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

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Frank's currently primary research interests include
* IoT/OT security and privacy including Drone security and secured V2V vehicular networks
* Threat analysis: Human factorised next-generation authentication.
* Personalised behavior-based anomaly detection in Social Nets.
* Quantum Security and Post Quantum computing including Quantum reinforcement learning.
* Blockchain-enabled Social Trustworthy Schemes.
* Blockchain-based supply chain/logistics.
* Multi-modal medical and health image processing
* High frequency modulation/demodulation for Underwater Communications.

Projects
1.  Chief Investigator (1st CI), A New Blockchain-based Social Media Users Anomaly Detection System, SEBE RGS (2019) 
2. Chief Investigator (1st CI), An Advanced Blockchain-Based Authentication Scheme for Autonomous Vehicular Fog Infrastructure, SEBE RGS (2020)

3. Chief Investigator (1st CI), Analytics Engagement Framework for NSW Trustee and Guardian - AUD200K; NSW Trustee & Guardian (NSW Trustee and Guardian) (2016)

3. Chief Investigator (3rd CI), Next Generation graduate project,  2024-2026 ($1.5 million)

4.Chief Investigator (5th CI), Cyber-Safe Connected Vehicles: Ensuring Secure, Trusted, and Robust Cooperative Automotive Systems, AEGP Grant, 2019 - 2021 ($494,900)
6. Chief Investigator (3rd CI), Building Deep Insights and Advanced Care Giver - Client Workforce Modeling - AUD 250K; KinCare Health Services Pty Ltd (2015)
7. Chief Investigator (4th CI), Discovering Deep Insights Into Customer Retention in Colonial First State (CFS) - AUD 400K; Colonial Mutual (2015)

 

GRANTS

  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Traceable and Sustainable Beef Pilot
    1 Mar 2025 - 28 Feb 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    Farmers Door - $205,400.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Sharing Cybersecurity Data for Australian Research (SCReeD).
    Cyber Security Research Centre Limited - C23-00241 - $65,000.001 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    On behalf of Deakin, I uploaded our cybersecurity data set for sharing, which will help community to gain more insights from real world data.
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Socrates: Software Security with a focus on critical technologies.
    1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    Cyber Security Research Centre Limited - C21-00267 - $120,978.00
  • GRANT
    A Bayesian Graph Neural Network Framework for Fault and Anomaly Detection in IoT Devices
    13 Dec 2023 - 1 Mar 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    CSIRO Scholarship - Next Generation Graduates Program - 136-NGAIG-R3 - $170,405.32
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Trace-2-Place
    3 Oct 2023 - 29 Feb 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    Agribusiness Connect Ltd - $74,200.00
  • GRANT
    Secure Data Provenance in the Internet of Vehicles.
    15 Aug 2022 - 30 Nov 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    iMove Australia Limited - 5-051 - $30,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Australian Guide to Implementing Food Traceability (AGIFT) - Seafood.
    20 Jun 2022 - 16 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    Wayfinder - Woolworths Group - $200,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Robust Authentication using Ambient Intelligence in Smart Environments (RAAISE).
    13 Apr 2022 - 1 Jul 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    Cyber Security Research Centre Limited - C13-00178 - $553,012.00
  • GRANT
    Build Al into Edge Computing with Blockchain.
    1 Sep 2021 - 8 Dec 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    CSIRO Scholarship - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation - $30,000.00
  • GRANT
    A Decentralised Blockchain-based Secure Authentication Scheme for IoT.
    10 Jul 2021 - 1 Oct 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    Cyber Security Research Centre Limited - $10,700.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    A FPGA/DSP Demonstrator for OT / IT Converged ICS Security, Trustworthiness in Industry 4.0
    23 Jun 2021 - 15 Oct 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Frank Jiang
    BCU World Pty Ltd - $31,068.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Learning Based Cyberbullying Dissemination and Source Identification Across Multiple Online Platforms.
    23 Jun 2021 - 15 Oct 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Frank Jiang
    MDP Technology Pty Ltd - $14,316.00
  • GRANT
    National Authentication Governance and Human Framework.
    8 Jul 2020 - 7 Jul 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    Cyber Security Research Centre Limited - CONTR2020/01118 - $141,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Cyber-Safe Connected Vehicles: Ensuring Secure, Trusted, and Robust Cooperative Automotive systems.
    30 Jun 2019 - 31 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    Department of Industry, Innovation and Science - AEGP000028 - $494,900.00