Rate My Professor Willy Susilo

Susilo's research focuses on cybersecurity, cryptography, and privacy, resulting in over 700 publications with an h-index of 86 and more than 27,000 citations according to metrics reported on official profiles. His seminal contributions include short signature schemes adopted in an IETF draft, and he has co-authored books such as Introduction to Security Reduction (Springer, 2018), Advances in Cyber Security: Principles, Techniques, and Applications (Springer, 2019), and Cyber Security Meets Machine Learning (Springer, 2021). He has attracted over $200 million in research funding, including the ARC Laureate Fellowship in 2023 for Secure Cloud Computing from Cryptography: The Rise of Pragmatic Cryptography, ARC Future Fellowship in 2009, and grants from NATO and others. Recognized as a world-leading expert, Susilo is a Fellow of IEEE (2021), IET (2021), ACS, AAIA, AIIA, and IACR. His accolades include the 2024 NSW Premier's Prize for Excellence in Engineering and Communications Technology, 2024 UOW Alumni Award for Research and Scholarship, Fulbright Scholar in 2026, UOW Researcher of the Year (2016), and Supervisor of the Year (2019). He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Computers Standards & Interfaces (Elsevier) and Information (MDPI), and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security and IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.