UQ (& IITD) (as Principal Advisor) (Total: 8)
Subrat Swain (Ph.D. student, UQ & IITD, started in Aug. 2021): Adversarial ML for IoT networks.
Nhung Nguyen (Ph.D. student, UQ, VIN group scholarships, started in Jan. 2022): Security Risk Modeling and Analysis of Vehicles
Tina Moghaddam (Ph.D. student, UQ, Data61 top-up scholarships, started in Jan. 2022): Moving Target Defence against AI-powered Cyber-Attacks
Pankaj Upadhyay (Ph.D. student, UQ & IITD, started in Jan. 2021): Security Analytics of Internet of Things (IoT).
Isha Pali (Ph.D. student, UQ & IITD, started in Aug. 2022): Adversarial ML for Autonomous Vehicles.
William Guanting Li (Ph.D. student, UQ, , Data61 top-up scholarships, started in Jul. 2023): AI for red team automation.
Ulysses Lam (Ph.D. student, UQ, started in Jul. 2023): Distributed intrusion detection for vehicles.
Aoran Zhang (Ph.D. student, UQ, started in Jan. 2026): Security for AI systems.
UQ (co-supervision as Associate Advisor) (Total: 1)
Bin Duan (Ph.D. student, UQ): Automated Testing of Deep Learning Systems
Other Universities (co-supervision as Associate Advisor) (Total: 1)
Moammadreza Najafi (Reza) (PhD student, La Trobe University, AU): Designing Proactive Network Defense using Deep Q Learning and Intrusion Detection using Game Theoryonboo Chae (PhD student, KAU, South Korea): Red team automation (in alternative military service).
Dr. Janet Hyunjae Kang, Postdoc, Korea University, Sep 2024 - Aug 2026.
Dr Seungki Shi, KAERI, Visiting Researcher, July 2025 - June 2026.
Prof Sejoon Lim, Kookmin University, Visiting Academic, Dec 2025 - Nov 2026.
Dr Jinsu Kim, Jeju National University, Postdoc, Dec 2025 - Nov 2026.
Mr Hwejae Lee, Korea University, Visiting PhD student, Dec 2025 - May 2026.
Ms Borim Na, Yonsei University, Visiting MS student, Dec 2025 - May 2026.
Mr Sangmin Park, Korea University, Visiting PhD student, Jan 2026 - Jun 2026.
Prof Jeeyoung Kim, Visiting academic, Kyungpook National University, 10 Jan 2026 - 30 Aug 2026
From S2, 2025 to S1, 2026 (Total: 6)
M Cyber
C-W Yang, IDS for Drone
A. Ghoor, Robust IDS
H. Jin, Auonomous Vehicle Security testbed
M Data Science
X. Wang, LLM for Improving SoC operations
Honors
M. Coombs (B Eng (hons)), AI based Intrusion Detection for Drones/UAV
N. Stevens (B Eng (hons)), Security Simulator for UAVs
From S1, 2025 to S2, 2025 (Total: 7)
M Cyber
A. B. Purnomo (M Cyber)
C. Hamilton (M Cyber)
A. Graves (M Cyber)
J. Wang (M Cyber)
A. Zhang (M Cyber)
R. Dufty (M Cyber)
Computer (honours)
X. K. Yeap (Comput Honors)
Ph.D. (Total: 15)
Ke He (Ph.D., U of Auckland, May 2024; co-supervisor): Adversarial attacks and defense for Network Intrusion Detection. (Currently Lecturer, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand).
Kok Onn Chee (Ph.D., UQ, Jan. 2024; principal advisor): Security Modelling and Analysis of Internet of Things against Evolving Attacks.
Minjune Kim (Ph.D., UQ, Sep. 2023; principal advisor): Security and Performance Analysis of SDN adopting MTD (Researcher/Research Engineer at CSRIO's Data61, Australia).
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.
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/continuing academic), La Trobe University, Australia).
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 in Cybersecurity at Whitecliffe College, New Zealand)
Kieran Morris (Ph.D. ECE, UC; co-supervisor): Reliability and Resiliency Analysis of Smart Grid (first employment: Tait communications, NZ-> Noted Ltd. -> Transpower New Zealand).
Mengmeng Ge (Ph.D., Computer Science, UC 2018; senior supervisor): Graphical security modelling and assessment for the internet of things; Currently, Senior Lecturer in Cybersecurity at Monash University.
Iman Elmir (Ph.D., Hassan 1st Univ. Morocco, 2017; co-supervisor): Security Modeling and Analysis of Intrusion Tolerant Data Centers
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 University of Western Australia.
