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生命不止，奋斗不息 — 托马斯·卡莱尔
Dr. Hai Dong is currently a senior lecturer (Equiv. to associate professor in North America) at the School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He is the leader of the Smart Sensing and Services Research Area, and the founder and director of the CloudTech-RMIT Green Cryptocurrency Joint Research Laboratory (GreenCryptoLab). Prior to this position, he served as a Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow at RMIT University and a Curtin Research Fellow at Curtin University, Australia. He received a PhD from Curtin University, a Bachelor’s degree from Northeastern University, China, and a Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching. He published a monograph and 150+ (100+ CORE-A*/A or JCR/SJR-Q1) research articles in international journals and conferences, including TIFS, TMC, TOSEM, TSC, TSE, AAAI, ACM MM, ASE, ESORICS, ICML, ICSOC, ICWS, etc. He received the Best Paper Award in ICSOC 2016 and IEEE ICBC 2025, as well as the 2023 RMIT Award for Research Engagement and Impact - Industry Engagement in Graduate Research. He secured 5 million+ research funding from government (i.e., ARC, CRC, and QNRF) and industry (i.e., ANZ, CloudTech, and Telstra) as a chief investigator. He currently chairs the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Task Force on Deep Edge Intelligence. He has participated in the organising/program committees of 100+ international conferences, including AAAI, CIKM, ICDM, ICSOC, ICWS, WWW, etc. He has been invited to review for 50+ international journals, such as CSUR, TKDE, TOIT, TSC, etc. His primary research interests include Service-Oriented Computing, Edge Intelligence, Blockchain, AI Security, Cyber Security, Machine Learning, etc. He is a senior member of the IEEE.
Contact Details
Address:
School of Computing Technologies
RMIT University
Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
Email: hai.dong@rmit.edu.au
Recent News
(08/2025) Our paper "DSPFL: A Deep-Layer Sign Sharing Personalized Federated Learning Scheme for Mitigating Poisoning Attacks" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (CORE-A*, JCR-5%, SJR-5%)
(08/2025) I have been invited to serve as a PC member for The 2026 ACM Web Conference (WWW 2026) (CORE-A*, CCF-A)
(07/2025) I have been invited to serve as a senior PC member for The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026) (CORE-A*, CCF-A)
(07/2025) Our paper "A Review of Learning-based Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection: A Perspective on Code Representation" has been accepted by ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (CORE-A*, CCF-A, JCR-10%, Impact Factor: 6.6, SJR-10%)
(06/2025) Our paper "Querying Autonomous Vehicle Point Clouds: Enhanced by 3D Object Counting with CounterNet" has been accepted by The 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2025) (CORE-A*, CCF-A)
(06/2025) Our paper "Efficient and Secure Sleepy Model for BFT Consensus" has been accepted by The 30th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2025) (CORE-A)
(06/2025) Our paper "Legal Compliance Evaluation of Smart Contracts Generated by Large Language Models" received the Best Paper Award in The 2025 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (IEEE ICBC 2025)
(05/2025) Our papers "DAG-FGL: An Enhanced Approach for Accurate Workflow Task Execution Time Prediction with Complex Dependencies" and "Privacy-Preserving and Efficient Offloading for Cooperative Vehicle Infrastructure Systems" have been accepted by The 2025 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS 2025) (CORE-A) (Acceptance Rate: 18%)
(03/2025) I have been invited to serve as a senior PC member for The 2025 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2025) (CORE-A)
(03/2025) I have been invited to join the program committee of The 23rd International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2025) (CORE-A)
(02/2025) I have been invited to join the program committee of The 2025 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS 2025) (CORE-A)
(01/2025) Our paper "TAEFuzz: Automatic Fuzzing for Image-based Deep Learning Systems via Transferable Adversarial Examples" has been accepted by ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (CORE-A*, CCF-A, JCR-10%, Impact Factor: 6.6, SJR-10%)
(12/2024) Our paper "FedSPU: Personalized Federated Learning for Resource-constrained Devices with Stochastic Parameter Update" has been accepted by The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025) (Oral) (CORE-A*, CCF-A)
(12/2024) Our paper "ERT: Data Placement based on Estimated Response Time for P2P Storage Systems" has been accepted by Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (CORE-A, JCR-Q1, Impact Factor: 3.4, SJR-Q1)
(11/2024) Our paper "Dependency-Aware Task Offloading based on Application Hit Ratio" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (CORE-A*, CCF-A, JCR-Q1, Impact Factor: 5.5, SJR-10%)
