Members

HDR (PhD Students) 

• UQ (& IITD)

1. Subrat Swain (Ph.D. student, UQ & IITD, started in Aug. 2021): Adversarial ML for IoT networks. 

2. Nhung Nguyen (Ph.D. student, UQ, VIN group scholarships, started in Jan. 2022): Security Risk Modeling and Analysis of Vehicles

3. Tina Moghaddam (Ph.D. student, UQ, Data61 top-up scholarships, started in Jan. 2022): Moving Target Defence against AI-powered Cyber-Attacks

4. Isha Pali (Ph.D. student, UQ & IITD, started in Aug. 2022): Adversarial ML for Autonomous Vehicles.

5. William Guanting Li (Ph.D. student, UQ, , Data61 top-up scholarships, started in Jul. 2023): AI for red team automation.

6. Ulyssess Lam (Ph.D. student, UQ, started in Jul. 2023): Distributed intrusion detection for vehicles.

• Other countries (co-supervision)

1. Ke He (Ph.D. student, University of Auckland, NZ, started in Aug. 2020): Interpretable, Dependable, and Secure NIDS for IoT.

2. Woonboo Chae (PhD student, KAU, South Korea): Red team automation (in alternative military service).

Current Masters/Honours students at UQ

From S1, 2024 to S2, 2024

1. S. Kaja (M Data Science): IDS for IoT/CPS

2. Joshua C.-H. Wang (M Data Science): IDS for IoT/CPS

3. D. M.Z. Ku (M Data Science): IDS for IoT/CPS

4. R. Guo (M Computer Science): Web GUI for GSM

5.   Dave J. Dai (M Computer Science): Deepfakes detection

Current Internship Program

1. K. Lake, Security and Privacy for healthcare/rehab VR. 

Current/Future visitor(s)

1. A. Zimmerman(from Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany), from Sep 2024 - Dec 2024.

2. Prof. C. Park (from Kwangwoon U, Korea), from Sep 2024 to Feb 2025.

Recent Alumni

Postdocs (Total: 2)

1. Simon (Enochson) Yusuf: Automated Attack and Defence Modeling, 2019-2020, UQ; currently a Lecturer at the Federal University Kashere Gombe State -> Lecturer at Whitecliffe College, New Zealand.

2. Jin B. Hong: Cloud computing security, 2015-2017, UC; currently a Senior Lecturer (continuing academic) at The University of Western Australia.

Ph.D. (Total: 14)

1. Kok Onn Chee (Ph.D., UQ, Jan. 2024; principal advisor): Security Modelling and Analysis of Internet of Things against Evolving Attacks. 

2. Minjune Kim (Ph.D., UQ, Sep. 2023; principal advisor): Security and Performance Analysis of SDN adopting MTD (Researcher/engineer at CSRIO's Data61, Australia).

3. Dilli P. Sharma (Ph.D., UC, 2020; senior supervisor -> co-supervisor**): SDN based Moving Target Defense (currently a Postdoc at the University of Toronto, Canada). **because I left the U of Canterbury and joined UQ.

4. Taehoon Eom (Ph.D., 2020, KAU, Korea, co-supervisor): Security for Software Defined Networking (Researcher at KAU-> Research Professor at KAU -> Team leader, AI Data center at AI Industry Cluster Agency, South Korea).

5. Hooman Alavizadeh (Ph.D., Massey University, NZ, 2019, co-supervisor): Effective Security Analysis for Combinations of MTD Techniques on Cloud Computing (a Postdoc, Massey University -> Postdoc at UNSW Canberra->Lecturer at U of Sydney-> Lecturer (tenure), La Trobe University). 

6. Simon (Enochson) Yusuf (Ph.D., Computer Science, NZ, UC, Dec 2018, senior supervisor): Dynamic Cyber Security Modeling and Analysis (Postdoc at UQ-> Lecturer (continuing academic) at Federal University Kashere (FUK), Gombe, Nigeria -> Lecturer at Whitecliffe College, NZ)

7. Kieran Morris (Ph.D. ECE, UC; co-supervisor): Reliability and Resiliency Analysis of Smart Grid (first employment: Tait communications, NZ-> Noted Ltd.).

