Dr Xuyun Zhang is currently working as a senior lecturer in School of Computing at Macquarie University in Australia. He worked as a lecturer in The University of Auckland during 2016 ~ 2019 and a postdoc researcher in NICTA (National ICT Australia, now Data61, CSIRO) during 2014 ~ 2016. He got his PhD degree in Computer Science and Technology from University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia in 2014, and his Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in the same major from Nanjing University, China in 2011 and 2008, respectively.

Research Interests. He is an early/mid-career researcher with an international track record of research in areas including scalable and secure machine learning, big data privacy and cyber security, big data mining and analytics, cloud/edge/service computing and IoT, etc..

Publications & Other Research Outputs

I have authored 251 publications in total (by April 2024), including 1 doctorial thesis, 2 edited conference proceedings, 3 book chapters, 107 refereed journal articles, 117 refereed conference papers, 19 journal special issue editorials and conference welcome messages, and 2 conference abstracts.
Several commonly used metrics are used to indicate the quality of the refereed publications. Two JCR (Journal Citation ReportsTM) metrics including Journal Impact Factor (IF) and its corresponding Quartile (Q) are used to show the influence and impact of journals. All the 107 journal articles are SCI/SCIE indexed, with 91 ranked Q1. The two JCR indicators are shown for all journals. The CORE (Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia) ranking is used to indicate the quality of conferences in my field (46 Information and Computing Sciences), with CORE A* and A indicating the quality at a flagship and excellent level, respectively. Since there are several versions of ranking, the highest level a publication has been ranked is used herein. Only CORE A* and A rankings are displayed for succinctness. I have 61 conference papers ranked CORE A*/A. The acceptance rate of a CORE A* conference is also provided to further demonstrate the selectivity. Besides, the papers receiving awards are also indicated.
In terms of Google Scholar Citations, my publications have attracted 9500+ citations, with an h-index of 51. In the following list of publications, the citation count is shown for a publication having at least 20 citations

See my Google Scholar, ORCID, and ResearchGate for the complete publication list.

Top five (Most Cited) Journal/Conference Papers

• Membership inference attacks on machine learning: A survey.
  H Hu, Z Salcic, L Sun, G Dobbie, PS Yu, X Zhang
  ACM Computing Surveys, 2022.
• A scalable two-phase top-down specialization approach for data anonymization using mapreduce on cloud.
  X Zhang, LT Yang, C Liu, J Chen
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2013.
• A computation offloading method over big data for IoT-enabled cloud-edge computing.
  X Xu, Q Liu, Y Luo, K Peng, X Zhang, S Meng, L Qi
  Future Generation Computer Systems, 2019.
• A game-theoretical approach for user allocation in edge computing environment.
  Q He, G Cui, X Zhang, F Chen, S Deng, H Jin, Y Li, Y Yang
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2019.
• BeCome: Blockchain-enabled computation offloading for IoT in mobile edge computing.
  X Xu, X Zhang, H Gao, Y Xue, L Qi, W Dou
  IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2019.

Employment History

Director of Industry & External Relations at Centre for Applied Artificial Intelligence, Macquarie University: (25/04/2024 – Current)

• Industry and external engagement strategy design, development, and implementation
• Partnership and collaboration opportunity identification
• Networking and communication

Cyber Security Course Director at Macquarie University: (01/01/2023 – Current)

• Course distinctiveness, relevance, strategy, and recruitment
• Course-level design and management
• Quality assurance and improvement
• Ensure high-quality student experience

Cyber Security Program Leader at Macquarie University: (01/03/2020 – 31/12/2022)

• Course distinctiveness, relevance, strategy, and recruitment
• Course-level design and management
• Quality assurance and improvement
• Ensure high-quality student experience

Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University: (04/11/2019 – Current)

• Curriculum design, development, and teaching
• Research with publications, projects, and funding
• HDR student supervision
• University/Faculty/School/Community Services

Lecturer at University of Auckland: (02/05/2016 – 01/11/2019)

• Curriculum design, development, and teaching
• Research with publications, projects, and funding
• HDR student supervision
• University/Faculty/School/Community Services

Researcher at NICTA (now Data61, CSIRO): (18/09/2014 – 19/02/2016)

• Achieving a high standard of research with top-tier publications
• Contribute to industry or internal projects
• Research student supervision

