May 2020 SCS Awards

Surya has developed a deep relationship with the Cyber Security CRC and several other partners. He demonstrated strong leadership in supporting his team and building strong external collaborations.

Paul Tyler and Jonathan Chan demonstrated excellent coordination with customers and brought strong benefit to several government agencies including Department of Health and Queensland OIC by identifying and reducing risks in their data releases.

Seung demonstrated great engineering solutions across a number of domains such as IoT, NLP and ML. He was also part of successful collaborations with the US Army and Boeing.

Matthew demonstrated impact in verification of mixed-criticality scheduling additions to seL4 by cracking a complex problem and reducing its complexity. There was strong management support for this case.

Regine demonstrated strong a supporting role, connecting dots across organisations and providing great support to the new South Australian team.

Chen demonstrated extensive collaboration with universities and excellent supervision of PhD students. Chen also achieved high quality research outcomes.

Gabriela demonstrated great national and international collaborations, resulting in high quality academic research and publications.

Ejaz showed great achievement in getting a publication to the USENIX Security Symposium (Core A*, a top venue in cybersecurity). His research in voice assistance is high impact, and he also showed great collaborative efforts with South Korea.

Sushmita demonstrated great expertise and ability in science. She showed great potential in providing further contributions to her new projects and program.

Angela Feng (finance), Samantha Wong (contract), Jo Jarjoura (talent), Michael Stothers (student) and Tom Durick (BD) demonstrated great support for the Cyber Security CRC, enabling impact of the project.

Regine and Dharma demonstrated great website development skills, showing willingness to do work outside of usual duties as well as trying new things (e.g. Python) that greatly support our work.

Peter demonstrated strong ability in handling complexity and delivering outcomes.

SCS staff Surya Nepal, Seyit Camtepe, Sushmita Ruj, Sharif Abuadbba, Siqi (Slivia) Ma, Marthie Grobler and Mehwish Nasim as well as other Data61 staff Jace Galvin, Max Ott, Nic Heaney and Tom Durick, Cyber Security CRC staff Helge Janicke, Ahmed Nadeem and Yinhao Jiang, Deakin representatives Jay Jeong, Jesse Laeuchli and Rolando Trujillo, UNSW representatives Regio Michelin, Monica Whitty and Miranda Bruce, and CSU representative Arash Mahboubi demonstrated ability as a team in meeting real world needs in very short timeframes. The team showed initiative delivering work voluntarily that was not business as usual.