8. Mengmeng Ge (Ph.D., Computer Science, UC 2018; senior supervisor): Graphical security modelling and assessment for the internet of things; Lecturer (continuing academic) in Cybersecurity at Deakin University -> RMIT University, Australia -> Deloitte New Zealand.

9. Iman Elmir (Ph.D., Hassan 1st Univ. Morocco, 2017; co-supervisor): Security Modeling and Analysis of Intrusion Tolerant Data Centers

10. Jin B. Hong (Ph.D., Computer Science, April, 2015, senior supervisor): Scalable and Adaptable Security Modeling and Analysis. First employment: Postdoc, UC, NZ -> Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Cybersecurity at U of Western Australia

11. Nguyen Tuan Anh (Ph.D., August 2015, KAU; co-supervisor): Availability Modeling and Analysis of Data Center Systems using Stochastic Reward Nets. Postdoc, Kunkuk University, South Korea -> an Academic Research Professor, Kunkuk University, South Korea.

Others (co-supervision) 

12. Seongmo An (Ph.D., KAU, Feb 2024; co-supervisor, South Korea): CloudSafe: Automated Security Analysis and Enforcement for Cloud Computing. 

13. SeulKi Lee (Ph.D., 2014, KAU; co-supervision/co-work): Reliability and Availability Analysis for UAS by Using Hierarchical Fault Trees and Continuous Time Markov Chains. First employment: Researcher, Korea Institute of Geoscience And Mineral Resources, Korea

14. Sang Min Lee (Ph.D., 2012, KAU; co-supervisor/co-work): Modeling and analysis of lightweight Intrusion Detection Systems, First employment: SK Telecom Co., Ltd. -> Current: Telecommunications Technology Association of Korea (TTA)

Visitors  at UQ/UQ (Total: 13)

1. Prof. S. Seo (TU Korea), Jan 2023 - Dec 2023.

2. Prof. JB Yun (Sejong University, South Korea), Sep 2022 - August 2023.

3. Prof. S. H. Seo (Tech University of Korea, South Korea), Jan 2023 - Dec 2023.

4. Dr. Woocheol Kim (currently with ETRI, South Korea), Visiting PhD student from GIST: Federated Learning security/Vehicle security, April 2022-Oct 2022.

5. A/Prof Hongtae Kim (Korea Airforce), Jan 2020 - Dec 2020  at UQ

6. A/Prof Jang-Se Lee (KMOU), Jan 2020 - Jan 2021 at UQ

7. Mr Sungwoo An (PhD student, SNU, Korea), Aug 2019 at UQ

8. Mr Hyunjun Kim (ME student, SNU, Korea), Aug 2019 at UQ

9. Dr. Tongil Jang (KAERI, Korea), Apr 2019 - Mar 2020 at UQ

10. Prof. Jiwon Yoon (Korea University), 2018. at UC.

11. Dr. Júlio Mendonça (Ph.D., 2021, FUP, Brazil): Dependability for Data centers -> Currently Research Associate at University of Luxembourg. 

12. Dr. YoungJun Lee (KAERI, Korea) at UC., 2017

13. Prof. Huy Kang Kim (Korea University) at UC, 2016

14. Prof Dijiang Huang (ASU) at UC, 2013.

Master at UQ (Total: 29)

1. Walt Lin (M.Phil student, UQ, part-time): IoT security gateway, completed in 2024.

2. T. Xu (M Computer Science, 1 semester only): Quantum ML application, S1, 2024.

3. Faraz Ghasemzadeh, M Data Science: Deep Fake Detection, from S1, 2023 to S2, 2023.

4. Chuan Jacob Tian, M Data Science: Deep Fake Detection, from S1, 2023 to S2, 2023.

5. Minh Tuan Tran, M Cyber capstone: cyberattacks on Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning (BRFL), from S2 2022 to S1, 2023.