Others (at KAU) (co-supervision)
Seongmo An (Ph.D., KAU, Feb 2024; co-supervisor, South Korea): CloudSafe: Automated Security Analysis and Enforcement for Cloud Computing. A CEO of a company.
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).
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.
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
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)
Postdocs (Total: 2)
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.
Jin B. Hong: Cloud computing security, 2015-2017, UC; currently a Senior Lecturer (continuing academic) at The University of Western Australia.
Past Visitors at UQ (Total: 17)
Dr Seonghoon Jeong, Sookmyung Women’s University (SMWU), July 2025.
Mr Hyeonseong Kim, Kookmin University, July 2025.
Prof. Cheolsoo Park, Kwangwoon University, Sep 2024 - Feb 2025.
Prof. Armin Zimmerman (Technische Universität Ilmenau), Sep-Dec 2024.
Prof. S. H. Seo (Tech University of Korea, South Korea), Jan 2023 - Dec 2023.
Prof. JB Yun (Sejong University, South Korea), Sep 2022 - August 2023.
Dr. Woocheol Kim (currently with ETRI, South Korea), Visiting PhD student from GIST: Federated Learning security/Vehicle security, April 2022-Oct 2022.
A/Prof Hongtae Kim (Korea Air Force Academy), Jan 2020 - Dec 2020 at UQ
Prof Jang-Se Lee (KMOU), Jan 2020 - Jan 2021 at UQ
Mr Sungwoo An (PhD student, SNU, Korea), Aug 2019 at UQ
Mr Hyunjun Kim (ME student, SNU, Korea), Aug 2019 at UQ
Dr. Tongil Jang (KAERI, Korea), Apr 2019 - Mar 2020 at UQ
Prof. Jiwon Yoon (Korea University), 2018. at UC.
Dr. Júlio Mendonça (Ph.D., 2021, FUP, Brazil)-> Research Associate at University of Luxembourg -> Assistant Professor at Tilburg University, Netherlands.
Dr. YoungJun Lee (KAERI, Korea) at UC., 2017
Prof. Sungdeok (Steve) Cha (Korea University) as Erskine fellow at UC, 2016 -> currently with VinUniversity in Vietnam.
Prof. Huy Kang Kim (Korea University) at UC, 2016
Prof Dijiang Huang (ASU) at UC, 2013.
Past Master Students at UQ (Total: 46)
C. Liu (M Computer Science), AI based Intrusion Detection for Internet of Things/CPS, S2, 2024 - S1, 2025
O. M. Delgado (M Computer Science), AI based Intrusion Detection for Internet of Things/CPS, S2, 2024 - S1, 2025
M. D. Reilly (M Information Technology), Red team automation: Automated Pentesting, S2, 2024 - S1, 2025
D. Wang (M Software Engineering), Adversarial Attacks and Effective Defences for Autonomous Vehicles, S2, 2024 - S1, 2025
L. J. Revell (M CyberSec), AI based Intrusion Detection for Internet of Things/CPS, S2, 2024 - S1, 2025
B. Boskell (M CyberSec), AI based Intrusion Detection for Internet of Things/CPS, S2, 2024 - S1, 2025
T. You (M CyberSec), AI based Intrusion Detection for Internet of Things/CPS, S2, 2024 - S1, 2025
Yufeng Lin (M Data Science), Adversarial Attacks and Effective Defences for Autonomous Vehicles, S2, 2024 - S1, 2025
Zhaochen Wang (M Data Science), Adversarial Attacks and Effective Defences for Autonomous Vehicles, S2, 2024 - S1, 2025
Jingming Dai (M Computer Science), Deep fakes Detection, from S1, 2024 to S2, 2024.
Taiwei Bo (M Computer Science), GUI for GSM, from S1, 2024 to S2, 2024.
Ruoqi Guo (M Computer Science), GUI for GSM, from S1, 2024 to S2, 2024.
Boxuan Li (M Computer Science), Applications of QML, from S1, 2024 to S2, 2024.
Tianluo Xu (M Computer Science, 1 semester only): Quantum ML application, S1, 2024.
S. Kaja (M Data Science): IDS for IoT/CPS, from S1 2024 to S2 2024.
Joshua C.-H. Wang (M Data Science): IDS for IoT/CPS, from S1 2024 to S2 2024.
