Collaborations
Current PhD Degree Students
- Mohammad Majid Akhtar (January 2022 – present), The University of New South Wales
- Co-supervising with Dr. Rahat Masood and Prof. Salil S. Kanhere Kanhere
- Zeeshan Zulkifl (July 2023 – present), Macquarie University.
- Co-supervising with Prof. Dali Kaafar
- Muhammad Salman (September 2021 – present), Macquarie University.
- Co-supervising with Prof. Dali Kaafar
- Shashie Dilhara Arachchige (September 2023 – present), Macquarie University.
- Co-supervising with Prof. Dali Kaafar
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
- Sidharth Kaushik (January 2023 – January 2024), Macquarie University.
- MRes Thesis: Robustness Analysis of \mbox{Machine Learning}-Based And Hashes-Based Malware Detectors
- 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: Lecturer at 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
- 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: Google Sydney
- Co-supervising with Dr. Allon J. Uhlmann. * PhD Thesis: Addressing The Intelligence Applications of Bitcoin Payments Related to Ransomware
Duc Linh Giang Nguyen (January 2022 – January 2023), Macquarie University. * PhD 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 Platform
- Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong
Jake Garth (February 2020 – December 2020), Macquarie University.
Hannes Venter (February 2020 – December 2020), Macquarie University.
Burak Ozturker (February 2020 – December 2020), Macquarie University.
- Nicholas Mangano (2019), Bachelor of Software Engineering, Macquarie University.
- Thesis: Static and dynamic analysis of mobile health applications.
- My Role: Co-supervising Nicholas with Prof. Shlomo Berkovsky.
- Tasfia Quader (2019), Bachelor of Software Engineering, Macquarie University.
- Thesis: An analysis of privacy and security issues of mobile adblocking applications.
- My Role: Co-supervising Tasfia with Prof. Dali Kaafar.
- Kieran Wouterlood (2018), Bachelor of Software Engineering, Macquarie University.
- Thesis: Implementation and analysis of machine-learning-based ad-blocking plugin
- My Role: Co-supervising Kieran with Prof. Dali Kaafar.