ProfessorManzur Murshed

Manzur Murshed received a B.Sc. Engineering (Hons) degree in computer science and engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka in 1994 and a PhD degree in computer science from The Australian National University (ANU), Canberra in 1999. He also completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Graduate Teaching from ANU in 1997. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science in the School of Information Technology, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment at Deakin University. He is also an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Innovation, Science and Sustainability, Federation University Australia since 2022. Previously, he served Federation University as the Associate Dean Research at the School of Engineering, Information Technology and Physical Sciences (2019–2022) and a RHT Smith Professor and Personal Chair in Information Technology (2014–2018), and Monash University as the Head of Gippsland School of Information Technology (2007–2013). His research interests include Video technology; Machine learning; Big Data analytics; Computational mathematics; Wireless communications; Distributed & Cloud computing; and Security & privacy. He has so far published 250+ refereed research papers with 6,700+ citations (Google Scholar) and h-index 32 & i10-index 101. He has received $7.1m competitive research funding, including eight grants from the Australian Government — four Discovery Projects (DP) grants and a Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment, and Facilities (LIEF) grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC), a Next Generation Graduates Program (NGGP) grant from CSIRO/Data61, an Education Integration Project (EIP) grant from the Australian General Practice Training (AGPT), and a Traceability Grants Program (TGP) grant from the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (DAWE). He has recently served the ARC College of Experts 2020–2022. He has successfully supervised 35 PhD and 3 MPhil students to completion, and he is currently supervising 10 PhD students. He served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (2024–2025 & 2012) and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2019–2023). He guest-edited special issues for IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), Elsevier Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems, and Springer Journal of Cluster Computing. He received 2007 Vice-Chancellor’s Knowledge Transfer Award (commendation) from the University of Melbourne, 2006 Early Career Research Excellence Award from the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, and 1994 University Gold Medal from BUET.