Researchers

Director
	Dr. Ericsson Marin Dr. Marin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at ��㴫ý (��㴫ý). 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/

Director

Dr. Ericsson Marin

Dr. Marin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at ��㴫ý (��㴫ý). 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/

Senior Research Collaborators
	Wesley Kwan Wesley is a Computer Science Ph.D. student at Arizona State University. As a former Computer Science undergraduate student at ��㴫ý, he led the design and deployment of Dark Miner and DMDb. While pursuing his Ph.D., Wesley continues to work on multiple CTI and DTI research projects at the CALSys Lab, including Vulnerability Exploitation Prediction, Threat Cascade Prediction, Vendor Alias Attribution, Vendor Alias Attribution, and DrugDb.
	Lynn K. Takahashi Lynn is an associate business analyst at Ingram Micro. As a former Computer Science undergraduate student at ��㴫ý, she collaborated on the design and deployment of Dark Miner and DMDb. Currently, she is involved in multiple CTI and DTI research projects at the CALSys Lab, including Vendor Alias Attribution, Vendor Alias Attribution, CAPTCHA solver, and DrugDb.
	Minh Khoi Tran Khoi is a software engineer at Google. As a former Computer Science undergraduate student at ��㴫ý, he collaborated on the design and deployment of Dark Miner and DMDb. Currently, he is involved in the Site Discovery Automation project.
	Abhishek Sarepaka Abhishek is a Computer Science master student at University of Southern California. As a former Computer Science undergraduate student at ��㴫ý, he collaborated on the design and deployment of Dark Miner and DMDb. Currently, he is involved in the Adversarial Engagement Prediction project.
	Mayela Ancheta Mayela is a cyber triage analyst at Ingram Micro. As a former Computer Science undergraduate student at ��㴫ý, she collaborated on the design and deployment of Dark Miner and DMDb. Currently, she is involved in the Adversarial Vendor Community Detection project.
	Matthew Kwong Matthew is a former Computer Science undergraduate student at ��㴫ý. Currently, he is involved in the Site Discovery Automation project.
	Andy Munoz Andy is a former Computer Science master's student at ��㴫ý. Currently, he is involved in multiple research projects at CALSys Lab, including Site Discovery Automation and DrubDb.
	Harshitha Patnaik Harshitha is a Co-Founder and Head of Digital Marketing at Raivata Bionex Private Limited. As a former Computer Science master's student at ��㴫ý, she has been working on the Adversarial Engagement Prediction project.
	Aaliyah Divinagracia Andy is a former Computer Science master's student at ��㴫ý. Currently, she is involved in the Adversarial Vendor Community Detection project.
	Evan Rios Evan is a Criminology master's student at Cal State Long Beach. As a former Criminology undergraduate student at ��㴫ý, he collaborated on the data collection and analysis of DrugDb. Currently, he is involved in enhancing DrugMiner and DrugDb.

Undergraduate students currently supervised
	Ishan Wazir Ishan is a Computer Science undergraduate student at Carnegie Mellon University. As a former Troy High School student, he collaborated on the design and deployment of Dark Miner and DMDb. Currently, he is involved in multiple CTI and DTI research projects at the CALSys Lab, including Dark Miner, Drug Miner, CAPTCHA solver, and Image Analyzer.
	Andy Ahn Andy is a Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering undergraduate student at UC Riverside. As a former Troy High School student, he collaborated on the design and deployment of Dark Miner and DMDb. Currently, he is involved in multiple CTI and DTI research projects at the CALSys Lab, including Dark Miner, Drug Miner, CAPTCHA solver, and Image Analyzer.
	Praneet Dumpa Praneet is a Mathematics of Computation undergraduate student at UC LA. As a former Norco College student, he collaborated on the design and deployment of Dark Miner and DMDb. Currently, he is involved in multiple CTI and DTI research projects at the CALSys Lab, including Dark Miner, Drug Miner, CAPTCHA solver, and Image Analyzer.
	Ari A. Torczon Ari is a Computer Science undergraduate student at ��㴫ý. He is involved in multiple research projects at the CALSys Lab, including Dark Miner and Vulnerability Exploitation Prediction.
	Adi Levy Adi is a Computer Science undergraduate student at ��㴫ý. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on enhancing DarkMiner and DMDb.
	Havish Karthick Havish is a Computer Science undergraduate student at ��㴫ý. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on enhancing DarkMiner and DMDb.
	Tin Pham Tin is a Computer Science undergraduate student at ��㴫ý. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on enhancing DarkMiner and DMDb.

Graduate students currently supervised
	Sheldin R. Lau Sheldin is a Computer Science master's student at ��㴫ý. Currently, he is involved in the Site Discovery Automation project.
	Pranav Sharma Pranav is a Computer Science master's student at ��㴫ý. He is involved in the CAPTCH Solver project.
	Prabhakara T. Kambhammettu Prabhakara is a Computer Science master's student at ��㴫ý. He is involved in the CAPTCH Solver project.
	Hunter Swanson Hunter is a Computer Science master's student at ��㴫ý. He is involved in the Image Analyzer project.
	Anay Uday Dongre Anay is a Computer Science master's student at ��㴫ý. He is involved in the Threat Cascade Prediction project.

High School students currently supervised
	Shumo Lu Shumo is a student at Claremont High School. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on enhancing DarkMiner and DMDb.

High School students currently supervised

Shumo Lu

Shumo is a student at Claremont High School. His research at CALSys Lab focuses on enhancing DarkMiner and DMDb.

Past undergraduate students
				Ryan Larson
UyenNghi H. Nguyen	Brianna Ha	Adrian Alcoreza	Dhanush Karthikeyan	Austin Celestino
Nathan Pham	Apurva Sista	Jason T. Phan	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)

Past graduate students supervised
		Fidelis Prasetyo	Shreyas Chaudhary	Sravani Reddy
Anjali Rai	Chanrady Ho	Siva Charan Mallena	Stephanie Pocci	Anupama Singh
FNU Ritika	Jasmit S. Mahajan	Brandon Yu	Seungyun Lee	Casey L. Cannon

Past high school students supervised
			Lucas Hu - Troy High School	Prince Aryan Merupula - Troy High School

	Recruitment
	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 2027.