Decentralised Collaborative Predictive Analytics on Personal Smart Devices. This project tackles the challenging problem of personalised predictive analytics with resource-constrained personal devices and massive-scale data. The knowledge to be generated concerns privacy, fairness, and resource efficiency in the era of Internet of Things. The expected outcomes include a collaborative learning paradigm for building personalised models on personal smart devices in open and fully decentralised sett ....Decentralised Collaborative Predictive Analytics on Personal Smart Devices. This project tackles the challenging problem of personalised predictive analytics with resource-constrained personal devices and massive-scale data. The knowledge to be generated concerns privacy, fairness, and resource efficiency in the era of Internet of Things. The expected outcomes include a collaborative learning paradigm for building personalised models on personal smart devices in open and fully decentralised settings. Privacy and model fairness are core tenets of the paradigm. Personalised predictive analytics is frontier research that will position Australia at the forefront of AI and give business the tools needed to deploy innovative business systems for market exploitation with a secure, equitable and competitive advantage.Read moreRead less
DeepHoney: Automatic Honey Data Generation for Active Cyber Defence . This project aims to enhance the security of networks and information systems by empowering them with intelligent deception techniques to achieve proactive attack detection and defence. In recent times, the fictitious environment – honeypot designed by human experience becomes popular to attract attackers and capture their interactions. However, rules-based construction of honeypots fails in preserving the privacy, boosting th ....DeepHoney: Automatic Honey Data Generation for Active Cyber Defence . This project aims to enhance the security of networks and information systems by empowering them with intelligent deception techniques to achieve proactive attack detection and defence. In recent times, the fictitious environment – honeypot designed by human experience becomes popular to attract attackers and capture their interactions. However, rules-based construction of honeypots fails in preserving the privacy, boosting the attractiveness and evolving the system. The project expects to advance deep learning and yield novel DeepHoney technologies with associated publications and open-source software. This should benefit science, society, and the economy by building the next generation of active cyber defence systems. Read moreRead less
Privacy-preserving Biometrics based Authentication and Security. Password based authentication systems cannot verify genuine users. Biometric authentication can address this issue. However, the booming IoT applications and cloud computing require that the biometric authentication must be conducted in the privacy-protected setting in order to comply with privacy protection legal regulations. Latest reports show that current biometric authentication systems, under protected setting, exhibit poor ....Privacy-preserving Biometrics based Authentication and Security. Password based authentication systems cannot verify genuine users. Biometric authentication can address this issue. However, the booming IoT applications and cloud computing require that the biometric authentication must be conducted in the privacy-protected setting in order to comply with privacy protection legal regulations. Latest reports show that current biometric authentication systems, under protected setting, exhibit poor authentication performance, which is not commercially applicable. This project aims to investigate innovative solutions to this issue. The intended deliverables will include deep learning based biometric feature extractor, cancellable biometrics and cloud oriented biometrics security protocols. Read moreRead less
Information access through web-scale question-answer pair finding, ranking and matching. This project will aim to take web search to a new level of sophistication in accepting queries in the form of complex natural language questions, and returning a ranked list of natural language answers automatically extracted from a broad range of web user forums.
Targeted Graph Embedding for Anomaly Detection in Large-scale Networks. This project aims to tackle the challenging problem of anomaly detection in large-scale networks by leveraging graph embedding techniques. It expects to deliver a series of innovative graph embedding algorithms targeting optimised anomaly detection. By addressing under-developed research challenges, such as the versatile types of anomalies and lack of anomaly labels, the established theories and devised methodologies will ad ....Targeted Graph Embedding for Anomaly Detection in Large-scale Networks. This project aims to tackle the challenging problem of anomaly detection in large-scale networks by leveraging graph embedding techniques. It expects to deliver a series of innovative graph embedding algorithms targeting optimised anomaly detection. By addressing under-developed research challenges, such as the versatile types of anomalies and lack of anomaly labels, the established theories and devised methodologies will advance frontier technologies in both graph anomaly detection and graph representation learning. By uncovering anomalies with high efficiency and accuracy, this project will contribute to multiple real applications from fake review detection to financial fraud identification, bringing both social and economic benefits.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE200101465
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$419,498.00
Summary
