Grants

External Grants:

1. External Funding from the Ministry of Science in Spain (Knowledge Generation Projects, State Program to Promote Scientific-Technical Research and its Transfer, from the State Plan for Scientific, Technical, and Innovation Research 2023) with the colleagues from the University of Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Spain. Period: 2024-2026. Project Title: GUIDE: Governing Urban Interoperable Data Empowering those the data is about (GUIDE: Gobernar los Datos Urbanos Interoperables: Apoyar Aquellos a Quienes se refieren los Datos) Project Code: PID2023-148115OB-I00 Partner Institutions: DATALOG (Spain), Aigues de Barcelona (Spain), Charles Sturt Unviersity Australia CIs: Professor Vladimir Estivill-Castro (UPF, Spain), Miquel Oliver Riera (UPF, Spain), Carlos Castillo Ocaranza (UPF, Spain), Manuel Portela Charnejovsky (UPF, Spain) and Md Zahidul Islam (CSU, Australia). Funding amount: $221,572 (Euro 133,125). CSU Research Office Project Reference (Research Master) number: 0000104532.

2. External Funding from the Soil CRC Call 23-1 Major Investment Round 6 with the CRC HPS Participants: Agricultural Innovation & Research Eyre Peninsula, West Midlands Group, North Central Catchment Management Authority and the Thurd Party Participant: Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board. Period 2024 - 2026. Project Title: Agricultural Social Benchmarking Surveys - Part 3. CIs: Catherine Allan, Md Rafiqul Islam, and Zahid Islam, along with colleagues from Southern Cross University. Funding amount: $421,000 ($80,000 to CSU). CSU Research Office Project Reference (Research Master) number: 0000104048.

3. External Funding from Connectivity Innovation Network (CIN). Period 2023 - 2027. Project Title: A Lightweight Adaptive Adversarial Attack-Resistant IDS. PhD scholarship for a PhD student under the supervision of the CIs: Md Rafiqul Islam, Quazi Mamun and Zahid Islam. Funding amount: $105,000. CSU Research Office Project Reference (Research Master) number: 0000104144.

4. External Funding from Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC). Period 2023 - 2024. Project Title: Measuring the effects on wheat grain protein and dough characteristics following legumes. CIs: Chris Blanchard, Abishek Santhakumar, Randy Adjonu, Felicity Harris and Zahid Islam. Funding amount: $248,748. CSU Research Office Project Reference (Research Master) number: 0000104119.

5. External Funding from the Future Drought Fund of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Period 2022-2023. Project Title: Supporting rapid intervention through disaster cycles: Helping government, NGOs and community organisations identify where resilience support is needed through rapid identification of risk before, during and after extreme climatic events. CIs: Azizur Rahman, Ryan Ip, Michael Bewong, Cindy Anne Cassidy, and Zahid Islam and other external colleagues from Universtiy of Canberra, University of Wollongong and Australian National University. Funding amount: $609,283. CSU Research Office Project Reference (Research Master) number: 0000103803.

6. External Funding from the Grain Research and Development Corporation (GRDC). Period 2023-2024. Project Title: Synthesis of Data to Optimise Yield Potential of Barley in Australian Farming Systems. CIs: Felicity Harris, Azizur Rahman, Chris Blanchard, Zahid Islam and Sabih Rehman in collaboration with colleagues from several other institutions. Funding Amount: $690,245. CSU Research Office Project Reference (Research Master) number: 0000103936.

7. External Funding from the Cyber Security CRC (CSCRC), Quintessence Labs, TCS, Government of WA and CISCO. Period 2022-2024. Project Title: SCATES: Securing Critical Agriculture Technology and Emerging Solutions. CIs: Zahid Islam (Project Lead), Arash Mahboubi, Michael Bewong, Mark Morrison, Rafiqul Islam, Abhishek Dwivedi, Anwaar Ul Haq, Cliff Lewis, Arif Khan, Ryan Ip, Tahmid Nayeem, Felicity Small, Jon Medway, Nick Pawsey, Chris Blanchard, Sabih Rehman and Yeslam Al-Saggaf in collaboration with colleagues from QUT, Data61, ECU and UoA. Funding Amount: $1,400,000 ($375,000 to CSU). CSU Research Office Project Reference (Research Master) number: 0000103928.

8. External Funding from the Food Agility CRC (FACRC). Period 2022-2025. Project Title: Understanding the relationship between individual and mob-based animal performance metrics derived from autonomous livestock monitoring sources. PhD Scholarship for a PhD student under the supervision of the CIs. CIs: Rafiqul Islam, Zahid Islam, Shawn McGrath and Dave Lamb. Funding amount: $135,000. CSU Research Office Project Reference (Research Master) number: 0000103887.

