A/Prof. Lennon Chang

Dr Lennon Yao-Chung Chang is Associate Professor, Cyber Risk and Policy, in the Centre for Cyber Resilience and Trust and School of IT at Deakin University. He is the President of the Australasian Taiwan Studies Association, a charitable, non-profit organisation which he founded in 2020. He his also Chairperson of Doublethink Lab, a CSO investigating disinformation and information operations in order to safeguard democracy globally. He is the Vice Chairman of the Asia Pacific Association of Technology and Society which he co-founded in 2012. He is also the founder and Director of Cyberbaykin: Myanmar Cyber Security Awareness campaign. He has been appointed as Ambassador for the Cyber Security Capacity Maturity Model for Nations by the Victorian Government-funded Oceania Cyber Security Centre in 2020.

He was awarded his PhD in Law by the Australian National University in November 2010. He holds a Master’s in criminology and a Bachelor in Law degrees from National Taipei University, Taiwan. He was a recipient of the Chinese Correction Association Award (2002), Ministry of National Defence Award (Taiwan, 2005), Endeavour Asia Award (Australia, 2007), ANU Miscellaneous Scholarship (2008-2010), ANU Alumni Prize (Australia, 2013) and the Dean’s Award of Research Enterprise (2020). He was identified as an Australia-China Emerging Leader (2009), a Global Emerging Voices Fellow (2013), Australia-China Youth Dialogue Fellow (2013), and an Emerging Southern Criminology Scholar (2017). He is a visitor with the ANU Cyber Observatory and is a fellow with the Global Network Initiative (US), Doublethink Lab (TW), Monash Eleos Justice Centre (AU), International Cybercrime Research Centre at Simon Fraser University (CA), and the International Interdisciplinary Research Consortium on Cybercrime (US).

Before joining Deakin, he was a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University where he was Deputy Education Director of the School, Major Convenor of the Criminology Program and the founder and coordinator of the Monash Cybercrime Hub. He was an Assistant Professor of Criminology in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the City University of Hong Kong (2011-2015). From 2005 to 2007, he worked as a legal researcher and project manager at the Science and Technology Law Centre, Institute for Information Industry, which is recognized as one of the most important think-tanks in Taiwan in legal responses to new technology.

Dr Chang is interested in researching crime and governance of cyberspace – cyber law, cybercrime, public-private collaboration, and co-production of cyber security. He is particularly interested in the regulation and governance of cyberspace in the Asia-Pacific region. His book Cybercrime in the Greater China Region: Regulatory Responses and Crime Prevention (Edward Elgar, 2012) is about the nature and range of responses to cybercrime between China and Taiwan.

His research is highly topical and he has been invited by the governments of Australia, Canada, Taiwan, Korea, Myanmar and Hong Kong to discuss his research findings with senior national security, foreign policy and policing staff. Dr Chang’s professional interest in cyber security continues and he is currently researching internet vigilantism in Asia. He is also working with governments and NGOs in ASEAN countries on research and training programs to build cyber security capacity and cyber security awareness.