Mentorship

Current PhD Degree Students

• Muhammad Ali Paracha (August 2024 – present), Macquarie University

• Sunday Oyinlola Ogundoyin (October 2024 – present), Macquarie University

• Zeeshan Zulkifl (July 2023 – present), Macquarie University.
  • Co-supervising with Prof. Dali Kaafar and Dr. Hassan Jameel Asghar
• Mohammad Majid Akhtar (January 2022 – present), The University of New South Wales
  • Co-supervising with Dr. Rahat Masood and Prof. Salil S. Kanhere Kanhere

Past Postdoc

• Saad Hashmi (2020 – 2021), Postdoc Research Fellow, Macquarie University.
  • Project: “Longitudinal Compliance Analysis of Android Applications with Privacy Policies”

Past Bachelor Thesis, MRes, and PhD Students

• Muhammad Salman (September 2021 – January 2025), Macquarie University.
  • PhD Thesis: Analysis and design of robust digital misbehavior detection systems
  • Current Position: Cyber Security Engineer at Procare Cyber
• Sidharth Kaushik (January 2023 – January 2024), Macquarie University.
  • MRes Thesis: Robustness Analysis of \mbox{Machine Learning}-Based And Hashes-Based Malware Detectors
  • Current Position: Founder GovernSafe
• I Wayan Budi Sentana (February 2020 – December 2023), Macquarie University.
  • PhD Thesis: Analysis and Design of Secure and Attacks Resilient Mechanism for Online Platform * Current Position: Deputy Head of Information Technology Department, Politeknik Negeri Bali
• Hina Qayyum (July 2020 – 2023), Macquarie University.
  • Co-supervising with Prof. Dali Kaafar.
  • PhD Thesis: Exposing misconduct on free online platforms: A study of mobile apps, web games, and social networks
• Nazar Waheed (April 2019 – 2023), University of Technology Sydeny.
  • Co-supervising with Prof. Priyadarsi Nanda. * PhD Thesis: Identifying Security and Privacy Issues in the End-user Systems * Current Position: Senior Lecturer at Higher Colleges of Technology, Abi Dhabi
• Adam Turner (July 2021 – 2023), Macquarie University.
  • Co-supervising with Dr. Allon J. Uhlmann.
  • PhD Thesis: Addressing The Intelligence Applications of Bitcoin Payments Related to Ransomware
  • Current Position: Head of Data Analytics Practice, Google Cloud Consulting
• Duc Linh Giang Nguyen (January 2022 – January 2023), Macquarie University.
  • MRes Thesis: Characterizing and Detecting Binary Obfuscation
• Saad Hashmi (2017 – 2020), PhD in Computing, Macquarie University.
  • PhD Thesis: Empirical Analysis of Privacy-preserving Technologies for Web and Mobile Platforms
  • Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong
• Anju Mathew (2021), Master of IT, Internetworking and Cybersecurity, Macquarie University.
  • Thesis: Empirical analysis of network security provision in enterprises
  • Current Position: Systems Development Engineer, Google
• Jake Garth (February 2020 – December 2020), Macquarie University.
  • Current Position: Software Engineer at The Trade Desk
• Hannes Venter (February 2020 – December 2020), Macquarie University.
  • Current Position: Senior Consultant, EY
• Burak Ozturker (February 2020 – December 2020), Macquarie University.
  • Current Position: Software Engineer at DXC Technology
• Nicholas Mangano (2019), Bachelor of Software Engineering, Macquarie University.
  • Thesis: Static and dynamic analysis of mobile health applications.
  • Current Position: Software Engineer at DXC Technology
• Tasfia Quader (2019), Bachelor of Software Engineering, Macquarie University.
  • Thesis: An analysis of privacy and security issues of mobile adblocking applications.
  • Current Position: Property Manager, UniLodge
• Kieran Wouterlood (2018), Bachelor of Software Engineering, Macquarie University.
  • Thesis: Implementation and analysis of machine-learning-based ad-blocking plugin
  • Current Position: Security Engineer, Google