Researchers
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Dr. Ericsson Marin Dr. Marin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at 六色网, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona). As the director of CALSys Lab, Dr. Marin leads a team of researchers who explore proactive cyber-threat intelligence. He can be reached at santanamarin@cpp.edu for research inquiries. His faculty site is available at /faculty/santanamarin/ |
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Wesley Kwan Wesley Kwan is a Computer Science Ph.D. student at Arizona State University. A former Computer Science student at Cal Poly Pomona, he assisted Dr. Marin in deploying the DarkMiner system and building DMDb. While pursuing his Ph.D., he continues to coordinate cyber-threat intelligence (CTI) research projects at the CALSys Lab. He can be reached at whkwan@cpp.edu for research inquiries, and his personal website is available at |
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Apurva Sista Apurva Sista is a Computer Science undergraduate student at Penn State. Her research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacking data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models. She is also involved on CAPTCHA solvers, image analyzers, and vendor authorship analysis. |
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Lynn K. Takahashi Lynn is a former Cal Poly Pomona Computer Science student. Her research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacking data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models. She is also involved on CAPTCHA solvers, image analyzers, and vendor authorship analysis. |
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Minh Khoi Tran Khoi is an undergraduate student studying Computer Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacking data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models. He is also involved with the implementation of recommender systems able to automatically detect criminal hacking sites. |
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Jason T. Phan Jason is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building models to anticipate viral malicious cascades on darkweb forums. |
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Nathan Pham Nathan is a former Cal Poly Pomona Computer Science student. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacking data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models. He is also involved on CAPTCHA solvers, image analyzers, and vendor authorship analysis. |
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Austin Celestino Austin is a former Cal Poly Pomona Computer Science student. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building machine learning models to automatically solve CAPTCHA challenges. |
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Dhanush Karthikeyan Dhanush is a former Cal Poly Pomona Computer Engineering student. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building models to anticipate viral malicious cascades on darkweb forums. |
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Adrian Alcoreza Adrian is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building recommender systems to find and recommend credible websites including criminal hacking content. |
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Brianna Ha Brianna is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. Her research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building recommender systems to find and recommend credible websites including criminal hacking content. |
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Matthew Kwong Matthew is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building recommender systems to find and recommend credible websites including criminal hacking content. |
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UyenNghi H. Nguyen UyenNghi is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. Her research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes illicit drug-related data from the dark web to develop intelligence models for drug-crime mapping and prevention. |
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Ryan Larson Ryan is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacking data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models. He is also working on automating CAPTCHA solvers with machine learning. |
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Tiffany Lo Tiffany is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. Her research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacking data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models. She is also working on models to predict hacker engagement. |
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Abhishek Sarepaka Abhishek is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacking data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models. He is also working on models to predict hacker engagement. |
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Ishan Wazir Ishan is a rising senior at Troy High School. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacker data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models. |
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Ari A. Torczon Ari is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacker data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models. |
Graduate students currently supervised | |
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Siva Charan Mallena Siva is a former Computer Science master's student at Cal Poly Pomona. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building machine learning models to automatically solve CAPTCHA challenges. |
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Andy Munoz Andy is a master's student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building recommender systems to find and recommend credible websites including criminal hacking content. |
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Harshitha Patnaik Harshitha is a master's student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. Her research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building machine learning models to predict hacker engagement. |
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Chanrady Ho Chanrady is a master's student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building machine learning models to predict software vulnerability exploitation. |
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Anjali Rai Anjali is a master's student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. Her research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building models to anticipate viral malicious cascades on darkweb forums. |
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Sravani Reddy Sravani is a master's student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. Her research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building models to identify key-hackers on darkweb forums. |
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Shreyas Chaudhary Shreyas is a master's student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacker data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models. He is also interested in designing and building recommender systems to find and recommend credible websites including criminal hacking content. |
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Fidelis Prasetyo Fidelis is a master's student studying Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on designing and building a cyberinfrastructure that scrapes malicious hacking data from the darkweb for the production of cyber-threat intelligence models. |
Past undergraduate students | ||||
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Lucas Tran | Yuvraj Narwal | |||
Katelyn Mijares | John Huang | Giselle Avila | Aisling Gonzalez | Richard Pacheco |
Lokaranjan Munta | Mayela Ancheta | Aidan Zimmerman | Sidharth Basam | Sonia Pandey |
Vincent Terrelonge | Kimtaiyo Mech | Christian Williams | Michael Phu | Ayanna Kalia |
Megan Bee | Priyanshu Shekhar | Joshua Estrada | Joey Cindass | Parth Singh |
Joshua A. Furman | Rida Siddiqui | Jimmy C. Peng | Palmer M. Du | Justin M. Nguye |
Kimtaiyo Mech | Alexander G. Eckert | Van T. Huynh | Anita Mehrazarin | Leo Jiang |
Hoang Tu Huynh | Sunjay N. Guttikonda | Kyle J. Just | Justin Son | Jonathan R. Pena |
Ian Chow | Vaibhavi Jhawar | Cameron A. Lee | Samin Hossain | Kevin Foyet Towa |
Sebastian A. Chinen | Julia Ybanez | Pablo Duenas | Alondra R. Marin | Daniel Pasion |
Jordan Williams (REU student) | Vincent C. Lee | Saul Barajas | Leonardo Langgeng | Gabrielle Lake (REU student) |
Siewen Wang (Victor) | Michael A. Melkonian | Anthony Spencer | Arsham Mehrani | Feng Ru Yang (Flora) |
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Stephanie Pocci | Anupama Singh | |||
FNU Ritika | Jasmit S. Mahajan | Brandon Yu | Seungyun Lee | Casey L. Cannon |
Recruitment |
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CALSys Lab is currently accepting graduate and undergraduate students to conduct the proposed research. For Fall 2025, all paid positions have been already flled, but volunteers are still welcome. If you are interested in participating, please contact prof. Marin. Stay tuned for future paid positions available in Spring 2026. |
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