Application of Unsupervised Clustering for Cross-Site Scripting Anomaly Detection

About the program

Undergraduate Computer Research (UnCoRe) in Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace is a 10-week Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) program held at Oakland University's campus at Rochester, MI. The program is funded by Oakland University's Computer Science and Engineering department and the National Science Foundation (NSF). This program serves as an educational experience where the students have the opportunity to research under supervision by a faculty member and are treated as junior colleagues.

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About the Authors

Dr. Mohamed A. Zohdy is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oakland University. He has a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cairo, a master's and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo.​ He has multiple published works in the field of recurrent neural networks and engineering. His interests include advanced control and estimation, intelligent pattern information processing, neural, fuzzy, evolutionary systems, chaos control, smart simulation, and hybrid systems.​

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Paloma Symmonds, from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, is an undergraduate student studying software engineering with a focus in cyber security. Mainly focusing on aviation, the growing field of cyber security is slowly permeating into many large name defense companies around the world, and many of them have a dedicated security department involved in such research. Blending the two together is one of her main interests aside from nanotechnology, software development, and safety-critical avionics. As of this year, she is the vice president of Embrry-Riddle's IEEE student branch.

 

Ephraim Nielson, from Utah Valley University, is also an undergraduate working on a Bachelors of Science in Computer Engineering with a minor in Computer Science. He currently holds an associates in Electrical Automation and Robotic Technology from Utah Valley State College. He has published works by IEEE and ASEE in the field of sustainable electronics. He is the publications representative for the Utah Valley University IEEE chapter.

 

Abdulaziz Alshammari is a Ph.D. student at Oakland University in the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer science from Imam University, Riyadh-KSA and a master's in Computer Information Systems and master's in Engineering Systems from Texas University-San Antonio. His areas of interest are Data and Network Security, IOT, MANET, Software Engineering and Web Services/Cloud Computing Security. 

 

We are working in the field of cyber security under the direction of Dr. Mohamed A. Zohdy. Specifically, we are aiming to apply supervised machine learning algorithms to recognize compromised website securities, detection of infiltrations on vulnerabilities, and the prevention of such attacks. Ideally, this work will be expanded to encompass the protections of all security issues.