Research Grants

Successful Grants (industry/PhD/collaborative/internal)

As Chief Investigator (CI), in the last 4 years (2019-2022), I have been awarded over $1million grants for cybersecurity, privacy, and machine learning projects including:

  • La Trobe Lead CI - Received AU$400k - AustCyber Fund (2022), (with Curtin University), Project Title: Genius Armoury Cybersecurity Pathways for High School Students and Veterans, funding from Untapped Holdings Pty Ltd, DXC Technology Australia, Cyberstronomy Pty Ltd, Quantum Victoria, and Australian Cyber Security Growth Network (AustCyber).

  • Lead CI - Received AU$105k - SmartSat CRC PhD Grant (2021), Project Title: An Integrated Framework for Improving Security in IoT-Driven Satellite Networks, funding from SmartSat CRC.

  • Lead CI - Received AU$105k ASCRIN (Asian Smart Cities Research and Innovation Network), IIT Kanpur (IITK) - La Trobe Uni (LTU) PhD Grant (2021), Project Title: Smart Healthcare: Techno-Economic Aspects of Digitalization of Secure Healthcare Services in India and Australia, funding from IITK-LTU Research Academy.

  • Lead CI - Received AU$59k - Net Zero Fund (2020), Project Title: A Multi-Objective, Multi-Constraint Modelling Approach for Energy Minimisation in Data Centres, funding from Specialised Lighting Solutions.

  • Lead CI - Received AU$120k (La Trobe: 21k) - Criminology Research Grant (2020), (with University of Tasmania), Project Title: Automated Internet Warnings to Prevent the Uploading of Child Exploitation Material Produced by Children and Young Adults, funding from Australian Institute of Criminology.

  • La Trobe Lead CI - Received AU$XXXk (La Trobe: 20k) - AustCyber Fund (2020), (with Curtin University), Project Title: Developing an Autistic Cybersecurity Talent Pool using Adults on the Autism Spectrum, funding from Untapped Holdings Pty Ltd, DXC Technology Australia, and Australian Cyber Security Growth Network (AustCyber).

  • La Trobe Lead CI - Received AU$160k (La Trobe: 10k) - OCSC Industry Co-Funded Project Fund (2020), (with Federation University) Project Title: Spam Email Categorization using Natural Language Processing and Attention-embedded Deep Learning, funding from Westpac, and Oceania Cyber Security Centre (OCSC).

  • La Trobe Lead CI - Received AU$139k (La Trobe: xxk) - OCSC Industry Co-Funded Project Fund (2020), (with Federation Uni) Project Title: Adaptive API Security Using Artificial Intelligence, funding from Aiculus, and Oceania Cyber Security Centre (OCSC).

  • Lead CI - Received AU$10k (La Trobe: 5k) - MMU-LTU Collaborative Project Grant (2019), (with Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), Project Title: Privacy and the Internet of Healthcare Things (IoHT), funding from MMU-LTU.

  • Lead CI - Received AU$30k Research Development Grant (2019), from La Trobe University, Project Title: Managing Critical Situations through IoT Contexts and Evaluating Access Control Decision Making Capability, funding from LTU.

Stage 1 Successful Grant Applications

  • Lead CI - AU$XXX Defence NGTF (2020), Project Title: Multilingual Cross-Domain Authorship Attribution through Adversarial Machine Learning.

Under Review/Currently Working Grant Applications

  • Lead CI - ARC DECRA (2023), Project Title: XXX.

  • Lead CI - ARC LP (2023), Project Title: XXX.

Other Grant Applications

  • Lead CI - Joint PhD Fund with Sheffield Hallam University UK (2020), Project Title: Protecting Patients' Health Information against Data Breaches through Deep Learning.

  • Lead CI - Joint PhD Fund with BITS Pilani India (2020), Project Title: Cyberpsychology, Cybersecurity & Happiness: Profiling Active Netizens from the Smart Cities of Rajasthan.

  • CI - OCSC (Future), Project Title: Automated Story Generation for Intelligible Cyber Incident Response Handling (with Victoria University).