CAMEL: Cybersecurity, Autonomous system, and Machine learning Engineering Lab

Members

Faculty Students Alumni

Faculty

Dr. Chen Liu

Dr. Liu currently is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York.

He received his B. E. in Electronics and Information Engineering in 2000 from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), M. S. in Electrical Engineering in 2002 from University of California, Riverside (UCR), and Ph. D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2008 from University of California, Irvine (UCI), respectively. From 2008 to 2012, Dr. Liu was an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Florida International University (FIU).

Dr. Liu's research interests include: multi-/many-core architecture, multi-threading architecture, the interaction between system software and microarchitecture, power-aware computing, hardware acceleration techniques, and virtual machine management.

Dr. Liu is a senior member of IEEE and ACM. He is also a member of IEEE Computer Society, ACM SIGARCH, and ACM SIGMICRO.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Chutitep Woralert

Chutitep Woralert received his Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering in December 2024 from Clarkson University. His research focuses on cybersecurity and malware detection.

Zander Blasingame

Zander Blasingame received his Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering in May 2025 from Clarkson University. He also recieved his B.Sc. (Honors) in Computer Engineering in 2018 and his M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2020 from Clarkson University. His research focuses on theoretical machine learning, specifically generative models, novelty detection, deep learning, and natural language processing.

Graduate Students

Mark Southcott (Ph.D Student)

Mark Southcott received his B.Sc. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Clarkson University. His research focuses on radar mapping for autonomous driving.

Sean Willis (Ph.D Student)

Sean Willis received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering in May 2023 and his M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2025 from Clarkson University. His research focuses on regenerative braking system design.

Richard Neddo (M.S. Student)

Richard Neddo received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering in May 2023 from Clarkson University. His research focuses on computer vision and machine learning.

Robert Arcate (M.S. Student)

Robert Arcate received his B.Sc. in Computer Engineering in December 2024 from Clarkson University. His research focuses on GPS based navigation.

Gianna Capoccia (M.S. Student)

Gianna Capoccia received her B.Sc. in Data Science in December 2024 from Clarkson University. Her research focuses on combining contrastive learning and topological data analysis for robust object classification in autonomous systems.

Undergraduate Students

Elizabeth Swartz (B.Sc. Student)

Elizabeth Swartz will receive her B.Sc. in Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering in May 2027 from Clarkson University. She currently is the webmaster for the CAMEL website and her research focuses on LiDAR-based navigation for autonomous systems.

Seth King (B.Sc. Student)

Seth King will receive his B.Sc. in Computer Science in May 2027 from Clarkson University.

Alumni

Zander Blasingame

Ph.D in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, 2025

Dissertation: On Guided and Reversible Solvers for Neural Differential Equations

Chutitep Woralert

Ph.D in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, 2024

Dissertation: A Kernel Module Based Framework Towards Malware Detection Utilizing Low-Level Hardware Information

Zhiliu Yang

Ph.D in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, 2021

Dissertation: Learning Geometry and Semantics Via Deep Nets Towards Global Localization and Mapping

Xuan Qi

Ph.D in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, 2020

Dissertation: A Deep Dive Into Face in Video Recognition: Approaches and Applications

Gildo Torres

Ph.D in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, 2018

Dissertation: Towards Monitoring and Detection of Data-Only Manipulation Attacks Using Low-level Hardware Information

Sean Willis

M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, 2025

Giovanne Pinto

M.S. in Computer Science, Clarkson University, 2025

Rod Izadi

M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Clarkson University, 2022

Xueyan Li

M.E. in Electrical Engineering, Clarkson University, 2016

Laura Pritchard

M.B.A., Clarkson University, 2015

Pedro Bello Maldonado

M.S. in Computer Engineering, FIU, 2013

Kenneth Berry

M.S. in Computer Engineering, FIU, 2012

Rolando Duarte

M.S. in Computer Engineering, FIU, 2011

Kamak Ebadi

M.S. in Computer Engineering, FIU, 2012

Pollawat Thanarungroj

M.S. in Computer Engineering, FIU, 2012

Thomas Bondurak

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering, Clarkson University, 2025

Lindsey Hassett

B.S. (Honors) in Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, 2025

Josh Frank

B.S. in Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, 2021

James Bruska

B.S. in Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Clarkson, 2018

Charlie McGuffey

B.S. (Honors) in Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Clarkson University, 2015

Ben Petroski

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Clarkson University, 2014

Marvin Forbes

B.S. in Computer Engineering, FIU, 2011

Emmanuel Sacristan

B.S. in Computer Engineering, FIU, 2011

Carlos Davila

B.S. in Computer Engineering, FIU, 2011

Johnathan Reyes

B.S. in Computer Engineering, FIU, 2011

Juan Medina

B.S. in Computer Engineering, FIU, 2011

Jiewen Li

B.S. in Computer Engineering, FIU, 2011

Jie Tang

Visiting Scholar, Clarkson, 2015

Jed Chang

Post-Doctoral Researcher, Clarkson, 2012-2013