Associate Researcher at NICTA (now Data61, CSIRO): (11/08/2014 – 17/09/2014)

• Achieving a high standard of research with top-tier publications
• Contribute to industry or internal projects
• Research student supervision

Education History

• Doctor of Philosophy in Information Systems from University of Technology Sydney (15/08/2011 – 20/11/2014)
• Masters of Engineering in Computer Science and Technology from Nanjing University (01/09/2008 – 13/06/2011)
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Technology from Nanjing University (01/09/2004 – 20/06/2008)

Grants & Consultancies

I have secured 17 research grants with a total funding of around $7M, including 13 external ones and 4 internal ones. I led 6 out of the 17 projects as the lead/sole Chief Investigator, with an ARC DECRA project and an RSNZ Marsden Fund (Fast-Start). Following is the detailed list of the grants.

• Amin Beheshti, Jia Wu, Xuyun Zhang, Yuankai Qi, Emma Xue, and Hamid Alinejad, “Next-Gen Banking: Towards Customized and Personalized Banking Solutions through Generative AI Technologies”, Chief Investigator, $1.76M, Prospa Advance Pty Ltd, May 2024 – December 2027.
• Amin Beheshti, Saleh Afzoon, Xuyun Zhang, Emma Xue, Jia Wu, Guanfeng Liu, and John McMahon, “Linking Cognitive Science and Data Science for Enhanced Therapeutic Interventions”, Chief Investigator, $45K, The Navigator Group Pty Ltd, Dec 2023 – Dec 2024.
• Yin Liao, Di Bu, Matt Nolan, Michael Haliassos, Michael Pagel, Xuyun Zhang, and Hongjiao Liu, “MQBSe61RPS: Real-time Monitoring of Social Inequality and its Applications to Policy Evaluation”, Chief Investigator, $98K, Macquarie University, Sep 2023 – Sep 2025.
• Amin Beheshti, Fariba Lotfi, Mike Simpson, Xuyun Zhang, and Jia Wu, “AI-Powered Enhancement of Security Against Identity Document Fraud”, Chief Investigator, $10.8K, Locii Innovation Pty Ltd, May 2023 – Sep 2023.
• Mark Dras, Jian Yang, Xuyun Zhang, Deborah Richards, Reza Mohajerpoor, Clara Chun, and Shiva Sharif, “Detecting Medically Related Fraud, Abuse, Waste and Errors in Motor Vehicle Insurance Claims”, Chief Investigator, $520K, Digital Health CRC Limited, Apr 2023 – Mar 2025.
• Di Bu, Yin Liao, Tom Smith, Martina Linnenlueke, Cynthia Cai, Vito Mollica, Abhay Singh, Clement Peng, Amin Beheshti, Xuyun Zhang, and Jianlie Han, “Educating Retail Investors for Impact Investing”, Chief Investigator, $536K, Futu Securities (Australia) Ltd, Sep 2022 – Oct 2023.
• Amin Beheshti, Xuyun Zhang, Bernard Mans, Jia Wu, Guanfeng Liu, Michael Sheng, Jian Yang, Mohsen Asadnia, Daniel Ghezelbash, and Mike Simpson, “Scalable and Extensible Document Intelligence Platform”, Chief Investigator, $1.05M, Locii Innovations Pty Ltd, Oct 2022 – Jan 2027.
• Amin Beheshti, Michael Sheng, Jia Wu, Jian Yang, Xuyun Zhang, Hamid Alinejad Rokny, and Pooyan Asghari, “Intelligent Storytelling with Business Data”, Chief Investigator, $1.05M, Domain Holdings Australia Limited, Nov 2022 – Jan 2027.
• Amin Beheshti, Jia Wu, Hamid Alinejad Rokny, Xuyun Zhang, Alireza Jolfaei, Steven Wood, Clara Zhou, Di Bu, Yin Liao, “Intelligent Risk Assessment for Financial Services”, Chief Investigator, $960K, Prospa Advance Pty Ltd, Jun 2021 – Jul 2025.
• Xuyun Zhang, “Scalable and Deep Anomaly Detection from Big Data with Similarity Hashing”, Sole Chief Investigator, $387.1K, Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), Australian Research Council, Jan 2021 – Dec 2023. (This prestigious fund is very competitive with a low selection rate of 17.1% for the 2021 round.)
• Mark Dras, Deborah Richards, Jian Yang, Xuyun Zhang, Bavani Arunasalam, and Omid Mohamad Nezami, “Data Science Process for Rule Generation: Using Data Science to Detect Claims Leakage Project Description”, Chief Investigator, $68K, Digital Health CRC Limited, Aug 2020 – Dec 2021.
• Xuyun Zhang, “Similarity Hashing Based Privacy Preservation for Big Data Mining”, Sole Chief Investigator, $24K, Early Career Research Excellence Award (ECREA), The University of Auckland, Jan 2019 – Dec 2019. (Only 6 recipients across the whole university in 2019.)
• Xuyun Zhang and Zoran Salcic, “Versatile and Efficient Anomaly Detection for Fog Computing Applications”, $285K, Marsden Fund (Fast-Start), Royal Society of New Zealand, Lead Chief Investigator, Jan 2018 – Dec 2020. (This prestigious fund is very competitive with a low selection rate of 14.7% for the 2018 round. It is roughly equivalent to ARC DECRA in Australia.)
• Xuyun Zhang and Wanchun Dou, “Research on Fast Anomaly Detection with Hashing in IoT-cloud”, $8.6K, Open Funding for Overseas Researchers, Nanjing University, Lead Chief Investigator, Jan 2018 – Dec 2019.
• Xuyun Zhang and Zoran Salcic, “Scalable Anomaly Detection on Multi-source IoT (Internet of Things) Data with Cloud Computing Services”, Lead Chief Investigator, $28.5K, Faculty Research Development Fund (New-Staff track), The University of Auckland, Nov 2017 – Nov 2019.
• Giovanni Russello, Rizwan Asghar, Steven Galbraith, Gill Dobbie, Alexandra Sims, Paul Corballis, Lech Janczewski, Judge David John Harvey, Xuyun Zhang, and Arron Judson, “Seed Funding for a Cyber Security Foundry”, Chief Investigator, $143K, Vice-Chancellor's Strategic Development Fund, The University of Auckland, Jul 2017 – Jun 2019.
• Xuyun Zhang and Wanchun Dou, “Multi-source Big Traffic Data Analysis for Smart Cities”, Lead Chief Investigator, $10K, Open Funding for Overseas Researchers, Nanjing University, Jan 2015 – Dec 2016.

