Rate My Professor Mamoun Alazab

Professor Mamoun Alazab is a full Professor of Information Technology in the Faculty of Science and Technology at Charles Darwin University, serving as the Inaugural Director of the NT Academic Centre for Cyber Security and Innovation (ACCI). He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Federation University Australia. As a cyber security researcher and practitioner with substantial industry and academic experience, his multidisciplinary research focuses on cyber security, data analytics, and digital forensics, particularly cybercrime detection and prevention. Alazab examines artificial intelligence applications essential for security and privacy, including malware authorship attribution, access control systems, detecting attacks, crime investigation, analyzing malicious code, and uncovering vulnerabilities in software. His specific research interests encompass malware authorship attribution, explainable AI for malware detection, generating adversarial malware, access control in cyber-physical systems, IoT, cloud computing, big data, cyber criminology, privacy-preserving techniques, machine and deep learning for cyber security, digital forensics, and organizational security and cyber risk management.

Over his career, Professor Alazab has secured approximately A$16.7 million in research funding and produced over 300 research papers—more than 90% in top 10% journals (CORE2020 A/A*), over 100 in IEEE/ACM Transactions—11 authored and edited books, and 3 patents. Key publications include "Privacy Preserved and Explainable Deep Medical Image Analysis: A Survey" (2026, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence), "Past, present and future of deep plant leaf disease recognition: A survey" (2025, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture), "Digging the Underlying Layers of Intelligent Transportation System Networks by Mobile Crowdsourcing" (2025, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence), and "A Survey of Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Smart Cities" (2023). He has been honored as a 2022 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher, ranked in the top 2% of world scientists in Artificial Intelligence and Networking & Telecommunications (Stanford University, 2020-2022), and top 5% of 30k cyber security authors (2018-2022). Awards include NT Young Tall Poppy of the Year (2021, Australian Institute of Policy and Science), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship (2015), IEEE Outstanding Leadership Awards (2020, 2021), CDU Exceptional Researcher Awards (2020, 2021), and 4 Best Research Paper Awards. The Founding Chair of the IEEE Northern Territory Subsection, he is Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, ACM Digital Threats: Research and Practice, Digital Investigation, and Complex & Intelligent Systems. Alazab has presented over 130 invited and keynote talks, convened and chaired more than 200 conferences and workshops, and served on technical programme committees for over 500 IEEE and ACM events.