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See computing staffThe School of Computing collaborates with industry, government and research agencies to make our research highly relevant and impactful.
At the forefront of the revolution in digital technologies, the School of Computing is a powerhouse for work-changing research – including intelligent and data intensive computing, secure and reliable systems, and human-computer interactions. Our exciting goal is to continually improve Macquarie's global reputation for generating and delivering high-impact computing research and education.
Our research is classified into three broad themes, under which there are research groups where various activities are carried out.
Research in this space develops techniques that can learn, predict, and make decisions. From AI and machine learning techniques, through data mining and natural language understanding, to large scale distributed computation technologies – this research spans a diverse range of applications, including marketing, medical and finance domains.
Projects in this area strive for fundamental advances in security and cryptography, formal methods, programming and software verification techniques. These improvements allow for trustworthy systems, services and support. Research outcomes are applied in networking, cloud computing, trusted computing, software systems, large-scale data, mobile and wireless, and Internet of Things.
Focusing on the interaction between human beings and computer technology, research in this field takes a human-centric approach. Using Macquarie’s leading-edge facilities (including the renowned Simulation Hub) researchers investigate several fields contributing to the evolution of HCI technologies. These include the design and development of pervasive interfaces, video games, motion tracking, training simulations, collaborative and immersive environments, and the overall evaluation of a game product.
Yelaman Abdullin - Principal Supervisor, Dr Diego Molla-Aliod E: yelaman.abdullin@hdr.mq.edu.au Conversational Search for Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems |
Saleh Afzoon - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti E: saleh.afzoon@hdr.mq.edu.au Knowledge-based Multimodal Transformer for Mental Disorder Detection |
Hijab Alavi - Principal Supervisor, Dr Stephen Smith E: hijab.alavi@hdr.mq.edu.au Embracing Tertiary Curricula & Societal Challenges for IT/IS Employment Sustainability |
Elaf Alhazmi - Principal Supervisor, Distinguished Professor Michael Sheng E: elaf.alhazmi@hdr.mq.edu.au Memory Management: Ownership Concept in Programming Languages |
Abid Ali - Principal Supervisor, Dr Diego Molla-Aliod E: abid.ali@hdr.mq.edu.au Multi-Modal Neural Summarization |
Adeem Ali Anwar- Principal Supervisor, Dr Xuyun Zhang E: adeemali.anwar@hdr.mq.edu.au Selection Hyper-Heuristics Based Optimization for Many-Objective Problems |
Pedro Henrique Arruda Faustini - Principal Supervisor, Professor Mark Dras E: pedro.arrudafaustini@hdr.mq.edu.au A Privacy-Preserving Approach for Text Generation |
Yvonne Bachiller - Principal Supervisor, Dr Peter Busch E: yvonne-custodio.bachiller@hdr.mq.edu.au AI and ML Enabled BPM: Business Intelligence Solution |
Muhammad Hassan Ali Bajwa - Principal Supervisor, Professor Deborah Richards E: muhammadhassanali.bajwa@students.mq.edu.au Organization-aware agents in serious games for cyber security ethical training |
Shashie Dilhara Batan Arachichige - Principal Supervisor, Professor Dali Kaafar E: shashiedilhara.batanarachchige@hdr.mq.edu.au Biometric Authentication on mobile devices: A Novel Approach on Behavioral Biometrics and continuous authentication using a Deep Learning Approach |
Hu Cao - Principal Supervisor, Professor Longbing Cao E: hu.cao@hdr.mq.edu.au Non-IID Learning in Genomics and Genetics |
Luigi Domenico Cecchini Soares- Principal Supervisor, Dr Natasha Fernandes E: luigidomenico.cecchinisoares@hdr.mq.edu.au QIF-Aware Compiler |
Timothy Chard - Principal Supervisor, Professor Mark Dras E: timothy.chard@hdr.mq.edu.au Improving our Confidence in the Predictions of Neural Network |