Awards, Prizes & Fellowships

I have received 13 prestigious awards, prizes, or fellowships in total, listed below with their basic information and the quality justification for some items.

• 2021, ARC DECRA Fellowship (2021 – 2023), Australian Research Council. This prestigious award is very competitive with a low selection rate of 17.1% for the 2021 round.
• 2021, Highly Cited Researcher in the Computer Science Discipline, Clarivate. Only about 0.1% of the world’s researchers earned this exclusive distinction in 2021.
• 2019, Early-Career Research Excellence Award (ECREA), University of Auckland. There are only six recipients across the whole university receiving this prestigious award in the 2019 round.
• 2015, Chancellor's Award for Best PhD Thesis (with $1,000 prize money), University of Technology Sydney. This is the most prestigious award for PhD graduates within the University.
• 2012, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Student Abroad (with USD$6,000 prize money), China Scholarship Council (CSC). This prestigious award targets overseas Chinese PhD students who got scholarships from overseas universities rather than from CSC. This award is competitive with a very low selection rate. I was the only awardee in the Faculty of Engineering and IT at UTS in the 2012 round, and there were only 18 recipients across New South Wales.

Publication Awards

• 2022, ICDM Best Student Paper Runner-Up Award (with $500 prize money), The 22nd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM22). ICDM is a top-tier conference (CORE A*) in the fields of data mining and knowledge discovery.
• 2022, IEEE Outstanding Paper Award, The 19th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing (UIC22).
• 2022, Best Paper Award, The 15th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings22).
• 2021, IEEE Outstanding Paper Award, The 24th International Conference on High Performance Computing & Communications (HPCC21).
• 2021, Outstanding Paper Award, The 11th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Networks (CENET21).
• 2021, Best Research Paper Award, Computer Communications, Elsevier.
• 2017, Best Paper Award, The 9th International Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security (CSS17).
• 2017, Best Paper Award, The 10th International Conference on Security, Privacy & Anonymity in Computation, Communication & Storage (SpaCCS17).

