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Michael Sheng

Professor Michael Sheng

Head of School

Dr. Michael Sheng is a full Professor and Head of School of Computing at Macquarie University.

Professor Michael Sheng
Head of School

Michael Sheng
Contact details:
michael.sheng@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 9505
4 Research Park Drive, Office 233
Assoc Prof Steve Cassidy
Director of Education
Assoc Prof Steve Cassidy
Contact details:
steve.cassidy@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com 
+61 2  9850 6581
4 Research Park Drive, Office 206

Dr Gaurav Gupta
Deputy Director of Education
Dr Gaurav Gupta

Contact details:
gaurav.gupta@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+61 2 9850 6341
4 Research Park Drive, Office 265
Professor Jian Yang
Director of Research

Prof Jian Yang
Contact details:
jian.yang@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 9584
4 Research Park Drive, Office 207
Professor Mark Dras
Director of Research Training
Assoc Prof Mark Dras
Contact details:
mark.dras@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+61 2 9850 9580
4 Research Park Drive, Office 208
Dr Jia Wu
Director of Higher Degree by Research
Jia Wu
Contact details:
jia.wu@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 9539
4 Research Park Drive, Office 204
Professor Deborah Richards
Director of Industry & External Relations
Prof Deborah Richards
Contact details:
deborah.richards@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 9567
4 Research Park Drive, Office 369
Dr Young Lee
Director of MRes
Dr Young Lee
Contact details:
young.lee@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 9516
4 Research Park Drive, Office 209
Dr James Zheng
Director of International Engagement 

Dr James Zheng

Contact details:
james.zheng@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 6330
4 Research Park Drive, Office 354
Professor Dali Kaafar
Executive Director
Macquarie University Cyber Security Hub
Kaafar
Contact details:
dali.kaafar@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 9534
4 Research Park Drive, Office 211

Mr Mark Rego
School Operations Manager

Contact details:
mark.rego@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+61 2 9850 8244
4 Research Park Drive, Room 234
StaffDetails
Dr Hassan Asghar
Senior Lecturer in Computer Science

Hassan Asghar

hassan.asghar@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com 
+61 2 9850 9521
4 Research Park Drive, Office 210

Areas of Expertise
  • Data privacy
  • Authentication
  • Cryptography
  • Information security
Prof Amin Beheshti
Professor in Data Science
Director, Centre for Applied Artificial Intelligence

Amin Beheshti
amin.beheshti@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com 
+61 2 9850 6344
4 Research Park Drive, Office 351

Areas of Expertise
  • Data Science
  • Big-Data/Data/Process Analytics
  • Service/Social/Cognitive Computing
    Case/Business-Process Management
  • Applied Artificial Intelligence
Dr Peter Busch
Senior Lecturer
FSE Chair Human Research Ethics (sub) Committee

Peter Busch
peter.busch@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com 
+61 2 9850 9520
4 Research Park Drive, Office 284

Areas of Expertise
  • Business Processes
  • Information Systems - Knowledge Management
  • Organisational Learning
  • Knowledge Flows
  • Social Network Analysis
Assoc Professor Steve Cassidy
Associate Professor 
Director of Education

Assoc Prof Steve Cassidy
steve.cassidy@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com 
+61 2 9850 6581
4 Research Park Drive, Office 206

Areas of Expertise
  • Data Science
  • Language Resources and Semantic Web
Chris Chen
Graduate Teaching Associate

Chris Chen

chris.chen1@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com

Areas of Expertise

  • Secure and reliable systems
  • Algorithms & Complexity
  • Software engineering & industry best practices
  • Microservices & software architecture
Dr Shan Chen
Lecturer

Dr Shan Chen

shan.chen@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+61 2 9850 9105
4 Research Park Drive, Office 356


Areas of Expertise

  • Privacy-by-Design
  • Philosophy of information privacy
  • Privacy representation and reasoning
  • Constructive alignment in higher education
Professor Mark Dras
Professor
Director of Research Training

Assoc Prof Mark Dras
mark.dras@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com 
+61 2 9850 9580
4 Research Park Drive, Office 208

Areas of Expertise

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Data Science
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Machine Learning

Dr Cameron Edmond
Lecturer in Game Development

Cameron_Edmond

cameron.edmond@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+61 2 9850 9576
4 Research Park Drive, Office 365

Areas of Expertise

  • Game Design and Development
  • Creative Coding
  • Artificial Intelligence - Generative Literature
  • Narrative Visualisation and Data Storytelling
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Interaction Design
Assoc Prof Ansgar Fehnker
Associate Professor

Ansgar Fehnker

ansgar.fehnker@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com

+61 2 9850 9513
4 Research Park Drive, Office 268

Areas of Expertise

  • Real-time verification
  • Static analysis
  • Programming education

Dr Natasha Fernandes
Lecturer in Cyber Security

Natasha Fernandes

natasha.fernandes@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+61 2 9850 8913
4 Research Park Drive, Office 283
Areas of Expertise

