Research
Research Overview
My research is in the area of cybersecurity and cryptography. My primary research focus is to design solutions and cryptographic algorithms to contribute towards securing the cyberspace.
Australian Research Council (ARC) Grants
W. Susilo, "Secure Cloud Computing from Cryptography: The Rise of Pragmatic Cryptography", ARC Laureate Fellowship (FL230100033), $3,034,371 (2024 - 2029)
W. Susilo, D. Duong, Y. Qiao, Y. Li, P. S. Roy, S. Kiyomoto, K. Fukushima, "Cryptographic Group Actions and Their Applications", ARC Linkage Project (LP220100332), $391,412 (2023 - 2026)
W. Susilo, M. Bennamoun, S. Venkatesh, D. Phung, C. Fidge, S. L. Phung, F. Boussaid, A. Agalgaonkar, Y-W. Chow, S. Gupta, S. Rana, R. Steinfeld, Y. Li, A. Sakzad, L. Simpson, "Towards a Green and Sustainable Energy-efficient Metaverse", ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LE230100039), $440,145 (2023)
W. Susilo, F. Guo, D. Duong, H. Wang, “Secure Crowdsourcing Classification with Privacy Protection against Servers”, ARC Discovery Project (DP220100003), $462,000 (2022 - 2024)
W. Susilo, G. Yang, D. Duong, F. Guo, J. Yang, “Efficient Multi-key Homomorphic Encryption and Its Applications”, ARC Linkage Project (LP200201035), $331,898 (2021 - 2024)
W. Susilo, D. Duong, F. Guo, S. Kiyomoto and K. Fukushima “Enabling Anonymity and Privacy for Blockchain Technology in Quantum World" ARC Linkage Project, $ 199,857 (2020 - 2023)
W. Susilo, G. Yang, F. Guo and R. Deng “Securing Public Cloud Storage with Protection against Malicious Senders"ARC Discovery Project, $ 342,074 (2020 - 2023)
W. Susilo, J. Baek, Y. Mu and R. Safavi-Naini “Secure and dynamic access control over encrypted data in the cloud"ARC Discovery Project, $ 312,298 (2018 - 2020)
W. Susilo, Z. Zhou and F. Guo “Design and Deployment of Practical Anonymous Access System"ARC Linkage Project, $ 245,000 (2017 – 2020)
G. Lewis, M. Wilkins, E. Hawkes, E. Kennedy, M. Ferry, G. King, A. Zomaya, M. Beekman, W. Susilo, R. Goecke, S. Simo_, R. Andrew, M. Ford, K-W. Cheung and G. Ranzi “Distributed Memory Cluster for the Intersect consortium of universities"ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities, $ 1,040,000 (2016 – 2019)
E. Hawkes, A. Yu, M. Ferry, G. Lewis, D. Muller, M. Wilkins, L. Radom, J. Reimers, P. Greer, O.D. Marco, G. King, F. Henskens, C. Stamp, G. Ball, C. Poulton, B. Dlugogorski, H. Yu, A. Georges, C. Yang, W. Susilo, M. Ford, K-W. Cheung, A. Rahmani, M. Arnold, M. Zhao, C. Gondro, M. Johnson, A. Sajeev and T. Bossomaier, “Renew the Intersect Consortium's share of National Computational Infrastructure (NCI)'s Peak Facility"ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities, $ 1,025,000 (2014)
W. Susilo and Y. Mu, "Sequential attribute-based encryption: new cryptographic framework, constructions and applications towards cloud security"ARC Discovery Project, $ 315,000 (2012 – 2015)
W. Susilo and K. T. Win, “Practical unified framework for secure e-consent mechanism for health records"ARC Linkage Project, $ 105,000 (2012 – 2015)
Y. Mu, W. Susilo and V. Varadharajan, “Achieving security and privacy in radio frequency identification (RFID) with lightweight security technologies"ARC Discovery Project, $ 210,000 (2011 – 2013)
W. Susilo, T.Y. Chen, Z. Zhou, F-C. Kuo, T. H. Tse and W. K. Tam, "Eat and Dream: Effective automatic testing and debugging for real-life embedded wireless communications software"ARC Linkage Project, $ 240,000 (2010 – 2013)
W. Susilo, “Secure and Efficient Fair Exchange Protocols"ARC Future Fellowship, $ 686,400 (2009 – 2013)
W. Susilo, Y. Mu and J. Baek, “Secure and Practical Anonymous Electronic Payment and Applications", ARC Discovery Project, $ 235,000 (2008 – 2010)
