{"id":1245,"date":"2019-10-18T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2025-07-07T14:24:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T20:24:42","slug":"marking-a-milestone-student-becomes-first-to-defend-dissertation-in-doctoral-computing-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/2019\/10\/18\/marking-a-milestone-student-becomes-first-to-defend-dissertation-in-doctoral-computing-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Marking a milestone: student becomes first to defend dissertation in doctoral computing program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">October is commonly associated with being the most frightening month of the year. However, for one doctoral student at Boise State, the end of October will be met with excitement. Doctoral candidate Samer Khamaiseh will be the first student in Boise State\u2019s doctoral computing program to defend his dissertation, \u201cDetection and Countermeasure of Saturation Attacks in Software-Defined Networks.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/news\/2019\/10\/17\/marking-a-milestone-first-dissertation-defense-for-boise-states-computing-program\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone wp-image-1246\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/981\/2019\/10\/Khamaiseh_Samer-1.jpg\" alt=\"portrait of Samer Khamaiseh\" class=\"wp-image-1246\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Samer Khamaiseh, Computer Science, faculty\/staff, outdoor portrait by Priscilla Grover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October is commonly associated with being the most frightening month of the year. However, for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2571,"featured_media":1246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14],"tags":[20,21],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-program-news","category-students-in-action","tag-computing-students","tag-cyber-security"],"acf":[],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/981\/2019\/10\/Khamaiseh_Samer-1-819x1024.jpg","author_name":"Michelle Bassett","cats":["Program News","Students in Action"],"featured_caption":"Samer Khamaiseh, Computer Science, faculty\/staff, outdoor portrait by Priscilla Grover","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11049,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions\/11049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}