  • data privacy
  • differential privacy
  • privacy-preserving natural language processing
  • privacy-preserving machine learning
  • information flow for privacy and security
Professor Tao Gu
Professor

Tao Gu
tao.gu@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com 
+61 2 9850 9707
4 Research Park Drive, Office 267

Areas of Expertise

  • Ubiquitous computing
  • Internet of Things
  • Mobile computing
  • Wireless sensor network
Dr Gaurav Gupta
Senior Lecturer
Deputy Director of Education 

Dr Gaurav Gupta
gaurav.gupta@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+61 2 9850 6341
4 Research Park Drive, Office 205

Areas of Expertise

  • Algorithms
  • Cryptography
  • Data Security
  • Graph Theory
Professor Richard Han
Professor in Computing Networks and Distributed Systems

Richard Han
richard.han@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com

+61 2 9850 6343
4 Research Park Drive, Office 265

Areas of Expertise

  • mobile and ubiquitous computing
  • operating systems
  • wireless sensor networks
  • cyber safety
  • computer security
  • cloud computing
Assoc Professor Michael Hitchens
Associate Professor
FSE Associate Dean, Learning Innovations

Michael Hitchens
michael.hitchens@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 9538
4 Research Park Drive

Areas of Expertise

  • Computer Security
  • Player/Avatar Interaction
  • Videogames
  • Roleplaying Games
Dr Muhammad Ikram
Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security

Muhammad Ikram
muhammad.ikram@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com 
+ 61 2 9850 8439
4 Research Park Drive, Office 214

Areas of Expertise

  • Cybersecurity and privacy
  • Censorship-measurement
  • Vulnerability-analysis
  • Applied machine learning
Professor Mark Johnson
Professor in Language Science

Mark Johnson
mark.johnson@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com 
+ 61 2 9850 9525
4 Research Park Drive, Office 355

Areas of Expertise

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Data Science
  • Machine Learning
  • Statistical Models
Damian Jurd
Lecturer in Cyber Security

Damian Jurd

damian.jurd@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com

+ 61 2 9850 9571
4 Research Park Drive, Office 266

Areas of Expertise

  • Network Virtualisation and Automation
  • Programming Languages and Type Systems
  • Electronic Design Automation
  • Computer Architecture and Platform Security
Professor Dali Kaafar
Professor
Executive Director Macquarie Cyber Security Hub

Kaafar

dali.kaafar@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 9534
4 Research Park Drive, Office 211

Areas of Expertise

  • Privacy-preserving technologies
  • Web security and malware detection
  • Human identification
  • Next-generation authentication systems
  • Networks measurement and modelling
Dr Young Lee
Senior Lecturer in Computing
Director of MRes 

Dr Young Lee
young.lee@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 9516
4 Research Park Drive, Office 209

Areas of Expertise

  • Distributed Systems
  • Cloud and Edge Computing
  • Data-Intensive Computing

Dr Yan Li
Lecturer in Computing (IoT and Networking)

Yan Li

y.li@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+61 2 9850 9577
4 Research Park Drive, Office 217

Areas of Expertise

  • Internet of Things
  • Mobile Computing
  • Wireless Sensor Network
  • Localisation & Tracking
  • Machine Learning
Dr Guanfeng Liu
Senior Lecturer in Computer Science

Guanfeng Liu
guanfeng.liu@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 9542
4 Research Park Drive, Office 366

Areas of Expertise

  • Machine Learning
  • Graph Mining
  • Trust Management and Security
Frances Louise
Lecturer

Frances Louise

frances.louise@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+61 2 9850 9524
4 Research Park Drive, Office 375

Areas of Expertise

  • Information Systems
  • Database Systems
  • Programming
  • Learning and Teaching Technologies
StaffStaff details
Professor Bernard Mans
Professor

Bernard Mans
bernard.mans@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 9574
4 Research Park Drive, Office 353

Areas of Expertise

  • Algorithms and Complexity
  • Graphs
  • Mobile & Wireless Computing

Dr Adnan Mahmood
Lecturer in Computing (IoT and Networking)

Adnan Mahmood

adnan.mahmood@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+61 2 9850 9079
4 Research Park Drive, Office 286

Areas of Expertise

  • Internet of Things
  • Trust Management
  • Software Defined Networking
  • Cloud, Fog and Edge Computing
  • Next Generation Wireless Networks
Dr Mitchell McEwan
Lecturer in Computer Games

Mitch McEwan
mitchell.mcewan@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 9519
4 Research Park Drive, Office 367

Areas of Expertise

  • Game Design and Production
  • Virtual Reality and Natural User Interfaces
  • Player and User Experience
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Serious Games
  • Games Ethics and Accessibility
  • Intuitive Interaction
Professor Annabelle McIver
Professor

Annabelle McIver
annabelle.mciver@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 9579
4 Research Park Drive, Office 262

Areas of Expertise

  • Quantitative Logics
  • Quantitative Information Flow for Security
  • Formal Verification and Modelling of Probabilistic Systems
Dr Diego Molla Aliod
Senior Lecturer

