Invited to serve as PC member for ACM The Web Conference (WWW)'26; Named in Stanford University's World’s Top 2% Scientists list for Distributed Computing twice; Invited to serve as PC member for Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PoPETS/PETS)'26; Invited to serve as PC member for International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID)'25; Discovery Project approved by the Australian Research Council; Paper accepted by IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland)'25.
Awards:
- World's Top 2% Scientists, Stanford University, 2022-24
- Alfred Deakin Medal, Deakin University, 2021
- Teaching Excellence Award, Swinburne University of Technology, 2021
- Postgraduate Research Award, Deakin University, 2021
- Postgraduate Research Scholarship, Deakin University, 2018-21
Funded Projects:
- Chief Investigator, privacy-aware intelligent digital twin for secure critical infrastructures, ARC Discovery Project (DP250100582, $506,636.00), Australia, 2025-27.
- Lead Chief Investigator, optimizing collaborative learning at the constrained edge with privacy awareness, CSIRO-RMIT Research Masters Project, Australia, 2024-25.
- Lead Chief Investigator, enabling machine unlearning on resource-constrained devices, CCSRI SEED Funding, RMIT Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation, Australia, 2024.
- Chief Investigator, empowering female Cybersecurity leaders: bridging the gender gap in Cybersecurity Education (0000000051), Advance HE Global Impact Grants, United Kingdom, 2023-24.
- Lead Chief Investigator, cost-effective and secure data management in edge computing, University of Southern Queensland, Australia, 2022.
Research Experience
Lecturer in Cyber Security & Software Systems with School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University (Equiv. to Assistant Professor in North America). Actively looking for self-motivated Ph.D. students interested in system security and privacy, and distributed ML systems.
Background
Current research interests include System Privacy and Security, Distributed Systems, Edge and Cloud Computing, and Sustainable Computing. Senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM. Serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing and a Review Board Member of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
Miscellany
Visiting scholars and students as well as industry partners are welcomed.