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Dr M Ali Hur

Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Email: m.alihur@ecu.edu.au

Ali is a Lecturer in Computer Science in the School of Science. He teaches and coordinates cybersecurity units and researches AI-driven cyber threat intelligence, with a focus on knowledge graphs and neurosymbolic AI.

Current Teaching

Teaching and coordinating:

  • CSI3351: Cybersecurity Incident Detection and Response
  • CSI2107: Malware Analysis
  • CSI6231: Threat Analysis, Mitigation and Response
  • CYB6015: Cyber Security Incident Detection and Response (accelerated)

Project supervision:

  • CSG3101 Applied Projects (undergraduate)
  • CSI6224 Applied Project (Masters)

Background

Ali is a Lecturer in Computer Science in the School of Science at Edith Cowan University. He holds a School Early Career Research Grant (January–December 2026) for "TKG-RAG for Cyber Threat Intelligence: Autonomous Temporal Knowledge Graphs for Explainable AI." With several years of experience across AI, knowledge graphs, cybersecurity, and software architecture, he was a Research Fellow at Flinders University on quantum computing for energy systems (February–May 2025) and generative AI for inclusive ICT curricula (May–December 2025). He has contributed to a CSIRO research project hosted at ECU (August 2025–April 2026) and, in industry, served as AI and Cybersecurity Advisor for PureSquare and Secure.com (2024–2025). Earlier senior roles include Solution Architect at Stella Technology (2017–2019), Team Lead R&D at Trillium Information Security Systems (2016–2017), and Technical Team Lead at NUST SEECS (2009–2014). He previously taught as a casual academic at ECU from December 2022.

Awards and Recognition

  • 2026 - School Early Career Research Grant, Edith Cowan University ("TKG-RAG for Cyber Threat Intelligence: Autonomous Temporal Knowledge Graphs for Explainable AI")
  • 2019 - HDR Scholarship Award, Edith Cowan University
  • 2019 - Industry PhD Program, Edith Cowan University in collaboration with Cinglevue
  • 2018 - Technology Pillar Award, Stella Technology (for contributions as Solution Architect)
  • 2007 - ICT Business Plan Competition Award, NUST SEECS
  • 2001–2005 - Academic Excellence Scholarship, Agriculture University Peshawar

National and International Awards

  • 2016 - Best Security Innovation (Merit Category), 16th APICTA Awards, Taipei, Taiwan (Trillium Information Security Systems; led under Ali Hur's guidance)
  • 2016 - Best Security Application, PASHA ICT Awards (key contributor)
  • 2016 - Best Security Innovation Award, RCCI ICT Awards (project lead)
  • 2011 - Best of Show Award, Interop 2011, Tokyo, Japan (top 4 security product; tech lead at NUST with DTS Inc. funding)

Research Areas and Interests

  • Cyber threat intelligence and applied cybersecurity
  • AI, LLMs, and neurosymbolic methods for cybersecurity
  • Knowledge graphs, GraphRAG, and NLP for security analytics and defence

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Edith Cowan University, 2024.
  • Professional Equivalence (Computing and Security), Edith Cowan University, 2022.

Research Outputs

2025

Journal Articles

  • Alharbi, H., Hur, A., Alkahtani, H., Ahmad, HF. (2025). Enhancing cybersecurity through autonomous knowledge graph construction by integrating heterogeneous data sources. PeerJ Computer Science, 11(2025), article number e2768. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.2768.
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