Diego Molla Alloid
diego.molla-aliod@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com 
+ 61 2 9850 9531
4 Research Park Drive, Office 358

Areas of Expertise

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Machine Learning
Assoc Prof Abhaya Nayak
Associate Professor
Course Director in Artificial Intelligence

Abhaya Nayak
abhaya.nayak@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 9565
4 Research Park Drive, Office 357

Areas of Expertise

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Knowledge Representation
Professor Mehmet Orgun
Professor
Deputy Director of Research

Mehmet Orgun
mehmet.orgun@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 9570
4 Research Park Drive, Office 282

Areas of Expertise

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Trust & Security
  • Intelligent Agents
Charanya Ramakrishnan
Lecturer

Charanya R

charanya.ramakrishnan@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 6347
4 Research Park Drive, Office 364

Areas of Expertise

  • Database Systems
  • Mobile Application Development
  • User Experience (UX)
  • Learning and Teaching Technologies
Professor Deborah Richards
Professor
Director of Industry & External Relations

Prof Deborah Richards
deborah.richards@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 9567
4 Research Park Drive, Office 369

Areas of Expertise

  • Virtual Humans
  • Agent-based Simulations
  • Virtual Reality and Simulations
  • Knowledge Acquisition Serious Games (education, training and health)
Dr Matthew Roberts
Senior Lecturer

Matt Roberts
matthew.roberts@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com 
+ 61 2 9850 9564
4 Research Park Drive, Office 263

Areas of Expertise

  • Programming Languages
  • Type Systems

Dr Jack Ruan
Discovery Early Career Researcher Awardee (DECRA)

Jack Ruan

jack.ruan@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 4158
4 Research Park Drive, Office 360

Areas of Expertise:

  • Pervasive Computing
  • Internet-of-Things
  • Mobile Computing
  • AI Robustness and Safety
  • Digital Health
  • Data Analytics
Dr Malcolm Ryan
Course Director for Games Design and Development

Malcolm Ryan
malcolm.ryan@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com 
+ 61 2 9850 9512
4 Research Park Drive, Office 368

Areas of Expertise

  • Game Design & Development
  • User Experience (UX) Research
  • Virtual Reality
  • Serious Games
  • Artificial Intelligence
Dr Rolf Schwitter
Senior Lecturer

Rolf Schwitter
rolf.schwitter@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+61 2 9850 9533
4 Research Park Drive, Office  359

Areas of Expertise

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Data Science
Dr Rajan Shankaran
Senior Lecturer
Course Director in Networking / IoT

Rajan Shankaran
rajan.shankaran@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 9537
4 Research Park Drive, Office 285

Areas of Expertise

  • Cyber Security
  • Mobile and Wireless Networks Security
  • Trust in Mobile Networks
Professor Michael Sheng
Professor
Head of School

Michael Sheng
michael.sheng@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 9505
4 Research Park Drive, Office 233

Areas of Expertise

  • Big Data Analytics
  • Web Science
  • Service-oriented Computing
  • Pervasive Computing
  • Internet of Things
Dr Stephen Smith
Lecturer in Information Systems
School WH&S Representative

Steve Smith
stephen.smith@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 1099
4 Research Park Drive, Office 362

Areas of Expertise

  • Information Systems
  • Green IS
  • IS Security
  • Emergency Management
  • eGovernment
Dr Kate Stefanov
Lecturer

Kate Stefanov

kate.stefanov@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+61 2 9850 9524
4 Research Park Drive, Office 375

Areas of Expertise

  • Compiler Systems and Programming Languages
  • Compression Algorithms
  • Software Systems and Software Engineering
  • Real Time Systems
  • Backup Systems

Carl Svensson
Lecturer

Carl Svensson

carl.svensson@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 9571
4 Research Park Drive, Office 261

Areas of Expertise

  • Software and Systems Engineering
  • Pedagogy and Learning / Teaching Approaches
  • Algorithms, Data Structures and Programming
  • Robotics ans Embedded Software
  • Information Systems and Computer Networks
Dr Dinusha Vatsalan
Senior Lecturer

Dinusha V

dinusha.vatsalan@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 9541
4 Research Park Drive

Areas of Expertise

  • privacy-preserving technologies for record linkage
  • data mining
  • machine learning
  • data sharing and data analytics
  • privacy attacks and defences
  • privacy risk quantification
Professor Yan Wang
Professor
Course Director in Data Science

Yan Wang
yan.wang@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 9539
4 Research Park Drive, Office 354

Areas of Expertise

  • Trust Management
  • Recommendation Systems
  • Services Computing
  • Social Networks
  • Cyber Security

Kayson Whitehouse
Graduate Teaching Associate

Kayson Whitehouse

kayson.whitehouse@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
4 Research Park Drive, Level 3

