Researcher

Biography

Dr Nan Sun received her PhD degree in Information Technology from Deakin University. She is currently a lecturer with the School of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of New South Wales, Canberra. Before joining UNSW, she was a Research Fellow in the Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation (CSRI) at Deakin University and worked on the project - Development of Australian Cyber Criteria Assessment (DACCA). Her...view more

Dr Nan Sun received her PhD degree in Information Technology from Deakin University. She is currently a lecturer with the School of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of New South Wales, Canberra. Before joining UNSW, she was a Research Fellow in the Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation (CSRI) at Deakin University and worked on the project - Development of Australian Cyber Criteria Assessment (DACCA). Her research focuses on cyber security, including data-driven cybersecurity incidents prediction, visualization and discovery through data analytics and machine learning techniques. Dr Sun is conducting interdisciplinary research between cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI), applying AI for cybersecurity. She is also passionate about designing systems to help with users’ cybersecurity awareness education and cyber information retrieval.

* Scholarships of $35,000 (AUD) are available for PhD students who achieved UNSW High Distinction (H1) or equivalent in their undergraduate program and/or have completed a Masters by Research. If you are interested, contact me at nan.sun@adfa.edu.au.

 

 


My Grants

Defence against Fake Cyber Threat Intelligence through Deep Learning, UNSW AI Seed funding, Lead CI, $30,000, 2022

Ethically Aligned AI Cyberbullying Detection Tools, UNSW Rapid Research Funding, CI, $23,110 AUD, 2023

Building Resilience to Power and Energy Systems under Cyber-Related Disasters, UNSW Rapid Research Funding, CI, $19,173, 2023

Towards Understandable, Robust and Actionable Cybersecurity Information Retrieval, UNSW Recruitment Research Proposal (RRP) Grant, Lead CI, $30,000, 2023

Microgrid Security Testbed, UNSW Research Infrastructure Scheme, CI, $33,107, 2023 

Swarm Metaverse Infrastructure, UNSW Faculty Infrastructure Scheme, CI, $102,000, 2024

 

 


My Research Supervision


Areas of supervision

  • Security and Privacy in AI
  • Social Network Security
  • Cyber Resilience
  • NLP for Security 

 


My Teaching

ZEIT 8030, Big Data and Decision Analytics for Security, 2022, S2; 2023, S2

ZEIT 3010, IT Project 2, 2022, S2; 2023, S2

ZEIT 3103, Digital Forensics, 2023, S1

ZEIT 8028, Digital Forensics, 2023, S1, S2

 

 

 

 

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Location

Building 15, Room 119

Contact

+61 2 5114 5329