Grants & Awards

Research Grants

• Principal Investigator, Intelligent Table Tennis Match Analysis: Automated Insights Extraction through Machine Learning and Computer Vision , AUD 62,500 [2023-2026], funded by the Table Tennis Australia (TTA)
• Co-Investigator, Empowering Agents with Human Feedback: Integrating Implicit and Explicit Signals in Deep Reinforcement Learning, USD 307,534 [2023-2025], funded by the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD)
• Co-Investigator, Design and delivery of a Graduate Certificate of Secondary Digital Technologies, AUD 1,112,571 [2023-2026], Department of Education and Training, Victoria, Australia.
• Co-Investigator, Contributions to Edge and Multimodal Machine Learning, USD 360,000 [2023-2026], Technology Innovation Institute, UAE.
• Co-Investigator, Cold-start Contract Cheating Identification from Side Information Using Latent Linear Writing Style Representation, AUD 12,000 [2022], Deakin Science & Society Network.
• Principal Investigator, Creating a course-wide case study incorporating software-based learning infrastructure to facilitate authentic experiences and enhance learning outcomes for students in the Graduate Certificate of Information Technology, AUD 10,000 [2022], Deakin Design Seeding Grant, Deakin Learning Futures.
• Co-Investigator, Application of Generic Actual Argument Model to represent complex decisions and generate narratives, AUD 30,000 [2022], led by Assoc Prof Richard Dazeley (Deakin University) funded by the Defence Science and Technology (DST) Group under the AI for Decision Making Initiative Round 3 Phase 1.
• Principal Investigator, Machine Learning in Heterogeneous Data from Multiple Sources, USD 225,000 [2022-2025], funded by the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) [one of the two projects funded outside of US in the recent Director’s Reseach Initative (DRI)]
• Principal Investigator, Window On Science Travel Award, USD 6,800 [2022], funded by the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) to visit US Air Force and Space Force Labs in Virginia, USA
• Co-Investigator, Utilizing Extractive-Abstractive Summarization for Understanding the Narrative of Social Media Users from Multimodal Data, AUD 20,000 [2020], led by Dr Imran Razzak (Deakin University) funded by the Office of National Intelligence (ONI) Australia under the AI for Decision Making Initiative Rpound 2 Phase 1 through Defence Science Institute (DSI) Victoria Australia
• Principal Investigator, Efficient outlying aspect mining in data with mixed attributes, AUD 10,000 [2021], (sole investigator), an Early Career Researcher small grant funded by Deakin University, School of Information Technology
• Principal Investigator, Practical anomaly detection method for real-world problems, AUD 5,000 [2021], (sole investigator), a seed grant under Peer-Reviewed ECR Support Scheme (PRESS2021) funded by Deakin University, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment
• Co-Investigator, A competency-aware multi-agent framework for human-machine teams in adversarial environments, AUD 373,199 [AUD 208,463 (AUS) + USD 120,002 (USA)] [2021-2022], led by Assoc Prof Richard Dazeley (Deakin University, AUS) and Prof Prof Cindy Bethel (Mississippi State University, USA), funded jointly by Defence Science and Technology (DST) Group Australia and US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) under the AFOSR-DST Australia Autonomy Initiative 2020.
• Co-Investigator, Modeling Adversary Intent Using Multiobjective Reinforcement Learning, AUD 97,000 [2021], led by Assoc Prof Peter Vamplew (Federation University) and Assoc Prof Richard Dazeley (Deakin University), funded by Defence Science and Technology (DST) Group Australia.
• Principal Investigator, Developing robust framework for practical data mining, USD 100,000 [2020-2022], funded by the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD) and Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global
• Principal Investigator, Ensembling Single-Class Classifiers, AUD 20,000 [2020], funded by the Office of National Intelligence (ONI) Australia under the AI for decision making initiative through Defence Science Institute (DSI) Victoria Australia
• Principal Investigator, A new robust method to detect anomalies in cybersecurity datasets, AUD 5,000 [2020], (sole investigator), a seed grant under Peer-Reviewed ECR Support Scheme (PRESS2020) funded by Deakin University, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment
• Co-Investigator, Wellbeing Track & Change – Using digital monitoring to improve the mental well-being of residential aged care workers, AUD 1.28 million [2019-2021] (part of a large research team lead by Mental health organisation Prevention United, Federation University Australia and Ballarat Health Services), funded by WorkSafe, WorkWell Improvement Fund (Round 2)
• Principal Investigator, An ECR startup grant, AUD 10,000 [2019-2020], (sole investigator), a career startup grant for early career researcher by the School of Information Technology, Deakin University
• Conference travel grant, Asian Information Retrieval Society (AIRS) student travel award to attend AIRS conference in Brisbane, Australia [2015]
• Conference travel grant, Monash Institute of Graduate Research (MIGR) student travel grant to attend AIRS conference in Brisbane, Australia [2015]
• Conference travel grant, Alberta Innovates Centre for Machine Learning (AICML) student travel award to attend IEEE ICDM in Shenzhen, China [2014]
• Conference travel grant, Monash Institute of Graduate Research (MIGR) student travel grant to attend IEEE ICDM in Shenzhen, China [2014]

Awards and Scholarships

• Deakin School of IT Research Award for Industry Engagement [2022]
• Deakin Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment Learning and Teaching Award for Excellence in Unit Leadership and Supporting Student Learning [2022]
• Deakin School of IT Research Award for Excellence in Early Career Research Performance [2021]
• Deakin School of IT Teaching Award for Excellence in Unit Leadership and Supporting Student Learning [2021]
• Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) for PhD at Monash University [2013-2017]
• Best Poster Award at the Faculty of IT higher degrees by research conference, Monash University [2012]
• Monash Postgraduate Publication Award (PPA) [2012]
• Research student stipend for MIT(Research) from a research grant funded by US Air Force Research Laboratory awarded to Prof. Kai Ming Ting [2011-2012]
• Research student scholarship by a research grant funded by European Research Council awarded to Dr. Jan Ramon [2009-2010]
• Dean’s award for outstanding academic achievement by University of Southern Queensland (USQ) [2007]
• Academic scholarships during MIT(Coursework) study at USQ [2007]
• ISACA prize by Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) Brisbane Chapter [2006]
• Outstanding student full tuition fee waiver scholarship to study BIT by Kathmandu Don Bosco College, Nepal [2001-2005]