Data Science Research Unit (DSRU) is in the Faculty of Business, Justice and Behavioural Sciences and focuses on machine learning, machine vision, cybersecurity, simulation and modelling, computational intelligence and robotics as well as the application of these fields to real-world problems

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• Congratulations to the following colleagues who received external funds from Cyber Security CRC (CSCRC):
  • Project title: “Privacy-preserving data collection for statistical aggregation”, PhD scholarship for a PhD student under the supervision of Professor Tanveer Zia, Professor Zahid Islam and Dr Ba Dung Le. Funding amount: $180,000. (CSU Research Office Project Reference Number: 0000103352).
  • Project title: “A novel technique to detect and protect sensitive data against malware attacks in hyper-connected network”, PhD scholarship for a PhD student under the supervision of Associate Professor Rafiqul Islam, Professor Zahid Islam and Dr Arif Khan. Funding amount: $180,000. (CSU Research Office Project Reference Number: 0000102972).
• Congratulations to Professor Zahid Islam, Dr Michael Bewong and Dr Ryan Ip for receiving an external fund with an amount of $31,425 from VetCompass Australia. The project title is “VetCompass Data Investigation”.
• Congratulations to Associate Professor Lihong Zheng for receiving an external fund with an amount of $589,525 from Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. The project title is “Weed mangers guide to remote detection". Understanding opportunities and limitations of multi-resolution and multi-modal technologies for remote detection of weeds in heterogeneous landscapes.
• Congratulations to the following 2020 DSRU Summer Scholarship recipients who each receive an amount of $2,800 for conducting a research project.  Many thanks to all three members of the assessment committee: Professor Tanveer Zia, Professor Rafiqul Islam and Professor Lihong Zheng.



Name	Supervisors	Project Title
Sarah Condran	Michael Bewong, Zahid Islam and Lancelot Maphosa	Intelligent Agronomy: towards effective and explainable machine learning models
Danny Falero	Ashad Kabir, Lihong Zheng and Michael Bewong	Machine learning for detecting COVID-19 severity from chest x-ray
Jannatul Ferdous	Rafiqul Islam, Zahid Islam and Maumita Bhattacharya	Analysis of malware data using ML algorithms
Abraham Oh	Zahid Islam, Rafiqul Islam and Ryan Ip	Application of data mining on financial market prediction
Dylan Warman	Ashad Kabir, Michael Bewong and Quazi Mamun	Towards developing a tool for automatically detecting fake news



• Congratulations to Associate Professor Zahid Islam who has received an external fund for an amount of $30,030 (including GST) from the Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment and Data61, CSIRO. The project title is “Database Schema Matching”. [CSU Research Office Project Reference Number: 0000103179]

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