Teaching Activity

At both MQ and the University of Auckland, I have substantially engaged in designing, developing, convening and/or teaching several units, listed below. Even during my ARC DECRA fellowship (2021~2023), I still actively contributed to teaching through lecturing computing units and playing the leadership roles (Program Leader during 2020~2022 and Course Director since 2023) for the highly demanding security discipline. The team-based teaching approach is adopted, where usually two staffs co-teach a unit, so the weeks I took are indicated where appropriate.

Macquarie University

• COMP2300/6300, “Applied Cryptography”, 2024, Session 1, Lecturer (Week 1 – Week 6), 258 students.
• AFIN3010, “Current Issues in Applied Finance”, 2024, Session 2, Guest Lecturer.
• COMP4903, “Software Engineering Research Thesis B”, 2023, Session 1, Supervisor, 2 students.
• COMP4902, “Software Engineering Research Thesis A”, 2022, Session 2, Supervisor, 2 students.
• COMP8325, “Applications of Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security”, 2022, Session 1, Lecturer (Week 1 – Week 6), 25 students.
• COMP4903, “Software Engineering Research Thesis B”, 2021, Session 2, Supervisor, 1 student.
• COMP8325, “Applications of Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security”, 2021, Session 1, Lecturer (Week 1 – Week 6), 47 students.
• COMP4902, “Software Engineering Research Thesis A”, 2021, Session 1, Supervisor, 2 students.
• COMP7900, “Research Frontiers in Computing I”, 2021, Session 1, Lecturer (Week 9 – Week 10), 5 students.
• COMP2200/6200, “Data Science”, 2020, Session 2, Lecturer (Week 7 – Week 13) and Unit Convenor, 353 students.
• COMP8220, “Machine Learning”, 2020, Session 1, Lecturer (Week 1 – Week 6), 68 students.
• COMP8325, “Applications of Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security”, 2020, Session 1, Lecturer (Week 1 – Week 7) and Unit Convenor, 25 students.
• COMP2200/6200, “Data Science”, 2020, Session 1, Lecturer (Week 7 – Week 13), 91 students.

University of Auckland

• SOFTENG306, “Software Engineering Design 2”, 2019, Session 2, Lecturer (Week 1 – Week 6), 83 students.
• SOFTENG754, “Software Requirements Engineering”, 2019, Session 1, Lecturer (Week 7 – Week 12), 87 students.
• SOFTENG206, “Software Engineering Design 1”, 2018, Session 2, Lecturer (Week 1 – Week 8), 88 students.
• SOFTENG755, “Special Topics - Bayesian Machine Learning”, 2018, Session 2, Convenor and Lecturer (Week 1 – Week 12), 18 students.
• SOFTENG754, “Software Requirements Engineering”, 2018, Session 1, Lecturer (Week 7 – Week 12), 80 students.
• SOFTENG206, “Software Engineering Design 1”, 2017, Session 2, Lecturer (Week 1 – Week 6), 87 students.
• SOFTENG753, “Foundations of Bayesian Machine Learning and Data Engineering”, 2017, Session 2, Lecturer (Week 1 – Week 6), 23 students.
• SOFTENG754, “Software Requirements Engineering”, 2017, Session 1, Lecturer (Week 7 – Week 12), 41 students.