Areas of Expertise

  • Game Design and Production
  • Inclusivity and Diversity in Video Games
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Player and User Experience
  • Gender Identity and Construction
  • Videogames and wellbeing
  • Queer gaming studies
  • VR and Simulation
  • IoT
Dr Jia Wu
Senior Lecturer in Data Science
Director of Higher Degree by Research

Jia Wu
jia.wu@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 9539
4 Research Park Drive, Office 204

Areas of Expertise

  • Data Mining
  • Machine Learning
  • Big Data Analytics

Dr Shan (Emma) Xue

Lecturer in Computing

Emma Xue

emma.xue@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+61 2 9850 6331
4 Research Park Drive, Office 363

Areas of Expertise

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Data Mining
  • Web Search
Professor Jian Yang
Professor
Director of Research

Prof Jian Yang
jian.yang@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 9584
4 Research Park Drive, Office 207

Areas of Expertise

  • Big data analytics
  • Social networks
  • Information trust
  • Data fusion
  • Service computing
  • Business process management
  • Data Ecosystems
Dr James Zheng
Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering
Director of International Engagement 

Dr James Zheng
james.zheng@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 6330
4 Research Park Drive, Office 354

Areas of Expertise

  • Internet of Things
  • Service-oriented computing
  • Pervasive computing
  • Sensor networks
  • Cyber-physical systems
  • Software testing and verification
  • Cyber Security
  • Big data analytics
Dr Xuyun Zhang
Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security

Xuyun Zhang

xuyun.zhang@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 8229
4 Research Park Drive, Office 287

Areas of Expertise

  • Adversarial Machine Learning
  • Privacy-preserving Technology and Cyber security
  • Anomaly Detection and Data Mining
  • Big Data Technology and Scalable Machine Learning
  • Cloud / Edge / IoTs computing

Dr Yipeng Zhou
Senior Lecturer in Computer Science

Yipeng Zhou

yipeng.zhou@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
+ 61 2 9850 6348
4 Research Park Drive, Office 371

