Doctoral Research in Proof-of-Learning Security

I completed my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in the United States in August 2025. My dissertation is Enhancing Proof-of-Learning Security Against Spoofing Attacks Using Model Watermarking.

The research question

Proof-of-Learning concerns evidence that a model was trained rather than simply obtained from someone else. My research examines spoofing attacks against that evidence and the use of model watermarking as an additional verification condition.

The feature-based watermarking paper, SecurePoL paper, and dissertation describe the methods and experiments. Their reported results apply to those experimental settings; they do not establish an aerospace deployment or certification result.

Connecting research and engineering

My background in cybersecurity, mission-control software, and flight simulation shapes the questions I bring to research: what is being verified, what assumptions does verification depend on, and what evidence would expose a failure?

The research and engineering work are related interests, but a connection between fields is not itself a measured transfer result. Applying a research method to a different operational setting would require its own evaluation.

The Research Lab offers animated introductions, and the publication list links to the written work.