Dr Chao Chen has joined RMIT University. He is currently an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Cybersecurity at College of Science and Engineering. He received his PhD degree in Information Technology from Deakin University in 2017. From 2016 to 2018, he worked as a Data Scientist at Telstra to create customer value from huge and heterogeneous data sources using advanced analytics and big data techniques. He then worked at Swinburne Unversity of Technology as a Research Scientist from 2018 to 2020. He is conducting interdisciplinary research between cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI), such as AI for cybersecurity and security issues in AI models. He has published more than 20 research papers in refereed international journals and conferences, such as IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) and ACM Asia Conference on Computer & Communications Security (ASIACCS). One of his papers was the featured article of that issue (IT Professional Mar.-Apr. 2016).

Selected publications

• Xu, C.,Ding, Y.,Chen, C.,Ding, Y.,Zhou, W.,Wen, S. (2023). Personalized Location Privacy Protection for Location-Based Services in Vehicular Networks In: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24, 1163 – 1177
• Li, H.,Xia, C.,Wang, T.,Wen, S.,Chen, C.,Xiang, Y. (2023). Capturing dynamics of information diffusion in SNS: a survey of methodology and techniques In: ACM Computing Surveys, 55, 1 – 51
• Zhang, X.,Chen, C.,Xie, Y.,Chen, X.,Zhang, J.,Xiang, Y. (2023). A survey on privacy inference attacks and defenses in cloud-based Deep Neural Network In: Computer Standards and Interfaces, 83, 1 – 22
• Liu, J.,Chen, C.,Qu, Y.,Yang, S.,Xu, L. (2023). RASS: Enabling privacy-preserving and authentication in online AI-driven healthcare applications In: ISA Transactions, 141, 20 – 29
• Li, J.,Chen, C.,Rahimi Azghadi, M.,Ghodosi, H.,Pan, L.,Zhang, J. (2023). Security and privacy problems in voice assistant applications: A survey In: Computers and Security, 134, 1 – 15
• Li, L.,Chen, C.,Pan, L.,Zhang, L.,Wang, Z.,Zhang, J.,Xiang, Y. (2023). A Survey of PPG’s Application in Authentication In: Computers and Security, 135, 1 – 13
• Fei, G.,Cheng, Y.,Ma, W.,Chen, C.,Wen, S.,Hu, G. (2022). Real-Time Detection of COVID-19 Events From Twitter: A Spatial-Temporally Bursty-Aware Method In: IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, , 1 – 17
• Zhang, J.,Pan, L.,Han, Q.,Chen, C.,Wen, S.,Xiang, Y. (2022). Deep Learning Based Attack Detection for Cyber-Physical System Cybersecurity: A Survey In: IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 9, 377 – 391
• Miao, Y.,Chen, C.,Pan, L.,Han, Q.,Zhang, J.,Xiang, Y. (2022). Machine learning–based cyber attacks targeting on controlled information: a survey In: ACM Computing Surveys, 54, 1 – 36
• Ban, X.,Ding, M.,Liu, S.,Chen, C.,Zhang, J.,Xiang, Y. (2022). TAESim: A Testbed for IoT Security Analysis of Trigger-Action Environment In: Proceedings of the 26th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Darmstadt, Germany, 4-8 October 2021

Grants (last 5 years)

• Improving Ziitech’s customer segmentation through AI technologies. Funded by: Innovation Connections grant – Cat 1 from (2023 to 2024)
• Defending AI based FinTech Systems against Model Extraction Attacks (administered by Swinburne University of Technology). Funded by: ARC Linkage via Other University from (2021 to 2024)

Supervision

• 5 PhD Students