Minimising Human Efforts to Fight Fake News and Restore the Public Trust. Our modern society is struggling with an unprecedented amount of online fake news, which is recently driven by misused artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. This project aims to build the first real-time system integrating algorithmic models and human validators to counter such falsehoods, especially those AI-fabricated false stories. This project expects to deliver a series of cost-effective and streaming methods emp ....Minimising Human Efforts to Fight Fake News and Restore the Public Trust. Our modern society is struggling with an unprecedented amount of online fake news, which is recently driven by misused artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. This project aims to build the first real-time system integrating algorithmic models and human validators to counter such falsehoods, especially those AI-fabricated false stories. This project expects to deliver a series of cost-effective and streaming methods empowering a Web-based observatory dashboard of fake news propagation. This achieves significant benefits for media organisations, governments, the public, and academia via timely alerts, data-journalism reports, and novel data visualisations of social media landscape to distinguish between legitimate and deceptive contents.Read moreRead less
Challenging big data for scalable, robust and real-time recommendations. With the advent of big data era, recommender systems are facing unprecedented challenges with respect to the four dimensions of big data: big volume, low veracity, high velocity and high variety. This project aims to develop a new generation of cost-effective techniques for scalable, robust and real-time recommendations utilising big data. This project aims to address these challenges to achieve scalable, robust and real-ti ....Challenging big data for scalable, robust and real-time recommendations. With the advent of big data era, recommender systems are facing unprecedented challenges with respect to the four dimensions of big data: big volume, low veracity, high velocity and high variety. This project aims to develop a new generation of cost-effective techniques for scalable, robust and real-time recommendations utilising big data. This project aims to address these challenges to achieve scalable, robust and real-time recommendations. This project will devise a series of cost-effective machine learning methods and schemes to deliver an end-to-end recommender framework. This project has the potential to significantly reduce the energy consumption of large-scale recommender systems as well as facilitating an increase in the use of recommendation applications for big data.Read moreRead less
Location-aware Frequent Pattern Mining from Uncertain Spatial Transaction Data. Traditional transaction data mining exploits transactions without location information. Technological advances like GPS-enabled devices or radar sensors now allow the collection of transactions with spatial information. This project will address inherent data uncertainty by developing technical solutions to mine uncertain spatial transactions, and initiate a new research direction, location-aware frequent pattern min ....Location-aware Frequent Pattern Mining from Uncertain Spatial Transaction Data. Traditional transaction data mining exploits transactions without location information. Technological advances like GPS-enabled devices or radar sensors now allow the collection of transactions with spatial information. This project will address inherent data uncertainty by developing technical solutions to mine uncertain spatial transactions, and initiate a new research direction, location-aware frequent pattern mining. It will deliver theoretical foundations and technology for knowledge discovery from uncertain spatial transaction data and expand research horizons. Outcomes will provide social and economic benefits, for example, significantly improved analysis and detection of crime, weather diagnosis, and market basket analysis for business. Read moreRead less
Large-scale spatio-temporal data hashing for efficient data analytics. This project aims to systematically investigate the challenging problem of hash function learning for large-scale spatio-temporal data. The project will generate high quality hash codes for spatio-temporal data objects, enabling efficient similarity computation and thus supporting various data mining tasks and applications. The project expects to devise a series of learning frameworks by addressing the specific challenges of ....Large-scale spatio-temporal data hashing for efficient data analytics. This project aims to systematically investigate the challenging problem of hash function learning for large-scale spatio-temporal data. The project will generate high quality hash codes for spatio-temporal data objects, enabling efficient similarity computation and thus supporting various data mining tasks and applications. The project expects to devise a series of learning frameworks by addressing the specific challenges of different types of spatio-temporal data, such as univariate and multivariate. The project will provide significant benefits to both academia and industry in massive spatio-temporal data analysing, for example traffic flow mining and optimisation, weather forecasting and financial fraud detection.Read moreRead less
Privacy-aware Smart Access Control for Internet-of-Things on Blockchain. This project aims to address privacy and trust issues in Internet-of-Things (IoT) access control mechanism of smart critical infrastructure. This project expects to generate new knowledge in the area of IoT access control by leveraging privacy-preserving techniques, blockchain, and machine learning. Expected outcomes of this project include enhanced capability to build improved techniques for privacy aware tamperproof IoT a ....Privacy-aware Smart Access Control for Internet-of-Things on Blockchain. This project aims to address privacy and trust issues in Internet-of-Things (IoT) access control mechanism of smart critical infrastructure. This project expects to generate new knowledge in the area of IoT access control by leveraging privacy-preserving techniques, blockchain, and machine learning. Expected outcomes of this project include enhanced capability to build improved techniques for privacy aware tamperproof IoT access control with machine learning based anomaly detection. This should provide significant benefits, such as preventing cyber threats on security and privacy of IoT and improving trust in IoT-enabled smart critical infrastructure of Australia.Read moreRead less