Rate My Professor Hung Nguyen

Professor Hung Nguyen is a Professor and Academic Lead for Cybersecurity and Networking in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology, College of Engineering and Information Technology, at Adelaide University. He earned his PhD from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, from 2004 to 2008. His academic interests include computer system security, networking and telecommunications, cybersecurity and privacy, and artificial intelligence. Nguyen established and leads the Cyber-AI Research Group at Adelaide University, focusing on applying artificial intelligence to network reliability and security challenges. The group develops autonomous and provably robust cyber-defence capabilities, including secure-by-design systems and trustworthy AI agents for complex networked environments. By combining graph theory, game theory, and machine learning, they create practical solutions that aid human operators in managing the scale, complexity, speed, and adversarial nature of modern cyber operations. Since 2009, Nguyen has advanced autonomous techniques for securing information environments, supported by grants from Defence and the Australian Research Council.

Prior to his current role, Nguyen served as Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide from 2021 to 2024, advancing to Professor in 2025. He is Theme Lead for Information Warfare and Advanced Cyber in the Defence Trailblazer program, a collaboration between Adelaide University and UNSW. In teaching, he was nominated for a Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology Excellence in Teaching Award in 2022, with student evaluations consistently exceeding school, faculty, and university averages. Key publications encompass 'Hardening Active Directory Graphs via Evolutionary Diversity Optimization based Policies' (Goel et al., 2025, ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization), 'Survive and Thrive: Decentralized Multi-Agent Coordination Under Attrition Risks' (Nguyen et al., 2025, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing), 'Defending SDN against packet injection attacks using deep learning' (Phu et al., 2023, Computer Networks), 'Verifiable Policy-Defined Networking using Metagraphs' (Ranathunga et al., 2020, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing), and 'Rigorous statistical analysis of internet loss measurements' (Nguyen and Roughan, 2013, IEEE-ACM Transactions on Networking). Nguyen serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence and Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, and sits on Technical Program Committees for AAMAS 2026, AAAI 2026, The Web Conference 2026, and IJCAI 2026, demonstrating his influence through academia-industry collaborations in cyber defence.