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 Trina Myers, Head of School
Professor Richard Dazeley, Deputy Head of School
Varsha Lal-Singh, School Manager (IT)
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)
Dr Dhananjay Thiruvady, Associate Head of School, Industry Research
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 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
Professor John Yearwood, Professor
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
Professor John Yearwood, Professor
Dr Nayyar Zaidi, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science
Dr Ye Zhu, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science
Cyber security
Professor Jemal Abawajy, Professor in 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
Dr Lennon Chang, Associate Professor, Cyber Risk and Policy
Dr Anh Dinh, Senior Lecturer in 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
Dr Jack Li, Associate Lecturer in Cyber Security
Professor Gang Li, Associate Professor of Cyber Security
Dr Lei Pan, Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security
Dr Keshav Sood, Lecturer in Cyber Security
Dr Muneeb Ul Hassan, Associate Lecturer in Cyber Security
Dr Luxing Yang, Lecturer in Cyber Security
Data science
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 Iynkaran Natgunanathan, Lecturer Data Science
Dr Atul Sajjanhar, Lecturer in Data Science
Professor Maia Angelova Turkedjieva, Professor of Data Science and Machine Learning
Professor John Yearwood, Professor
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 Sophie Mckenzie, Senior Lecturer in Information Technology
Dr Shantanu Pal, Lecturer Emerging Technology & Blockchain
Dr Jihong Park, Lecture in Information Technology
Dr Ria Rushin Joseph, Lecturer Emerging Technology and Quantum Computing
Associate Professor William Raffe, Associate Professor of Emerging Technologies
Dr Guy Wood-Bradley, Lecturer in Information Technology
Mathematics and optimisation
Professor Gleb Beliakov, Professor of Mathematics
Associate Professor Wei-Yu Chiu, Associate Professor of 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 Musa Mammadov, Senior Lecturer in Data Science
Dr Reinier Diaz Millan, Lecturer in Mathematics
Dr Asef Nazari, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics
Dr Naeem Syed, Lecturer in Cyber Security
Dr Mehdi Tavakol, Associate Lecturer in Mathematics
Dr David Tay, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics
Dr Dhananjay Thiruvady, Associate Head of School, Industry Research
Associate Professor Julien Ugon, Associate Professor of Mathematics
Dr Guillermo Pineda Villavicencio, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and Mathematics
Associate Professor Wei-Yu Chiu, Associate Professor of Mathematics
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
Professor Yong Xiang, Professor of Network Engineering
Software engineering and Internet of Things
Dr Feifei Chen, Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering
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
Mr Ahsan Habib, Lecturer in Software Engineering
Associate Professor Kevin Lee, Associate Head of School (Planning and Strategy)
Dr Hourieh Khalajzadeh, Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering
Dr Glory Lee, Lecturer in Computer Science
Professor Seng Loke, Professor in Computer Science
Associate Professor Xiao Liu, Associate Head of School, International
Dr Valeh Moghaddam, Lecturer in Internet of Things (IOT)
Dr Davoud Mougouei, Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering
Dr Azadeh Ghari Neiat, Senior Lecturer in Mobile Apps Computing
Dr Shiva Pokhrel, Senior Lecturer in Mobile Computing
Professor Arkady Zaslavsky, Professor of Distributed Systems and Security
Affiliated academics
Adjunct professors
Abid Adam, Adjunct Professor
Catherine Buhler, Adjunct Professor
Narelle Devine, Adjunct Professor
Eshan Dissanayake, Adjunct Professor
Ben Doyle, Adjunct Professor
John Ellis, Adjunct Professor
Praveen Gauravaram, Adjunct Professor
Nigel Hedges, Adjunct Professor
Darren Kane, Adjunct Professor
Leonard Kleinman, Adjunct Professor
James Kotsias, Adjunct Professor
Shane Laffin, Adjunct Associate Professor
Berin Lautenbach, Adjunct Professor
Dan Maslin, Adjunct Associate Professor
Ashok Mysore, Adjunct Professor
Jamie Rossato, Adjunct Professor
Chadi Saliby, Adjunct Professor
Malcolm Shore, Adjunct Professor
Greg Touhill, Adjunct Professor
Jeff Tweedale, Adjunct Professor
Emma Wise, Adjunct Professor
Min Livanidis, Adjunct Professor
Mitra Minai, Adjunct Associate Professor
Phillip Magness, Adjunct Professor
Zahir Quettawala, Adjunct Professor
Richard Stocks, Adjunct Associate Professor
Honorary staff
Sasan Adibi, Honorary Fellow
Jan Carlo Barca, Honorary Fellow
Morshed Chowdhury, Honorary Fellow
Jacob Cybulski, Honorary Associate Professor
Robert Dew, Honorary Fellow
Benoit Dupont, Honorary Professor
Peter Eklund, Honorary Professor
Hasan Ferdous, Honorary Fellow
Longxiang Gao, Honorary Fellow
Jingyu Hou, Honorary Fellow
Kerry Kirk, Honorary Fellow
Abbas Kudrati, Honorary Associate Professor
Ana Novak, Honorary Associate Professor
Damien Manuel, Honorary Associate Professor
Bill Moran, Honorary Professor
Imran Razzak, Honorary Fellow
Rui Wang, Honorary Fellow
Jason Wells, Honorary Fellow
Tim Wilkin, Honorary Associate Professor
Dimaz Wijaya, Honorary Fellow
David Yost, Honorary Associate Professor
Zili Zhang, Honorary Fellow
Researchers
Dr Deepti Aggarwal, Research Fellow
Prof Terrence Caelli, Research Professor in Data Science
Swathi Chandrasekhar, Research Fellow, Future Internet
Dr Borui Cai, Associate Research Fellow, Computer Science
Kaneez Fizza, Research Fellow, Future Internet
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
Bohai Li, Research Fellow, Satellite of IoT
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
Thuseethan Selvarajah, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Syed Wajid Ali Shah, Research Fellow, Authentication Technologies
Dr Ashraf Uddin, Research Fellow in Machine Learning
Dr Jian-Zhang Wu, Research Fellow in Mathematics and Decision
Dr Chenhao Xu, Associate Research Fellow in Machine Learning and Cyber Security
Eric Xu, Associate Research Fellow
Professional staff
Industry professors
TBC
Industry capstone staff
Miss Jess Jaswal, Senior Officer, Marketing and External Engagement
Mr Jesse Mcmeikan, Manager, Industry Projects
Ms Michelle Yu, Coordinator, 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