Bushra Sabir
Bushra Sabir is currently a PhD student in the school of computer science, University of Adelaide. Her area of research is adversarial Machine Learning for cybersecurity systems. She is especially interested in the area of Secure Machine learning for detecting data exfiltration attacks such as Phishing, Malicious Domains, Spam text and Insider threat. Bushra utilized Machine and Deep learning methods to create adversarial examples of cybersecurity applications (such as phishing URLs, spam emails). In her PhD, she will expand her research works to explore solutions to handle adversarial evasion attacks on Machine and Deep learning cybersecurity systems. Previously she has worked as a lecturer for six years and worked in the software industry for two years. She has achieved a gold medal in Master of Computer and Software Engineering from National University of Technology (NUST-Pakistan).
Competencies: Secure Deep and Machine learning for security critical systems, phishing attacks, Natural Language Processing. Software engineering for Machine learning systems.
Yasir Abdullah J Althobaiti
Yasir is a PhD student in the School of Computer Science at The University of Adelaide, under the supervision of Prof. Ali Babar and Dr. Andrew Walters. He is also a member of Centre for Research on Engineering Software Technologies (CREST) research group. Yasir obtained his master’s degree in Web Applications and Services with Merit from University of Leicester and Master by research from University of Reading in the UK. He also earned a BSc in Computer Science (Excellent with Second-class honours) from King AbdulAziz University in Saudi Arabia. Yasir worked as a Service Officer at Bank Aljazira, Saudi Arabia and then he worked as a Teaching Assistant in Taif University. Currently, he works as a Lecturer at Taif University in Saudi Arabia. His currently research interest lies in the area of Software Engineering, ٍSoftware Architecture, Microservice Architecture, Cyber Physical Systems, CyberSecurity and Visualization.
Competencies: Microservice Architecture, Cyber Physical Systems, CyberSecurity, Software Architecture
Nesara Dissanayake
Nesara Dissanayake is a PhD student at the Centre for Research on Engineering Software Technologies (CREST) at the University of Adelaide under the supervision of Professor Ali Babar, Dr Asangi Jayatilaka and Dr Mansooreh Zahedi. Her research lies in the intersection of computer security and software engineering with human factors. She obtained her Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Prior to joining the CREST, she worked as a Software Engineer at a multinational company.
Competencies: Software security patch management, Socio-technical aspects in cybersecurity, Human factors in Software Engineering, Qualitative research
Orvila Sarker
Orvila Sarker is currently a PhD student in the School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, Australia under the supervision of Professor Hong Shen and Professor M. Ali Babar. She has been granted Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Science (ECMS) divisional scholarship from the University of Adelaide to support her PhD. Her research interests are in wireless networks, cyber security, machine leaning, signal and image processing. She has published a few papers in these fields. Her current research focuses on studying different types of attacks involved in Vehicular Adhoc Network (VANET) and finding the optimal solution to mitigate these attacks. She has been graduated from the School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE), University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. She obtained University Grants Commission Scholarship (UGC) for securing First position in her Bachelor of Science in Engineering examination. She is on study leave from her current job as an Assistant Professor in the School of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Comilla university, Bangladesh.
Competencies: Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS),Vehicular Adhoc Network (VANET), Security and vulnerabilities in ITS and VANET, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning.
Roland Croft
Roland Croft is currently a PhD student at the University of Adelaide, where he also completed his Bachelor's degree. He graduated with first class honours and was awarded the University Medal for achieving the highest academic score in his year. During his undergraduate study he completed several research projects in the field of cybersecurity. His research interests lie in natural language processing, cybersecurity, machine learning and data mining. His research aims to utilise open source security data and intelligence to create tools and frameworks for automated vulnerability analytics and prediction.
Competencies: Data Mining, Mining Software Repositories, Machine Learning, Data Science, Natural Language Processing, Security/Vulnerability Analytics
Yongzheng Xie
Yongzheng XIE is a PhD student with the Center for Research on Engineering Software Technologies (CREST) at the University of Adelaide under the supervision of Professor M. Ali Babar. His research interest lies in Open Source Software(OSS) evaluation and selection, software projects trustworthy management with integrating OSS, OSS cybersecurity continuous evaluation and evaluation automation using techniques of Machine Learning and Deep Learning. He graduated from Sichuan University, China with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) from the major of Computational Mathematics and Applied Software and worked in a large software company for over 20 years with work experience of large scale software development and Open source software management.
Competencies: Cyber Security, Software Architecture, Open Source evaluation and selection, Software Engineering, Security/Vulnerability Analytics, Machine Learning
Liuyue Jiang is a PhD student and developer under the supervision of Professor M. Ali Babar and Dr. Nguyen Khoi Tran. Previous research area is blockchain performance analysis and optimisation. Research interest is in cyber security metric visulisation. Currently work with the CREST. He obtained his master's degree of Computer Science from the University of Adelaide, bachelor’s degree of Computer Science and bachelor's degree of Public Administration from Yunnan University.
Competencies: Software Engineering, Cyber Security, Blockchain, Data Mining, Performance Analysis
Mehdi Kholoosi
Mehdi Kholoosi is a Ph.D. student with the Center for Research on Engineering Software Technologies (CREST) at the University of Adelaide under the supervision of Professor M. Ali Babar. His research interests lie in Cybersecurity and Natural Language Processing, as well as their interdisciplinary applications. Previously his publications were in the areas of Machine Translation and Text Mining. He received his Master’s degree in computer software engineering from Shiraz University.
Competencies: Vulnerability Analytics, Container Security, Text Mining, Machine Learning, NLP, Mining Software Repositories, Automated Vulnerability Prediction
Zahra Mousavi
Zahra is a Ph.D. student with the Center for Research on Engineering Software Technologies (CREST) at the University of Adelaide under the supervision of Professor M. Ali Babar. Her research interests include Natural language Processing and Information Extraction using Deep Learning methods and their applications in the Cyber Security domain. She has already worked on constructing a Persian wordnet and improving machine translation using this wordnet and verb sense disambiguation. She received her B.Sc. from Alzahra University, Iran in Software Engineering and her M.Sc. in Machine Intelligence from the University of Tehran, Iran.
Competencies: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Semantics, Word Sense Disambiguation, Machine Translation
Ali Kazemi Arani
Currently, I am a Ph.D. student with the Center for Research on Engineering Software Technologies (CREST) at the University of Adelaide under the supervision of Professor Muhammad Ali Babar and Dr. Mansooreh Zahedi. Prior to joining CREST, I was working as backend developer and data analyzer at Sciences Green Institute. My research interests lie in employing machine learning algorithms for optimizing software delivery in continuous software engineering paradigm and DevOps. I have completed my master of science (M.Sc.) at Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), and bachelor of science (B.Sc.) at Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology (KNTU), Tehran, Iran.
Competencies: Continuous Software Engineering, DevOps, Machine Learning, Data Mining