6. Tao Cheng, M Computer Science (4 unit, one semester): Cyber attacks to distributed AI systems, S2 only, 2022.

7. Zhe Sun (co-supervision), Master: Fuzzing for DL systems, from S1 2022 to S2 2022.

8. Xiaojie Issac Ying (co-supervision), Master, Fuzzing for DL systems, from S1 2022 to S2 2022.

9. Yifan Lu, Master: ATT&CK graph, S1, 2022 (one semester).  

10. Chenxin Hu, Master: Adversarial attacks to AI systems, from S2, 2021 to S1, 2022.

11. Guanting William Li, Master: Automated Pen Testing, from S2, 2021 to S1, 2022.

12. Yuhui Ian He, M Cyber Capstone: APT attacks automation, from S2, 2021 to S1, 2022.

13. Archit Sharma, M Cyber Capstone: Vulnerability scanning, from S2, 2021 to S1, 2022.

14. Z. Zhu, Master by Research, from S1, 2021 to S2, 2021.

15. L. Xia, Master by Research, from S1, 2021 to S2, 2021.

16. R. Fardoulys, M Cyber Capstone, from S1, 2021 to S2, 2021.

17. J. Yu, M Data Science, from S1, 2021 to S2, 2021.

18. U. Lam, M Data Science, from S1, 2021 to  S2, 2021.

19. Yang LIU, Cyber attacks against AI based Intrusion Detection Systems, from S2, 2020 to S1, 2021. 

20. Na DONG, Improving User Interfaces for Graphical Security Modeling and Analysis, from S2, 2020 to S1, 2021. 

21. Xinyi WANG, Cyber attacks against AI based Intrusion Detection Systems, from S2, 2020 to S1, 2021

22. Minghao XUE, Benchmarking existing database management systems for time-series data, from S2, 2020 to S1, 2021

23. Shichun YAN, Attacks to Privacy Preserving Machine Learning techniques, from S2, 2020 to S1, 2021

24. Yunzhong LI, Activity classification using recurrent neural networks, from S2, 2020 to S1, 2021

25. X. Feng, SDN based MTD, from S1, 2020 to S2, 2020.

26. Z. Huang, Attacker and Defender modeling, from S2 2019 to S1, 2020.

27. N. Amalia, Adversarial attacks comparisons, from S1, 2020 to S2, 2020.

28. Y. Yang, Web attacks automation, from S1, 2020 to S2, 2020.

29. Z. Liang, IoT security, from S1, 2020 to S2, 2020.

Master at UC/Other universities (Total: 12)

1. Bilal Isfaq (MSc student, UC, 2020): Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Network Level Defenses for IoT

2. X. "Harry" Zhang (MSc student in CSSE, UC, 2020): Deep Learning (GAN) for Intrusion Detection

3. W. Liu (Master, 2019, UQ): Integrated Proactive Defense for Software Defined Internet-of-Things under Multi-Target Attacks. First employment: Merchant Warrior.

4. Cole Dishington (MSc student in CSSE, 2019, UC): Security and Performance Assessment of IP Multiplexing Moving Target Defence in Software Defined Networks. First employment: Software Engineer at Allied Telesis

5. Paul Kim (MSc in MADS in Math department, 2018, UC): Blockchain and security, First employment: Telstra Australia 

6. Shamik Santra (MSc, 2017, UC): Semi-automated generation of networked vulnerability-attack countermeasure trees for security analysis

7. HeeSoo Kim (M.E., 2016, KAU): Android Malware Detection using Machine Learning, First employment: Penta Security Systems Inc., Korea

8. Suhan Kim (M.E., 2016, KAU): Development of New Security Metrics, Current: PhD student at KAU.

9. FangCheng Jia (M.Sc. in CSSE, 2015, UC): A Security Assessment Framework for Software Systems

10. Hyeongjun Jin (M.E., 2015, KAU): Security Analysis of Network Separation Mechanisms

11. Miseon Wi (M.E., 2014, KAU): Security Evaluation of Smart Grid using Attack Countermeasure Trees. Current: Hyundai Mobis security team.