W. Susilo and Y. Mu, “Secure and Dynamic Single Identi_cation Systems"ARC Linkage Project, $ 76,000 (2006 – 2008)
W. Susilo, K. T. Win and F. Zhang, “Credential Systems and Their Applications in Securing Electronic Health Records", ARC Discovery Project, $ 229,608 (2006 – 2008)
W. Susilo, Y. Mu and F. Zhang, “Short signatures: tools for securing digital transaction and their applications", ARC Discovery Project, $ 192,100 (2005 - 2006)
R. Safavi-Naini, Y. Desmedt and W. Susilo, “Enhancing Privacy for Digital Communication",ARC Discovery Project Grant, $ 155,000 (2003 – 2006)
P. Mendis, R. Safavi-Naini, J. Seberry, W. Susilo, Y. Mu, et. al. “Research Networks for Secure Australia (RNSA)",ARC Research Networks Indicative Funding per year: $ 390,000.00Total Indicative Funding (5 years): $ 1,950,000.00 (2004 – 2008)
Other External Competitive Grants (Selected)
S. L. Phung, A. Bouzerdoum, W. Susilo, F. H. C. Tivive, L. C. Tran, C. Ritz, R. Raad, S. Oberst, B. Halkon. "Multi-modal Satellite-based Vessel Surveillance via Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging", NSW Space Research Network, $ 147,000 (2022 - 2023)
S. L. Phung, F. H. C. Tivive, H. T. Le, H. Phan, A. Bouzerdoum, and W. Susilo. "Developing Deep Learning Tools for Road Information Extraction from Georeferenced High-resolution Imagery", TMR Spatial Labs Program, Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads, $50,000 (2022)
W. Susilo, Y-W. Chow, J. Baek and J. Kim. "Pro-Resilience: Game Theory and ML/AI-driven Data" Analytics for Cyber Security
Data61 CRP, $ 200,000 (2019 - 2022)W. Susilo, G. Yang and T. Plantard, "On the Structure of Lattices for Post-quantum Cryptography"
National Institute Standards and Technology (US-NIST), USD $ 293,693 (2017 - 2019)W. Susilo, G. Yang and T. Plantard, "Post-Quantum Cryptology: New Approach and Investigation"
National Security Science and Technology, $ 565,000 (2014 - 2016)W. Susilo, M. H. Au and G. Yang, "Erasmus Mundus THELXINOE"
European Mobility Project, E $ 1,188,350 (2013 - 2016)W. Susilo, "Post-quantum Cryptography: Protecting Counter-Terrorism Against Future Capabilities of Quantum Computers"
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, $ 227,102 (2009 - 2010)
Awards
W. Susilo, Australian Laureate Fellow - 2023
W. Susilo, Australian Field Leader in Computer Science and Cryptography, 2022 & 2019
W. Susilo, Test-of-Time (TOT) Award, 2021
W. Susilo, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellowship (IEEE Fellow - Computer Society) - 2021
W. Susilo, Australian Computer Society Fellowship (ACS Fellow) - 2021
W. Susilo, Institution of Engineering and Technology Fellowship (IET Fellow) - 2021
W. Susilo, Asia-Pacic Articial Intelligence Association Fellowship (AAIA Fellow) - 2021
W. Susilo, Vice Chancellor's Global Strategy Award - 2020
W. Susilo, ARC Future Fellow - 2019
W. Susilo, Vice-Chancellor's Award For Research Supervision - 2019
W. Susilo, Vice Chancellor's Research Excellence Award for Researcher of the Year - 2016
My Former Postdoctoral Fellows
I am fortunate to have worked with the following postdoctoral fellows:
Dr Thomas Plantard (Senior Research Fellow)
Dr Fangguo Zhang (Research Fellow)
Dr Joonsang Baek (Research Fellow)
Dr Qianhong Wu (Research Fellow)
Dr Man Ho Au Allen (Research Fellow)
Dr Tran Viet Phuong (Associate Research Fellow)
Dr Yannan Li (Associate Research Fellow)
Dr Chunpeng Ge (Associate Research Fellow)
Dr Peng Xu (Associate Research Fellow)
Dr Yudi Zhang (Associate Research Fellow)
Dr Van Nguyen (Associate Research Fellow)
Dr Wei Zong (Associate Research Fellow)
Dr Intae Kim (Associate Research Fellow)
My Current Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr Wei Zong (Associate Research Fellow)
Dr Van Nguyen (Associate Research Fellow)
Dr Yudi Zhang (Associate Research Fellow)