, Spring 2021
12. Dixita Dinesh Bhanderi, Adaptive Video Streaming with Deep Learning, Second reader, Sac State, Spring 2021
13. Gaurav Bora, User Interface Design And Implementation Of The Energy-Water-Emissions Dashboard, Second reader, Sac State, Spring 2021
14. Desai Anisha, Video Streaming and Analysis Using Deep Learning Techniques, Second reader, Sac State, Spring 2021
15. Mukkul I. Jayhne, Health Monitoring Using Remote PPG (Deep Learning Based), Second reader, Sac State, Spring 2021
16. Ninad Jagadish Jadhav, Automation of OpenStack Stein Release installation and uninstallation, Fall 2020
17. Rishab Kamshetty, Smartbase: An authentic certificate system, Second reader, Sac State, Summer 2021
18. Akshat Minesh Doshi, Blockchain as a Service, Second reader, Sac State, Fall 2020
19. Akhil Venkata Sai Madineni, Brain Tumor Segmentation Using Convolution Neural Networks, Second reader, Sac State, Fall 2020
20. Sreeteja Kannoju, Diabetic Retinopathy Detection using Retinal Images, Second reader, Sac State, Spring 2021
21. Pallavi Yadkikar, GPU based malware predication using LightGBM and XGBoost, Second reader, Sac State, Spring 2020
22. Radha Dhekane, Towards a Usable Fallback Authentication Mechanism, Second reader, Sac State, Spring 2020
23. Raj Rathod,A SOA-based Solution to Support Heterogeneous Applications for Sac State Campus Facility Office, Second reader, Sac State, Fall 2019
24. Jait Nitinkumar Purohit, IoT Enabled Remote Monitoring using LoRaWAN, Raspberry Pi, Arduino and DHT sensor, Second reader, Sac State, Fall 2019
25. Rahul Singh Thakur, Application of visible light and deep learning for indoor localization, Second reader, Sac State, Fall 2019
26. Yulong Dong, Abot: An improved P2P-based Android Botnet Model, Second reader, Sac State, Fall 2017
27. Arundhati Wahane, C2C optimized product delivery solution using Neo4j, Second reader, Sac State, Spring 2017
28. Nishitha Vunnam, Intelligent Rating System, Second reader, Sac State, Spring 2017
29. Sushma Gajendra, Product Recall in Supply Chain Management Using NEO4J Graph Database, Second reader, Sac State, Fall 2016
30. Arpitaben Shah, Android Malware Detection and Forensics Based on API Calls, Second reader, Sac State, Fall 2016

Undergraduate Students

1. Naomi Treto, WPI, 2023-2025; Now with Microsoft.
2. Sarah Meaney, WPI, 2023-2025.
3. Jessica Nguyen, Sac State, 2022-2023. Now with Iron Mountain.
4. Jeffrey Tan, Sac State, 2022-2023; Now with Alpha Elevator Control.
5. Kaiwen Xue, Sac State, 2022-2023. M.S., University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).