School of Computing and Information Systems

Grants and Awards

Selected Grants

  • "Secure and Robust Stream Analytics at Scale", ARC Linkage Project, Lead CI, 2026 to 2029.
  • "Understanding and Defeating Leakage Attacks Against Encrypted Databases", ARC Future Fellowship, 2024 to 2028.
  • "RAI4IoE: Responsible AI for Enabling the Internet of Energy", CSIRO - National Science Foundation (US) AI Research Collaboration Program, Monash Lead CI, September 2023 to August 2026.
  • "NINA: National Infrastructure for Federated Learning in Digital Health", MRFF National Critical Research Infrastructure Grant, leading the work package on privacy-preserving federated learning and infrastructure development, July 2023 to June 2028.
  • "6G Security", funded by the Department of Home Affairs, Lead CI, March 2023 to June 2025.
  • "Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning: Technology Development and Adoption", CSIRO Next Generation Graduates Program, Lead CI, January 2023 to December 2026.
  • "Sustainability Informatics for the Pacific", Algorand Centres of Excellence, CI, awarded in 2022.
  • "Encrypted, Distributed, and Queryable Data Store: Framework and Realisation", ARC Discovery Project, Sole CI, June 2020 to June 2023.
  • "Novel security solutions in the context of AI and potential quantum supremacy", CSIRO Data61 CRP project, CI, January 2020 to December 2022.
  • "Building an Encrypted and Searchable NoSQL Data Store", OCSC industry co-funded project, Lead CI, June 2019 to July 2020.
  • "UbiSENSE (ubiquitous sensing) for Cities", CSIRO Data61 CRP project, Sole Monash CI, June 2019 to December 2019.

Selected Awards

  • Honorable Mention Paper Award, USENIX Security, 2025.
  • Notable Reviewer, USENIX Security, 2025.
  • Excellence in Engagement, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, 2024.
  • Faculty Teaching Excellence Award - Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning, Faculty of IT, Monash University, 2021.
  • Best Paper Award, European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 2021.
  • Dean's Award for Excellence in Research by an Early Career Researcher, Faculty of IT, Monash University, 2020.
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (IDSC), 2019.
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN), 2015.
  • Outstanding Academic Performance Award, City University of Hong Kong, 2015 to 2016.