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Associate ProfessorSutharshan Rajasegarar

Associate Professor

Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Information Technology

Orcid identifier0000-0002-6559-6736 (opens in a new tab)⁠
  • Associate Professor
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Information Technology
  • +61 3 924 45367 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Projects
* Anomaly/outlier detection and distributed/federated machine learning.
* Quantum anomaly detection.
* Emotion detection and profiling using computer vision.
* Smart farming and precision agriculture.
* Smart activity detection with wearable sensors.
* Internet of Things (IoT) and environmental monitoring.
* Smart transportation
* Energy profiling, Digital Twin, analysis and optimisation
* ARC Discover project 2020 (ARC DP): Learning the Focus of Attention to Detect Distributed Coordinated Attacks.
* OCSC (Oceania Cyber Security Center) project, 2018: Detection of Infected Internet-of-Thing (IoT) Devices to Prevent Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks.
* EU FP7 (European Union 7th Framework Program) project, 2013, SOCIOTAL [https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/609112]
* EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) UK grant project 2011: REDUCE - Reshaping energy demand of users by communication technology and economic incentives.

GRANTS

  • GRANT
    Distributed Quantum Computing: Algorithms and Software
    Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation4 Sep 2024 - 4 Sep 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    CSIRO Scholarship - Next Generation Graduates Program - 118-NGQGP
  • COMPETITIVE GRANT
    Distributed Quantum Computing: Algorithms and Software (opens in a new tab)⁠
    Next Generation Quantum Graduate Program (NGQGP)1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    • Loke S,
    • Choi J,
    • Rajasegarar S,
    • Park J,
    • Ranaweera C
    Grant: $338,226
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  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Machine Learning and Optimisation for Adaptive Traffic Vehicle Routing.
    14 Oct 2021 - 18 Feb 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    CAT3-1 Premonition.io Pty Ltd - $10,098.00
  • INTERNAL GRANT
    Deakin Microgrid Digital Twin (opens in a new tab)⁠
    SEBE Faculty1 Jan 2021 - 1 Jan 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Mak V,
    • Rajasegarar S,
    • Anwar A,
    • Islam S,
    • M A
    Grant amount: $228,990. Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecmx.2023.100370
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  • GRANT
    Learning the Focus of Attention to Detect Distributed Coordinated Attacks
    Australian Research Council18 Aug 2020 - 17 Aug 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Leckie C,
    • Kotagiri R,
    • Erfani S,
    • Rajasegarar S,
    • Kumar V
    ARC - Discovery Projects - DP200101960 - $100,500.00 (Total grant: $477,000)
  • INTERNAL GRANT
    Pest and disease recognition in agriculture
    Deakin-Southwest University-China grant1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Rajasegarar S,
    • Yearwood J
    Grant amount: $100,000.
  • COMPETITIVE GRANT
    Detection of Infected Internet-of-Thing (IoT) Devices to Prevent Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks
    Oceania Cyber Security Center (OCSC)1 Jan 2018 - 1 Jan 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Erfani S,
    • Rajasegarar S,
    • Rubenstein B,
    • Chan J,
    • Leckie C
    Total funding: AUD $77,737