Chris Chen - Principal Supervisor, Professor Annabelle McIver E: chris.chen1@mq.edu.au Mathematical Foundations of Information Flow |
Hui Chen - Principal Supervisor, Professor Longbing Cao E: hui.chen2@students.mq.edu.au Multi-agent Interaction Learning and its Application in Transportation Systems |
Xinyuan Chen - Principal Supervisor, Professor Tao Gu E :xinyuan.chen1@hdr.mq.edu.au On Device Machine Learning Technology for Mobile Sensing Applications on Smartphones and Wearables |
Xiaoxiao Chi - Principal Supervisor, Dr Xuyun Zhang E: xiaoxiao.chi@hdr.mq.edu.au Privacy-aware service prediction and recommendation in big data |
Pengfei Ding - Principal Supervisor, Professor Yan Wang E: pengfei.ding2@hdr.mq.edu.au Graph Neural Network (GNN) based Path Recommendation in Social Networks |
Andrew Edwards – Principal Supervisor, Dr Stephen Smith E: andrew.edwards2@hdr.mq.edu.au |
Jiwei Guan - Principal Supervisor, Dr James Zheng E: jiwei.guan@hdr.mq.edu.au Attack and Defense on Voiceprint Enabled IOT Systems |
Yang Guo - Principal Supervisor, Professor Jian Yang E: yang.guo5@hdr.mq.edu.au |
Venus Haghighi – Principal Supervisor, Distinguished Professor Michael Sheng E: venus.haghighi@hdr.mq.edu.au Blockchain-based Decentralized Identity Management System in the Internet of Things (IoT) |
Ambreen Hanif – Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti E: ambreen.hanif@hdr.mq.edu.au Linking Storytelling and Explainable AI: Facilitate Interpreting, Explaining, and Visualizing Deep Learning |
Malik Khizar Hayat - Principal Supervisor, Professor Jian Yang E: malik.khizar@hdr.mq.edu.au Mining and Modeling Heterogeneous Social Networks: Detection, Deconstruction, and Prevention of Anomalies |
Yi He - Principal Supervisor, Dr James Zheng E: yi.he9@hdr.mq.edu.au Anomaly Detection in Edge-based VANET |
Katherine Hopman – Principal Supervisor, Professor Deborah Richards E: katherine.hopman@students.mq.edu.au Digital technologies to support people’s mental health following a traumatic event |
Yupeng Jiang - Principal Supervisor, Dr James Zheng E: yupeng.jiang@hdr.mq.edu.au Sybil Attacks and Defense on Differential Privacy based Federated Learning |
Michal Kepkowski - Principal Supervisor, Professor Dali Kaafar E: michal.kepkowski@hdr.mq.edu.au Privacy enhancing technologies for identity and access management |
Bilal Khan - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Jia Wu E: bilal.khan2@hdr.mq.edu.au Join Processing in Data Streams |
Salma Banu Nazeer Khan - Principal Supervisor, Professor Deborah Richards E: salma.khan@students.mq.edu.au The Design and Use of Infographics for Ethical Decision-Making |
Nouna Khandan - Principal Supervisor, Professor Mark Dras E: nouna.khandan@hdr.mq.edu.au Stroke Detection and Classification with Deep Learning |
Heegyeong Kim - Principal Supervisor, Professor Richard Han E: heegyeong.kim@hdr.mq.edu.au Scalable Drone Swarm Coordination |
Lashmi Kondoth - Principal Supervisor, Dr Rajan Shankaran E: lashmi.kondoth@hdr.mq.edu.au Optimising Resource Allocation and Scheduling in Wireless Network on Chip for Internet of Things and Edge Computing |
Mahdieh Labani - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti E: mahdieh.labani@hdr.mq.edu.au Deep convolutional neural network techniques in the classification of Single-cell data |
Peizhen Li - Principal Supervisor, Professor Longbing Cao E: peizhen.li1@hdr.mq.edu.au Community behavior and interaction learning |
Linfeng Liang - Principal Supervisor, Dr James Zheng E: linfeng.liang@hdr.mq.edu.au Human Knowledge Guided Reinforcement Learning for End-to-End Self-driving |
Fanzhen Liu - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Jia Wu E: fanzhen.liu@hdr.mq.edu.au Deep learning for community detection in social networks |
Hongyang Liu- Principal Supervisor, Professor Yan Wang E: hongyang.liu2@hdr.mq.edu.au Constructing Simulated Environment for Recommender System |
Na Liu- Principal Supervisor, Professor Richard Han E: na.liu8@hdr.mq.edu.au |
Zhuozhu Liu - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Jia Wu E: zhuozhu.liu@hdr.mq.edu.au Research on the Evaluation of Think Tanks Based on Neural Networks |
