HDR Supervisions

Supervisor of a wide-range of Higher Degree by Research (HDR) students.

Current research degree supervisions

  1. Miss Efrancia Kerubo Mobegi, Digital Literacy, Socio-Cultural Trust Patterns, and Agent-Mediated Transactions as Determinants of Fraud Vulnerabilities and Opportunistic Crimes in Mobile Money Transfer Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa
  2. Miss Nomin Chimid-Osor, Insider Threat Mitigation in Critical Infrastructure
  3. Miss Taylah Griffiths, Investigating Data Integrity Attacks on WAMS to Secure IEEE C37.118 via a PUF-based Authentication Protocol

Graduated students

  1. Mr Muhammad Afzal MRes, Insider Threat Detection Using a Synthetic Dataset (2024)
  2. Dr Vasanth Kumar, In-circuit forensic analysis of IoT memory modules (2024) Under embargo until 6th August 2029
  3. Mr Alan Jacob MRes, Detecting and Mitigating Obfuscated Command Control (C2) Communication Data in Android Mobile Devices Using Neural Networks (2023)
  4. Dr Md Mursalin, Human Identification using Ear Biometrics: A Complete Pipeline from Detection to Recognition (2023) Under embargo until 30th January 2028
  5. Dr Ashley Woodiss-Field, Evaluating Traditional Botnet Detection applied to Contemporary Threats from the Internet of Things (2023)
  6. Mr Liam Riddell, Heterogeneous Anomaly Detection from Network Traffic Streams using Data Summarization (2022)
  7. Dr Bazlur Rashid, Cooperative Co-Evolution-Based Feature Selection for Big Data Analytics (2021)
  8. Mr Brett Turner, An Investigation into the Efficacy of URL Content Filtering Systems (2021)
  9. Dr Neamah Al-Naffakh, Activity-Based User Authentication Using Smartwatches (2020)
  10. Ms Derani Dissanayake, The challenges of digital legacy management on the value of digital objects to older Australians (2019)
  11. Dr Timibloudi Stephen Enamamu, Bioelectrical User Authentication (2019)
  12. Dr Najem Mahmoud, An Evaluation of Targeted Security Awareness for End Users (2019)
  13. Dr Burhan Al-Bayati, Continuous Identity Verification in Cloud Computing Services (2018)
  14. Dr Martin Dorigo, DOKY: A Multi-Modal User Interface for Non-Visual Presentation, Navigation and Manipulation of Structured Documents on Mobile and Wearable Devices (2018)
  15. Dr Salam Ketab, E-Invigilator of E-Assessment (2017)
  16. Dr Athanassios Triantafyllidis, Increasing eLearning Engagement through Mobile Learning Integration (2017)
  17. Dr Nawaf Alharbi, The role of security and its antecedents in e-government adoption (2016)
  18. Dr Hussain Alsaiari, Graphical One-Time-Password Authentication (2016)
  19. Dr Benjamin G Sanders, Opportunities and Risks in Online Gaming Environments (2016)
  20. Dr Andreas Knirsch, Improved Composability of Software Components through Parallel Hardware Platforms for In-Car Multimedia Systems (2015)
  21. Dr Peter Korovessis, Establishing an Information Security Awareness and Culture (2015)
  22. Dr Martin Swientek, High-Performance Near-Time Processing of Bulk Data (2015)
  23. Dr Zarul Fitri Zaaba, Enhancing Usability using Automated Security Interface Adaptation (ASIA) (2014)
  24. Dr Fudong Li, Behaviour Profiling for Mobile Devices (2012)
  25. Dr Mohd Zalisham Jali, A Study Of Graphical Alternatives For User Authentication (2011)
  26. Mr Cedric Copy, Data Mining applied to external marketing data (2007)
  27. Dr Abdualaziz Alayed, Active security vulnerability notification and resolution (2006)

Examination of HDR students

  1. Dr Luzuko Tekeni, External Examiner, PhD Thesis, Modelling the factors that motivate home users to protect their home networking devices, Nelson Mandela University, December 2022
  2. Dr Liza Salleh, External Examiner, PhD Thesis, Security Determinants in the Adoption of Big Data Solutions, University of Auckland, September 2020
  3. Dr Timm Heuss, Internal Examiner, PhD Thesis, A Framework to Support Developers in the Integration and Application of Linked and Open Data, December 2016
  4. Dr Thomas Rübsamen, Internal Examiner, PhD Thesis, Evidence-based Accountability Audits for Cloud Computing, November 2016
  5. Dr Janet Kneller, Internal Examiner, PhD Thesis, Multiple Stakeholder Perspectives Of Complex Online Services: An E-government Case Study, December 2015
  6. Dr Sandra Frei, Internal Examiner, PhD Thesis, Optimisation of Traffic Steering for Heterogeneous Mobile Networks, March 2015
  7. Dr Christopher Hocking, Internal Examiner, PhD Thesis, Authentication Aura: A cooperative and distributed approach to user authentication on mobile devices, December 2014
  8. Dr Christopher Kosmas, Internal Examiner, PhD thesis, Secure Tracking System For Next Generation CIT Products, May 2014
  9. Dr Sevasti Karatzouni, Internal Examiner, PhD thesis, Non-Intrusive Continuous User Authentication for Mobile Devices, February 2014
  10. Dr Hataichanok Saevanee, Internal Examiner, PhD thesis, Continuous User Authentication Using Multi-Modal Biometrics/a>, February 2014
  11. Dr Karin Kronawitter, Internal Examiner, PhD thesis, Application Outsourcing In The Banking Industry – ITO Model, January 2014
  12. Dr Witold Thaul, Internal Examiner, PhD thesis, Supporting Learning by Tracing Personal Knowledge Formation, September 2013
  13. Dr Mike Krey, Internal Examiner, PhD thesis, 2013
  14. Dr Jan Muhammad, External Examiner, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, October 2012
  15. Dr Shuhaili Talib, Internal Examiner, PhD thesis, Personalising Information Security Education, October 2012
  16. Dr Benjamin Heckmann, Internal Examiner, PhD thesis, Service Quality and Profit Control in Utility Computing Service Life Cycles, September 2012
  17. Dr Nor Badrul Abuar Jumaat, Internal Examiner, PhD thesis, Incident Prioritisation for Intrusion Response Systems, February 2012
  18. Dr HaiYun Tian, External Examiner, PhD thesis, Teesside University, January 2012
  19. Dr Aruna Thakur, Internal Examiner, PhD thesis, Dynamic adaptation of streamed real-time E-learning videos over the internet, February 2007
  20. Dr Nathan Luke Clarke, Internal Examiner, PhD thesis, Advanced user authentification for mobile devices, September 2004