Teaching Innovation, Administration & Leadership

Macquarie University

• New unit design and development for COMP8325 (Applications of Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security) Part I, 2020.
• Unit re-design and re-development for COMP2200/6200 (Data Science) Part II and COMP8220 (Machine Learning) Part I, 2020.
• Unit convenor for COMP2200 (Data Science) with 350+ students and COMP8325 (Applications of Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security), 2020.
• Inviting industry guest lecturers from NAB Data Science for the unit COMP2200/6200 (Data Science), 2020.
• Introducing new tools and platforms for teaching, specifically GitHub Classroom for project management and TEAMMATES for group project peer evaluation in COMP2200/6200 and COMP8325, 2020.
• Program Leader for Bachelor of Cyber Security and Major of Cyber Security (in Bachelor of Information Technology), 2020 – 2022:
  • Handling MQ2020 Transition for the UG Cyber Security degree and major.
  • Handling changes in curriculum design and course delivery modes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Delivering Orientation Week and Open Day presentations for the Cyber Security courses.
  • Collating student feedback (e.g., from Liaison meetings) and proposed changes to the course or a unit to improve student engagement and learning experience.
  • Initiating meetings with relevant industry partners (e.g., Red Piranha and CyberGym) to enhance industry engagement in the Cyber Security degrees and majors.
  • Attending School Teaching Committee meetings and performed timely communications with the Teaching Director, Cyber Security staff, and other relevant parties.
• Course Director for Bachelor of Cyber Security, Major of Cyber Security (in Bachelor of Information Technology), Master of Information Technology in Cyber Security, and Non-Cognate Master of Information Technology with specialization in Cyber Security, 2022 – present:
  • Leading the preparation and response for ACS (Australian Computer Society) Accreditation on Cyber Security degrees and majors, 2022 – 2023.
  • Leading the preparation and response for MQ Internal Re-accreditation Review on Cyber Security degrees and majors, 2023 – present.
  • Leading the design of the new course Non-Cognate Master of Information Technology with specialization in Cyber Security, 2023 – present.
  • Designing the iLearn page for the UG Cyber Security degree and major with recording videos and interviewing students.
  • Visiting TAFE NSW IATD (Institute of Applied Technology Digital) for discussion on micro credential units and Cyber Range.
  • Working with AustCyber for the UniCyber program (a successful funding proposal led by AustCyber for Cyber Security Skills Partnership Innovation Fund).
  • Initiating meetings with relevant industry partners (e.g., Fortinet) to enhance industry engagement in the Cyber Security degrees and majors.
  • Delivering Orientation Week and Open Day speeches for the Cyber Security degree and major.
  • Attending Course Director meetings, School Education Committee meetings, and School Teaching Committee meetings.

University of Auckland

• New unit design and development for SOFTENG754 (Software Requirements Engineering) Part II (Test-Driven Development), 2017.
• New unit design and development for the whole unit SOFTENG755 (Special Topics - Bayesian Machine Learning), 2018.
• Unit re-design and re-development for the whole unit SOFTENG206 (Software Engineering Design 1), 2018.

Supervision

I have been supervising 25 HDR students in total, with 11 through to completion. The statistics are shown in the table below. The supervision details are also listed below, and the achievement of a student is highlighted where appropriate, where MRes represents Master of Research. The university information is provided if a student is not from MQ.

Completion

• Haolong Xiang, PhD, Principal Supervisor, August 2018 – April 2024. Awarded the Rising Star Award from the School of Computing for excellent research in anomaly detection.
• Roopasree Chidurala, MRes Y2, Principal Supervisor, February 2023 – March 2023.
• Guowei Zhang, MRes Y2, Principal Supervisor, February 2023 – January 2024. Nominated for the Executive Dean’s Commendation for Academic Excellence in Year 2 MRes for outstanding research performance.
• Junyan Li, MRes Y2, Principal Supervisor, July 2022 – January 2024.
• Alireza Shammasi, MRes Y2, Associate Supervisor, February 2023 – January 2024. Awarded the 2024 Executive Dean's Commendation for Academic Excellence in Year 2 Master of Research for dedication and excellence in AI research.
• Hongsheng Hu, PhD, Principal Supervisor, August 2018 – May 2023, The University of Auckland. Currently a researcher at Data61, CSIRO.
• Md Mahbub Islam Bhuiyan, MRes Y2, Associate Supervisor, August 2022 – December 2023.
• Anthony Shaw, MRes Y2, Associate Supervisor, August 2022 – June 2023.
• Sang Nguyen, PhD, Associate Supervisor, July 2018 – February 2022, The University of Auckland.
• Sibghat Bazai, PhD, External Supervisor, July 2017 – November 2020, Massey University. Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, BUITEMS, Quetta, Pakistan.
• Morton Sykes, Master, Principal Supervisor, February 2018 – January 2019, The University of Auckland.

