Rate My Professor Sarah Monazam Erfani

Sarah Monazam Erfani is a Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, part of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology. She received her PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2015, focusing on anomaly detection in participatory sensing networks. Following her PhD, she served as a Research Fellow in Computing and Information Systems from 2015 to 2016. Her career has advanced through positions such as Senior Lecturer to her current role as Associate Professor and ARC DECRA Fellow. Erfani's research interests encompass machine learning, AI safety and reliability, cybersecurity, data privacy, and IoT analytics. She has developed scalable methods for unsupervised learning with practical applications in telecommunication network management. As an Associate Investigator for the University of Melbourne node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making + Society (ADM+S), she contributes to advancements in these areas. She is affiliated with the AI Assurance Lab and supervises PhD students in artificial intelligence.