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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
Recipient of CSIRO's Julius Career Award (2018)
Senior Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (T-IFS)
Program Committee member for top-tier conferences including ESORICS, ASIACCS, AAAI, AAMAS, and ECML-PKDD
Co-editor of a special issue on 'Cryptography: A Cyber Security Toolkit'
Collaborated with high-profile partners such as DSTG NGTF, Precision Health FSP, AFP, Cyber Security CRC, US Army, 6G Security, Google, Australian Defence, Quantum Tech FSP, and Space FSP
Research Experience
2007–2013: Senior Researcher and Team Leader at TU-Berlin, Germany, focusing on AI and Cyber Security
Served as an ECARD lecturer at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia, for five years
Led or participated in numerous large-scale, multinational research projects funded by the European Commission, Australian government, and industry partners
Pioneered research in ML-based vulnerability detection, secure distributed ML, and application of large language models to software/supply chain security, threat hunting, ransomware prevention, and critical infrastructure protection
Extended work to physics/quantum-inspired ML, quantum communication optimization, and encryption
Explored model compression and encryption techniques for deploying large models on resource-constrained systems
Background
28 years of industrial and academic research experience in Cyber Security
Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO Data61
Leads the Cyber Security Automation and Orchestration team
Passionate about solving real-world Cyber Security challenges using AI, Quantum Technologies, and Cryptography
Lifelong ambition: operationalising autonomous security (pursued across RPI, TU-Berlin, QUT, and CSIRO)
Assumed leadership role in AI and Cyber Security technology area at Data61