Research trajectory
Plan
A concise roadmap of the thesis program: what is active now, what comes next, and what has already been completed.
Sprint details carry only the committee-facing objective, rationale, design considerations, and key decisions.
Current sprint · SPR-0005
Telemetry Collection Design
Finalize and validate the thesis telemetry collection contract across Tracks A, B, and C before experiment entities are provisioned and baseline collection begins.
Program roadmap
10 sprints| Sprint | Status | Focus | Next |
|---|---|---|---|
SPR-0001Thesis Scope & Experiment Design Completed | Completed | Define the thesis problem, contribution boundary, research questions, and experimental framing. | SPR-0002 — Linux Telemetry Collection Design |
SPR-0002Linux Telemetry Collection Design Completed | Completed | Design the Linux telemetry surface required to model host behavior without collecting every kernel event. | SPR-0003 — Attack Campaign Planning |
SPR-0003Attack Campaign Planning Completed | Completed | Define how adversarial behavior will be generated, attributed, isolated, and reproduced after benign baselines exist. | SPR-0004 — Repository & Documentation Normalization |
SPR-0004Repository & Documentation Normalization Completed | Completed | Create a clean thesis research record and separate implementation history from committee-facing program state. | SPR-0005 — Telemetry Collection Design |
SPR-0005Telemetry Collection Design Current | Active | Finalize and validate the thesis telemetry collection contract across Tracks A, B, and C before experiment entities are provisioned and baseline collection begins. | SPR-0006 — Entity / Experiment Design |
SPR-0006Entity / Experiment Design Next | Planned | Provision and freeze reproducible experimental entities that represent the host roles used by the thesis evaluation. | SPR-0007 — Benign / Normal Behavior Collection |
SPR-0007Benign / Normal Behavior Collection After entity design | Planned | Collect a clean, provenance-preserving baseline of normal behavior from each confirmed experimental entity. | SPR-0008 — Attack Harness |
SPR-0008Attack Harness In parallel with baseline collection where practical | Planned | Implement and validate the isolated attack harness used to generate reproducible, provenance-labeled adversarial behavior against experimental entities. | Attack campaign execution and corpus freeze |
SPR-0009Attack Campaign & Corpus Freeze Planned | Planned | Execute the preregistered attack campaign and freeze the benign/adversarial corpus with trustworthy provenance. | SPR-0010 — Modeling & Evaluation |
SPR-0010Modeling & Evaluation Planned | Planned | Execute the objective, representation, fusion, transfer, and edge-efficiency experiments against the frozen thesis corpus. | — |