Rate My Professor Mark Carman

Mark Carman is a Lecturer in Software Development and Design in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology, College of Engineering and Information Technology at Adelaide University. He is actively involved in teaching undergraduate courses essential to the information technology curriculum. These include INFT 1030 Design Thinking Studio in 2024 and 2025, INFT 2064 Web Technology in 2024 and 2025, and INFT 4028 Cloud, Virtualisation and Storage in 2025. Through these courses, students gain practical expertise in design thinking methodologies, web technologies, and cloud computing, virtualization, and storage systems.

Mark Carman's research output includes publications on cybersecurity, privacy, and online content dynamics. In 2017, he co-authored with K. K. R. Choo the paper titled 'Tinder me softly: how safe are you really on tinder?', published in Security and Privacy in Communication Networks: 12th International Conference, SecureComm 2016, Guangzhou, China, October 10-12, 2016, Proceedings, volume 198 of Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, pages 271-286, Springer, Netherlands. In 2018, collaborating with M. Koerber, J. Li, K. K. R. Choo, and H. Ashman, he published 'Manipulating visibility of political and apolitical threads on reddit via score boosting' in Proceedings - 17th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications and 12th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering, Trustcom/BigDataSE 2018, pages 184-190, IEEE, United States. In 2019, with K. Wahlstrom, his work 'A discussion on illegal content in the Bitcoin blockchain' appeared in Conference Proceedings of AICE 2019: Australian Institute of Computer Ethics, pages 45-49, Deakin University, Australia. These contributions address key issues in digital platforms and blockchain security.