(10/2024) Our paper "On-the-Fly Representative Point Selection for Object Detection in Point Cloud: A Two-Phase Downsampling Approach" has been accepted by IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision 2025 (WACV 2025) (CORE-A)
(10/2024) Our paper "DeepFusion: Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection Via Deep Learning and Data Fusion" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Reliability (CORE-A, JCR-Q1, Impact Factor: 5.0, SJR-10%)
(10/2024) Our paper "Optimized Edge Node Allocation Considering User Delay Tolerance for Cost Reduction" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (CORE-A*, CCF-A, JCR-Q1, Impact Factor: 5.5, SJR-10%)
(10/2024) Our paper "Dynamic Adaptive Federated Learning on Local Long-Tailed Data" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (CORE-A*, CCF-A, JCR-Q1, Impact Factor: 5.5, SJR-10%)
(10/2024) Our paper "Cloned Identity Detection in Social Sensor-Clouds based on Incomplete Profiles" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (CORE-A*, CCF-A, JCR-Q1, Impact Factor: 5.5, SJR-10%)
(10/2024) I have been invited to join the program committee of The 2025 ACM Web Conference (WWW 2025) (CORE-A*, CCF-A)
(09/2024) Our paper "SCAnoGenerator: Automatic Anomaly Injection for Ethereum Smart Contracts" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (CORE-A*, CCF-A, JCR-10%, Impact Factor: 6.5, SJR-10%)
(08/2024) Our paper "FLrce: Resource-Efficient Federated Learning with Early-Stopping Strategy" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (CORE-A*, CCF-A, JCR-5%, Impact Factor: 7.7, SJR-5%)
(07/2024) Our paper "Space-Time-Aware Proactive QoS Monitoring for Mobile Edge Computing" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (JCR-Q1, Impact Factor: 4.7, SJR-Q1)
(06/2024) Our paper "Swift and Accurate Mobility-Aware QoS Forecasting for Mobile Edge Environments" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (CORE-A*, CCF-A, JCR Top 5% (4/108 in CS Software Engineering), Impact Factor: 8.1, SJR Top 10%)
(05/2024) Our paper "Towards Stealthy Backdoor Attacks against Speech Recognition via Elements of Sound" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (CORE-A, CCF-A, JCR-Q1, Impact Factor: 6.8, SJR Top 1%)
(05/2024) Our paper "Scribble-Supervised Semantic Segmentation with Prototype-based Feature Augmentation" has been accepted by The 2024 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024) (CORE-A*, CCF-A)
(05/2024) Our papers "Resource Aware Multi-User Task Offloading In Mobile Edge Computing" and "QoS Optimization via Computation Offloading in Metaverse Environment" have been accepted by The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS 2024) (CORE-A)
(04/2024) I have been invited to join the program committee of The 22nd International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2024) (CORE-A)
(04/2024) Our paper "Estimation of Realized Volatility of Cryptocurrencies Using CEEMDAN-RF-LSTM" has been accepted by Future Generation Computer Systems (CORE-A, JCR Top 10% (10/111 in CS Theory and Methods), Impact Factor: 7.5, SJR Top 10%)
(03/2024) I have been invited to serve as a senior PC member for The 2024 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2024) (CORE-A)
(01/2024) I have been invited to join the program committee of The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS 2024) (CORE-A)
(12/2023) I successfully completed the Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching (Higher Education) with Distinction
(12/2023) Our paper "Proactive defense mechanism: Enhancing IoT security through diversity-based moving target defense and cyber deception" has been accepted by Computers & Security (Impact Factor: 5.6, SJR Top 10%)
(11/2023) I have been invited to serve as a publicity chair for the 24th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2024) (CORE-A*)
(11/2023) I am honoured to receive the prestigious 2023 RMIT Award for Research Engagement and Impact - Industry Engagement in Graduate Research in recognition of my contributions to initiating and supporting innovative and transformational engagement between HDR candidates and industry partners
(10/2023) We organised a Special Issue "When Computational Intelligence Meets Edge Intelligence" in IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (Impact Factor: 9.0, JCR-Q1, SJR Top-10%) (Submission Deadline: 1 December 2023)
(08/2023) SBS Chinese published my exclusive interview, where I shared my insights on immigrants' contributions to Australia's AI and Web3 research and the importance of welcoming top tech talent by the Australian government (Link)
(08/2023) Our paper "LEAP: Efficient and Automated Test Method for NLP Software" has been accepted by The 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2023) (CORE-A*, CCF-A)
(07/2023) Our paper "BiAn: Smart Contract Source Code Obfuscation" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (CORE-A*, CCF-A, JCR-Q1 (3/110 in CS Software Engineering), Impact Factor: 9.322, SJR Top 10%)
(06/2023) I have been invited to join the program committee of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2023) (CORE-A)
