Current Roles

  • Senior Research Scientist (Team Lead, AI Security), CSIRO's Data61
  • (Adjunct) Senior Research Scientist, Responsible AI Research Centre (RAIR), Adelaide University
  • (Adjunct) Senior Research Fellow, School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne

Academic Qualifications

  • 2018
    PhD – Computer Science (PhD Supervisor: Keith W. Ross), East China Normal University
  • 2013
    Bachelor of Science – Pure and Applied Mathematics, East China Normal University

Employment

  • 2025-Present
    (Adjunct) Senior Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
  • 2024-Present
    (Adjunct) Senior Research Scientist, Adelaide University (Responsible AI Research Centre)
  • 2022-Present
    Senior Research Scientist (Team Lead, AI Security), CSIRO's Data61
  • 2019-2022
    Lecturer (a.k.a. Assistant Professor), The University of Adelaide
  • 2018-2019
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Optus Macquarie University Cyber Security Hub (Macquarie University)
  • 2018-2019
    Visiting Research Scientist, CSIRO's Data61

Honours & Awards

  • 2025
    IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (Middle Career Researcher) for contributions to systems security and privacy and the responsible development of artificial intelligence. IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing
  • 2025
    Distinguished Paper Award, Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS) Symposium
  • 2024
    Distinguished Paper Award, USENIX Security
  • 2024
    Distinguished Reviewer Award, Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS) Symposium
  • 2023
    Distinguished Paper Award, ACM SIGSOFT ESEC/FSE
  • 2023
    Distinguished Reviewer Award, ACM SIGSOFT ESEC/FSE
  • 2022
    Best Student Paper Award, Australasian Information Security Conference
  • 2021
    Best Paper Award Runner-Up, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
  • 2018
    Distinguished Paper Award, ACM SIGSOFT International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
  • 2017
    Research Forum Award, Deep Learning Security Workshop (NUS)
  • 2015
    Best Paper Award, IEEE International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Social Networks and Big Data
  • 2025
    Collaboration Award, CSIRO's Data61
  • 2024
    Science Excellence Award, CSIRO's Data61
  • 2023
    Science Excellence Award, CSIRO's Data61
  • 2021
    Faculty Award of Overall Awesome, The University of Adelaide

Grants

  • 2024-2027
    Responsible AI Enabling the Internet of Energy, CSIRO – National Science Foundation (US) AI Research Collaboration Program
  • 2024-2026
    Tech4HSE (AR/VR Security): Securing Embedded AI Systems in AR/VR for Health Care, CSIRO – Swinburne University of Technology
  • 2024-2026
    ARC Discovery Project: Rigorous Privacy Compliance in Modern Application Ecosystems
  • 2021-2023
    ARC Discovery Project: Intelligent Technologies for Smart Cryptography
  • 2020-2020
    RBlavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center, Tel ‎Aviv University, Israel: Leakage-free Cryptography: Eliminating Side Channel Leakage Using Compiler Optimization