9. External Funding from the Cyber Security CRC (CSCRC) and Paraflare. Period 2022-2024. Project Title: THRD: Threat Detection and Response with Heterogeneous Data Sources. CIs: Arash Mahboubi, Zahid Islam, Rafiqul Islam, and Michael Bewong with colleagues from Data 61. Funding amount: $850,000 ($425,000 to CSU). CSU Research Office Project Reference (Research Master) number: 0000103749.

10. External Funding from the Cyber Security CRC (CSCRC), CISCO, Quintessence Lab, TCS, Government of Western Australia, and NSW Department of Customer Service. Period 2022-2024. Project Title: SOCRATES: Software Security with a Focus on Critical Technologies. CIs: Michael Bewong, Zahid Islam, Arash Mahboubi, Rafiqul Islam, Ryan Ip and Muhammad Arif Khan with colleagues from University of Adelaide, Data 61, QUT, Deakin University, and UNSW. Funding amount: $2,105,000 ($161,303 to CSU). CSU Research Office Project Reference (Research Master) number: 0000103844.

11. External Funding from Food Agility CRC (FACRC) and Meat & Livestock Australia Limited (MLA). Period 2022-2023. Project Title: Potential implications and benefits for the agrifood technology sector from the introduction of the Australian AgriFood Data Exchange. CIs: Michael Bewong, Branka Krivokapic-Skoko, Zahid Islam, Ryan Ip, Jon Medway, Yeslam Al-Saggaf, and Cliff Lewis. Funding amount: $597,729. CSU Research Office Project Reference (Research Master) number: 0000103896.

12. External Funding from the Cyber Security CRC (CSCRC). Period 2022-2024. Project Title: Sharing Cybersecurity Data for Australian Research (SCReeD). CIs: Rafiqul Islam, Ryan Ip, Arash Mahboubi, Michael Bewong, and Zahid Islam with colleagues from Data 61, Deaking University, ECU, QUT, and University of Adelaide. Funding amount: $500,000 ($50,000 to CSU). CSU Research Office Project Reference (Research Master) number: 0000103846.

13. External Funding from Cyber Security CRC (CSCRC) and Government of Western Australia. Period 2022-2024. Project Title: Ransomware Resilient File Safe Havens for cloud data. CIs: Arash Mahboubi and Zahid Islam with colleagues from Data61. Funding amount: $640,000 ($320,000 to CSU). CSU Research Office Project Reference (Research Master) number: 0000103757.

14. External Funding from GSK Global Pty Ltd. Period 2022. Project Title: Shipping Container ID Automation - Phase II. CIs: Rafiqul Islam, Quazi Mamun, Mano Paul and Zahid Islam. Funding amount: $25,000. CSU Research Office Project Reference (Research Master) number: 0000103770.

15. Discovery Translation Fund (DTF) from Campus Plus, Project ID: DTF413. Period 2022-2024. Project Title: HEALTHDM - System Refinement and Early Adoption, CIs: Mark Morrison, Zahid Islam, Damien Limberger, Julian Grant, Lesley Forster, and Yann Guisard. Funding amount: $75,000. CSU Research Office Project Reference (Research Master) number: 0000103771.

16. External Funding from Cyber Security CRC (CSCRC). Period 2019 - 2024. Project Title: 2.3 Privacy Preserving Data Sharing in a Hyperconnected World: RF2 - Research Fellow. CIs: Zahid Islam and Tanveer Zia. Funding amount: $843,750. CSU Research Office Project Reference (Research Master) number: 0000102810. (Further extended from 2022 until 2024)

17. External Funding from Cyber Security CRC (CSCRC). Period 2019 - 2024. Project Title: Research Fellow In Privacy Preserving Data in a Hyper-connected World. CIs: Zahid Islam and Tanveer Zia. Funding amount: $843,750. CSU Research Office Project Reference (Research Master) number: 0000102809. (Further extended from 2022 until 2024)

18. External Funding from VetCompass Australia. Period 2021. Project Title: VetCompass Data Investigation, CIs: Zahid Islam, Martin Combs, Michael Bewong and Ryan Ip. Funding from VetCompass Australia and the University of Sydney. Funding amount: $31,424 (through three work orders). CSU Research Office Project Reference (Research Master) number: 0000103197.

