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(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%)

(11/2021) We secured $1.18 million industry funding on the research project "Designing the next generation of Proofs of Space-Time (PoST) consensus algorithms for large-scale green bitcoin platforms"

(11/2021) Our paper "CSSR: A Context-Aware Sequential Software Service Recommendation Model" received a best short paper award nomination in The 19th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2021) (CORE-A)

(11/2021) Our paper "RSDF-AM-LSTM: Regional Scale Division Rainfall Forecasting using Attention and LSTM" was accepted by ACM Transactions on Data Science

(10/2021) Congratulations on my PhD student Bing Huang being offered a postdoc position by Nanyang Technological University

(10/2021) Congratulations on my PhD student Bing Huang graduating from The University of Sydney

(10/2021) Our paper "CAGFuzz: Coverage-Guided Adversarial Generative Fuzzing Testing for Image-based Deep Learning Systems" was 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%)

(10/2021) My PhD student Prabath Abeysekara's paper "Data-driven Trust Prediction in Mobile Edge Computing-based IoT Systems" was 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%)

(10/2021) My PhD student Ahmed Alharbi's paper "Privacy-Aware Identity Cloning Detection based on Deep Forest" was accepted by The 19th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2021) (CORE-A)

(10/2021) My MPhil student Xiaoyu Zhang's paper "Edge Node Placement with Minimum Costs: When User Tolerance on Service Delay Matters" was accepted by The 19th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2021) (CORE-A)

(10/2021) Our paper "CSSR: A Context-Aware Sequential Software Service Recommendation Model" was accepted by The 19th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2021) (CORE-A) 

(09/2021) I was invited to serve as an associate editor for IEEE Access (Impact Factor: 3.476, SJR-Q1)

(08/2021) My PhD student Tooba Aamir received a Research Achievement Award from RMIT School of Computing Technologies for her outstanding research performance during her PhD study

(07/2021) My PhD student Ahmed Alharbi's paper "NPS-AntiClone: Identity Cloning Detection based on Non-Privacy-Sensitive User Profile Data" was accepted by The 2021 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS 2021) (CORE-A) as a regular paper

(07/2021) My PhD student Bing Huang's paper "Conflict Detection in IoT-based Smart Homes" was accepted by The 2021 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS 2021) (CORE-A) as a regular paper

(06/2021) I was invited to join the program committee of The 28th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2021) (CORE-A)

(05/2021) I was invited to join the program committee of The 2021 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS 2021) (CORE-A)

(05/2021) I was invited to join the program committee of The 19th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2021) (CORE-A) 

(04/2021) I was invited to join the program committee of The 22nd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2021) (CORE-A)

(04/2021) I was invited to serve as an editorial board member for Sensors (Impact Factor: 3.847, SJR-Q1)

(03/2021) Congratulations on my student Tooba Aamir successfully completing her PhD

(02/2021) Our paper "Mobility and Dependence-aware QoS Monitoring in Mobile Edge Computing" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (JCR-Q1 (14/110 in Computer Science Theory & Methods), Impact Factor: 5.697, SJR Top 10%)

(01/2021) I was invited to serve as a demonstration chair for The 19th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2021) (CORE-A) 

(01/2021) I was invited to join the operating committee of 2021 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS 2021) (CORE-A)

(01/2021) My PhD student Ahmed Alharbi's paper "Social Media Identity Deception Detection: A Survey" was accepted by ACM Computing Surveys (CORE-A*, JCR-Q1 (3/110 in Computer Science Theory & Methods), Impact Factor: 14.324, SJR Top 1%)

(08/2020) Our paper "A Knowledge Graph based Approach for Mobile Application Recommendation" was accepted by The 18th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2020) (CORE-A) as a regular paper (Acceptance Rate: 17%)

(07/2020) My PhD student Tooba Aamir's paper "Heuristics based Mosaic of Social-Sensor Services for Scene Reconstruction" was accepted by The 21st International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2020) (CORE-A) 

(07/2020) My PhD student Ahmed Alharbi's paper "Subjective Metrics-based Cloud Market Performance Prediction" was accepted by The 21st International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2020) (CORE-A) 

(05/2020) I was invited to join the program committee of The 18th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2020) (CORE-A) 

(05/2020) I was invited to join the program committee of The 27th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2020) (CORE-A) 

(04/2020) Our paper "Multivariate QoS Monitoring in Mobile Edge Computing based on Bayesian Classifier and Rough Set" was accepted by 2020 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS 2020) (CORE-A) as a regular paper (Acceptance Rate: 18%)

(04/2020) Our paper "Security-Aware QoS Forecasting in Mobile Edge Computing based on Federated Learning" was accepted by 2020 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS 2020) (CORE-A) as a regular paper (Acceptance Rate: 18%) 

(03/2020) My PhD student Prabath Abeysekara's paper "Distributed Machine Learning for Predictive Analytics in Mobile Edge Computing Based IoT Environments" was accepted by The 2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2020) (CORE-A) as a regular paper

(02/2020) Our paper "Privacy-Preserving QoS Forecasting in Mobile Edge Environments" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (CORE-A*, JCR-Q1 (1/108 in CS Software Engineering), Impact Factor: 8.216, SJR Top 5%) 

(02/2020) My PhD student Tooba Aamir's paper "Social-sensor Composition for Tapestry Scenes" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (CORE-A*, JCR-Q1 (1/108 in CS Software Engineering), Impact Factor: 8.216, SJR Top 5%) 

(11/2019) Our paper "M-BSRM: Multivariate BayeSian Runtime QoS Monitoring using Point Mutual Information" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (CORE-A*, JCR-Q1 (1/108 in CS Software Engineering), Impact Factor: 8.216, SJR Top 5%) 

(10/2019) I was invited to serve as a publicity chair for The 18th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2020) (CORE-A) 

(10/2019) I was invited to join the program committee of The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS 2020)  (CORE-A) 

(07/2019) I was invited to join the program committee of The 26th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2019)  (CORE-A) 

(04/2019) I was invited to join the program committee of The 17th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2019) (CORE-A) 

(04/2019) Our paper "Machine Learning-Driven Trust Prediction for MEC-Based IoT Services" was accepted by 2019 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS 2019) (CORE-A)</li>

(02/2019) Our paper "LA-LMRBF: Online and Long-term Web Service QoS Forecasting" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (CORE-A*, JCR-Q1 (3/107 in CS Software Engineering), Impact Factor: 5.707)