D. M.Z. Ku (M Data Science): IDS for IoT/CPS, from S1 2024 to S2 2024.
R. Guo (M Computer Science): Web GUI for GSM, from S1 2024 to S2 2024.
Walt Lin (M.Phil, UQ): IoT security gateway, completed in 2024.
Faraz Ghasemzadeh, M Data Science: Deep Fake Detection, from S1, 2023 to S2, 2023.
Chuan Jacob Tian, M Data Science: Deep Fake Detection, from S1, 2023 to S2, 2023.
Minh Tuan Tran, M Cyber capstone: cyberattacks on Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning (BRFL), from S2 2022 to S1, 2023.
Tao Cheng, M Computer Science (4 unit, one semester): Cyber attacks to distributed AI systems, S2 only, 2022.
Zhe Sun (co-supervision), Master: Fuzzing for DL systems, from S1 2022 to S2 2022.
Xiaojie Issac Ying (co-supervision), Master, Fuzzing for DL systems, from S1 2022 to S2 2022.
Yifan Lu, Master: ATT&CK graph, S1, 2022 (one semester).
Chenxin Hu, Master: Adversarial attacks to AI systems, from S2, 2021 to S1, 2022.
Guanting William Li, Master: Automated Pen Testing, from S2, 2021 to S1, 2022.
Yuhui Ian He, M Cyber Capstone: APT attacks automation, from S2, 2021 to S1, 2022.
Archit Sharma, M Cyber Capstone: Vulnerability scanning, from S2, 2021 to S1, 2022.
Z. Zhu, Master by Research, from S1, 2021 to S2, 2021.
L. Xia, Master by Research, from S1, 2021 to S2, 2021.
R. Fardoulys, M Cyber Capstone, from S1, 2021 to S2, 2021.
J. Yu, M Data Science, from S1, 2021 to S2, 2021.
Ulysses Lam (M Data Science), from S1, 2021 to S2, 2021.
Yang LIU, Cyber attacks against AI-based Intrusion Detection Systems, from S2, 2020 to S1, 2021.
Na DONG, Improving User Interfaces for Graphical Security Modeling and Analysis, from S2, 2020 to S1, 2021.
Xinyi WANG, Cyber attacks against AI based Intrusion Detection Systems, from S2, 2020 to S1, 2021
Minghao XUE, Benchmarking existing database management systems for time-series data, from S2, 2020 to S1, 2021
Shichun YAN, Attacks to Privacy Preserving Machine Learning techniques, from S2, 2020 to S1, 2021
Yunzhong LI, Activity classification using recurrent neural networks, from S2, 2020 to S1, 2021
XingBo Feng, SDN based MTD, from S1, 2020 to S2, 2020.
Nida Amalia, Adversarial attacks comparisons, from S1, 2020 to S2, 2020.
Yawei Yang, Web attacks automation, from S1, 2020 to S2, 2020.
Zhiheng Liang, IoT security, from S1, 2020 to S2, 2020.
Zhibin Huang, Attacker and Defender modeling, from S2 2019 to S1, 2020.
Past Master students at UC/Other universities (Total: 11)
Bilal Isfaq (MSc student, UC, 2020): Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Network Level Defenses for IoT
X. "Harry" Zhang (MSc student in CSSE, UC, 2020): Deep Learning (GAN) for Intrusion Detection
W. Liu (Master, 2019, UQ): Integrated Proactive Defense for Software Defined Internet-of-Things under Multi-Target Attacks. First employment: Merchant Warrior.
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
Paul Kim (MSc in MADS in Math department, 2018, UC): Blockchain and security, First employment: Telstra Australia
Shamik Santra (MSc, 2017, UC): Semi-automated generation of networked vulnerability-attack countermeasure trees for security analysis
HeeSoo Kim (M.E., 2016, KAU): Android Malware Detection using Machine Learning, First employment: Penta Security Systems Inc., Korea
Suhan Kim (M.E., 2016, KAU): Development of New Security Metrics, Current: PhD student at KAU.
FangCheng Jia (M.Sc. in CSSE, 2015, UC): A Security Assessment Framework for Software Systems
Hyeongjun Jin (M.E., 2015, KAU): Security Analysis of Network Separation Mechanisms
Miseon Wi (M.E., 2014, KAU): Security Evaluation of Smart Grid using Attack Countermeasure Trees. Current: Hyundai Mobis security team.
There are more students but I have not listed them here.