Current

• Alireza Shammasi, PhD, Associate Supervisor, February 2024 – present. Offered an Industry Funded Stipend Top Up Scholarship.
• Yanran Chen, PhD, Associate Supervisor, February 2024 – present.
• Afrouz Sheikholeslami, MRes Y2, Associate Supervisor, January 2024 – present. Offered an Industry Funded Stipend Top Up Scholarship.
• Yu Ho Enoch Chan, MRes Y2, Associate Supervisor, January 2024 – present. Offered an Industry Funded Stipend Top Up Scholarship.
• Ziqiang Wang, MRes Y2, Associate Supervisor, January 2024 – present.
• Rongwei Xu, PhD, Associate Supervisor, July 2023 – present.
• Hongyi Lu, MRes Y2, Principal Supervisor, June 2023 – present.
• En Jin Foo, MRes Y2, Principal Supervisor, February 2023 – present. Part-time MRes Y2 student.
• Xiaoxiao Chi, PhD, Principal Supervisor, August 2022 – present.
• Maryam Shahabikargar, PhD, Associate Supervisor, July 2022 – present.
• Cathy He, PhD, Associate Supervisor, July 2022 – present.
• Ambreen Hanif, PhD, Associate Supervisor, February 2022 – present.
• Adeem Ali Anwar, PhD, Principal Supervisor, July 2021 – present.
• Tarek Chaalan, PhD, External Supervisor, July 2021 – present, Federation University Australia.

Leadership & Engagement

University

• Course Director (Program Leader) for both PG and UG cyber security degrees and majors
  • Have Handled about 260 unit RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning) requests since July 2022.
  • Have Handled about 70 Master of Information Technology in Cyber Security enrolment Faculty Approval requests since December 2022.
  • Teaching allocation planning and recommendation for the cyber security discipline, 2023 – 2024.
  • Unit guide reviewing and approving for cyber security relevant units, 2023 – 2024.
  • Attending the OnShoreAgent Event – Key Partners Program to attract more students, 2023.
  • Coordinating the application of C2C CTF 2023 participation funding for several undergraduate cyber security students from MQCybersec, 2023.
  • Giving consultancy for Operational Technology and Information Technology Skills to understand how educational institutions are addressing OT/IT cyber risks, 2023.
  • Serving several Working Groups to discuss the inclusion of cyber security in the computing degree/majors (Bachelor of Games, Master of Data Science) to address the ACS accreditation feedback, 2022 – 2023.
  • Serving the COMP8310 unit review panel, 2022.
  • Delivering a talk “Degree in Focus – MIT Cybersecurity” for international students, 2022.
  • Hosting two visits of education service agencies for cyber security degrees and majors, 2021.
• Job Selection Panel member or chair for two Lecturer / Senior Lecturer positions, two postdoc positions, and one casual lecturer position
  • Panel chair for the COMP2310 casual lecturer position, February 2024. John Kim was selected.
  • Panel member for two postdoc positions for my Digital Health CRC project, October 2023. Dr. Xiaomin Chang and Dr. Ana Namvar were selected.
  • Panel member for the “Level B Lecturer in Computing” position, November 2022. Dr. Shan Xue was selected.
  • Panel member for the “Level B/C Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security” position, February 2022. Dr Natasha Fernandes and Dr Dinusha Vatsalan were selected as a lecturer and a senior lecturer, respectively.
• School Education Committee member.
• International Subcommittee member.
• HDR Seminar panel chair or member for 11 students.
• Postdoc mentor for Dr. Xiaomin Chang and Dr. Ana Namvar who are working on our DHCRC–0194 FAWE project, 2023 – present.
• Served the School 3MT Competition panel, 2022.
• Marked 4 posters for the MRes RF2 poster session, 2022.

