13 collaborative projects have been approved for funding in the 2021 UQ Cyber Seed Funding Scheme. A total sum of $AUD 893,716 will be allocated across these projects.
This scheme will be instrumental in supporting the efforts of UQ’s researchers and academics to establish new and expanded linkages with strategic partners.
Congratulations to the following successful applicants:
Round 1
A threat detection system for extended reality systems (01/06/2021 – 31/05/2022) | Dr Mashuhuda Glencross (ITEE) A/Prof Stephen Viller (ITEE) Prof Simon Smith (ISSR) | $75,000 |
A Data-Driven Analysis of Disinformation in Australian Social Media Campaigning 01/07/2021 - 30/06/2022 | A/Prof Gianluca Demartini (ITEE) Dr Glenn Kefford (POLSIS) | $73,416 |
An Industrial Internet of Things Testbed for Secure Digital Agriculture 01/06/-2021 – 31/12/2022 | Dr Guangdong Bai (ITEE) Prof Ryan Ko (ITEE) Yanjun Zhang (ITEE) Prof Louw Hoffman (QAAFI) Bondi Labs | $58,152 |
Round 2
Assessing the Impacts of Enhanced Cybertip Reports on AFP Child Abuse Material Triaging and Investigative Referral Processes 01/09/2021 - 30/06/2022 | Dr David Mount (SS) Dr Renee Zahnow (SS) AFP | $22,810 |
Cybersecurity Defence Strategies of Distribution Synchrophasor in Smart Grids 01/10/2021 - 30/09/2022 | Dr Yi Cui (ITEE) A/Prof Hongzhi Yin (ITEE) NOJA Power Switchgear | $74,303 |
A pilot study of technical viability, criminal justice applications, and social implications of multilingual cross‐platform account linking 01/09/2021 - 31/08/2022 | Dr Ash Rahimi (ITEE) AIC | $73,606 |
Privacy preserving federated deep learning for medical imaging 01/10/2021 - 30/09/2022 | Dr Steffen Bollmann (ITEE) Siemens Healthcare | $74,790 |
Real-time Automatic Detection of Cyber-Attacks using Weakly Supervised Learning 01/09/2021 - 31/08/2022 | Dr Abigail Koay (ITEE) Aarnet | $73,590 |
Round 3
A Framework to support organisational leaders in making more informed by cybersecurity decisions (submitted in round 2, revised based on cyber seed funding committee comments) 01/01/2022 - 31/12/2022 | Dr Ivano Bongiovanni (UQB) Dr Richard O’Quinn (UQB) Prof Ryan Ko (ITEE) Prof John Swinson (Law) Averto | $69,939 |
Automated Verification of Ethereum Smart-Contracts (AVESC) 11/01/2022 - 16/12/2022 | A/Prof Mark Utting (ITEE) Dr Naipeng Dong (ITEE) Dr Marten Risius (UQB) ConsenSys Software Inc | $73,576 |
Formal Verification of Post-Quantum Cryptographic Primitives 01/12/2022 - 30/06/2023 | Dr Naipeng Dong (ITEE) Dr Veronika Kuchta (SMP) Dr Guangdong Bai (ITEE) CSIRO Data61 Dependable Intelligence | $74,635 |
Collaborated Learning with medical data making high-stake decisions without information leakage 01/01/2022-31/12/2022 | Dr Weitong Chen (ITEE) Dr Miao Xu (ITEE) A/Prof Guido Zuccon (ITEE) Dr Guangdong Bai (ITEE) RBWH | $74,923 |
A Resilient and Privacy-Preserving Platform for Automated Road Defect Detection and Asset Management 01/01/2022-01/01/2023 | Dr Yadan Luo (ITEE) Dr Jiwon Kim (Civil Engineering) Prof Helen Huang (ITEE) Dr Mahsa Baktashmotlagh (ITEE) Logan City Council QLD | $74,976 |
The Committee felt that these proposals either or all had:
- Clearly articulated the cyber security threats/issues;
- Had good industry partnerships that committed significant in-kind support and team access;
- Had great collaborations with other schools/faculties/institutes across UQ;
- A good mix of researchers with relevant track record and skills
- Written language used was clear and easy to read for non-technical committee members
- Followed grant guidelines
For further information, please contact UQ Cyber via cyber@uq.edu.au