DrLuxing Yang

Dr Lu-Xing Yang is a senior lecturer of Cybersecurity in the School of Information Technology and a member of Deakin Cyber Research and Innovation Centre at Deakin University. He received the B.Sc. degree in mathematics and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Chongqing University in 2012 and 2015, respectively. During his Ph.D. study, he visited Imperial College London from 2014 to 2015. From 2016 to 2017, he was a post-doctoral research fellow with Delft University of Technology. Dr Yang joined Deakin University as an Alfred Deakin Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Feb 2018 and then became a lecturer in Oct 2019. Dr Yang is an IEEE senior member.

His research focuses on development of novel cyber defence algorithms and systems against emerging attacks such as APT, DDoS and disinformation with the aid of various mathematic techniques including optimal control, game theory, graph theory, and dynamical system theory. He has initiated the node-level epidemic modelling of APT attack/defence and the optimal control/differential game-based APT defence, which significantly enhances the defence performance. Another recent research highlight lies in the first-ever rigorous analysis of multiple virus (e.g., competing malware, competing opinions/products) spreading over complex networks, laying the theoretical foundation for supressing malware/rumour spreading and promoting WOM marketing. 

To date, he has published over 100 papers in top-tier journals such as IEEE TIFS, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TSMC, IEEE TNSE, and IEEE TCSS, and CORE A*/A conferences such as IJCAI'24, AsiaCCS'24 and PAKDD'25, with Google scholar citations 3500+ and h-index 35. His research excellence is acknowledged through substantial AEA Ignite grants and CSCRC grants, totalling more than $1.2m, and his inclusion in The Australian's 2021 Research Magazine as one of Australia's top 40 early-career researchers.