Areas of Expertise

  • Federated / Distributed Learning
  • Privacy Preservation
  • Networking
Mark Rego, School Operations Manager
mark.rego@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com | +61 2 9850 8244
4 Research Park Drive, Room 234
Erin Cheng, Administration Officer
erin.cheng@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com | +61 2 9850 4227
4 Research Park Drive, Room 232
Akita Manassa, Administration Assistant
akita.manassa@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com | +61 2 9850 9100
4 Research Park Drive, Room 230
Melanie Assadi, Administration Assistant
melanie.assadi@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com | +61 2 9850 9514
Monday, Tuesday and Thursday
4 Research Park Drive, Room 230
Janine Dezius, Administration Assistant
janine.dezius@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com | +61 2 9850 9514
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
4 Research Park Drive, Room 230
Dr Taotao Cai, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
taotao.cai@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
4 Research Park Drive, Level 3
Dr Heila Farhood, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
helia.farhood@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
4 Research Park Drive, Level 3
Dr Adnan Mahmood, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
adnan.mahmood@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
4 Research Park Drive, Level 3
Dr Amir Marashi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
amir.marashi@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
4 Research Park Drive, Level 2
Zhenguo Shi, Postdoctoral Research Associate
zhenguo.shi@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
4 Research Park Drive, Level 2
Dr Shuang Wang, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
shuang.wang@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
4 Research Park Drive, Level 3
Dr Emma Shan Xue, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
shan.xue@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
4 Research Park Drive, Level 2
Dr Yu Zhang, Postdoctoral Research Associate
y.zhang@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
4 Research Park Drive, Level 2
Dr Hamid Alinejad Rokny, Honorary Lecturer
E: hamid.alinejad@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Dr Mohammad Allah Bakhsh, Honorary Research Fellow
E: mohammad.allahbakhsh@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Associate Professor Shlomo Berkovsky, Honorary Professor
E: shlomo.berkovsky@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Assoc Professor Franck Cassez, Honorary Associate Professor
E: franck.cassez@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Dr Nicky Chong-White, Honorary Research Fellow
E: nicky.chong-white@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Professor Robert Dale, Honorary Professor
E: robert.dale@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Professor Schahram Dustdar, Honorary Professor
E: schahram.dustdar@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Dr Mehdi Elahi, Honorary Associate Professor
E: mehdi.elahi@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Professor Zhiyong Feng, Honorary Professor
E: zhiyong.feng@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Dr Natasha Fernandes, Honorary Research Fellow
E: natasha.fernandes@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Dr Len Hamey, Honorary Associate Professor
E: len.hamey@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Mr Saad Hashmi, Honorary Postdoctoral Associate
E: saad.hashmi@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Professor Michael Johnson, Emeritus Professor
E: michael.johnson@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Dr Hamid Karimi-Rouzbahani, Honorary Research Fellow,
E: hamid.karimi-rouzbahani@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Associate Professor Manolya Kavakli-Thorne, Honorary Professor
E: manolya.kavakli@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Professor Marta Kwiatkowska, Honorary Professor
E: marta.kwiatkowska@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Dr Dzung Le, Honorary Research Fellow
E: dung.le@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Associate Professor Leszek Maciaszek, Honorary Research Fellow
E: leszek.maciaszek@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Mr Shervin Malmasi, Honorary Research Fellow
E: shervin.malmasi@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Dr Scott McCallum, Honorary Senior Lecturer
E: scott.mccallum@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Dr Jorge Mejia, Honorary Senior Research Fellow
E: jorge.mejia@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Dr Hamid Reza Motahari Nezha, Honorary Professor
E: hamidreza.motaharinezhad@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Dr Surya Nepal, Honorary Professor
E: surya.nepal@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Dr Wei Ni, Honorary Professor
E: wei.ni@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Dr Evelyn Ng, Honorary Lecturer
E: evelyn.ng@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Emeritus Prof Raymond Offen, Emeritus Professor
E: ray.offen@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Professor Michael Papazoglou, Honorary Professor
E: michael.papazoglou@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Dr Cecile Paris, Honorary Professor
E: cecile.paris@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Professor Josef Pieprzyk, Honorary Professor
E: josef.pieprzyk@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Professor John Power, Honorary Professor
E: john.power@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Dr Keyvan RahimiZadeh, Honorary Lecturer
E: keyvan.rahimizadeh@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Associate Professor Gunther Rossmanith, Honorary Fellow
E: gunther.rossmanith@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Professor Igor Shparlinski, Honorary Professor,
E: igor.shparlinski@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Associate Professor Anthony Sloane, Honorary Associate Professor
E: anthony.sloane@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Professor Jianwen Su, Honorary Professor
E: jianwen.su@mq.edu.au
Dr Udaya Tupakula, Honorary Senior Lecturer
E: udaya.tupakula@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Professor Vijay Varadharajan, Honorary Professor
E: vijay.varadharajan@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Assoc Professor Renata Wassermann, Honorary Associate Professor
E: renata.wassermann@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Professor Di Wu, Honorary Professor
E: di.wu@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Professor Xindong Wu, Honorary Professor
E: xindong.wu@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Dr Jason Xue, Honorary Lecturer
E: minhui.xue@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Dr Wei Zhang, Honorary Lecturer
E: w.zhang@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Dr William Zhao, Honorary Research Fellow
E: weiliang.zhao@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Dr Liming Zhu, Honorary Professor
E: liming.zhu@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Amina Akhter – Principal Supervisor, Dr. Rajan Shankaran
E: amina.akhter@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Distributed Denial of Service Attack Detection & Mitigation Using Machine Learning Techniques.
Hijab Alavi - Principal Supervisor, Dr Stephen Smith
E: hijab.alavi@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
How Data Analytics can influence tertiary education to increase employability.
Ahoud Abdulrahmn Alhazmi – Principal Supervisor, Professor Michael Sheng
E: ahoud.alhazmi@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Predicting the Performance Improvement of Novice Programmers: Unearthing the Impact of the Metacognitive Support.
Abdulwahab Aljubairy – Principal Supervisor, Professor Michael Sheng
E: abdulwahab.ajubairy@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
