Charles Sturt University
Charles Sturt University

Recent Projects

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Use CHAT GPT to mark and provide feedback on university-level Java programming assignments Funder: Charles Sturt Teaching Academy
Investigators: Jason Howarth
Period: 2023-2024
Funding Amount: $5,000
Artificial intelligence-guided personalized medical and assistive device prescription for improving clinical outcomes and adherence Funder: Department of Education
Investigators: Ashad Kabir
Period: 2024-2027
Funding Amount: $88,680
A Lightweight Adaptive Adversarial Attack-Resistant IDSFunder: Connectivity Innovation Network (CIN)
Investigators: Rafiqul Islam, Quazi Mamun and Zahid Islam
Period: 2023-2024
Funding Amount: $105,000
Drought Resilient Mixed Farming System Trials Funder: Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Investigators: Ashad Kabir, along with other colleagues from Charles Sturt and external collaborators
Period: 2023-2028
Funding Amount: $6,229,926
SCATES:  Securing Critical Agriculture Technology and Emerging SolutionsFunder: Cyber Security CRC (CSCRC), CISCO, Quintessence Lab, TCS, and Government of Western Australia
Investigators: Mark Morrison, Zahid Islam, Arash Mahboubi, Michael Bewong, Yeslam Al-Saggaf, Rafiqul Islam, Sabih Rehman, Arif Khan, Anwaar Ul-Haq and Ryan Ip, along with other colleagues from Charles Sturt and other institutes
Period: 2023-2024
Funding Amount: $1,400,000 ($375,000 to Charles Sturt)
Protecting children from smartphone's leakage of security sensitive informationFunder: Australian Government eSafety Commissioner (eSafety)
Investigators: Yeslam Al-Saggaf
Period: 2023-2024
Funding Amount: $87,870
Sharing Cybersecurity Data for Australian Research (SCReeD)Funder: Cyber Security CRC (CSCRC)
Investigators: Rafiqul Islam, Ryan Ip, Arash Mahboubi, Michael Bewong, and Zahid Islam with colleagues from Data 61, Deakin University, ECU, QUT, and University of Adelaide
Period: 2022-2024
Funding Amount: $500,000 ($50,000 to CSU)
Software Security with a Focus on Critical TechnologiesFunder: Cyber Security CRC (CSCRC) CISCO, Quintessence Lab, TCS and Government of Western Australia
Investigators: Michael Bewong, Zahid Islam, Arash Mahboubi, Rafiqul Islam, Ryan Ip and Muhammad Arif Khan
Period: 2022-2024
Funding Amount: $2,105,000 (161,303 to CSU)
An exploitation of remote sensing CMEMS products for monitoring of transitional and coastal watersFunder: Environmental Protection Agency, Ireland
Investigators: Agnieszka Indiana Olbert (National University of Ireland Galway), Azizur Rahman and colleagues
Period: 2022-
Funding Amount: $559,901
Understanding the relationship between individual and mob-based animal performance metrics derived from autonomous livestock monitoring sourcesFunder: Food Agility CRC
Investigators: Rafiqul Islam, Zahid Islam, Shawn McGrath and Dave Lamb
Period:
2022-2025
Funding Amount: $135,000
THRD: Threat Detection and Response with Heterogeneous Data SourcesFunder: Cyber Security CRC (CSCRC) and Paraflare
Investigators: Arash Mahboubi, Zahid Islam, Rafiqul Islam, and Michael Bewong
Period: 2022-2024
Funding Amount: $850,000 ($425,000 to CSU)
Sharing Cybersercurity Research Data (SCReeD)Funder: Cyber Security CRC
Investigators: Michael Bewong, Zahid Islam, Arash Mahboubi and Ryan Ip
Period: 2022-2024
Funding Amount: $500,000 ($50,000 to CSU)
Shipping Container ID Automation – Phase IIFunder: GSK Global Pty Ltd
Investigators: Rafiqul Islam, Quazi Mamun, Mano Paul and Zahid Islam
Period: 2022-2024
Funding Amount: $25,000
HEALTHDM - System Refinement and Early AdoptionFunder: Discovery Translation Fund (DTF) from Campus Plus
Investigators: Mark Morrison, Zahid Islam, Damien Limberger, Julian Grant, Lesley Forster, and Yann Guisard
Period: 2022-2024
Funding Amount: $75,000
Supporting rapid intervention through disaster cycles: Helping government, NGOs and community organisations identify where resilience support is needed through rapid identification of risk before, during and after extreme climatic eventsFunder: Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry’s Future Drought Fund
Investigators: Azizur Rahman, Zahid Islam, Michael Bewong and Ryan Ip
Period: 2022-2023
Funding Amount: $609,281

