PhD/PostDoc Supervision
Post-Doc/ Research Assistant Supervision (Primary Supervisor or Co-Supervisor)
Dr. T. McIntosh - Strategic Impact Fund, RMIT University, 2023.
Project: "Enhancing Cybersecurity in DeFi Organizations through Diversity and Best Practices".
Dr. A. Ghazanfri - Oceania Cyber Security Centre (OCSC), RMIT University, 2023.
Project: "Identifying Cybersecurity Best Practices for the Marine Renewable Energy".
Dr. D. Nguyen - SmartSat CRC project, La Trobe University (August 2021- July 2022)
Project: “Anomaly Detection in IoT for Satellite Security Using Blockchain”.
Current PhD Project Supervision (RMIT University, as the Principal Supervisor)
An Explainable AI Approach for Anomaly Detection in IoT Network Traffic (PhD Scholarship from University Grant Commission, Sri Lanka)
A Robust Security Framework for Offshore Wind Farms (PhD Scholarship from Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering, ATSE)
Role of Industry 5.0 on the Relationship between Digital Trust, Cybersecurity Governance, Value, and Compliance in Australian Organisations
Digital Twin for a Secure Smart Grid (PhD Top-up Scholarship from Defence Science Institute)
Developing a Robust Cybersecurity Framework to Safeguard Critical Power Grid Infrastructure
Completed PhD Project Supervision (The University of Melbourne as the Principal Supervisor)
Dr C. M. Disanayake , PhD, The University of Melbourne; thesis entitled: "Mitigating Human-Elephant Conflict through an Engineering Approach" [co-supervisors: Prof R. Kotagiri, and Prof B. Moran] (completed 2018).
Current Employment: Skybridge, NBN (National Broadband Network), Melbourne.
Dr D. Delgoda, PhD, The University of Melbourne; thesis entitled: "An Integrated Optimization Approach for Operations of Irrigation Networks" [co-supervisors: Prof H. Malano and Dr K. Saleem] (completed 2015).
Current Employment: Research Scientist at the Defense, Melbourne.
Dr I. H. Wijesundera, PhD, The University of Melbourne; thesis entitled: "Estimation of mean first passage time (MFPT) in naturally biased inhomogeneous environments" [co-supervisors: Prof T. Nirmalathas and Prof T. Nanayakkara (Imperial College, London)] (completed 2015) * (Received "2016 Best Thesis Prize Nomination" Finalist).
Current Employment: Data Scientist at the Telstra, Melbourne.
Dr C. D. Abeyratne, PhD, The University of Melbourne; thesis entitled: "Dielectric Spectroscopy of Biological Materials" [co-supervisors: A/Prof P. Farrell and Prof E. Skafidas] (completed 2013, graduated 2014).
Current Employment: Research Scientist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne.
MASTERS PROJECT SUPERVISION
Completed Masters Project Supervision (The University of Melbourne, as the Co-Supervisor)
P. Saeedian (APA & IBES Top-up Scholarships) co-supervisors: Prof B. Moran, Dr K. Tolhurst and Dr M. Rezaeian
Project: Data Assimilation and Bushfire Modelling (Masters by Research)
Current Employment: Skybridge, NBN (National Broadband Network), Melbourne.
Completed Capstone Project Supervision (Selected as the Sole Supervisor)
Y. Bombugalage - (completed 2021 Sem 3)
Project: Edge Computing Driven Cloud Server Health Monitoring and Forecasting Framework based on Digital Twin Technology
V. Konduri - (completed 2021 Sem 3)
Project: Integration of Digital Twin and IoT networks for Intelligent Industrial and Manufacturing applications
N. Wijesuriya - (completed 2021 Sem 3)
Project: Analyzing the Application of Federated Learning using FedAvg and FedProx Aggregating Techniques in Healthcare
D. Abeysinghe - (completed 2021 Sem 3)
Project: Use of Federated learning and Blockchain technology for Internet of Things Security and Privacy
Z. Rajput - (completed 2021 Sem 3)
Project: Addressing Privacy Concerns in Smart City Design, Using Federated Learning
R. Chilla - (completed 2021 Sem 3)
Project: Contribution of IoT in Supply Chain Management to enhance Business Operations
N. Sachdeva - (completed 2021 Semester 2)
Project: Use of Federated learning and Blockchain technology for Internet of Things Security and Privacy
N. Jayakody - (completed 2021 Semester 2)
Project: FL Approach: Fake News Detection using Deep Learning