A Big Data Platform and Analytical Strategies for Efficient Management of Water Demands.
Fred Amouzgar– Principal Supervisor, Assoc Prof Mark Dras
E: fred.amouzgar@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Computational aspects of developing responsive, adaptive, and human-collaborative artificial-agents.
Adeem Anwar– Principal Supervisor, Dr Xuyun Zhang
E: adeem.anwar@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Pedro Henrique Arruda Faustini – Principal Supervisor, Assoc Prof Mark Dras
E: pedro.arrudafaustini@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Ava Assadi -  Principal Supervisor, Assoc Prof Len Hamey
E: ava.assadi-abolvardi@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Deep Learning-Based Multiple-Sclerosis 3D Lesion Segmentation Using Small Data.
Yvonne Bachiller-  Principal Supervisor, Dr Peter Busch
E: yvonne-custodio.bachiller@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
AI and ML Enabled BPM: Business Intelligence Solution
Muhammad Hassan Ali Bawja -  Principal Supervisor, Professor Deborah Richards
E: muhammadhassanali.bajwa@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Organization-aware agents in serious games for cyber security ethical training
Gregory Baker 
E: gregory.baker2@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Natural Language Processing for Medical Text
Luke Cayanan -  Principal Supervisor, Assoc Prof Mark Dras
E: luke.cayanan@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Words Paint a Thousand Pictures - Quantifying Qualitative Content Applications in Finance
Timothy Chard -  Principal Supervisor, Assoc Prof Mark Dras
E: timothy.chard@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Improving our Confidence in the Predictions of Neural Network
Kanwar Dadwal - Principal Supervisor,
E: anil.dadwal@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Question Answering for Medical Texts
Marina Dehez-Clementi -  Principal Supervisor, Professor Dali Kaafar
E: marina.dehez-clementi@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Blockchain-enabled Trust and Security in Distributed Systems
Yao Deng –  Principal Supervisor, Dr James Zheng
E: yao.deng@hdr.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Robust Autonomous Driving Based on Lidar and Camera.
Pengfei Ding – supervised by Prof Yang Wang
E: pengfei.ding2@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Graph Neural Network (GNN) based Path Recommendation in Social Networks
Andrew Edwards – Principal Supervisor, by Dr Stephen Smith
E: andrew.edwards2@hdr.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Thesis title to be advised
Allan Francia 
E: allan.francia@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Social Media and Health
Srinivasa Goluguri
E: srinivasareddy.goluguri@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Towards Understanding and Analysing Digital Twin Techniques on Banking & Social Data
Jiwei Guan – supervised by Dr James Zheng
E: jiwei.guan@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Attack and Defense on Voiceprint Enabled IOT Systems
Yang Guo – Principal Supervisor, Prof Jian Yang
E: yang.guo5@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Thesis title to be advised
Venus Haghighi – Principal Supervisor, Prof Michael Sheng
E: venus.haghighi@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Blockchain-based Decentralized Identity Management System in the Internet of Things (IoT)
Ambreen Hanif – Principal Supervisor, Prof Amin Beheshti
E: ambreen.hanif@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Linking Storytelling and Explainable AI: Facilitate Interpreting, Explaining, and Visualizing Deep Learning
Malik Hayat - Principal Supervisor, Prof Jian Yang
E: malik.khizar@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Mining and Modeling Heterogeneous Social Networks: Detection, Deconstruction, and Prevention of Anomalies
Aung Kyaw Htet - 
E: aungkyaw.htet@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Natural Language Understanding for Burmese
Katherine Hopman – Principal Supervisor, Professor Deborah Richards
E: katherine.hopman@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Digital technologies to support people’s mental health following a traumatic event
Hamid Jahanian – Principal Supervisor, Prof Annabelle McIver 
E: hamid.jahanian@hdr.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Identifying and quantifying failure modes of safety critical systems
Paria Jamshid Lou – Principal Supervisor, Prof Mark Johnson
E: paria.jamshid-lou@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Maximizing the Discrimination Ability of Features in Speech Emotion Recognition by Exploring the Optimal Segmental Levels for Feature Extraction
Yupeng Jiang - Principal Supervisor, Dr James Zheng
E: yupeng.jiang@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Sybil Attacks and Defense on Differential Privacy based Federated Learning.
Ruiye Jiang - Principal Supervisor, Dr Rajan Shankaran  
E: ruiye.jiang@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
The Objective Order Determination and Orbit Design based on Optimization
Michal Kepkowski - Principal Supervisor, Professor Dali Kaafar
E: michal.kepkowski@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Privacy enhancing technologies for identity and access management
Bilal Kahn - Principal Supervisor, Dr Jia Wu
E: bilal.khan2@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Join Processing in Data Streams
Urvashi Khanna - Principal Supervisor, Prof Amin Beheshti
E: urvashi.khanna@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Recommender Systems For Banking Domain
Jayden King
E: jayden.king@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Edge Based Video Games
Mahdieh Labani - Principal Supervisor, Prof Amin Beheshti
E: mahdieh.labani@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Deep convolutional neural network techniques in the classification of Single-cell data
Yuk-Tung Lam - Principal Supervisor, Dr Peter Busch
E: yuk-tung.lam@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Towards a Cashless Society - A Study on the Adoption of Digital Economy
Michael Lay
E: michael.lay@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Formal verification in SC1.
Peiyao Li – Principal Supervisor, Professor Jian Yang
E: peiyao.li@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Data Analytics and Machine Learning for Security in Cloud Networking
Fanzhen Liu  – Principal Supervisor, Dr Jia Wu
E: fanzhen.liu@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Deep learning for community detection in social networks
Na Liu – Principal Supervisor,Dr Rolf Schwitter 
E: na.liu8@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Zhuozhu Liu – Principal Supervisor, Dr Jia Wu
E: zhuozhu.liu@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Research on the Evaluation of Think Tanks Based on Neural Networks
Jianchao Lu - Principal Supervisor, Dr James Zheng
E: jianchao.lu@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Human Activity Recognition Using Wearable Devices
Xuexiong Luo - Principal Supervisor, Dr Jia Wu
E: xuexiong.luo@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Anomaly detection based on adaptive nodes representations of attributed networks
Xiaoxiao Ma - Principal Supervisor, Prof Jian Yang
E: xiaoxiao.ma2@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Deep Learning for Graph Anomaly Detection
Christopher McCutcheon – Principal Supervisor, Assoc Prof Michael Hitchens
E: christopher.mccutcheon@hdr.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Work, Play & Leisure: Modes of Engagement with eSports
Paulosergio Mirandamaciel
E: paulosergio.mirandamaciel@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Stream Clustering models for a dynamic customer segmentation system: an application to pharmaceutical industry
Sahar Moradizeyveh – 
E: sahar.moradizeyveh@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Enabling the Analysis of Users' Cognitive Aspects in Recommender Systems
