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Dr

Leo Zhang

Honorary Fellow

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

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  • Honorary Fellow
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Information Technology
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  • Off-Campus (Home)

BIO

Leo has been working on various sub-fields of Cyber Security for more than ten
years, he is a certified ethical hacker, an IEEE member, as well as an editor
for Scimago Q1 journal International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos (in
Nonlinear Science) and Scimago Q2 journal Security and Communication Networks
(in Cyber Security). He has been an active researcher since 2011, with more
than 70 publications appearing in prestigious journals (like TIFS, TDSC, TCYB,
TMM, COMST, etc.) and conference proceedings (like CVPR, IJCAI, ACM MM, ICME,
PAKDD, etc.). He holds his bachelor's degree and master's degree both in math,
and his PhD degree in electronic engineering, but has worked in Schoo of IT
since 2018. For this mixed background, his teaching interests ranges from
Math, to general IT units, to cyber-specific units. His research interests
focus on AI security and applied cryptography.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Honorary Fellow
    Deakin University, School of Information Technology

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Crypt Algorithm Engineer
    State Grid Corporation of China (China), Beijing, Beijing, China1 Jul 2012 - 15 Jul 2013

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)

  • Distributed computing and systems software
  • Data management and data science
  • Communications engineering
  • Computer vision and multimedia computation
  • Cybersecurity and privacy

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE

  • School of Information Technology