M Bhatt - (completed 2021 Semester 2)
Project: Prototype & Model Development for Ontology-based Data Mining & Analysis of Content Management Systems
M. Prajapati - (completed 2021 Semester 2)
Project: Strawberry detection for harvesting robot based on Mask R-CNN: Enhanced loss function and localization of strawberry stalk point
A. Singh - (completed 2021 Semester 2)
Project: A review on traffic control on the network by using SDN-based elastic optical network
U. Munasinghe - (completed 2021 Semester 2)
Project: Counterfeiting and vaccines traceability using block chain: identification of fake Covid-19 vaccines
P. Sankalpani - (completed 2021 Semester 1)
Project: An Analysis of adopting Block-chain Technology in Agriculture Food Supply Chain traceability
D. Inushka - (completed 2021 Semester 1)
Project: Network traffic analysis and cyber attack detection using machine learning
H. Fernando - (completed 2021 Semester 1)
Project: Online Movie Reviews Classification and Summarizing Using Naïve Bayes And Bert Extractive Algorithms
S. Nanayakkara - (completed 2021 Semester 1)
Project: Effective Detection Model for Intrusion Detection over Cyber Security Datasets, using Python in Machine Learning
P. Karki - (completed 2020 Semester 3)
Project: Popular Public Sentiment Analysis Regarding COVID-19 and Mental Health Using Twitter Data
N. Cooray - (completed 2020 Semester 3)
Project: Using Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain for efficient decentralized E-commerce platform product listing
A. Dissanayake - (completed 2020 Semester 3)
Project: Cyber-attacks on Blockchain and edge systems in modern technology Information Security Systems
B. Rijal - (completed 2020 Semester 2)
Project: Distributed domain name system (DNS) using Blockchain
P. indrasiri - (completed 2020 Semester 2)
Project: Machine Learning Approach for detecting Phishing attacks
T. Thusila - (completed 2020 Semester 2)
Project: Blockchain Based Key Management for Hierarchical Access control
S. Mapatunage - (completed 2020 Semester 1)
Project: Introducing a New Probabilistic Model to Analyze Shard-based Blockchain Protocols Security in IoT Network
S. Chathurang - (completed 2020 Semester 1)
Project: Develop a Trust Based Shard Distribution (TBSD) algorithm to minimizing the malicious attacks of sharding in blockchain
M. Matarage - (completed 2020 Semester 1)
Project: Accurate Time Calculation in Blockchain Distributed Key Environment
K. Aiyar - (completed 2020 Semester 1)
Project: Probability Distribution Model to Analyse Security in Sharding Based Blockchain Networks
J. Deepashi - (completed 2019 Semester 3 - Summer)
Project: Efficient Forensic Architecture Using Blockchain Technology in SDN
S. Subodani - (completed 2019 Semester 3 - Summer)
Project: SDN-based Traffic Offloading System to Overcome the Problem of Lacking Sufficient Bandwidth in Cellular Network
G. Kanth - (completed 2019 Semester 3 - Summer)
Project: Improving the Quality of Food Supply Chain Architecture with IoT & Blockchain Technologies
I. Anuruddhik - (completed 2019 Semester 3 - Summer)
Project: Cybersecurity Enhancement and Energy Management of Power Trading Within the Networked Microgrids Based on Blockchain
M. Ebrahim - (completed 2019 Semester 2)
Project: Implementing IoT and Blockchain in Agricultural Supply Chain to Mitigate Resource Wastage
K. Serasingh - (completed 2019 Semester 2)
Project: Minimize the Traffic Congestion by Adopting the IOTA Tangle Technology
D. L. Guruge - (completed 2019 Semester 2)
Project: Ethereum Blockchain based Smart Contracts for Establishing Ethereum Blockchain based Smart Contracts for sharing Music Files
L. Madhushani - (completed 2019 Semester 2)
Project: DAG-structured IOTA Tangle Network Solution for IoT Data Protection
O. Ekanayake - (completed 2019 Semester 1)
Project: Master-Slave blockchain paradigm in the digital healthcare system
M. Hirani - (completed 2019 Semester 1)
Project: Blockchain technology for data security in different domains
S. Pradhan - (completed 2019 Semester 1)
Project: Using an effective preprocessing technique to feed the algorithm developed for proper sentiment analysis using a different classifier to compare different products.
