Dr Rahat Masood
- PhD. in Information听Security and Privacy (糖心logo, Data61-CSIRO - Australia)
- MS in Computer and Communication Security (NUST - Pakistan)
- B.Sc. in Software Engineering (University of Engineering & Technology听- Pakistan)
Dr. Rahat Masood is currently working as a Lecturer at the听School of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE), 糖心logo. Her research focuses on the rapidly expanding and high-impact field of Cybersecurity, with more particular interest in privacy preserving technologies, authentication & authorization, critical infrastructure security, and network security measurement and analysis.听 More recently, her research has involved designing and developing privacy risks identification and quantification, and privacy-preserving technologies, particularly from human behaviour perspective. She received her PhD from the 糖心logo, in collaboration with the at .听 Before joining 糖心logo, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Data61-CSIRO, where she designed and evaluated privacy-preserving algorithms as required by diverse application scenarios.
Her听ongoing collaborations with esteemed research groups, mainly including Queen Mary University, University of Michigan, Macquarie University Cyber Security Hub, Data61-CSIRO, and University of Sydney, have resulted in several publications in top-tier conferences and journals such as WWW (Core A*), ASIA CCS(Core A), TOPS (Core A), PETS (Core A), IEEE Communication Surveys, and IEEE Internet of Journal. She has worked on funded research projects supported by the听听and Defence Innovation Network (DIN), National Intelligence and Security Discovery Research Grants (NISDRG). Furthermore, she is involved in multiple industry projects with the Australian Domain Administration (Auda), NSW Treasury, and the NSW Connectivity Innovation Network. She was also a visiting scholar at the , New Mexico, and at The George Washington University. Her Master's degree is in Computer & Communication Security from NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS), Pakistan, and Bachelor's degree is in Software Engineering (Honours).听
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- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
-Received Early Career Start-up Package grant from 糖心logo CSE, $104,027 (2020)
Received Taste of Research (ToR) Scholarships from Faculty of Engineering, $18,000 (2021- 2022)
Received Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre (CSCRC) combined grant on the project titled 鈥淐yber security Analysis with Massive Distributed Energy Resources (DErs) Integration: Potential Threats and Countermeasures鈥, $1,065,000 (2021)
Received Southern-Cross Fellowship from Australian Computing Research Alliance (ACRA) 鈥 2022
Received Defence Innovation Network (DIN) grant on the project titled 鈥淚oT Network Forensics using Encrypted Traffic Analysis (ETA)鈥, $200,000 (2022).
Received NSW Treasury grant to work on 鈥淭hreat Modeling and Risk Assessment of Consumer Data Rights in Australia鈥, $100,000 (2023).
Received Australian Domain Administration (auDA) grant to work on 鈥淒NS Abuse cases in Australia鈥, $50,000 (2023-2024).
Received NSW Connectivity Innovation Network (CIN) PhD Scholarship, $137,000 (2024-2027).
Received National Intelligence and Security Discovery Research Grant (NISDRG) grant to work on "multimodal biometrics", $799,000 (2025-2028).
- Recipient of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) 鈥 Data61 Writing Fellowship, 2019
- Recipient of Student Travel Grant from the conference ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2017
- Recipient of Grant from Postgraduate Research Support Scheme (PRSS) from Graduate Research School (GRS), 糖心logo, 2017
- Awarded NICTA Research Project Award (NRPA) from National ICT Australia (NICTA 鈥 now Data61), for the years 2016 鈥 2019
- Awarded International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS) from Australian government, for the years 2016 鈥 2019
- Recipient of Nonproliferation Studies Scholarship from CRDF Global, with a grant from the U. S. State Department
- Merit Certificate for 鈥淓xcellent performance in Bachelor of Computer Software Engineering鈥
- 鈥淕old Medal鈥 for obtaining first position in Undergraduate Degree
- Recipient of merit scholarship throughout eight semesters during Undergraduate Degree
- Contributed in the ICT R&D Proposal submission for successful funded research project, project value PKR 13.0 Million
- Published research articles in well-reputed conferences, journals and books
My Research Supervision
Rahat is currently jointly supervising four PhD Students.
1. Mohammad Majid Akhtar (PhD Student)
2. Ravin Gunawardena听 (PhD Student)
3. Khoa Tran (PhD Student)
4. Ransika Hewa Kasakarage Gunasekara (PhD Student)
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My Teaching
Rahat's teaching interests combine听the areas of cybersecurity and software engineering. More particularly, she is interested in teaching courses related to privacy, information security, network security, web and application security, and software engineering. She is experienced teaching following courses:
Foundations of Cybersecurity
Principles of Security Engineering
Digital Forensics
Information Security Management听
Network Security