Professional Communities

• Journal Associate Editor (Editorial Member)
  • Elsevier Computers and Security, Impact Factor 5.6, 2023 – present.
  • Wiley Computational Intelligence, Impact Factor 2.142, 2023 – present.
  • IEEE Systems Journal, Impact Factor 4.4, 2021 – 2022.
• Journal Special Issue Guest Editor
  • Big Data Mining and Analytics (BDMA) special issue on "Data-Driven Spatial and Temporal Anomaly Detection", 2024.
  • Wiley Computational Intelligence (COIN) special issue on “Privacy, Security, and Trust in Computational Intelligence”, 2023.
  • European Journal of Remote Sensing (EJRS) special issue on “Deep Learning for Earth Resource and Environmental Remote Sensing”, 2022.
  • ACM/Springer Mobile Networks & Applications (MONET) special issue on “Convergency of AI and Cloud/Edge Computing for Big Data Applications”, 2022.
  • IEEE Transactions on Industry Informatics (TII) special issue on “Artificial Intelligence for the Security of Cyber-Physical Systems”, 2021.
  • Journal of Internet Technology (JIT) Special Issue on “IoT in Flipped Classrooms for Modern Education”, 2021.
  • Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (JOEUC) special issue on “User-centric Service Recommendation in Internet of Things”, 2021.
  • IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (TETCI) special issue on “Privacy and Security in Computational Intelligence”, 2020.
  • Springer Wireless Networks (WINET) special issue on “Recent Advances in Cloud/Edge/IoT Architectures, Management & Applications”, 2020.
  • ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM) special issue on “Privacy and Security in Evolving Internet of Multimedia Things”, 2019.
  • Wiley Computational Intelligence (COIN) special issue for ICMU2018, 2018.
  • Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE) special issue on “Cyber Security and Privacy”, 2017.
  • Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC) special issue on “Big IoT Data Analytics in Fog Computing”, 2017.
  • Security and Communication Networks (SCN) special issue on “Security and Privacy Issues in Big Data Mining Infrastructure, Platforms and Applications”, 2017.
• Conference General Chair: EAI 9th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CloudComp), 2019 at MQ.
• Workshop and Special Session Founder
  • Workshop (or Special Session) on Private, Secure, and Trust Data Analytics (PSTDA), 2018, 2020 – 2024, co-located with TrustCom2018, CIKM2020, and DSAA2021 – 2024, all quality conferences with CORE ranking A.
  • Workshop on Trustworthy and Responsible AI: Theory, Applications, and Challenges (TRAI), 2023 – 2024, co-located with IJCNN2023 and WCCI2024.
  • International Workshop on Edge-Cloud Intelligence (ECI), 2023, co-located with CIKM2023, a quality conference with CORE ranking A.
• Conference Program Committee or Special Track Chairs
  • The 20th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA), 2024 at MQ.
  • The 9th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC), 2024.
  • The 9th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering (IEEE Mobile Cloud), 2021.
  • The 19th IEEE International Conference on Smart City (Smart City), 2021.
  • The 22nd IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), 2020.
  • The 11th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking (ICMU), 2018.
  • The 9th International Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security (CSS), 2017.
  • The 2017 International Conference on Applications and Techniques in Information Security (ATIS), 2017.
  • The 2017 Australasian Information Security Conference (AISC), 2017.
• Conference Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member: Invited regularly for top-tier conferences with CORE ranking A*/A
  • ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD), 2021 – 2024.
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2021 – 2022, 2024.
  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2021 – 2024.
  • International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2020 – 2024.
  • Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurISP), 2024.
  • ACM Web Conference (TheWebConf), 2024.
  • International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024.
  • ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2021 – 2024.
  • IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2021 – 2023.
  • ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2017 – 2024.
  • European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD), 2023.
  • International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2023.
  • IEEE International Conference on Web Service (ICWS), 2021 – 2024.
  • International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC), 2022.
  • IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2024.
  • IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), 2017 – 2022.
  • SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2022.
  • APWeb-WAIM International Joint Conference on Web and Big Data (APWeb-WAIM), 2022 – 2024.
  • International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 2023 – 2024.
  • Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), 2024.
• Journal Proposal Reviewer: Invited to review a proposal for a new journal (ACM Journal or Transactions) on Behavior Informatics.
• ERA2023 Journal List Consultation for the field of 46 Information and Computing Sciences, invited by ACDICT (Australian Council of Deans of ICT).
• Journal Article Reviewer: Invited to review articles for international journals
  • Communications of the ACM
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Service Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Big Data
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
  • Future Generation Computer System
  • World Wide Web Journal
  • ACM Computing Surveys
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
• HDR Student Thesis or Report Examiner: Invited to examine 10 PhD theses, 6 Master theses, and 3 PhD confirmation reports
  • Master thesis, “Mixed-Criticality Real-Time System Scheduling: Optimizing Low Criticality Tasks Performance”, The University of Sydney, April 2024.
  • PhD confirmation proposal, “Enhancing Security, Reliability, and Efficiency in the Internet of Vehicles with Consensus Strategy Innovations”, University Of The Sunshine Coast, April 2024.
  • PhD thesis, “Towards Securing Quantized Deep Learning”, The University of Adelaide, March 2024.
  • Master thesis, “A Universal Outbreak Risk Prediction Tool”, UNSW, March 2024.
  • Master thesis, “Dynamic Adaptive Model Selection Based on Content and Resolution”, The University of Sydney, January 2024.
  • PhD thesis, “Developing Highly Efficient Autonomous Navigation Agents”, UTS, January 2024.
  • PhD thesis, “Improving Indoor Pedestrian Detection and Tracking in Crowded Environments: Deep Learning Based Approaches”, The University of Sydney, November 2023.
  • PhD thesis, “Continual Learning for Low Resource Natural Language Processing”, Deakin University, October 2023.
  • PhD thesis, “Multi-Center Federated Learning to Cluster Clients with non-IID data”, UTS, August 2023.
  • PhD thesis, “Uncertainty Estimation, Explanation and Reduction with Insufficient Data”, UNSW, May 2023.
  • PhD Confirmation report, “Temporal Analysis based Machine Learning Technique for Cyber Attacks Detection”, The University of Queensland, January 2023.
  • Master thesis, “Few-shot Learning for Medical Image Classification”, UNSW, December 2022.
  • PhD thesis, “Reinforcement Learning on Offline Data: Methods and Applications”, Tsinghua University, April 2022.
  • PhD thesis, “Authentication, Key Exchange, and Attack Detection with SDN Controller for IoT Networks”, Auckland University of Technology, March 2022.
  • PhD confirmation of candidature report, “Edge-Assisted Machine Learning for Mobile Intelligence”, Swinburne University of Technology, December 2022.
  • PhD thesis, “A Platform for Practical Homomorphic Encryption in Neural Network Classification”, Massey University, January 2021.
  • PhD thesis, “Thermal Management in Three Dimensional Network-on-Chip Based Systems”, February 2018.
  • Master thesis, “Recurrent Neural Network Oriented Language Modelling”, February 2018.
  • Master thesis, “Developing a Mathematical Strategy Recogniser for Teachers of Year 3 to 6 Primary School Students”, April 2017.
• Grant Proposal Reviewer: Invited to review 2 ARC Discovery Projects projects (for DP22 and DP23) and a research proposal for the Research Pilot Program from the New South Wales Space Research Network (SRN) in 2023.