Salman Mousaeirad – Principal Supervisor, Prof Amin Beheshti
E: salman.mousaeirad@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Demand Forecasting based on Mathematical Models and Big Data Analytics in Banking Industry
Duc Linh GiangNguyen
E: duclinhgiang.nguyen@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Security and Privacy for Cloud Computing in Post-Quantum era
Daniel Onja – Principal Supervisor, Assoc Prof Michael Hitchens
E: daniel.onoja@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Security Challenges and Data Privacy Issues for IoT Application
Amirmohammad Pasdar - Principal Supervisor, Dr Young Lee
E: amirmohammad.pasdar@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
A Performance-Awareness Scientific Workflow Execution Framework on Cloud Environments
Seyedeh Matineh Pooshideh Nodehi
E: seyedehmatineh.pooshidehnodehi@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Face Presentation Attack Detection using Deep learning
Kevin Purnell - Principal Supervisor, Dr Rolf Schwitter
E: kevin.purnell@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Visualising and Validating Auto-generated Declarative Smart Contracts
Hina Qayyum  - Principal Supervisor, Professor Dali Kaafar
E: hina.qayyum@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Statistical Analysis of effects of types of poisoning attacks and effects of sanitization techniques on training data sets
Zitai Qiu
E: zitai.qiu@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
An Interpretable deep learning model for COVID-19 detection based on routine blood testing
Naime Ranjbar Kermany - Principal Supervisor, Professor Jian Yang
E: naime.ranjbar-kermany@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
A time-dependent tag-based recommender system using human memory process
Hedieh Ranjbartabar - Principal Supervisor, Professor Deborah Richards
E: hedieh.ranjbartabar@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Emotion-Aware Empathic Agents
Nabiallah Rezvani - Principal Supervisor, Dr Amin Beheshti
E: nabiallah.rezvani@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Linking Natural Language and Vision Using Crowd sourcing
Alex Roudjiat
E: alex.roudjiat@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Anomaly Detection for Intrusion Detection with Machine Learning
Bakhtiar Sadeghi - Principal Supervisor, Professor Deborah Richards
E: bakhtiar.sadeghi@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Leveraging AI to enhance cybersecurity ethics decision making
Chakaveh Saedi - Principal Supervisor, Assoc Prof Mark Dras
E: chakaveh.saedi@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Near Synonymy Prediction
Babak Saghaie - Principal Supervisor, Prof Amin Beheshti
E: babak.saghaie@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Server Availability Modeling and Failure Domain Clustering in Large Distributed Storage Systems
Subhash Sagar - Principal Supervisor, Prof Michael Sheng
E: subhash.sagar@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Trust Computational Heuristic for Social Internet of Things
Abdus Salam - Principal Supervisor, Dr Rolf Schwitter
E: abdus.salam@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
An Explainable Artificial Intelligence System for Ensemble Based Classifiers
Salma Khan - Principal Supervisor, Prof Deborah Richards
E: salma.khan@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
The Design and Use of Infographics for Ethical Decision-Making
Muhammad Salman - Principal Supervisor, Prof Dali Kaafar
E: muhammad.salman2@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Machine Learning Powered Cyber Threat Intelligence Framework For Unstructured
Sana Salman - Principal Supervisor, Prof Deborah Richards
E: sana.salman@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Making ECAs Smart using multi-coach interactive scenarios and AI based response generation algorithms
Vedant Sansare - Principal Supervisor, Dr Malcolm Ryan
E: vedant.sansare@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Using Videogames to Encourage Reflective Ethical Decision-making in Cyber security
Francesco Schiliro - Principal Supervisor, Prof Amin Beheshti
E: francesco.schiliro@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Linking Cognitive Technology to Policing Processes
I Wayan BudI Sentana - Principal Supervisor, Dr Muhammad Ikram 
E: i-wayan-budi.sentana@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Privacy-Preserving Framework in Blockchain Technology
Nasrin Shabani - Principal Supervisor, Prof Amin Beheshti
E: nasrin.shabani@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Linking Storytelling and Explainable AI: Facilitate Interpreting, Explaining, and Visualizing Deep Learning
Maryam Shahabikargar
E: maryam.shahabi-kargar@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
A Practical Framework for Information Extraction and Identification of Cases with Mental Health Problems from Online Health Communication Platforms
Usman Shahbaz - Principal Supervisor, Dr Amin Beheshti
E: usman.shahbaz@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Rule Based Cognitive Assistance For Enterprise Risk Decisioning Within An Agriculture
Maryam Shahpasand - Principal Supervisor, Assoc Prof Len Hamey
E: maryam.shahpasand@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Adversarial Machine Learning for Enhanced Malware Detection
Ferdous Sharifi - Principal Supervisor, Dr Young Lee
E: ferdous.sharifi@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Multi-Objective Offloading Scheme in an Uncertain Fog Network
Sarah Ali Siddiqui - Principal Supervisor, Professor Michael Sheng
E: sarah-ali.siddiqui@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Towards Fog-based Next Generation Internet of Vehicles Architecture
Behnaz Soltani - Principal Supervisor, Professor Michael Sheng
E: behnaz.soltani@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Dynamic Resource Management in Distributed Stream Processing Systems
Connor Stead - Principal Supervisor, Dr Stephen Smith
E: connor.stead@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Structuring abstracts to enhance literature discovery
Yongping Tang - Principal Supervisor, Professor Jian Yang
E: yongping.tang@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Data Analysis in Case Management Processes
Graeme Thomas - Principal Supervisor, Prof Amin Beheshti
E: graeme.thomas1@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Resisting Adversarial Attacks with Quantum Machine Learning
YuzheTian 
E: yuzhe.tian@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Leveraging Multi-View Learning for Human Activity Recognition
Shakila Mahjabin Tonni - Principal Supervisor, Assoc Prof Mark Dras
E: shakila.tonni@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Fighting Fire with Fire: Adversarial Training-resistant Machine Learning models
Jinze Wang
E: jinze.wang@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Decision-aware recommendation and Its Applications in Collaborative Filtering
Kai Wang - Principal Supervisor, Professor Michael Sheng
E: kai.wang9@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Knowledge graph representation learning and knowledge reasoning based on contextual information
Yufei Wang - Principal Supervisor, Professor Mark Johnson
E: yufei.wang@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Captioning Images Containing Previously Unseen Objects
Nan Wang - Principal Supervisor, Prof Yan Wang
E: nan.wang12@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Trustworthy Service Evaluation and Selection System
Qi Wang - Principal Supervisor, Professor Jian Yang
E: qi.wang20@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
David Warren - Principal Supervisor,
E: david.warren@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Magnetoencephalographic Features in Cognitive Impairment Classification
David Waterworth - Principal Supervisor, Professor Michael Sheng
E: david.waterworth@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Applications of Machine Learning to Advanced Building Management Services

