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Software Engineering & Artificial Intelligence

My research lie primiarily in the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Software Engineering. I develop develop AI solutions for project managers, software engineers, QA and security teams to improve software quality/cybersecurity and accelerate productivity. I also develop methodologies and techniques for engineering autonomous AI multi-agent systems.

Artificial Intelligence for project management

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AI-driven software quality and cybersecurity

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Engineering autonomous AI multi-agent systems

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Enterprise AI Analytics (Process and Service Analytics)

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Research Awards

  • 2021: Best Paper Award, International Workshop on AI-enabled Policing and Law Enforcement.
  • 2017: Best Paper Award, the 36th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
  • 2015: ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, the 12th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)
  • 2014: Best Paper Award, the 11th IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA).
  • 2014: Best Paper Award, the 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modelling (APCCM).
  • 2013: Best Senior Program Committee Award, the 16th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA).
  • 2010: Award for track paper with the highest review scorefor the Service Management & Engineering track at Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2010), Brisbane, Australia
  • 2009: RMIT University Letter of Commendation for PhD thesis (Supervisors: Michael Winikoff and Lin Padgham).
  • 2006: Best Research Paper Award, Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC).
  • 2005 - 2008: RMIT University International Scholarship Award
  • 2000: Dean’s Honour Award, Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia.
  • 1999 - 2002: Australian Development Scholarship Award

Research Grants

  • 2022: NSW Small Business Innovation & Research Grant (with Wize Dynamics, Katarina Mikac and Kimberly Maute) - AI for identifying koalas, Koala Count Challenge, $96,448
  • 2021: Next Generation Technologies Fund (with Bao Quoc Vo and Ryszard Kowalczyk) - Autonomic Cyber Resilience and Antifragility, $1,157,100
  • 2021: Aus4Innovation (with Faisal Hai, Son Lam Phung, Kimberly Maute, Le Chung Tran) - AI/IoT-powered Dashboard for Environmental Management at Tram Chim National Park, $250,000
  • 2021: Aus4Innovation (with Pascal Perez, Le Chung Tran, Son Lam Phung, Johan Barthelemy, Rohan Wickramasuriya, Thao Duong, Christian Ritz, Montse Ros, Jiangtao Xi, Farzad Safaei) - Smart Eye – Airborne and AI-Driven Assessment Solution of Sugarcane, $300,000
  • 2021: UGPN Colalboration Fund (with Davoud Mougouei, Munindar Singh, Aditya Ghose, Simon Evans, Inga Prokopenko, Jaime Simão Sichman, Cath Taylor and Zhanna Balkhiiarova) - Understanding the emotional impact of Covid-19 coverage in popular media, $USD 40,000
  • 2020: UGPN Collaboration Fund (with Munindar Singh, Nigel Gilbert and Aditya Ghose) - Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Project Management, USD $40,000
  • 2019: UIC International Link Grants (with Le Chung Tran, Son Lam Phung, Jiangtao Xi) - Developing UOW-ASEAN University Network for Industry 4.0, $18,000
  • 2018: NSW Defence Innovation Network Pilot Project Grant (with Aditya Ghose) - Self-Governance in Trusted Autonomous Systems, $109,000
  • 2018: NSW Department of Industry's TechVouchers Grants (with Aditya Ghose and industry partners: BeyondTravel and Internetrix), $63,000
  • 2017: Learning, Teaching & Curriculum, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic), Learning Analytics Research Sprint (with David Fulcher, Rory Sie, Flynn Hill, and Morakot Choetkiertikul) - Artificial Intelligence to support students at risk, $4,800.
  • 2017: Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences Strategic-Investment grant, $10,000.
  • 2017: UIC International Link Grants (with Le Chung Tran, Son Lam Phung) - "Developing Partnerships in ICT Research & Teaching with Universities in Vietnam", $12,000.
  • 2016: Samsung 2016 Global Research Outreach Program  (with Truyen Tran, John Grundy and Aditya Ghose) - "Predicting hazardous software components using deep learning", $116,000 AUD
  • 2014: Australian Smart Services CRC (with Aditya Ghose) - "Data-driven software analytics", $80,000.
  • 2013: URC Small Grant  - "Developing an inconsistency-based impact analysis framework for software design models", $6,500.
  • September - December 2012: Visiting Research Fellowship granted by Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria (working with  Alexander Egyed), €3,200.
  • 2011 - 2012: Faculty of Informatics Research Development Scheme Grant, $5,000
  • 2011 - 2012: UIC International Link Grants (with Aditya Ghose) - "Evidence-based innovations in services science: The challenge of service modelling and optimization", $12,450.
  • 2011 - 2012: URC Research Partnerships Scheme (with Aditya Ghose) - "A configurable framework for payment card compliance management", $10,000.
  • 2011 - 2013: Cooperative Research Center (CRC) for Smart Services (with Aditya Ghose) - "Strategic Alignment of Services", $320,000.
  • 2010 - 2011: Faculty of Informatics Dean’s Encouragement Grant  - "Supporting change impact analysis in the maintenance and evolution of intelligent agent systems", $10,000.
  • 2010 - 2011: UIC International Link Grants (with George Zhou) - "Feedback mechanisms in software testing and evolution: an investigation", $4,700.