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Dr Atul Sajjanhar

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Position

Senior Lecturer

Faculty

Faculty of Sci Eng & Built Env

Department

School of Info Technology

Campus

Melbourne Burwood Campus

Qualifications

Master of Education, Monash University, 2017
Doctor of Philosophy, Monash University, 2011
Master of Computing, Monash University, 1998
Graduate Diploma of Applied Science, Deakin University, 1996
Bachelor of Engineering, S G S Inst of Tech & Sc, 1994

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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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Career highlights

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

Principal Supervisor
2018

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

Executive Supervisor
2022

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

Co-supervisor
2023

Gayathri Radhabai Gopinathan Nair

Thesis entitled: Insider Threat Detection Using Adversarial Learning and Deep Learning

Doctor of Philosophy (Information Technology), School of Information Technology

Associate Supervisor
2020

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

2019

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