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Dr Chadni Islam

Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Email: c.islam@ecu.edu.au

Dr Chadni Islam is a Lecturer of Computing and Security in the School of Science.

Dr Chadni Islam is a Lecturer of Cybersecurity at Edith Cowan University (ECU) and an Adjunct Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Prior to joining ECU, Dr Chadni was a Lecturer of Cybersecurity at the School of Computer Science at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. Before that, she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the CREST research group at the University of Adelaide, where she focused on cybersecurity research.

Dr Chadni completed her PhD at the University of Adelaide in collaboration with CSIRO’s Data61 Distributed System Security Group, conducting research at the intersection of cybersecurity and software engineering. Her research interests span cybersecurity, software engineering, natural language processing, and machine learning, with a particular focus on integrating emerging technologies to enhance security and resilience in digital systems.

Passionate about both teaching and research, Dr Chadni is committed to fostering innovation in cybersecurity education and developing novel solutions for modern security challenges. She actively contributes to advancing knowledge and practices in cybersecurity and software engineering, leveraging machine learning and natural language processing to address contemporary threats.

Current Teaching

  • CSI3208.2 Ethical Hacking and Defence

Research Areas and Interests

  • Cybersecurity, security automation, software engineering, security operation centre, applied machine learning and natural language processing

Awards and Recognition

National and International Awards

  • 2020 – Deans' commendation for PhD thesis from the University of Adelaide, Australia.
  • 2017-2020 – Postgraduate scholarship from CSIRO's Data61, Australia and Full Fee Scholarship from the University of Adelaide, Australia.
  • 2019 – Support excellence award (team award) from CSIRO's Data61 as organizing committee of Data61 & DST Cyber Summer School.
  • 2014-2015 – Fellowship support (350000 BDT) from the ICT Department of the Ministry of Post and Telecommunication and IT, Government of Bangladesh).

University and National Teaching Awards

  • 2023 - QUT Early Career Researcher Ideas Scheme

National and International Research Positions

  • 2023-2024 – Lecturer, School of Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia.
  • 2021-2023 – Postdoctoral Research Fellow,School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
  • 2017-2023 – HDR Student, School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Adelaide, 2020.

Research Outputs

2024

Journal Articles

  • Hasan, K., Simpson, L., Baee, M., Islam, C., Rahman, Z., Armstrong, W., Gauravaram, P., McKague, M. (2024). A Framework for Migrating to Post-Quantum Cryptography: Security Dependency Analysis and Case Studies. IEEE Access, 12(TBD), 23427-23450. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3360412.
  • Islam, C., Babar, M., Nepal, S. (2024). Design and Generation of a Set of Declarative APIs for Security Orchestration. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 17(1), 127-141. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSC.2023.3336666.

Conference Publications

  • Mousavi, Z., Islam, C., Moore, K., Abuadbba, A., Babar, M. (2024). An Investigation into Misuse of Java Security APIs by Large Language Models. ACM AsiaCCS 2024 - Proceedings of the 19th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (1299-1315). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3634737.3661134.

2023

Journal Articles

  • Sworna, Z., Islam, C., Babar, M. (2023). APIRO: A Framework for Automated Security Tools API Recommendation. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 32(1), article number 3512768. https://doi.org/10.1145/3512768.
  • Islam, C., Prokhorenko, V., Babar, M. (2023). Runtime software patching: Taxonomy, survey and future directions. Journal of Systems and Software, 200(TBD), article number 111652. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2023.111652.

Conference Publications

  • Prokhorenko, V., Islam, C., Babar, M. (2023). Analyzing the Evolution of Inter-package Dependencies in Operating Systems: A Case Study of Ubuntu. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (233-249). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42592-9_16.
  • Dawoud, A., Mahala, G., Islam, C., Mayer, W., Ghose, A., Babar, M., Stumptner, M., Grossmann, G. (2023). A Goal-Driven Approach to Support Decision-Making with Incomplete Information in Cyber Operations. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (77-85). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34674-3_10.
  • Sworna, Z., Sreekumar, A., Islam, C., Babar, M. (2023). Security Tools' API Recommendation Using Machine Learning. International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE - Proceedings (27-38). Science and Technology Publications, Lda. https://doi.org/10.5220/0011708300003464.

2022

Journal Articles

  • Islam, C., Babar, M., Croft, R., Janicke, H. (2022). SmartValidator: A framework for automatic identification and classification of cyber threat data. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 202(TBD), article number 103370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnca.2022.103370.

2020

Journal Articles

  • Islam, C., Babar, M., Nepal, S. (2020). A multi-vocal review of security orchestration. ACM Computing Surveys, 52(2), article number a37. https://doi.org/10.1145/3305268.

Conference Publications

  • Islam, C., Babar, M., Nepal, S. (2020). Architecture-centric support for integrating security tools in a security orchestration platform. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (165-181). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58923-3_11.

2019

Conference Publications

  • Islam, C., Babar, M., Nepal, S. (2019). An ontology-driven approach to automating the process of integrating security software systems. Proceedings - 2019 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software and System Processes, ICSSP 2019 (54-63). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSSP.2019.00017.
  • Islam, C., Babar, M., Nepal, S. (2019). Automated Interpretation and Integration of Security Tools Using Semantic Knowledge. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (513-528). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21290-2_32.

Research Student Supervision

Current Supervisions

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Design and evaluation of authentication protocols for smart grid to mitigate malicious data attacks

Completed Supervisions

No data available
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