H. Talpada - (completed 2019 Semester 1)
Project: Study on the use of Twitter data: Sentiment analysis to understand telemedicine distribution
H. Pasdsala - (completed 2019 Semester 1)
Project: Blockchain in Healthcare System
B. Shrestha - (completed 2018 Semester 3 - Summer)
Project: Use of Blockchain for online multimedia management
K. S. Ubhayaratne - (completed 2018 Semester 3 - Summer)
Project: Main features of Blockchain applications in the healthcare industry
C. S. Atapattu - (completed 2018 Semester 3 - Summer)
Project: Applications of Social Media in a Context of an Organization Development Tool
H. Kaur - (completed 2018 Semester 3 - Summer)
Project: Potential Benefits for Implementing Blockchain in Healthcare sectors
N. Nanayakkara - (completed 2018 Semester 2)
Project: Security and Privacy of IoT-Based Healthcare Applications: Threats and Solutions
N. D. Hettikankanamage - (completed 2018 Semester 2)
Project: Enhancing Security in IoT-based Remote Patient Monitoring
M. Stefan - (completed 2018 Semester 2)
Project: Internet of Things (IoT) in Healthcare: A Survey of Telemedicine Systems used for Elderly People
H. Ranasinghe - (completed 2018 Semester 2)
Project: Twitter Sentiment Analysis of Bitcoin vs Ethereum
U. K. Fernando - (completed 2018 Semester 2)
Project: IoT-based Transport Tracking Systems
S. P. Amaraweera - (completed 2018 Semester 2)
Project: Overview of Security and Privacy Issues Related to IoT Healthcare Applications
G. A. P. Chandrasiri - (completed 2018 Semester 2)
Project: Comparison Study of Applications of IoT in Telemedicine - Year 2018
R. Bandara - (completed 2018 Semester 1)
Project: Study of Machine Learning Algorithms in IoT Applications
I. Jayatilleka - (completed 2018 Semester 1)
Project: Building a Wall Against Diseases: Smart Healthcare with IoT
N. Mason - (completed 2018 Semester 1)
Project: Legal and Ethical Implications in Cryptocurrency
J. Alvarado - (completed 2018 Semester 1)
Project: BlockChain Promise Changing Completly the way of doing Bussiness
G. Senthuran - (completed 2018 Semester 1)
Project: Prediction of Cryptocurrency Prices: Bitcoin and Ethereum
S. Girdhar - (completed 2018 Semester 1)
Project: Performance Evaluation Comparison: Hadoop and Spark
N. Rani - (completed 2018 Semester 1)
Project: Fog Computing adaptation in IoT Environments
A. Premarathne - (completed 2018 Semester 1)
Project: Predicting Cryptocurrency Price using Classification Algorithm that Run on Cloud
H. Wirasagoda - (completed 2018 Semester 1)
Project: Internet of Things in Agriculture and Farming
R. Madushanki - (completed 2018 Semester 1)
Project: Review: Internet of Things in Irrigation and Farming
A. Pathirana - (completed 2018 Semester 1)
Project: Bitcoin Mining: Hardware and its Efficiency to Maximize the Mining Profit
M. Ranasinghe - (completed 2018 Semester 1)
Project: Review: Effective Solutions to Challenges in Cognitive Radio Networks
E. Daminda - (completed 2018 Semester 1)
Project: Machine Learning to Predict Disasters
E. Ng - (completed 2017 Semester 3 - Summer)
Project: Security and Privacy Protection in Insurance Industry
P. Tansakul - (completed 2017 Semester 3 - Summer)
Project: A review of users’ adoption of mobile payment
D. K. Abeyratne - (completed 2017 Semester 2)
Project: Applying Big Data Analytics For Motor Vehicle Collisions Predication In New York City
S. Devarakonda - (completed 2017 Semester 2)
Project: Security and Privacy Issues in Internet of Things
M. K. Walia - (completed 2017 Semester 2)
Project: Cloud Computing Security Issues And Solutions: An Analysis
A. Singh - (completed 2017 Semester 2)
Project: Review: Behavior Analysis using Social Media
L. Pragada - (completed 2017 Semester 2)
Project: Virtual Reality Challenges and Analysis of Issues and System
P. S. Mapatunage - (completed 2017 Semester 2)
Project: Review: Big Data in Economics
K. Nanayakkara - (completed 2017 Semester 2)
Project: Location Optimization using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)
G. K. Saini - (completed 2017 Semester 2)
Project: Cyber Security: A Review on The Cyber Security Issues and Solutions
A. Zafar - (completed 2017 Semester 2)
Project: Performance Evaluation For AES and DES Algorithms
D. Sapkota - (completed 2017 Semester 2)
Project: Review on Analysis of the Benefit Areas in Telecommunication Networks Using Big Data
S. Madhushan - (completed 2017 Semester 2)
Project: Big Data in Video and Image
A. Singh - (completed 2017 Semester 1)
