Staff listing
School of Information Technology
Deakin's School of Information Technology is home to flagship facilities across Melbourne and Geelong, with learning and research spaces that drive innovation, lead by our industry-leading staff. We produce highly-competent graduates across our disciplines, equipping them with real-world experience through global study and industry-based opportunities – in line with Deakin's ethical and quality standards.
Our research delivers impactful and beneficial results to industry and community, via world-class digital technologies and thought leadership. We adopt agile, co-innovation and multidisciplinary practices to foster and grow successful partnerships.
We're recognised as a pioneer in putting innovation to practice across all areas including teaching, learning and engagement, while strengthening our environments locally, online, and in collaboration with our global partners.
Key contacts
Professor John Yearwood, Head of School
Professor Richard Dazeley, Deputy Head of School
Varsha Lal-Singh, School Manager (IT)
Associate Professor Mohamed Abdelrazek, Associate Head of School (Industry Research)
Associate Professor Andrew Cain, Associate Head of School (Learning)
Associate Professor Thuong Hoang, Associate Head of School (Research)
Dr Michael Hobbs, Associate Head of School (Geelong)
Associate Professor Kevin Lee, Associate Head of School (Planning and Strategy)
Professor Robin Ram Mohan Doss, Director Centre for Cyber Security Research & Innovation (CSRI)
Associate Professor Xiao Liu, Associate Head of School (International)
Academic staff
Artificial intelligence and machine learning
Dr Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek, Lecturer in Applied Artificial Intelligence
Professor Richard Dazeley, Deputy Head of School
Dr Marek Gagolewski, Senior Lecturer in Applied Artificial Intelligence
Dr Ming Liu, Lecturer Machine Learning
Dr Somaiyeh MahmoudZadeh, Lecturer in Data Science
Dr Bahareh Nakisa, Lecturer in Applied Artificial Intelligence
Dr Thanh Thi Nguyen, Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Dr Bahadorreza Ofoghi, Senior Lecturer in Information Technology
Computer science
Associate Professor Guangyan Huang, Associate Professor in Computer Science
Dr Shamsul Huda, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science
Dr Chandan Karmakar, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science
Professor Mazur Murshed, Professor in Computer Science
Dr Duc Thanh Nguyen, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science
Dr Sergey Polyakovskiy, Lecturer in Computer Science
Dr Sutharshan Rajasegarar, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science
Dr Maksym Slavnenko, Associate Lecturer in Computer Science
Dr Nayyar Zaidi, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science
Dr Ye Zhu, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science
Cyber security
Dr Muna Al-Hawawreh, Lecturer in Cyber Security
Dr Adnan Anwar, Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security
Associate Professor Zubair Baig, Associate Professor of Cyber Security
Professor Robin Ram Mohan Doss, Director Centre for Cyber Security Research & Innovation (CSRI)
Dr Frank Jiang, Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security
Dr Ansam Khraisat, Lecturer in Cyber Security
Dr Jesse Laeuchli, Senior Lecturer in Cyber and Networking Security
Professor Chang-Tsun Li, Professor in Cyber Security
Professor Gang Li, Associate Professor of Cyber Security
Dr Jack Li, Associate Lecturer in Cyber Security
Dr Lei Pan, Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security
Dr Keshav Sood, Lecturer in Cyber Security
Dr Luxing Yang, Lecturer in Cyber Security
Dr Leo Zhang, Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security
Dr Yanjun Zhang, Lecturer in Cyber Security
Data science
Professor Maia Angelova Turkedjieva, Professor of Data Science and Machine Learning
Dr Sunil Aryal, Senior Lecturer in Data Science
Associate Professor Jianxin Li, Associate Professor in Data Science
Dr Wei Luo, Senior Lecturer in Data Science
Dr Atul Sajjanhar, Lecturer in Data Science
Dr Sergiy Shelyag, Senior Lecturer in Data Science
Information and emerging technology
Dr Shaun Bangay, Senior Lecturer In Emerging Technology
Associate Professor Andrew Cain, Associate Head of School (Learning)
Dr Akan Cosgun, Senior Lecturer in Emerging Technology Robotics
Associate Professor Thuong Hoang, Associate Head of School, Research
Dr Michael Hobbs, Associate Head of School (Geelong)
Dr Elicia Lanham, Senior Lecturer in Information Technology
Dr Xuequan Lu, Senior Lecturer in Information Technology
Dr Sophie Mckenzie, Senior Lecturer in Information Technology
Dr Jihong Park, Lecture in Information Technology
Dr Shantanu Pal, Lecturer Emerging Technology & Blockchain
Dr Guy Wood-Bradley, Lecturer in Information Technology
Mathematics and optimisation