Memberships

• IEEE member, 97581225, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021 ~ now.
• ACM member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020 ~ 2021.

Other Recognization

Invited Talks

• An invited Encore talk for the 2024 Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW), 2024.
• A keynote speech for the 14th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking (ICMU), 2023.
• A tutorial about membership and source inference attacks for the 18th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS 2023), 2023.
• A research talk on “Recent advances in membership inference attacks”, ICSL (Internet Commerce Security Labor) at Federation University, 2023.
• A research talk on “Revisiting Isolation Forest for Anomaly Detection: From a Similarity Hashing Perspective” for an invite-only workshop on “Recent Advances in Data Dependent Similarities and Beyond” at Nanjing University, organized by Prof. Kaiming Ting and Prof. Takashi Washio, 2023.
• Invited research talks by several universities including Guizhou University, Anhui University, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, and Chang’an University, 2023.
• A research talk for the CCF-Anhui University Forum on Smart Software and Privacy-aware Computing, 2022.
• A talk for the Session of CCF Excellent Young Researcher of CBPM2022, 2022.
• A tutorial talk about membership and source inference attacks for the 18th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA22), 2022.
• A keynote speech for an ICDM21 workshop - Data Mining and Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Workshop, associated with ICDM21 (a top conference in data mining with CORE ranking A*), 2021.
• A research talk for TechForum on Vulnerability Detection (TVD2021) organised by Prof. Yang Xiang and CSIRO Principal Scientist Dr. Surya Nepal, 2021.
• A research seminar on anomaly detection invited by Prof. Jie Tang who is a professor (ACM/IEEE/AAAI Fellow) from Tsinghua University, 2019.
• A talk with the topic “The next industrial revolution: Deep learning from big data” for the IEEE Raving Academics event, The University of Auckland, 2017.
• A seminar talk on “scalable big data privacy preservation”, Cyber Security Research Centre at Unitec, 2016.