Digital transformation holds tremendous potential for innovation and growth for Australian industries but it brings risks and challenges. This has been demonstrated by cyber incidents targeting the manufacturing sector like the US Colonial Pipeline hacking and the $100M ransomware loss of food manufacturing company Mondelez.
Driven by the real-life needs from our industry partners such as DXC, ASTA, Sysbox, and Baptcare. we aim to address the grand cybersecurity challenges faced by Australian manufacturers, such as the vulnerabilities in manufacturing software, data flow analysis for security in smart manufacturing, data driven control system assessment, and secure and responsible AI for manufacturing. This program will build Australian sovereign cyber capabilities to secure business-critical manufacturing systems and bring together a multi-disciplinary team to train next generation graduate students as a cohort within industry from the outset.
The cohort will be mentored by 17 industry and academic Investigators from 8 committed organisations with relevant industrial expertise such as manufacturing, cybersecurity, human interaction, software engineering, entrepreneurship and commercialisation. Our research team will provide outstanding facilities and leading expertise to ensure that the students work together as a multidisciplinary team. The students will be deliberately recruited from diverse backgrounds and work collaboratively within diverse team environments.
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- Investigators: Professor Yang Xiang (Swinburne), Professor Dimitrios Georgakopoulos (Swinburne), Professor John Grundy (Monash), Dr Xiaoning Du (Monash), Dr Siqi Ma (UNSW), Dr Chao Chen (RMIT), Professor Dong Ruan (Swinburne), Dr Ziyuan Wang (Swinburne), Professor Jun Zhang (Swinburne), Professor Boris Eisenbart (Swinburne), Professor Prem Jayaraman (Swinburne), Professor Sheng Wen (Swinburne), Dr Li Li (Monash)
- Universities: Swinburne, Monash, UNSW ADFA, RMIT
- Industry partners: DXC technology, Asta, Sysbox Pty Ltd, Baptcare
- Student degree type: PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours, Coursework Masters (not RTP eligible)
Chief Investigators
Professor Yang Xiang
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Research expertise: Network and System Security, Distributed systems, Networking
Professor Dimitrios Georgakopoulos
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Research expertise: IOT; Optimisation and Workflow Management; Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing
Professor John Grundy
Monash University, Australia
Research expertise: Software Engineering; Model-driven Engineering; Domain-specific Visual Languages
Dr Xiaoning Du
Monash University, Australia
Research expertise: Sotware Engineering; Artificial Intelligence; Software Security
Dr Siqi Ma
The University of New South Wales, ADFA, Australia
Research expertise: Automated Vulnerability Detection; IoT Security; Network Security
Dr Chao Chen
RMIT, Australia
Research expertise: Networks; Traffic Classification; Social Spam Detection; Insider Threat Detection