A/Pr Mahdi Fahmideh
| Name | A/Pr Mahdi Fahmideh |
|---|---|
| Email Address | mahdi.fahmideh@unisq.edu.au |
| Job Title | Associate Professor (Cyber Security) |
| Qualifications | BSoftEng Islamic Azad, MSoftEng Islamic Azad, PhD UNSW |
| Department | School of Business |
| Affiliations | iLAuNCH |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7196-7217 |
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Biography
As a lifelong learner, I am currently an Associate Professor in Cyber Security at the Information Systems (IS) group, School of Business, University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Prior to this, I was a senior lecture in this school. Before that, I held a Lecturer position in Information Technology at the School of Computing and Information Technology, University of Wollongong. Preceding this, I was a post-doctoral researcher at Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Having worked in the software industry prior to taking up an academic position, I have 8 x years of first-hand experience, as an analyst programmer and consultant, in implementing core back-end of software systems for different industry sectors such as publishing, government, and insurance. I hold a PhD degree in IS at the Business School, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. I received both my B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Software Engineering (SE) with First Class Honours, respectively, after obtaining my high school diploma in Software.
My research aims to help IT-based organisations in the effective analysis, design, and adoption of emerging technologies which ultimately create value as well as improve the life quality of citizens. Much of my work in this area focuses on designing new development methods, frameworks, and strategies to help organisations in implementing their digital evolution endeavours. For example, my past research in the context of digital evolution has addressed a number of diverse topics that help organisations in the design, implementation, and integration of large scale information systems with the ABCD technologies of Artificial intelligence, Blockchain, Cloud computing, and big Data.
I have secured or extensively contributed to several commercial external research funding of interdisciplinary projects including Australian Research Council (ARC) grants. As the lead author, my research outcomes have appeared in selective top-tier international A/A* and Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) ranked venues in IS and SE such as European Journal of Information System (EJIS), Decision Support Systems (DSS), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), Information Sciences, Information Systems, Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), Information and Software Technology (IST), Pacific Asia Conference Information Systems (PACIS), European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), among others.
I am an associate editor of the ACM Computing Journal (CSUR) and have served as as reviewer and area associate editor for a large number of journals IS/SE venues such as ISJ, CAIS, JAIS, ICIS, HICSS, ECIS, IEEE TSE, and TOSEM and competitive research grant programs including the ARC.
Throughout my teaching career, I have taught a range of courses including cyber security courses, business information systems, programming courses, data structures and algorithms, business analytics, database management systems. I also take the lead in various programs aimed at mentoring the next generation of students in the field of information technology. These includes major course development, assistance in designing assessments, and contributing to curriculum and course development at an international level.
Feel free to contact me if you are interested in collaborations with me or have any questions. Also, I am happy to recruit master and PhD program applicants.
Employment
| Position | Organisation | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Associate Professor | University of Southern Queensland, Australia | 2021 | |
| Visiting Research Fellow | University College Cork, Ireland | 2024 | 2024 |
| Visiting Research Fellow | University of Boras, Sweden | 2023 | 2023 |
| Visiting Research Fellow | University of Jyväskylä, Finland | 2021 | 2021 |
| Lecturer | University of Wollongong, Australia | 2019 | 2021 |
| Postdoctoral Researcher | University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia | 2017 | 2019 |
| PhD Researcher | University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia | 2012 | 2017 |
Expertise
Information Systems Design
Software Engineering
Responsible AI
Digital Evolution
Teaching
Digital Forensics (CIS8708)
Data Mining for Business Analytics and Cyber Security (CIS5206)
Information Assurance and Risk Management (CIS6712)
Digital Assets and Responsible Data Management (CIS2103)
Business Intelligence (CIS6008)
Cyber Governance and Leadership (CIS6709)
Human Factors in Cyber Security (CIS2104)
Capstone project (CIS6720)
Fields of Research
- 460905. Information systems development methodologies and practice
Professional Membership
| Professional Membership | Year |
|---|---|
| Association of Information Systems (AIS) | |
| Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | |
| Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | |
| Australian Computer Society (ACS) | |
| Australian Information Security Association (AISA) | |
| Australian Council of Professors and Heads of Information Systems (ACPHIS) |
BSoftEng
Islamic Azad
2006
MSoftEng
Islamic Azad
2010
PhD
UNSW
2017
Current Supervisions
| Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Commenced |
|---|---|---|---|
| Analysis of Cloud Deployment Models for Reducing Effects of DDoS Attacks on Cloud Service Providers | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2024 |
| Addressing the human factors and evaluating the usefulness of behavioural and cognitive theories in cybersecurity | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2023 |
| Project title | Details | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grant | Robust Defences against Adversarial Machine Learning for UAV Systems, AUS $445K | 2024 |
| Capacity Building Grants | Design Science for Trustworthy AI, University of Southern Queensland, Australia, AUS $12.5K | 2023 |
| Visiting Research Fellow Grant | University of Borås, Sweden, AUS $17K | 2023 |
| Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grant | Empowering Australia’s Visual Arts via Creative Blockchain Opportunities, AUS $570K | 2022 |
| Visiting Research Fellow Grant | University of Jyväskylä, Finland, AUS $7.5K | 2021 |
| Early Career PhD Program Grant | University of Wollongong, Australia, AUS $98K | 2019 |
| Start-up Research Grant | University of Wollongong, Australia, AUS $10K | 2019 |
| PhD Placement Scholarship for Research Excellence | University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, AUS $3K | 2016 |
| Date | Name | Awarding organisation | Underpinning research |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Best Paper Award (IoT standardisation) | The 9th IEEE Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada | |
| 2019 | Research performance (AUS $1OOO) | University of Wollongong | |
| 2019 | Research performance (AUS $1OOO) | University of Wollongong | |
| 2023 | Associate Editor | ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) | |
| 2020 | The most cited articles with in the past 3 years | Information Systems |
| Item reviewed | Year |
|---|---|
| ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) | |
| IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) | |
| International Journal of Information Management (IJIM) | |
| Australasian Journal of Information System (AJIS) | |
| International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST) | |
| Information Systems Journals (ISJ) | |
| Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS) | |
| ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) | |
| International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) | |
| Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) | |
| European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) |