Gabriel Henrique Lopes Gomes Alves Nunes- Principal Supervisor, Professor Annabelle McIver E: gabriel.nunes@hdr.mq.edu.au A formal approach to quantifying privacy and utility in large datasets |
Fariba Lotfi - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti E: fariba.lotfi@hdr.mq.edu.au Using Deep Learning Techniques in Automatic Image Annotation Task |
Siwei Luo - Principal Supervisor, Dr James Zheng E: siwei.luo@hdr.mq.edu.au Metamorphic Testing for Autonomous Driving Systems |
Xuexiong Luo - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Jia Wu E: xuexiong.luo@hdr.mq.edu.au Anomaly detection based on adaptive nodes representations of attributed networks |
Xiaoxiao Ma - Principal Supervisor, Professor Jian Yang E: xiaoxiao.ma2@hdr.mq.edu.au Deep Learning for Graph Anomaly Detection |
Christopher McCutcheon – Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Michael Hitchens E: christopher.mccutcheon@hdr.mq.edu.au Work, Play & Leisure: Modes of Engagement with eSports |
Hadi Mohammadzadeh Abachi- Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti E: hadi.mohammadzadehabachi@hdr.mq.edu.au Community Detection of Customers and Product Recommendation Based On Risk-Taking Level In Financial Organizations |
Sahar Moradizeyveh – Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti E: sahar.moradizeyveh@hdr.mq.edu.au Linking Storytelling Systems and Recommender Systems to Improve Accuracy for Warm and Cold Start Users |
Salman Mousaeirad – Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti E: salman.mousaeirad@hdr.mq.edu.au Demand Forecasting based on Mathematical Models and Big Data Analytics in Banking Industry |
Daniel Onoja – Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Michael Hitchens E: daniel.onoja@hdr.mq.edu.au Security Policy to Manage Responses to DDoS Attacks on 5G Enabled IoT Devices |
Kevin Purnell - Principal Supervisor, Dr Rolf Schwitter E: kevin.purnell@hdr.mq.edu.au Error-free Logic Programs from Conversational User-Interfaces |
Hina Qayyum - Principal Supervisor, Professor Dali Kaafar E: hina.qayyum@hdr.mq.edu.au Characterizing and Measuring Misbehavior in Online Platforms |
Zitai Qiu - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Jia Wu E: zitai.qiu@hdr.mq.edu.au Recommendations for Promotional Information from Social Media |
Nabiallah Rezvani - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti E: nabiallah.rezvani@hdr.mq.edu.au Linking Natural Language and Vision Using Crowdsourcing |
Bakhtiar Sadeghi - Principal Supervisor, Professor Deborah Richards E: bakhtiar.sadeghi@hdr.mq.edu.au Leveraging AI to enhance cybersecurity ethics decision making |
Masoud Safilian - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti E: masoud.safilian@hdr.mq.edu.au A New Knowledge Sharing and Weak Supervised Framework for NLP Classification Tasks |
Muhammad Salman - Principal Supervisor, Professor Dali Kaafar E: muhammad.salman2@hdr.mq.edu.au Machine Learning Powered Cyber Threat Intelligence Framework For Unstructured Data |
Sana Salman - Principal Supervisor, Professor Deborah Richards E: sana.salman@hdr.mq.edu.au Making ECAs Smart using multi-coach interactive scenarios and AI based response generation algorithms |
Vedant Sansare - Principal Supervisor, Dr Malcolm Ryan E: vedant.sansare@hdr.mq.edu.au Using Videogames to Encourage Reflective Ethical Decision-making in Cybersecurity Curriculum |
I Wayan BudI Sentana - Principal Supervisor, Dr Muhammad Ikram E: i-wayan-budi.sentana@students.mq.edu.au Analysis and Design of Secure and Attacks Resilient Mechanism for Online Platform |
Nasrin Shabani - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti E: nasrin.shabani@hdr.mq.edu.au Deep Generative Models for Graph Summarization |
Zeeshan Zulkifl Shah- Principal Supervisor, Professor Dali Kaafar E: zeeshanzulkifl.shah@hdr.mq.edu.au AI driven Intrusion Detection in 5G RAN |
Maryam Shahabikargar - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti E: maryam.shahabi-kargar@hdr.mq.edu.au Learning Complex Customer Behaviors for Intelligent Recommendation and Customer Churn Prediction |