Project: Comparative study on different types of Big Data Sets with Random Forest, Naïve Bayes and K-Nearest Neighbors Algorithm
G. S. Pathirana - (completed 2017 Semester 1)
Project: Power of Green Space on Global Air Quality
B. N. B. Ekanayake - (completed 2017 Semester 1)
Project: A Review on Security and Privacy Issues of Fog Computing
C. Bashyal - (completed 2017 Semester 1)
Project: Data Wrangling: Analysis of the Data Application areas and Algorithms used in Different Research
M. Singh - (completed 2016 Semester 3 - Summer)
Project: Review of Data From 24 Publications (2007-2016) on Security and Privacy Issues of Big Data
K. Kaur - (completed 2016 Semester 2)
Project: Security Issues of Big Data in Could Computing
C. S. Jayasekara - (completed 2016 Semester 2)
Project: Big Data Analysis to Select Appropriate Species for a Particular Area: Using a Dataset of Plant Species in Glenelg Shire, Australia
S. Subhankayan - (completed 2016 Semester 2)
Project: Road Traffic Accident Evaluation: Association Rule and Clustering Algorithms for Big Data
C. Wanigasooriaya - (completed 2016 Semester 2)
Project: Analyze Anticancer Drug Sensitivity of Lung Cancer Cell Lines Using Machine Learning Clustering Techniques
K. Wickramasooriya - (completed 2016 Semester 2)
Project: Data Mining for Natural Disasters: Using Disaster Data Set in the USA
A. Noor - (completed 2016 Semester 2)
Project: Traffic Psychology: Use of Computer Algorithms In Predictive Analysis of Behavioral Theories And Driver Behavior Questionnaire
D. Abraham - (completed 2016 Semester 2)
Project: A Study on the Classification of Pedestrian Counting System using Data Mining Techniques for a Smart City like Melbourne
T. S. Mohotti - (completed 2016 Semester 2)
Project: Global Temperature Changing with CO2 using Clustering Algorithm by Weka
S. Shrestha - (completed 2016 Semester 2)
Project: Human-Computer Interaction – Data Security
V. M. P. Vargas - (completed 2016 Semester 1)
Project: Pentaho and Jaspersoft: A Comparative Study of Business Intelligence Open Source Tools Processing Big Data and Measuring Their Performance by Computer Algebra Systems (CAS)
H. A. Khan - (completed 2016 Semester 1)
Project: Computer Virus and Protection Methodologies using Lab Analysis
A. Gupta - (completed 2016 Semester 1)
Project: A Comparative Study of Classification Algorithms using Data Mining: Crime and Accidents in Denver City USA
M. L. Arachchige - (completed 2016 Semester 1)
Project: Comparative Analysis of Classification Techniques using German Credit Dataset: Credit Card Loan Approval
P. D. Bharatkumar - (completed 2016 Semester 1)
Project: Comparison of Sequential Frequent Pattern Mining Algorithms
D. M. P. D. Jayathilaka - (completed 2016 Semester 1)
Project: A Comparative Study on the Relationship between Database Performance and the Results Count in Popular Database Management Systems
R. A. J. Sarangajith - (completed 2016 Semester 1)
Project: Data Mining Classification Algorithms on Bioinformatics And Medical Science: Classification Performance Analysis Using Kidney Disease Data
J. M. Kevitiyagala - (completed 2016 Semester 1)
Project: Design an Efficient Counter Fraud Mechanism to Eliminate Credit Card and Telecommunication Fraud
T. N. Hewage - (completed Semester 1)
Project: An Analysis and Comparison Study: Big Data Techniques of Google, Amazon and Social Networks 2007-2015
S. Khalid - (completed Semester 1)
Project: Big-Data and NoSQL Databases - “Big-Table” verses “DynamoDB” verses “Cassandra”
S. Munugala - (completed 2016 Semester 1)
Project: Content Analysis of Cloud Computing in the Medical Field
G. K. Brar - (completed 2016 Semester 1)
Project: Cloud Computing Data Security
A. R. Singaiahgari - (completed 2015 Semester 2)
Project: Managing Delivery of Tertiary Education in Australia Partnership Management in Australia Public and Private Universities
M. Kolla - (completed 2015 Semester 2)
Project: E-Commerce Growth in Australia and the World
B. M. P. Dilshari - (completed 2015 Semester 2)
Project: Research and Investigation of Crimes and Accidents Pattern Analysis in Denver City, the Capital of the State of Colorado in the USA
D. S. Chaulagain - (completed 2015 Semester 2)
Project: Energy Harvesting by Installation of Piezoelectric Floor on the Train Station Line Group
D. Sethupathi - (completed 2015 Semester 2)
Project: Analyzing the Trends in the Percentage of ICT Goods Export and Import of all the Countries in the Past Decade