Kayson Whitehouse - Principal Supervisor, Assoc Prof Michael Hitchens
E: kayson.whitehouse@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com

Welcoming Trans and Gender Diverse Players 

Nan Wu - Principal Supervisor, Professor Dali Kaafar
E: nan.wu5@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing for Secure Economic Utility: A Game-Theoretic Approach
Haolong Xiang - Principal Supervisor, Dr Xuyun Zhang
E: haolong.xiang@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Isolation Forest scheme Based Anomaly Detection in Big Data
Bingbing Xie - Principal Supervisor, Dr Jia Wu
E: bingbing.xie@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Research on Extracting Medical Experience Knowledge for Clinical Text Based on Deep Neural Networks
Qianli Xing - Principal Supervisor, Professor Jian Yang
E: qianli.xing@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Social Network Based Recommender System
Rongwei Xu
E: rongwei.xu@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Context-based Social Trust Relation Prediction
Munazza Zaib - Principal Supervisor, Professor Michael Sheng
E: munazza-zaib.ghori@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Scaling Up An End-To-End System Using Zero-Shot Learning
Ge Zhang - Principal Supervisor, Dr Jia Wu
E: ge.zhang5@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Research on semantic community with hierarchical topic structure in large-scale complex networks with content
Yang Zhang - Principal Supervisor, Professor Michael Sheng
E: yang.zhang21@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
Big Data Analytics on Scientific Knowledge
Yan Zhao - Principal Supervisor, Professor Yan Wang
E: yan.zhao8@students.thegraphicsshoppeclub.com
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Dr Xuyun Zhang

E: xuyun.zhang@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com

Cyber

  • Bachelor of Cyber Security
  • Masters of Information Technology Cyber Security
  • Bachelor of Information Technology with a Major in Cyber Security

Prof Yan Wang

E: yan.wang@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com

Data Science

  • Master Data Science
  • Bachelor of IT with a Major in Data Science

Assoc. Prof Ansgar Fehnker

E: ansgar.fehnker@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com

Software

  • Bachelor of Engineering Software Engineering
  • Bachelor of Information Technology with a Major in Software Tech, Web & Mobile App Development

Dr Malcolm Ryan

E: malcolm.ryan@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com

Games

  • Bachelor of Games Design and Development

Dr Rajan Shankaran

E: rajan.shankaran@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com

Networking / IoT

  • Masters of Information Technology Networking
  • Master of Information Technology IoT
  • Bachelor of Information Technology with a Major in Networking

Dr Peter Busch

E: peter.busch@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com

Information Systems

  • Master of Information Systems Management
  • Bachelor of Information Technology with a Major in Information Systems and Business Analysis
Dr Gaurav Gupta
E: gaurav.gupta@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com

Bachelor of IT

  • Bachelor of Information Technology

Assoc Prof Abhaya Nayak

E: abhaya.nayak@thegraphicsshoppeclub.com

Artificial Intelligence

  • Masters of Information Technology Artificial Intelligence
  • Bachelor of Information Technology with a Major in Artificial Intelligence
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