Biography
Shamsul Huda received his PhD degree in Computer Science from the Center for Informatics and Applied Optimization (CIAO), School of Science, Information Technology and Engineering (SITE), Federation University, in 2009 under the supervision of Professor John Yearwood, Head, School of IT, Deakin University and Professor Roberto Tognieri, Head, School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Western Australia (UWA). During his PhD, he jointly worked with CIAO, Signal Processing and Recognition Laboratory, UWA with Prof Roberto Tognieri where he spent significant time in UWA, at Perth, WA for completion of his PhD and gained research experiences from both universities.
He achieved “Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP)” certification from the topmost organization of the world for training and certifications for cybersecurity: “The International Information System Security Certification Consortium, (ISC)² ”. He also has achieved a full membership of (ISC)² as part of the recognition of his contribution and expertise in cybersecurity areas and industry based research engagement.
Career highlights
- January 2016 to date: Lecturer, School of IT, Deakin University, Australia
- January 2015 to December 2015:Research Fellow, School of IT, Deakin University, Australia
- October 2015 to 2016 February: Development team member and consultant on behalf of Deakin, Sparx Systems, Australia
- January 2010 to 2014 December: Research Fellow, School of IT, Federation University, Australia
- February 2008 to August 2008: Programmer, ArgusConnect, Australia
- July 2003 to March 2009, Assistant professor, (2005-2009 on study leave), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Khulna university of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh
Research interests
- Cyber-security for critical infrastructure
- Secure authentication and communication protocols and network components for secure operations of industrial control systems
- Industrial IoT networks and security
- National and portfolio level cyber strategy development and Global cybersecurity indices
- Critical assets, services portfolio level risk assessments
- Endpoint security and anti-malware solutions for mobile system and client-based systems
- Software vulnerability analysis and detection
- Innovative strategies in teaching and learning, testing the effectiveness of innovation for learning design
Teaching interests
- Cyber Security Management
- Systems security
- Software requirement analysis and modelling
- Database management systems
- Networks and Communications
- Service oriented architecture
- Data Mining and Machine Learning
Units taught
- SIT725 Software Engineering
- SIT773 Software requirement analysis and modelling
- SIT202 Networks and Communications
- SIT737 Service oriented architecture
- SIT790/SIT792 Major Thesis/Minor thesis
- SIT207 Android Programming
- SIT382 Systems Security (current)
Knowledge areas
- Cyber security
- Critical infrastructure and IIoT security
- Cyber risk assessment for critical assets and services
- National and portfolio level cyber strategy development
- Global cybersecurity indices
- Artificial intelligence, Deep learning
- Software Engineering
- Malware
Professional activities
- Recent conference committee member:
- 5th North American International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Detroit, Michigan, USA, August 10-14, 2020,
- http://ieomsociety.org/detroit2020/committee/
- 11th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Singapore, March 9-11.
- http://ieomsociety.org/singapore2021/committee/
- Journal Reviewer for:
- IEEE transaction on Industrial informatics,
- Information science
- IEEE access
- Future Generation Computer Systems
- Applied soft computing
Research groups
Member of Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation
Member of Security and PrivacY Research in IoT Lab (SPYRIT)
Member of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) and the Internet of Things (IoT) group
Projects
- Obfuscation-resilient novel algorithms and techniques for the analysis, detection and prevention of emerging time variant malware, Crypto malware, Funding (2020): 30,000AUD by Innovation Agency in the Ministry of Education, Saudi Arabia.
- Cybersecurity risk modeling framework, detective and preventive measure in security operations for Industrial control systems, Critical Infrastructure, Smart grid.
- National and portfolio level cyber strategy development including risk assessment for critical assets at the national level:Vanuatu Cybersecurity Capacity Building Project, Cybersecurity Maturity Model for Nations; with the Oceania Cyber Security Centre and Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre, Oxford University, Funding (2020): $125K jointly with Melbourne University, Latrobe University and Federation University
Publications
No publications found
Funded Projects at Deakin
Other Public Sector Funding
Kronos: Towards Fast Feedback Fuzzers for Discovering Vulnerabilities in Software Binaries
Prof Robin Ram Mohan Doss, Dr Shamsul Huda
Data61
- 2023: $20,000
- 2022: $13,333
- 2021: $6,667
Industry and Other Funding
Intelligent software engineering techniques to monitor and improve the quality of software development and managing the productivity of the developers
Dr Shamsul Huda, Prof John Yearwood, Prof Jemal Abawajy
King Saud University, Sparx Systems
- 2016: $20,000
- 2015: $40,000
Obfuscation-resilient Algorithm for Early Detection of Malicious Software
Prof Jemal Abawajy, Dr Shamsul Huda
Research and and Innovation Agency, Ministry of Education, Saudi Arabia
- 2021: $30,000
Other Funding Sources
Sharing Cybersecurity Data for Australian Research (SCReeD).
Prof Jemal Abawajy, Prof Chang-Tsun Li, Prof Gang Li, A/Prof William Yeoh, Dr Shamsul Huda, Dr Frank Jiang, Dr Jack Li
Cyber Security Research Centre Limited
- 2024: $25,000
- 2023: $12,500
- 2022: $10,320
Socrates: Software Security with a focus on critical technologies.
A/Prof Lei Pan, Dr Syed Wajid Ali Shah, Prof Robin Ram Mohan Doss, Dr Zubair Baig, Prof Jemal Abawajy, Prof Shiri Krebs, Dr Jayson Lamchek, Dr Shamsul Huda, Dr Muna Al-Hawawreh, Dr Naeem Syed, Dr Jack Li, Dr Ye Zhu, Dr Frank Jiang, A/Prof William Yeoh, Prof Chang-Tsun Li, A/Prof Lennon Chang, Prof Patrick Emerton, Dr Hourieh Khalajzadeh, Dr Van-Hau Trieu, Dr Yanjun Zhang, Dr Leo Zhang
Cyber Security Research Centre Limited
- 2024: $30,244
- 2023: $120,976
Supervisions
Ipshita Das
Thesis entitled: Developing a novel algorithm for the condition assessment of utility timber poles
Doctor of Philosophy (Engineering), School of Engineering
Shaila Sharmeen
Thesis entitled: Semi-Supervised Models for Android Malware Detection
Doctor of Philosophy (Information Technology), School of Information Technology
Saiba Nazah
Thesis entitled: Understanding the Characteristics of Dark Web Forum Using Machine Learning Techniques
Master of Science (Information Technology), School of Information Technology
Ahmed Falah
Thesis entitled: Improving PDF Maldoc Detection via Data-Driven Feature Engineering
Doctor of Philosophy (Information Technology), School of Information Technology