Past Honours students at UQ (Total: 35)
K. Lake (B. Eng. honours, One semester only): XR/VR security and privacy, S1, 2024
H. Nguyeng (BE honours): AV security testbed, from S2, 2023 to S1, 2024
S. Jain (BE honours): AV security testbed, from S2, 2023 to S1, 2024
Matthew Ian WILKEY, Honours: ML for OS identification, from S1, 2023 to S2, 2023
Cheng GUO, Honours: HARM GUI, from S1, 2023 to S2, 2023
Nok Sang CHAN, Honours: Deep fake detection, from S1, 2023 to S2, 2023
Liam Hall, Honours: Red Team Automation, from S2, 2022 to S1, 2023
Jordan Foss, Honours: Differential Privacy for AI, from S2, 2022 to S1, 2023
Thomas Petersen, Honours: AI based IDS for In-Vehicle Networks, from S1, 2022 to S2, 2022
Michael Cowan, Honours: Red Team Automation, from S1, 2022 to S2, 2022
Komei Jo, Honours: APT attacks automation to ICS systems, completed in S1, 2022
Fin Cooney, Honours: Defence against Ransomware, completed in S1, 2022
Zhien Zhang, CS honours: Adversarial attacks to AI systems, completed in S1, 2022
T. Moghaddam, Honours, completed in S2, 2021.
W. Chancellor, Honours, completed in S2, 2021.
A. Queenslandari, Honours, completed in S2, 2021.
M. Jones, Honours, completed in S2, 2021.
Y. T. Wang, Honours, completed in S2, 2021.
Aviral Kailash JAIN, Honours, Activity classification using recurrent neural networks, from S2, 2020 to S1, 2021.
Xiaofan ZHOU, Honours, Automated Intrusion Response using Artificial Intelligence, from S2, 2020 to S1, 2021.
Sheridan Kate TAPSALL, Honours, Detecting Crown-of-Thorns Starfish using Convolutional Neural Networks and ML, from S2, 2020 to S1, 2021.
Joshua YOU, Honours, Improving User Interfaces for Graphical Security Modeling and Analysis, from S2, 2020 to S1, 2021.
Bhavita BHOOMA, Honours, SPNP improvement, from S2, 2020 to S1, 2021.
Nikhil Jain KAMAL, Honours, Integrating Stochastic Petri Net model into Discrete Event System Specification model, from S2, 2020 to S1, 2021.
Kurt James STANWIX, Honours, Automated Intrusion Response using Artificial Intelligence, from S2 2020 to S1 2021.
Raymond Mogg (Honours): Evasion attacks against NIDS, from S2, 2019 to S1, 2020.
Khoa Dang Nguyen (Honours): User Interfaces Development for HARM, from S2, 2019 to S1, 2020.
Naehyung Kim(Honours): User Interfaces Development for HARM, from S2, 2019 to S1, 2020.
A. Leung (honours): Phase 3 of Cloudsafe, S1, 2020 (1 semester).
T. Baxter (honours): Network implementation of adversarial attacks, from S1, 2020 to S2, 2022
W. Dow (honours): IoT security, from S2, 2019 to S1, 2022
S. Lee (honours): Adversarial attacks to cluster-based IDS, from S1, 2019 to S2, 2020.
Kesang Tshering Dorjee (Honours): Security Visualization, from S1, 2019 to S2, 2019.
Thanh Tung Vo (Honours): Performability for Moving Target Defenses, from S1, 2019 to S2, 2019.
Xiatong Mo (Honours): Distributed Vulnerability scanners, from S1, 2019 to S2, 2019.
Past Honours and research interns at UC/UQ (Total: 9)
. Lake (undergraduate intern): XR/VR security and privacy, 2024
B. Quek (undergraduate intern in Computer Science, 2022-2023, UQ), AI -based Intrusion Detection and Response for autonomous vehicles.
Ke He (CS Honours student in CSSE, 2018, UC): Deep Learning for Malware Detection
Amelia Samandari (CS honours student, 2017, UC): IoT security focusing on Mobility
James Spicer (CS honours student, 2017, UC): Distributed Vulnerability Scanning for Safelite
Nic Robinson-O'Brien (SE honours student, 2017, UC): SPNP improvement
Monty Anderson (Software Engineering Honours student in CSSE, 2017, UC): Visualisation of Hierarchical Attack Representation Models
Matthew Ruffell (Computer Science Honours student in CSSE, 2016, UC): Applying Bytecode Level Automatic Exploit Generation To Embedded Systems
Sophie He (undergraduate intern in CSSE, 2017, UC): Security tool development
Paul Kim (undergraduate intern in CSSE, 2018, UC)