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Dr Rahat Masood

Dr Rahat Masood

Lecturer
  • PhD. in Information Security and Privacy (UNSW, Data61-CSIRO - Australia)
  • MS in Computer and Communication Security (NUST - Pakistan)
  • B.Sc. in Software Engineering (University of Engineering & Technology - Pakistan)
Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering

Dr. Rahat Masood is currently working as a Lecturer at the School of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE), UNSW. Her research focuses on the rapidly expanding and high-impact field of Cybersecurity, with more particular interest in privacy preserving technologies, authentication & authorization, critical infrastructure security, and network security measurement and analysis.  More recently, her research has involved designing and developing privacy risks identification and quantification, a...
Phone
+61-2-9065 9916
E-mail
rahat.masood@unsw.edu.au
Location
Barker St, Kensington NSW 2052

-Received Early Career Start-up Package grant from UNSW CSE, $104,027 (2020)

Received Taste of Research (ToR) Scholarships from Faculty of Engineering, $18,000 (2021- 2022)

Received Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre (CSCRC) combined grant on the project titled “Cyber security Analysis with Massive Distributed Energy Resources (DErs) Integration: Potential Threats and Countermeasures”, $1,065,000 (2021)

Received Southern-Cross Fellowship from Australian Computing Research Alliance (ACRA) – 2022

Received Defence Innovation Network (DIN) grant on the project titled “IoT Network Forensics using Encrypted Traffic Analysis (ETA)”, $200,000 (2022).

Received NSW Treasury grant to work on “Threat Modeling and Risk Assessment of Consumer Data Rights in Australia”, $100,000 (2023).

Received Australian Domain Administration (auDA) grant to work on “DNS Abuse cases in Australia”, $50,000 (2023-2024).

Received NSW Connectivity Innovation Network (CIN) PhD Scholarship, $137,000 (2024-2027).

Received National Intelligence and Security Discovery Research Grant (NISDRG) grant to work on "multimodal biometrics", $799,000 (2025-2028).

  • Recipient of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) – Data61 Writing Fellowship, 2019
  • Recipient of Student Travel Grant from the conference ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2017
  • Recipient of Grant from Postgraduate Research Support Scheme (PRSS) from Graduate Research School (GRS), UNSW, 2017
  • Awarded NICTA Research Project Award (NRPA) from National ICT Australia (NICTA – now Data61), for the years 2016 – 2019
  • Awarded International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS) from Australian government, for the years 2016 – 2019
  • Recipient of Nonproliferation Studies Scholarship from CRDF Global, with a grant from the U. S. State Department
  • Merit Certificate for “Excellent performance in Bachelor of Computer Software Engineering”
  • “Gold Medal” for obtaining first position in Undergraduate Degree
  • Recipient of merit scholarship throughout eight semesters during Undergraduate Degree
  • Contributed in the ICT R&D Proposal submission for successful funded research project, project value PKR 13.0 Million
  • Published research articles in well-reputed conferences, journals and books

My Research Supervision

Rahat is currently jointly supervising four PhD Students.

1. Mohammad Majid Akhtar (PhD Student)

2. Ravin Gunawardena  (PhD Student)

3. Khoa Tran (PhD Student)

4. Ransika Hewa Kasakarage Gunasekara (PhD Student)

 

 

 

 

My Teaching

Rahat's teaching interests combine the areas of cybersecurity and software engineering. More particularly, she is interested in teaching courses related to privacy, information security, network security, web and application security, and software engineering. She is experienced teaching following courses:

Foundations of Cybersecurity

Principles of Security Engineering

Digital Forensics

Information Security Management 

Network Security