Prof. Ren Ping Liu
Professor
Wireless Networks · IoT Security · Trustworthy AI
Publications on this site31TEAM
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Researchers05
Ideas, expertise and shared ambition.
Assoc. Prof. Ying He
Associate Professor
AI for Wireless · Satellite Networks · 6G
Publications on this site9
Dr. Xu Wang
Senior Lecturer
AI Security · Data Privacy · Blockchain
Publications on this site42
Dr. Saber Yu
Lecturer
LLM Security · Machine Unlearning · Blockchain
Publications on this site41
Dr. Baihe Ma
Lecturer
LLM Privacy · Differential Privacy · Location Privacy
Publications on this site18Advisors03
Expertise and connections across institutions.
Prof. Wei Ni
Associate Dean (Research)
Edith Cowan University
Trusted Intelligent Systems · Network Resilience · AI for Networks
Publications on this site29
Prof. Shiping Chen
Senior Principal Research Scientist
CSIRO Data61
Distributed Systems · Blockchain · Multi-Agent AI
Publications on this site3
Dr. Qin Wang
Senior Research Scientist
CSIRO Data61
Blockchain · Applied Cryptography · AI Agents
Publications on this site12Students02
The next generation of curious minds.
Delong Li
PhD Student
Machine Unlearning · Agentic AI Security · Privacy-Aware Inference
Research & supervision
Research interests
Delong studies machine unlearning, agentic AI security and privacy-aware inference. His work develops methods and evaluations that make AI system updates easier to inspect, explain and govern.
SupervisionSaber Yu · Ren Ping Liu · Bin Liang
Haochen Gong
PhD Student
Mobile Privacy · AI Transparency · Intent-Based Systems
Research & supervision
Research interests
Haochen studies mobile application privacy and AI transparency. Her work includes contextual privacy notices for Android apps, analysis of government AI transparency statements, and intent-driven edge service orchestration.
SupervisionSaber Yu · Xu Wang
Alumni05
New chapters. Lasting connections.
Haiyu Deng
PhD · 2026
Model Watermarking · Ownership Verification · Verifiable Training
Thesis & supervision
Thesis
Training-Verifiable and Ownership Protected Neural Networks
SupervisorsXu Wang · Ren Ping Liu
Xiaojie (Zoe) Lin
PhD · 2025
Vehicular Security · Location Privacy · Applied AI
Thesis & supervision
Thesis
Enhancing Automotive Security, Privacy and Safety via Studying In-Vehicle Network Messages
SupervisorsXu Wang · Ren Ping Liu
Yanna Jiang
PhD · 2025
Distributed Learning · Machine Unlearning · LLM Agents
Thesis & supervision
Thesis
New Distributed Learning Frameworks towards Security, Privacy and Diversity
SupervisorsXu Wang · Saber Yu · Ren Ping Liu
Zixu (Tony) Zhang
PhD · 2025
Blockchain Sharding · Smart Contracts · Reinforcement Learning
Thesis & supervision
Thesis
Improving Efficiency and Security of Sharded Blockchain
SupervisorsXu Wang · Saber Yu · Ren Ping Liu
Tanzeela Altaf
PhD · 2024
Graph Learning · Network Telemetry · Intrusion Detection
Thesis & supervision
Thesis
Towards an Efficient Network Intrusion Detection System for IoT Networks Leveraging Graph Neural Networks
SupervisorsXu Wang · Ren Ping Liu · Robin Braun
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