Potential implications and benefits for the agrifood technology sector from the introduction of the Australian AgriFood Data Exchange

Funder: Food Agility CRC (FACRC) and Meat & Livestock Australia Limited (MLA)
Investigators: Michael Bewong, Branka Krivokapic-Skoko, Zahid Islam, Ryan Ip, Jon Medway, Yeslam Al-Saggaf, and Cliff Lewis
Period: 2022-2023
Funding Amount: $597,729
Ransomware Resilient File Safe Havens for cloud dataFunder: Cyber Security CRC and Government of Western Australia
Investigators: Arash Mahboubi and Zahid Islam with colleagues from Data61
Period: 2022-2024
Funding Amount: $640,000 ($320,000 to CSU)
Privacy Preserving Data Sharing in a Hyperconnected WorldFunder: Cyber Security CRC
Investigators: Zahid Islam and Tanveer Zia
Period: 2019-2024
Funding Amount: $1,687,500
Evaluating a hyperspectral image analysis prototype for offal health and tissue integrity quality assurance for Australian red meat processingFunder: Meat & Livestock Australia Donor Company (MDC)
Investigators: Jane Quinn, Lihong Zheng, and Scott Edwards
Period: 2022-2026
Funding Amount: $4,368,791
Development of drone technology to enhance Tropical Soda Apple (TSA) control in rugged high-value grazing countryFunder: Department of Ag, Water and Env
Investigators: Remy Dehaan, Peter Spooner, Lihong Zheng, Jane Kelly Period: 2022-2025
Funding Amount: $600,618
Trakka CattleID ScholarshipFunder: Food Agility CRC
Investigators: Lihong Zheng, Ashad Kabir, Dave Swain
Period: 2021-2025
Funding Amount: $105,000
Trakka MicroServices ScholarshipFunder: Food Agility CRC
Investigators: Ashad Kabir, Lihong Zheng, Dave Swain
Period: 2021-2024
Funding Amount: $105,000
AI for Spatial Digital TwinFunder: Monash University Research Fund
Investigators: Anwaar Ulhaq and Assoc Prof Aamar Cheema
Period: 2021-2022
Funding Amount: $200,000
FA071: TRAKKA – Making Data Flow (RM 103328)Funder: Food Agility CRC
Investigators: Jonathan Medway, Ashad Kabir, Lihong Zheng and Shawn McGrath
Funding Amount: $133,000
Development of a grower focused mobile app for estimation, analysis and recording soil propertiesFunder: Soil CRC
Investigators: Ashad Kabir, Nathan Robinson (Fed Uni), Liang Wang (Newcastle Uni)
Period: 2021 - 2024
Funding Amount: $133,000
Privacy-preserving data collection for statistical aggregationFunder: Cyber Security CRC
Investigators: Tanveer Zia, Zahid Islam and Ba Dung Le
Period: 2021 - 2024
Funding Amount: $180,000
A novel technique to detect and protect sensitive data against malware attacks in hyper-connected networkFunder: Cyber Security CRC
Investigators: Rafiqul Islam, Zahid Islam and Arif Khan
Period: 2021 - 2024
Funding Amount: $180,000
VetCompass Data InvestigationFunder: VetCompass Australia
Investigators: Zahid Islam (CI), Martin Combs, Michael Bewong, Ryan Ip
Status: Ongoing
Funding Amount: A$31,425
Weed Manager guide to remote detection. Understanding opportunities and limitations of multi-resolution and multi-modal technologies for remote detection of weeds in heterogeneous landscapesFunder: The Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment
Investigators: Jane Kelly, Remy Dehaan and Lihong Zheng
Status: 2020 - 2023
Funding Amount: $589,525
Image Analysis for Whole Grain Rice Quality, PhD Scholarship for a PhD Student under the supervision of the CisFunder: Food Agility CRC (FA CRC), Australia
Investigators: Daniel Waters, Chris Blanchard, and Zahid Islam
Status: 2019 – 2022
Funding Amount: $135,000
Enhancing Provenance and Prediction for Whole Grain Rice QualityFunder: Food Agility CRC (FA CRC), and Industry Partners: SunRice, Rice
Investigators: Daniel Waters, Zahid Islam, Chris Blanchard, Sabih Rehman and Leigh Schmidtke
Status: 2019 – 2022
Funding Amount: $608,000
Multi-Model Sentiment and Causality Analysis of Learners in Learning Cloud Space with Big DataFunder: The National Natural Science Foundation of China
Charles Sturt Investigator: Xiaodi Huang
Collaborating institution: South China Normal University
Status: 2019 – 2022