Mehdi Nobakht

I am an education-focused academic at the University of Sydney, teaching computer science in the Faculty of Engineering and information systems and business analytics in the Business School. Since 2024, I have coordinated and taught foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate courses there. My research background is in computer networking and cybersecurity, with a particular interest in network analytics, programmable and software-defined networking (SDN), time-sensitive networking (TSN), and cyber-physical and IoT security.

Before 2024, I was a Research Fellow (2021–2023) and Associate Lecturer (2019–2021) at the School of Systems and Computing (formerly SEIT), UNSW Canberra, where I taught cybersecurity and worked on SDN for time-sensitive distributed systems. I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at UNSW Sydney in 2018, with a thesis on The Internet of Things: Securing Devices and User Data. Earlier, I received my M.Sc. (Tech) in Information Technology from the University of Turku, Finland in 2013, after working as a research assistant at Åbo Akademi University. Before moving into research, I spent over a decade in industry, working in telecommunications software engineering.

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S2 2024Started lecturing at the School of Computer Science, University of Sydney, coordinating Mobile Computing (COMP4216/COMP5216) and teaching Informatics: Data and Computation (DATA1002/DATA1902).
Oct 2023Presented two papers at CNSM ‘23 in Niagara Falls, Canada, on integrated wired and wireless time-sensitive networking using SDN and priority-based scheduling for consistent network updates in SDN (pUpdate).
Oct 2023Paper with Arshiya Rezaie Hezaveh on priority-based scheduling for network updates in SDN presented at IEEE LCN ‘23.
May 2022Paper accepted by the 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2022), “HybridDAD: Detecting DDoS Flooding Attack using Machine Learning with Programmable Switches”.
Feb 2022Paper accepted by the 1st International Workshop on Cybersecurity and Social Sciences (CySSS), “A Distributed Security Approach against ARP Cache Poisoning Attack”.
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Mar 2021Started as Research Fellow at UNSW Canberra. Our project on SDN for multi-bearer time-sensitive distributed systems in the combat cloud was awarded AUD 800,000 by Defence Science and Technology (Phase 2).
Feb 2020Paper accepted by IEEE Access, “Combining cooperative with non-cooperative game theory to model Wi-Fi congestion in apartment blocks”.
Feb 2020Awarded AUD 97,000 by Defence Science and Technology for Phase 1 of the SDN for time-sensitive distributed systems project.
Dec 2019Paper accepted by the Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA) on permission analysis of health and fitness apps in IoT programming frameworks.
Aug 2019Gave talks on my IoT security research at Iran University of Science and Technology and the University of Tehran.
Aug 2019Paper accepted by MilCIS 2019 on a system architecture for time-sensitive heterogeneous wireless distributed software-defined networks.
Apr 2019Awarded AUD 50,000 by Defence Science and Technology for a feasibility study on SDN for multi-bearer time-sensitive distributed systems.
Mar 2019Started a new role as Associate Lecturer at the School of Engineering and Information Technology (SEIT), UNSW Canberra.
Jan 2019Awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by UNSW Sydney, Faculty of Engineering.
Jan 2019Paper accepted by the IEEE PerCom SPT-IoT workshop ‘19, “IoT-NetSec: Policy-based IoT Network Security Using OpenFlow”.
Aug 2018Submitted my Ph.D. thesis, “IoT: Security of Devices and User Data”.
May 2018Paper accepted by IEEE TrustCom ‘18 on permission analysis of health and fitness apps in IoT programming frameworks.