Usman Shahbaz - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti E: usman.shahbaz@hdr.mq.edu.au Rule Based Cognitive Assistance For Enterprise Risk Decisioning Within An Agriculture Lending ADI |
Ferdous Sharifi - Principal Supervisor, Dr Young Lee E: ferdous.sharifi@hdr.mq.edu.au Multi-Objective Offloading Scheme in an Uncertain Fog Network |
Anthony Shaw - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti E: anthony.shaw4@hdr.mq.edu.au Integration of Statically Typed, Compiled Languages to Dynamic Language Runtimes |
Behnaz Soltani - Principal Supervisor, Distinguished Professor Michael Sheng E: behnaz.soltani@hdr.mq.edu.au Dynamic Resource Management in Distributed Stream Processing Systems |
Connor Stead - Principal Supervisor, Dr Stephen Smith E: connor.stead@hdr.mq.edu.au Structuring abstracts to enhance literature discovery |
Xing Su - Principal Supervisor, Professor Jian Yang E: xing.su2@hdr.mq.edu.au Detecting Malicious Accounts in Online Social Networks |
Yatong Sun - Principal Supervisor, Dr Sun Zhu E: yatong.sun1@hdr.mq.edu.au Enhancing Sequential Recommendation by Eliminating Unreliable Data |
Krittanat Sutassananon - Principal Supervisor, Professor Mehmet Orgun E: krittanat.sutassananon@hdr.mq.edu.au Whole Heart Segmentation with Convolutional Neural Networks |
Hafiz Muhammad Tahir - Principal Supervisor, Professor Deborah Richards E: hafizmuhammad.tahir@hdr.mq.edu.au Exploring psychoinformatics for human action prediction before happening of an event |
Saqr Thabet - Principal Supervisor, Dr Yipeng Zhou E: saqr.thabet@hdr.mq.edu.au Deep Learning for Wireless Video Transmission |
Yuzhe Tian - Principal Supervisor, Dr James Zheng E: yuzhe.tian@hdr.mq.edu.au Hardware-Oriented Deep Learning Acceleration |
Shakila Tonni - Principal Supervisor, Professor Mark Dras E: shakila.tonni@hdr.mq.edu.au Adversarial Attacks and Defenses on Text Data |
David Warren - Principal Supervisor, Professor Mark Dras E: david.warren@hdr.mq.edu.au Information Sharing In Genetic Reinforcement Learning Hybrids |
Kayson Whitehouse - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Michael Hitchens E: kayson.whitehouse@mq.edu.au Welcoming Trans and Gender Diverse Players |
Nan Wu - Principal Supervisor, Professor Dali Kaafar E: nan.wu5@hdr.mq.edu.au Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing with Machine Learning |
Haolong Xiang - Principal Supervisor, Dr Xuyun Zhang E: haolong.xiang@hdr.mq.edu.au Isolation Forest scheme Based Anomaly Detection in Big Data |
Bingbing Xie - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Jia Wu E: bingbing.xie@hdr.mq.edu.au Research on Extracting Medical Experience Knowledge for Clinical Text Based on Deep Neural Networks |
Rongwei Xu - Principal Supervisor, Dr Guanfeng Liu E: rongwei.xu@hdr.mq.edu.au Trust-Prediction Oriented Social Network Analytics |
Run Yang - Principal Supervisor, Professor Yan Wang E: run.yang@hdr.mq.edu.au Deep-learning-based Shale Gas Production Prediction |
Xuankai Yang - Principal Supervisor, Professor Yan Wang E: xuankai.yang@hdr.mq.edu.au Maritime travel route recommendation |
Zhenyu Yang - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Jia Wu E: zhenyu.yang3@hdr.mq.edu.au Efficiency learning on large graphs utilizing structure entropy |
Jiaohong Yao - Principal Supervisor, Professor Richard Han E: jiaohong.yao@hdr.mq.edu.au Robust Autonomous Landing Models for Drones |
Munazza Zaib - Principal Supervisor, Distinguished Professor Michael Sheng E: munazza-zaib.ghori@hdr.mq.edu.au Scaling Up An End-To-End System Using Zero-Shot Learning |
Ge Zhang - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Jia Wu E: ge.zhang5@hdr.mq.edu.au Research on semantic community with hierarchical topic structure in large-scale complex networks with content |
Han Zhang - Principal Supervisor, Professor Yan Wang E: han.zhang13@hdr.mq.edu.au Modeling node pairs relationship in Heterogeneous Information Networks |
Yang Zhang - Principal Supervisor, Distinguished Professor Michael Sheng E: yang.zhang21@hdr.mq.edu.au Big Data Analytics on Scientific Knowledge |
