Vimal Kumar

Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato

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+64 7 8384378

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Current Students

  • Atthapan Daramas, PhD
  • Pandu Konala, PhD
  • Thyeway Phua, PhD
  • Zijing Zhang, PhD
  • Bhojraj Parmar, MCS
  • Harinder Dagar, MCS
  • Ilija Jankovic, MCS
  • Kyle Duffy, MCS
  • Atharwa Swamy, MCS
  • Phillip Lee, MCS
  • Muhaimin Azeez, MCS
  • Wenjie Tong, MCS
  • Bharath Reddy, MCS
  • Brendon Ranum, MCS

Past Students

  • Daniel Britten, PhD, 2024, Trustworthy Smart Contracts
  • Love Sharma, MCS, 2024, Vulnerable web creator for pen-testing
  • Courtney Wilson, MCS, 2024, Ensuring Data Integrity in Gallagher Access Control Security System
  • Daniel Roodt, PhD, 2023, Local Editing in Lempel-Ziv Compressed Data
  • Harmon Transfield, BCMS(Hons), 2023, Cyber Ranges: Evaluating Open-Source Cybersecurity Simulation Environment Solutions
  • Juliette Mayo, MSc, 2023, Threat Modelling for Artificial Intelligence Based Software
  • Chris Chew, PhD, 2023, Behaviour-based Classification of Encryption-type Ransomware using System Calls
  • Victor Zhong, MCS, 2023, An extensible topological byte matrix approach for network anomaly detection using machine learning
  • Raymond Kortas, MCS, 2023, Evaluating the First Watch Platform using the MITRE ATT&CK for ICS
  • Siuta Laulaupeaalu, PhD, 2022, The Vulnerability to Online Scamming in Contemporary Tongan Society.
  • Sajith Dhambagolla, BE(Hons), 2022, Using compression dictionaries for Malware Detection
  • Ilija Jankovic, BE(Hons), 2022, Automating pen testing using reinforcement learning
  • Naila Aslam, MCS, 2022, Studying Risk Assessment of Patient Monitoring Systems in a Local District Health Board
  • Andrew Eatock, MCS, 2022, Remote Working Security and The Internet of Things
  • Luke Cheng, MCS, 2022, Understanding possible attacker lateral movement paths in an intranet through CVE information
  • Omar Sheriff, MCS, 2022, PHP Static Analysis and Enhanced testing of Qodescape
  • Nuwan Naththandige, MCS, 2021, Qodescape: A Graph based Static Code Analyzer for PHP
  • Calvin Au, MCS, 2021, Benchmarking Provenance Capturing Systems
  • Sriram Jayaraman, MCS, 2021, Experimenting with Transfer Learning for Malware Detection
  • Rini Vijayan, MCS, 2021, Detecting Phishing Domains
  • Murugupandian Pandi, MCS, 2021, Exploring Cybersecurity Culture in New Zealand Local Government
  • Michael Tsai, MCS, 2021, Optimisation of Audio-based Sensor Fingerprinting System for Mobile Device Authentication
  • Tristan Corrick, MCS, 2021, Progger 3: A Low-Overhead, Tamper-proof Provenance System
  • Kishore Durairaj, MCS, 2021, Integrating Block chain with VANETs for Trusted Communication
  • Kumar Nagappa, MCS, 2020, Towards A Lightweight Cybersecurity Framework for NZ Small and Medium Enterprises
  • Rex Pan, BCMS(Hons), 2020, Towards Decentralized File Provenance and Versioning
  • Sukhraj Mahal, BCMS(Hons), 2020, GPS Free Drone Localisation
  • Reece Breebart, BCMS(Hons), 2020, The Commerce Conversation:Improving financial comprehension with a secure, on-premises voice assistant
  • Giridharan Selvanathan, MCS, 2020,RSrecce - A Public Reconnaissance Scanner based on OSINT
  • Sarvani Gadiraju, MCS, 2020,Establishing trust-based communication in IoT devices
  • Sowrabi Gopikrishnan, MSc, 2020, User data ownsership
  • Arnav Gogia, MCS, 2020, A framework for optimized placement of cyber deception elements
  • Debac Manikandan, MCS, 2019, An automated BLE Penetration testing tool
  • Atthapan Daramas, MCS, 2019, Searching on Erasure Coded Data
  • Eric Wang, MCS, 2019, Understanding Privacy, GDPR and Compliance for Organisations
  • Kieran Frewen, BE(Hons),2019, Injecting Fake Network Traffic into Industrial Control Systems
  • Alexander Lumsden, BCMS(Hons),2019, Interference-based Identification of Cloud Tenant Operations
  • Sacha Raman, BCMS(Hons),2019, Creating Hardware-Based Challenges for Security Competitions
  • Michael Tsai, BCMS(Hons),2019, Investigation of ICS Protocol Security through Fuzz Testing
  • Brendan Barrett, MCS, 2019, Does the Smart City Provide Novel Challenges to the Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability Triad?
  • Corey Stirling, BSc(Hons), 2019, Preventing the Modelling of Physically Unclonable Functions
  • Nicolino Da Costa Pereira, MCS, 2019, An Enhancement to Fine-Grained Access Control for Healthcare Data
  • Milton Markose, MCS, 2019, OAuth Authentication of IoT Devices with Software Defined Perimeter and Device Trust Relationship
  • Matthew Dekker, MCS, 2019, Using Audio Characteristics for Physical Layer Identification of Mobile Devices
  • Amanjot Kaur, MCS, 2018, Mitigating single node DoS attacks in WSNs
  • Stuart Holland, MCS, 2018, An investigation into improved security of blockchain
  • Melese Mulugeta, MSc, 2018, Cloud adoption hurdles, competence model, and opportunities in the african context
  • Amarjot Parmar, BCMS(Hons),2018, Multi Cloud Storage
  • Chris Chew, BCMS(Hons), 2018, Analysis and Detection of Ransomware
  • Joseph Simblett, BCMS(Hons), 2018, Exploring gesture-based motion control for drones
  • Mohish Chand, BCMS(Hons), 2018, Indoor device localisation
  • Ward Beehre, BE(Hons), 2018, Implementation of a vulnerability scanning solution
  • Zachary Thompson, Summer Scholarship, 2018, Using system access patterns for device compromise detection
  • Sarah Alrabeah, BE(Hons), 2018, Context-Aware Access Control in Mobile Devices
  • Edward Mrema, MCS, 2017, Fine Grained Access Control for Healthcare Data
  • Rashid Mustafa, ME (Software Engineering), 2017, An Architecture for Secure Provisioning and Usage of IOT Services
  • Wael Alouh, BCMS(COMP390), 2016, Evaluation of Biometrics Security in Mobile phones
  • Sultan Alsubai, BCMS(COMP390), 2016, A comparison of cloud computing service providers