Ericsson Santana Marin
Associate Professor
Computer Science, College of Science
Phone number
909.869.3909
Office location
Office hours
M W | 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM | 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Students
Current senior project students
| Kenzie Lam | Joseline Chang Ly | Adam Michael Mitchell | Sonia Pandey | Benjamin Tran |
| Annabel Minxi Wen | Anna Elise Yee | Jonathan Thomas Dang |
Current master's thesis students
| Sheldin Rui Ming Lau. Research: Dark Web Resource Discovery. |
| Pranav Sharma. Research: CAPTCH Solver. |
| Hunter Sutton Swanson. Research: Image Representation. |
Past senior project students
| Nicholas Shane Barkero | Sahith Subba Kakumani | Yuvraj Narwal | Andy Wu | Michael Jonathan Castillo |
| Alison Ching | Aidan Umesh Kumar | Jessie Andrew Mendoza | Armin Erika Ocampo Polanco | Cynthia Nguyen |
| Timothy Tsang | Nikhitha Vasiraju | Amanda Grace Wong | Natasha Wong | Valeria R Urzua |
| Jimmy Hoang Nguyen | Noah Sebastian Ojeda | Ethan Yaw Owusu-Bour | Kevin Rabbi Thangasamy | Adrian Nathaniel Alcoreza |
| Joseph Scott | Aidan Zimmerman | Lucas Guy Tran | Sidharth Basam | Mayela Alyssa Ancheta |
| Giselle Avila | Aisling Vanessa Gonzalez | John Huang | Ryan W Larson | Tiffany Lo |
| Lokaranjan Babu Munta | Richard Andrew Pacheco | Abhishek Sarepaka | Ayanna Sanges-Chu | Siewen Wang (Victor) |
| Christopher Ernesto | Michael A. Melkonian | Anthony Spencer | Arsham Mehrani | Noah K. Calibuso |
| Vincent C. Lee | Leonardo Langgeng | Pablo Duenas | Julia Ybanez | Anita Mehrazarin |
Past master's thesis students
| Aaliyah Divinagracia. Thesis: "Cross-market Community Detection Of Criminal Hacking Vendors". 2026. |
| Andy A. Munoz. Thesis: "Recommender Systems in the Dark Web". 2025. |
| Sravani Reddy Bakkareddygari. Thesis: "Recommender Systems in the Dark Web". 2025. |
| Chanrady Ho. Thesis: "Predicting Software Vulnerability Exploitation Using Machine Learning". 2025. |
| Anjali Rai. Thesis: "Viral Cascade Prediction in Malicious Dark Web Forums". 2025. |
| Harshitha Patnaik. Thesis: "Hacker Engagement Prediction on Dark-web Forums Using Social Influence Measures and Supervised Machine learning". 2025. |
| FNU Ritika. Thesis: "Predict software vulnerabilities through machine learning". 2024. |
| Siva Charan Mallena. Thesis: "Solving captchas using convolutional neural networks". 2024. |
| Jasmit S. Mahajan. Project: "Identification of zero-day exploits". 2023. |
| Casey L. Cannon. Thesis: "Predicting hacker adoption on darkweb forums using social influence measures and supervised machine learning". 2023. |
Recruitment
I am always looking for self-motivated graduate (MS project/thesis) and undergraduate students (senior projects) to work in my research lab (CALSys Lab). If you are interested in participating in my research projects, send me an email with your CV and trasncripts.
Letters of Recommendation
As a professor, I am expected to write letters of recommendation. It is part of my job.
If you feel that I know you well enough to write you a letter of recommendation, please stop by my office or email me santanamarin@cpp.edu with your letter of intent. Once I agree to write you a letter, please provide me the following information at least 2 weeks before your program deadline:
| 01 | A personal statement about why you want to do the programs/jobs that you're applying to and what your future plans are. This statement is a good opportunity to remind me of any particular strengths you have. |
| 02 | List all classes you have taken from me with brief descriptions of projects you developed, how they might relate to your current application, and final grade. |
| 03 | List other kinds of work you may have done with me (independent study, senior project, students club, etc.). |
| 04 | Your transcript. |
| 05 | Your resume. |
| 06 | Summary of all your applications and their corresponding deadlines. I will use this info to not miss a single submission. So, be precise! |