Yuchen Zhang - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Jia Wu E: yuchen.zhang3@hdr.mq.edu.au Research on Social Media Network Structure and Content Mining |
Zhaoyang Zhang - Principal Supervisor, Distinguished Professor Michael Sheng E: zhaoyang.zhang@hdr.mq.edu.au Intelligent Retrieval System of Video archival of Intangible Cultural Heritage |
Jiajie Zhu - Principal Supervisor, Professor Yan Wang E: jiajie.zhu1@hdr.mq.edu.au |
Conor Atkins - Principal Supervisor, Professor Dali Kaafar E: conor.atkins@hdr.mq.edu.au From chit chat to scam baiting: Creating a scam baiting chat bot to waste the time of real world phone scammers |
Tseesuren Batsuuri - Principal Supervisor, Professor Jian Yang E: tseesuren.batsuuri@hdr.mq.edu.au Using Graph DB to improve ACID transactions management in micro-service architecture |
Md Mahbub Islam Bhuiyan - Principal Supervisor, Dr Muhammad Ikram E: mdmahbubislam.bhuiyan@hdr.mq.edu.au Deep Uncertainty Quantification in Decision Making |
Roopasree Chidurala - Principal Supervsor, Dr Xuyun Zhang E: roopasree.chidurala@students.mq.edu.au Diffusion Models and their performance against GANs |
Guangwei Dong - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Jia Wu E: guangwei.dong1@hdr.mq.edu.au Explore Improving the Robust and Efficiency of Social Event Recommended Systems Using Graph Neural Network |
Guangwei Dong - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Jia Wu E: guangwei.dong1@hdr.mq.edu.au Explore Improving the Robust and Efficiency of Social Event Recommended Systems Using Graph Neural Network |
Stephen Elbourn - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti E: stephen.elbourn@hdr.mq.edu.au Towards Artificial Intelligence Enabled Exam Marking |
Eu Jin Foo - Principal Supervisor, Dr Xuyun Zhang E: eujin.foo@hdr.mq.edu.au Optimising Fairness in Graph Networks |
Allan Francia - Principal Supervisor, Dr Diego Molla-Aliod E: allan.francia@hdr.mq.edu.au Social Media and Health |
Anthony Heng - Principal Supervisor, Professor Mehmet Orgun E: anthony.heng@hdr.mq.edu.au The utilization and further development of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) research for expanding and improve ISAR imaging datasets |
Aung Kyaw Htet - Principal Supervisor, Professor Mark Dras E: aungkyaw.htet@hdr.mq.edu.au Natural Language Understanding for Burmese |
Seikh Mohammed Shahidul Islam - Principal Supervisor, Dr Rajan Shankaran E: seikh-mohammed-shahidul.isl@hdr.mq.edu.au DDoS Attack Detection and Mitigation in IOT with ML Techniques |
Sidharth Kaushik- Principal Supervisor, Dr Muhammad Ikram E: sidharth.kaushik@hdr.mq.edu.au Detecting Cyber Security Attacks With Hybrid Honeypot Systems |
Junyan Li - Principal Supervisor, Dr Xuyun Zhang E: junyan.li@students.mq.edu.au Federated anomaly detection with LSHiForest in the IoT network |
Hongyi Lu - Principal Supervisor, Dr Xuyun Zhang E: hongyi.lu@hdr.mq.edu.au On the Deployment of Artificial Immune System for SIEM |
Shichen Luo- Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Jia Wu E: shichen.luo@hdr.mq.edu.au Exploring Novel Noise Reduction Methods for Pearson-Correlation-Based Brain Graph Analysis: A Perspective from Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis |
King Tao Ng- Principal Supervisor, Dr Diego Molla-Aliod E: king.ng1@hdr.mq.edu.au Causal Approaches for Question Answering |
Thammitage Piyumi Wathsala Seneviratne, Principal Supervisor - Professor Dali Kaafar E: thammitagepiyumiwathsala.seneviratne@hdr.mq.edu.au Analysis of Misinformation on the Web and Defence |
Alireza Shammasi, Principal Supervisor - Professor Amin Beheshti E: alireza.shammasi@hdr.mq.edu.au Towards Intelligent Recommender Systems Based on Weak Supervision |
Graeme Thomas, Principal Supervisor- Professor Amin Beheshti E: graeme.thomas1@hdr.mq.edu.au Resisting Adversarial Attacks with Quantum Machine Learning |
Yongsheng Yu, Principal Supervisor- Associate Professor Jia Wu E: yongsheng.yu@hdr.mq.edu.au Social Event Detection with Reinforced Heterogeneous Graph Attention Network |
Guowei Zhang, Principal Supervisor - Dr Xuyun Zhang E: guowei.zhang@students.mq.edu.au Multi-documents Summarisation using AI model |