Biography
Atul Sajjanhar is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Information Technology, Deakin University. He obtained Master of Computing (Research) and PhD degrees from Monash University, Australia. He has held positions in the Institute of Infocomm Research (formerly, Kent Ridge Digital Labs), Singapore and The University of Southern Queensland, Hervey Bay.
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Positions Held
2017 (Jul-Oct), Visiting Researcher, Univ. of Elect. Sc. & Tech. of China
2007, Lecturer, Deakin University
2003, Associate Lecturer, Deakin University
2002, Associate Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland
1997, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore
1997, Research Assistant, Monash University
Research interests
Pattern recognition
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Learning Analytics
Teaching interests
Enterprise Applications Development
Web Technologies and Development
Distributed Systems
Cyber-physical systems
Units taught
SIT107 - Connecting the Cyber and Physical Worlds
SIT203 - Web Programming
SIT323 - Cloud Application Development
SIT374 - Team Project (A) - Project Management and Practices
SIT378 - Team Project (B) - Execution and Delivery
SIT780 - Enterprise Applications Development
SIT774 - Web Technologies and Development
SIT231 - Advanced Database Systems
SIT104 - Introduction to Web Development
SIT102 - Introduction to Programming
SIT725 - Advanced Software Engineering
SIT371 - Java Programming
SIT790 - Major Thesis
SIT792 - Minor Thesis
Professional activities
Senior Member, IEEE
Editorial Board
- International Journal of Web Services Research (IJWSR)
- Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
MSc/PhD External Examiner
- Federation University, Australia
- Macquarie University, Australia
- Southern Cross University, Australia
Journal Reviewer
- Pattern Recognition Letters
- IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
- Software: Practice and Experience, Scholar One Inc.
- IET Image Processing
- Cognition, Technology and Work, Springer
- Electronics, MDPI, Switzerland
Projects
Externally Funded Projects
- 2022, $15,000 International Education Resilience Fund, Augmented Reality (AR) Enhanced Analytics for Engaging and Evaluating Participants, PhD Internship.
- 2020-2022, $56,000 Blockchain Enabled Al Driven E-Marking Platform - PhD Scholarship
- 2020-2021, $15,000 Defence Science Institute, Analysis of Eye Fixation Data, PhD top-up scholarship.
- 2019, $15,000, Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre Honours Scholarship https://www.cybersecuritycrc.org.au/ , Deep Learning for Insider Threat Detection
- 2019, $13,500, Forest Classroom Augmented Reality Project.
- 2018, $55,000, Enterprise Applications for Supply Chain and Logistics
- 2017, $50,000, Information Oriented Fog Servers in National Parks
Other Projects
- 2019, Deakin UserX Network $3600, UX Framework in the Cultural Heritage Domain
- 2019-2020, Deakin UserX Network $10000, AR project
- 2015, Faculty of SEBE, $6000, Experiential Learning Framework for Environmental Science
- Cloud Connected Weather Station
- Deep Learning for Facial Expression Recognition
- Collaborative Platform for Water Industry Digitisation, School of Engineering
Research Supervision
- Cognitive Workload Detection Based on Eye-Tracking Data (Hadia Tazeem, PhD candidate)
- Federated Learning for IoT (Yuechao Ren, PhD candidate)
- Federated Learning (Jun Bai, PhD candidate)
- Blockchain Enabled Al Driven E-Marking Platform (Nai Wang, PhD candidate)
- Deep Learning for Insider Threat Detection (Gayathri Gopinathan Nair, PhD completed 2023)
- User Experience Framework for Interactive Technologies in Cultural Heritage Domain (Duyen Lam, PhD, completed 2022)
- Generative Probabilistic Models for Detection and Analysis of Astroturfing Groups in Online Social Networks (Noora Alallaq, completed 2020)
- Computational Models and Approaches for Lung Cancer Diagnosis (Hasseeb Azzawi, PhD completed 2019)
- Cancer Prognosis Based on Knowledge Discovery from Clinic and Biological Data Sets (Russul Al-Anni, PhD completed 2019)
- Sub-graph ensembles for efficient causal discovery in high-dimensional datasets (Sachin Clement, MSc (research), completed 2019)
- Persuasive Technologies for Online Help-Seeking (Manjeet Singh, MSc (research), completed 2018)
- Robust Approaches for Face Recognition (Ahmed Mohamed, PhD, completed 2018)
Publications
No publications found
Funded Projects at Deakin
Other Public Sector Funding
Forest Classroom AR Project
Dr Atul Sajjanhar, Dr Shaun Bangay, Mr Manjeet Singh
Berwick Lodge Primary School
- 2019: $13,500
Analysis of Eye Fixation Data
Dr Atul Sajjanhar
Defence Science Institute
- 2021: $10,000
- 2020: $5,000
Augmented Reality (AR) Enhanced Analytics for Engaging and Evaluating Participants.
Dr Shaun Bangay, Dr Atul Sajjanhar, Mr Manjeet Singh
International Education Resilience Fund
- 2022: $15,000
Industry and Other Funding
Information Oriented Fog Servers in National Parks
Prof Yong Xiang, Dr Longxiang Gao, Dr Atul Sajjanhar
Telematics Course Development Fund Trust Grant - Research
- 2017: $50,000
Blockchain Enabled Al Driven E-Marking Platform - PhD Scholarship
Dr Longxiang Gao, Dr Atul Sajjanhar, Prof Yong Xiang
TopExcel Pty Ltd
- 2021: $28,000
- 2020: $28,000
Supervisions
Ahmed Abdulateef Mohammed
Thesis entitled: Robust Approaches for Face Recognition
Doctor of Philosophy (Information Technology), School of Information Technology
Manjeet Singh
Thesis entitled: Evaluating Persuasive User Interfaces for Online Help-Seeking for Domestic Violence
Master of Science (Information Technology), School of Information Technology
Thi Huong Duyen Lam
Thesis entitled: User Experience Framework for Interactive Technologies in Cultural Heritage Domain
Doctor of Philosophy (Information Technology), School of Information Technology
Gayathri Radhabai Gopinathan Nair
Thesis entitled: Insider Threat Detection Using Adversarial Learning and Deep Learning
Doctor of Philosophy (Information Technology), School of Information Technology
Noora Hashim Mohammed Alallaq
Thesis entitled: Generative Probabilistic Models for Detection and Analysis of Astroturfing Groups in Online Social Networks
Doctor of Philosophy (Information Technology), School of Information Technology
Sachin Clement
Thesis entitled: Sub-graph ensembles for efficient causal discovery in high-dimensional datasets
Master of Science (Information Technology), School of Information Technology
Hasseeb Dawood Injas Azzawi
Thesis entitled: Computational Models and Approaches for Lung Cancer Diagnosis
Doctor of Philosophy (Information Technology), School of Information Technology
Russul Dh. Abdul Jabar Al-Anni
Thesis entitled: Cancer Prognosis Based on Knowledge Discovery from Clinic and Biological Data Sets
Doctor of Philosophy (Information Technology), School of Information Technology