19. External Funding from the Cyber Security CRC (CSCRC). Period 2021 - 2024. Project Title: Privacy-Preserving Data Collection for Statistical Aggregation, PhD Scholarship for a PhD student under the supervision of the CIs. CIs: Tanveer Zia, Zahid Islam and Ba Dung Le, Funding amount $180,000. CSU Research Office Project Reference number: 0000103352.

20. External Funding from the Cyber Security CRC (CSCRC). Period 2021 - 2024. Project Title: A Novel Technique to Detect and Protect Sensitive Data against Malware Attacks in Hyper-Connected Network, PhD Scholarship for a PhD student under the supervision of the CIs. CIs: Md Rafiqul Islam, Zahid Islam, and Arif Khan, Funding amount $180,000. CSU Research Office Project Reference (Research Master) number: 0000102972.

21. External Funding from the Cyber Security CRC (CSCRC) and Quintessence Lab. Period 2020 - 2021. Project Title: Development of Australian Cyber Criteria Assessment. CIs: Chang-Tsun Li, Mengmeng Ge, Leo Zhang, Zahid Islam and Md Rafiqul Islam - $186,000. CSU Research Office Project Reference number: 0000103168.
    
    For this project, the project team received the Cyber Security Researcher of the Year 2021 award from the Australian Information Security Association (AISA).

22. External Funding from the Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment and Data61, CSIRO. Period 2020 - 2020. Project Title: Automated Database Schema Matching. CIs: Zahid Islam - $30,030 (including GST). CSU Research Office Project Reference number: 0000103179.

23. External Funding from NSW Police. Period 2020 - 2020. Project Title: Crime and Disorder Audit, Wagga Wagga. CIs: Philip Birch and Zahid Islam - $15,000. CSU Research Office Project Reference number: 0000103092.

24. External Funding from Food Agility CRC (FA CRC), and idustry partners: SunRice, Rice Research Australia Pty Ltd and Agrifutures Australia. Period 2019 - 2021. Project Title: Enhancing Provenance and Prediction for Whole Grain Rice Quality, CIs: Daniel Waters, Zahid Islam, Chris Blanchard, Sabih Rehman and Leigh Schmidtke - $371,000. CSU Research Office Project Reference number: 0000102660.

25. External Funding from Food Agility CRC (FA CRC), Australia. Period 2019 - 2022. Project Title: Image Analysis for Whole Grain Rice Quality, PhD Scholarship for a PhD Student under the supervision of the CIs, CIs: Daniel Waters, Chris Blanchard, and Zahid Islam - $135,000. CSU Research Office Project Reference number: 0000102858.

26. External Funding from Murrumbidgee Local Health District (MLHD), NSW Health, Australia. Period 2016 - 2016. Project Title: The Provision of a Predictive Risk Stratification Tool for the Chronic/Complex Healthcare: Engaging Stakeholders and Services (CHESS) Initiative, CIs: Zahid Islam and Mark Morrison - $55,803. CSU Research Office Project Reference number: 0000101620.
    This project received an Innovation Award from the Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI).

27. External Funding from the Department of Social Services, Australia. Period 2015 - 2017. Project Title: Social and community links - a driver of healthy and active ageing, CIs: Oliver Burmeister (Lead CI), Mark Morrison, Zahid Islam, Maree Bernoth, Rylee Dionigi, and Rahena Akhter - $655,000 ($60,000 to CSU). Partner organisation: Carewest Pty Ltd, Orange, NSW. CSU Research Office Project Reference number: 0000101130.
    
    This project received an "outstanding feedback" from the assessment team when it was evaluated by Deloitte..

28. External Funding from Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre, Australia 2014. Project Title: Identifying the medico-legal and ethical challenges in Synergy ecosystem data storage, CIs: Dr Oliver Burmeister, Dr Zahid Islam, Dr Maree Bernoth and Ms Carli Kulmar - $16,500. CSU Research Office Project Reference number: 0000101141.

29. External Funding from Hobart Nursing District, Australia 2013. Project Title: Review of Support Worker Integration with Functional Decline, CIs: Prof Mark Morrison, Dr Maree Bernoth, Dr Oliver Burmeister, and Dr Zahid Islam. - $39,400. CSU Research Office Project Reference number: 0000100780.

30. External Funding from Carewest, Australia 2013. Project Title: Age Care Workforce Reform - Building Communities of Practice Around the Prevention of Functional Decline in the Community. CIs: Prof Mark Morrison, Dr Oliver Burmeister, Dr Zahid Islam, Dr Ramudu Bhanugopan and Dr Maree Bernoth - $25,000. CSU Research Office Project Reference number: 0000100558