DrFrank Jiang

Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security

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

  • Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Information Technology
  • +61 3 924 46677 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

BIO

  • AI-driven Cyber Security, Service security, Low-Altitude Economy ( Space-Air-Ground-Sea Integrated Network (SAGSIN) Smart Drone Security Services)
  • Quantum Information Systems

 

Dr Frank Jiang is a mature and active mid-career researcher with over 20 years research&teaching experiences within Australia, holding a senior lectureship in cyber security at School of IT at Deakin University, Australia. He completed his PhD degree in communication engineering and cyber security at University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). In 2011, he was awarded a highly prestigious UNSW Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship (successful rate less than 4.5%) by University of New South Wales at Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra for four years (2011-2014). Frank received a number of awards in Deakin over the past years, including the research impact award from the School of IT at Deakin in 2019,School of IT offshore teaching award in 2020Innovation and Creative Practice Excellence School Award in 2023 and Faculty of SEBE Collaboration Award 2024. Frank has been successful in securing a number of commercialised funds, amounts up to 3.3 million Australia dollars in the past 5 years. He also has a deep understanding of business requirements and pressures, governance and risk management and worked with a number of organisations in Sydney area including government agencies and business corporations. He is acting as the associate editor for the prestigious journal Knowledge-based Systems (KBS), a SCI Tier 1 journal.

His broad research expertise and interests span across IoT security and privacy, Bio-inspired context-awareness, Quantum Cryptography, Embedded hardware FPGA and motes, Human factorised next-generation authentication for the Critical Infrastructure, Active defence systems in V2X, Social behaviour-based personalised anomaly detection, Blockchain-based supply chain/logistics, Forged image identifications, High frequency modulation/demodulation for Underwater Communications. He holds one Australian invention patent in computer IDS security industry as the 1st inventor, published so far over 260 highly reputed journal and conference articles (H-index 25), which includes over 80 papers in venues ranked A*/A by the 2020 CORE ranking, primarily published in the high reputed journals - IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), ACM Computing Surveys, KBS, IEEE TNSM, IEEE TSMCS, EA of AI, PLA, as well as the key flagship conferences - IEEE sponsored Asiaccs, AAAI, ICDM, BIBM, ICSOC, WCCI.


Research Groups
* Artificial Intelligence in Industrial Applications
* Software Engineering Innovation Lab

* Deakin Cyber
* Internet of Things (IoT) Platforms and Applications
* Immersive Technology Lab

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security
    Deakin University, School of Information Technology

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    Univ. of Technology Sydney

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  • Cybersecurity and privacy
  • Distributed computing and systems software
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Data management and data science

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE

  • School of Information Technology