Professor Gleb Beliakov, Professor of Mathematics
Dr Reinier Diaz Millan, Lecturer in Mathematics
Dr Atabak Elmi, Lecturer in IT Industry Projects
Associate Professor Simon James, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics
Associate Professor Vicky Mak, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Optimisation
Dr Kerri Morgan, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science
Dr Asef Nazari, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics
Dr Guillermo Pineda Villavicencio, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and Mathematics
Dr David Tay, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics
Dr Dhananjay Thiruvady, Senior Lecturer in IT Industry Projects
Associate Professor Julien Ugon, Associate Professor of Mathematics
Dr Musa Mammadov, Senior Lecturer in Data Science
Dr Naeem Syed, Lecturer in Cyber Security
Network, cloud and enterprise computing
Dr Shang Gao, Senior Lecturer in Networking
Dr Jonathan Kua, Lecturer in Internet of Things
Dr Chathu Ranaweera, Senior Lecturer in Computer Networks
Dr Justin Rough, Lecturer in Cloud & Enterprise Computing
Professor Yong Xiang, Professor of Network Engineering
Software engineering and Internet of Things
Dr Feifei Chen, Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering
Dr Glory Lee, Lecturer in Computer Science
Dr Chetan Arora, Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering
Associate Professor Mohamed Abdelrazek, Associate Head of School, Industry Research
Professor Jinho Choi, Professor of Software Engineering and Internet of Things (IoT)
Dr Imali Dias, Lecturer in Internet of Things
Dr Niroshinie Fernando, Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering
Dr Anuroop Gaddam, Lecturer in IT Management
Dr Azadeh Ghari Neiat, Senior Lecturer in Mobile Apps Computing
Dr Hourieh Khalajzadeh, Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering
Associate Professor Kevin Lee, Associate Head of School (Planning and Strategy)
Associate Professor Xiao Liu, Associate Head of School, International
Professor Seng Loke, Professor in Computer Science
Dr Valeh Moghaddam, Lecturer in Internet of Things (IOT)
Dr Davoud Mougouei, Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering
Dr Shiva Pokhrel, Senior Lecturer in Mobile Computing
Professor Arkady Zaslavsky, Professor of Distributed Systems and Security
Affiliated academics
Adjunct professors
Adjunct Professor Catherine Buhler
Adjunct Professor Narelle Devine
Adjunct Professor Eshan Dissanayake
Adjunct Professor Patrick Fair
Adjunct Professor David Fairman
Adjunct Professor Praveen Gauravaram
Adjunct Professor Nigel Hedges
Adjunct Professor Leonard Kleinman
Adjunct Professor James Kotsias
Adjunct Associate Professor Shane Laffin
Adjunct Professor Berin Lautenbach
Adjunct Professor Min Livanidis
Adjunct Professor Phillip Magness
Adjunct Associate Professor Dan Maslin
Adjunct Associate Professor Mitra Minai
Adjunct Professor Ashok Mysore
Adjunct Professor Zahir Quettawala
Adjunct Professor Jamie Rossato
Adjunct Professor Chadi Saliby
Adjunct Professor Malcolm Shore
Adjunct Associate Professor Richard Stocks
Adjunct Professor Jeff Tweedale
Honorary staff
Honorary Fellow Jan Carlo Barca
Honorary Fellow Morshed Chowdhury
Honorary Professor Benoit Dupont
Honorary Associate Professor Jacob Cybulski
Honorary Professor Peter Eklund
Honorary Fellow Kerry Kirk
Honorary Associate Professor Abbas Kudrati
Honorary Associate Professor Damien Manuel
Honorary Associate Professor Ana Novak
Honorary Associate Professor Tim Wilkin
Researchers
Dr Deepti Aggarwal, Research Fellow
Dr Mumtaz Ali, Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Prof Terrence Caelli, Research Professor in Data Science
Dr Borui Cai, Associate Research Fellow, Computer Science
Dr Belinda Huang, Research Fellow, Internet of Things
Dr Jay Jeong, Senior Research Fellow, Cyber Security
Ms Trudy Lam, Associate Research Fellow, Complex Decision Making
Kelvin Li, Research Fellow, Augmented Cyber Defence
Dr Ashish Nanda, Research Fellow, Authentication Technology
Dr Mohammad Nosouhi, Research Fellow, Authentication Technologies
Haftu Reda, Research Fellow, Authentication Technologies
Dr Juan Calle Salazar, Research Fellow, Optimization in Next-Generation Satellite Communications
Dr Syed Wajid Ali Shah, Research Fellow, Authentication Technologies
Dr Jian-Zhang Wu, Research Fellow in Mathematics and Decision
Industry capstone staff
Mr Jesse Mcmeikan, Manager, Industry Projects
Ms Rita Wu, Project Officer, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Ms Michelle Yu, Administrator, Industry Projects
Technical staff
Mr Scott Blackburn, Senior Technical Officer, Cloud Computing and AI
Mr Nghia Dang, ICT Systems Manager
Mr Justin Li, Senior Technical Officer
Mr Gillud Poznanski, Senior Technical Officer, Emerging Technologies
Contact us
Get in touch if you have further questions regarding the School of Information Technology.
+61 3 9244 6699