12. There are more students but I have not listed them here.

Honours at UQ (Total: 35)

1. K. Lake (B. Eng. honours, 1 semester only): XR security, S1, 2024

2. H. Nguyeng (BE honours): AV security testbed, from S2, 2023 to S1, 2024

3. S. Jain (BE honours): AV security testbed, from S2, 2023 to S1, 2024

4. Matthew Ian WILKEY, Honours: ML for OS identification, from S1, 2023 to S2, 2023

5. Cheng GUO, Honours: HARM GUI, from S1, 2023 to S2, 2023

6. Nok Sang CHAN, Honours: Deep fake detection, from S1, 2023 to S2, 2023

7. Liam Hall, Honours: Red Team Automation, from S2, 2022 to S1, 2023

8. Jordan Foss, Honours: Differential Privacy for AI, from S2, 2022 to S1, 2023

9. Thomas Petersen, Honours: AI based IDS for In-Vehicle Networks, from S1, 2022 to S2, 2022

10. Michael Cowan, Honours: Red Team Automation, from S1, 2022 to S2, 2022

11. Komei Jo, Honours: APT attacks automation to ICS systems, completed in S1, 2022

12. Fin Cooney, Honours: Defence against Ransomware, completed in S1, 2022

13. Zhien Zhang, CS honours: Adversarial attacks to AI systems, completed in S1, 2022

14. T. Moghaddam, Honours, completed in S2, 2021.

15. W. Chancellor, Honours, completed in S2, 2021.

16. A. Queenslandari, Honours, completed in S2, 2021.

17. M. Jones, Honours, completed in S2, 2021.

18. Y. T. Wang, Honours, completed in S2, 2021.

19. Aviral Kailash JAIN, Honours, Activity classification using recurrent neural networks, from S2, 2020 to S1, 2021.

20. Xiaofan ZHOU, Honours, Automated Intrusion Response using Artificial Intelligence, from S2, 2020 to S1, 2021. 

21. Sheridan Kate TAPSALL, Honours, Detecting Crown-of-Thorns Starfish using Convolutional Neural Networks and ML, from S2, 2020 to S1, 2021.

22. Joshua YOU, Honours, Improving User Interfaces for Graphical Security Modeling and Analysis, from S2, 2020 to S1, 2021.

23. Bhavita BHOOMA, Honours, SPNP improvement, from S2, 2020 to S1, 2021.

24. Nikhil Jain KAMAL, Honours, Integrating Stochastic Petri Net model into Discrete Event System Specification model, from S2, 2020 to S1, 2021.

25. Kurt James STANWIX, Honours, Automated Intrusion Response using Artificial Intelligence, from S2 2020 to S1 2021.

26. Raymond Mogg (Honours): Evasion attacks against NIDS,  from S2, 2019 to S1, 2020.

27. Khoa Dang Nguyen (Honours): User Interfaces Development for HARM,  from S2, 2019 to S1, 2020.

28. Naehyung Kim(Honours): User Interfaces Development for HARM,  from S2, 2019 to S1, 2020.

29. A. Leung (honours): Phase 3 of Cloudsafe, S1, 2020 (1 semester).

30. T. Baxter (honours): Network implementation of adversarial attacks, from S1, 2020 to S2, 2022

31. W. Dow (honours): IoT security, from S2, 2019 to S1, 2022 

32. S. Lee (honours): Adversarial attacks to cluster-based IDS, from S1, 2019 to S2, 2020.

33. Kesang Tshering Dorjee (Honours): Security Visualization, from S1, 2019 to  S2, 2019.

34. Thanh Tung Vo (Honours): Performability for Moving Target Defenses, from S1, 2019 to S2, 2019.

35. Xiatong Mo (Honours): Distributed Vulnerability scanners, from S1, 2019 to S2, 2019.

Honours  and research interns at UC/UQ (Total: 9)

1. B. Quek (undergraduate intern in Computer Science, 2022-2023, UQ), AI \-based Intrusion Detection and Response for autonomous vehicles.

2. Ke He (CS Honours student in CSSE, 2018, UC): Deep Learning for Malware Detection

3. Amelia Samandari (CS honours student, 2017, UC): IoT security focusing on Mobility

4. James Spicer (CS honours student, 2017, UC): Distributed Vulnerability Scanning for Safelite

5. Nic Robinson-O'Brien (SE honours student, 2017, UC): SPNP improvement

6. Monty Anderson (Software Engineering Honours student in CSSE, 2017, UC): Visualisation of Hierarchical Attack Representation Models

7. Matthew Ruffell (Computer Science Honours student in CSSE, 2016, UC): Applying Bytecode Level Automatic Exploit Generation To Embedded Systems

8. Sophie He (undergraduate intern in CSSE, 2017, UC): Security tool development

9. Paul Kim (undergraduate intern in CSSE, 2018, UC)