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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

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

Dr Yanjun Zhang, 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 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 Xuequan Lu, 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 Guy Wood-Bradley, Lecturer in Information Technology

Mathematics and optimisation

Professor Gleb Beliakov, Professor of Mathematics

Dr 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 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

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

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

Dr Juan Calle Salazar, Research Fellow, Optimization in Next-Generation Satellite Communications

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

Dr David Goad, Industry Professor

Industry capstone staff

Mr Jesse Mcmeikan, Manager, Industry Projects

Ms Rita Wu, Project Officer, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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

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