(06/2023) I have been invited to be a mentor and judge for The 2023 Australian Web3 & AI Hackfest
(05/2023) Our papers "Ponzi Scheme Detection Based on Control Flow Graph Feature Extraction" and "Federated Learning-driven Trust Prediction for Mobile Edge Computing-based IoT Systems" have been accepted by The 2023 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS 2023) (CORE-A)
(05/2023) I have been invited to join the program committee of The 21st International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2023) (CORE-A)
(04/2023) Our paper "A survey on smart contract vulnerabilities: Data sources, detection and repair" has been accepted by Information and Software Technology (CORE-A, JCR-Q1, Impact Factor: 3.862, SJR-Q1)
(01/2023) Our paper "Edge Intelligence for Real-Time IoT Service Trust Prediction" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (CORE-A*, CCF-A, JCR-Q1 (2/110 in CS Software Engineering), Impact Factor: 11.019, SJR Top 5%)
(01/2023) Our project "Fast and Secure Crypto Payments for E-Commerce Merchants" secured $2.31 million research funding from Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) Round 13 (Link)
(12/2022) Our paper "Mobility-aware and Privacy-protecting QoS Optimization in Mobile Edge Networks" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (CORE-A*, CCF-A, JCR-Q1, Impact Factor: 6.075, SJR Top 10%)
(12/2022) We published a white paper "Green Bitcoin Whitepaper: Energy Efficient, Work Useful, Scalable, and Green Blockchain" for the Green Bitcoin Foundation
(12/2022) I have been invited to join the program committee of The 2023 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS 2023) (CORE-A)
(11/2022) Stockhead's exclusive interview with me on green cryptocurrency technology research and education has been published (Link)
(09/2022) I have been invited to deliver a talk in 2022 Australian Crypto Convention to be held in Gold Coast
(09/2022) Our paper "Mobility-Aware Proactive QoS Monitoring for Mobile Edge Computing" has been accepted by The 20th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2022) (CORE-A)
(08/2022) I have been invited to deliver a keynote speech in 2022 China Service Conference, the annual conference of China Computer Federation Technical Committee on Service Computing
(08/2022) My interview with The Saturday Paper on the environmental impact of crypto mining has been published (Link).
(07/2022) I have been invited to serve as a chair for the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Task Force on Deep Edge Intelligence
(05/2022) Our project "A Regulatory Template Engine for Real-time Constraint Enforcement in Decentralised Finance Platforms" secured $0.26 million research funding from Digital Finance CRC
(05/2022) Our CloudTech-RMIT Green Cryptocurrency Joint Research Laboratory (GreenCryptoLab) was officially launched (Yahoo News)
(05/2022) I have been invited to serve as an associate editor for Frontiers in Big Data (Cybersecurity and Privacy Section) (SJR-Q1)
(05/2022) I have been invited to join the program committee of The 20th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2022) (CORE-A)
(05/2022) Our paper "Test Case Generation for Data Flow Testing of Smart Contracts Based on Improved Genetic Algorithm" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Reliability (CORE-A, JCR-Q1 (11/110 in CS Software Engineering), Impact Factor: 5.883, SJR Top10%)
(02/2022) I was invited to join the program committee of The 2022 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS 2022) (CORE-A)
(01/2022) Our CloudTech-RMIT Green Cryptocurrency Joint Research Laboratory (GreenCryptoLab) official website (https://rmit.edu.au/greencryptolab) was launched
(01/2022) Our project "Adaptive and Ubiquitous Trust Framework for Internet of Things Interactions" secured $0.49 million funding from Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects (DP) 2022 scheme
(01/2022) Our paper "Privacy-Aware Forecasting of Quality of Service in Mobile Edge Computing" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (CORE-A*, CCF-A, JCR-Q1 (2/110 in CS Software Engineering), Impact Factor: 11.019, SJR Top 5%)
I am looking for highly self-motivated PhD/Master by Research applicants. You are welcome to contact me if you are interested in conducting research in the areas of Edge Intelligence, Blockchain, and AI Security.
Scholarships
Call for 2026 Semester 1/2 RMIT PhD Stipend Scholarship Applications (Domestic and International - EoI Deadline: 31 August 2025)
Note: Applicants need to graduate from a QS Top-100 university with a CGPA of 4.0 (out of 4) or Weighted Average Mark of 80 or above.
Call For 2026 China Scholarship Council (CSC) PhD Scholarship Application (Chinese Citizens Only - Top-Up Scholarship and Tuition Fee Waiver will be provided)
Note: Applicants need to obtain a master's degree in CS/IT from a Chinese university
Call for Papers
Special Issue "Recent Trends in Mobile Computing and Sensing" in Sensors (Submission Deadline: 25 Feb 2026)
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