November 2021 SCS Awards
The team has successfully delivered a proof of concept for a blockchain-based event communication and tracking solution that enables the client and its partners to communicate within the supply chain for Cotton seeds in the Australian market. The work done by the team was appreciated by the client, and due to the high-performance and on-time and high-quality project delivery, the client is willing to continue the collaboration on this specific blockchain application with Data61 going forward.
Paul Tyler has led the engagement with Transport for NSW (TfNSW) to successfully deliver excellent science, demonstrable benefits and impact through the “Assessing Re-Identification Risk in Data about People Movement”. The project is already delivering impact by allowing TfNSW to make more data available to the public and to third parties including SMEs and city/transport planners.
Elliot Vercoe has made novel contributions to multiple internal and external projects and demonstrated his knowledge of engineering and technology, which is above his current CSOF level.
Dongxi Liu and Surya Nepal published two papers at ACM CCS and NDSS (Core A*), the rank of venues testimony to the quality of the research. The CCS paper focused on IoT Fuzzing and provided scientific advances in both fuzzing and IoT security. Data61 has been consulted by NSW Government, TGA and Cyber Security CRC to provide consumer guidelines for IoT Security. The NDSS paper has provided Data61 with a new capability to transform existing cloud services into a trustworthy service for Australian organisations and government agencies. These papers provide a substantial contribution to Data61’s worldwide ranking on cyber security by preserving its position in the top 10 and advancing further.
Mohan Baruwal Chhetri took many initiatives to collaborate with partners, including two external projects, one internal collaboration and a further three more collaboration proposals with multiple universities that are under review. His collaboration with DST Group and Swinburne University is noteworthy in that it resulted in shaping DST’s Information Warfare Command & Control strategy and a paper published at IEEE CIC 2019. He had co-chaired multiple workshops and raised the team profile through various collaborations.
Kristen Moore demonstrated her technical expertise with several paper submissions and a co-submission of a patent application. She also served on several technical program committee and co-lead the Human Centric AI seminar. Kristen came from a corporate research background and has grown her research capacity through collaborating internally and externally, and shows strong capabilities in AI/ML in cyber.