Blog icon

Dr Ejaz Ahmed

Senior Research Scientist

https://people.csiro.au/A/E/ejaz-ahmed

Contact

Please enter a valid first name

Please enter a valid last name

Please enter a valid email address

Please enter your message to send to the contact

Biography

Ejaz Ahmed is currently a Senior Research Scientist in Cybersecurity and Team Lead of Automated Security at CSIRO. Previously, he served as a Research Professor at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea, from June 2015 to May 2018. He holds an M.S. degree from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan, and earned his Ph.D. from Kyung Hee University, South Korea, in February 2014.

Ejaz’s expertise lies at the intersection of AI and software security, where he leverages artificial intelligence to tackle critical challenges in both open-source and closed-source software environments. His work spans open-source software supply chain security, closed-source malware binary analysis and reverse-engineering, ransomware behaviour analysis and detection, threat hunting, digital forensics, program analysis, and machine learning. He has led multiple projects in this field and spearheaded the development of several key technologies relevant to these areas.

He has received several awards, including the prestigious and competitive CSIRO Julius Career Award in 2024, which is designed to enhance the careers of exceptional Early to Mid-Career Researchers.

Academic Qualifications

  • 2014

    PhD
    Kyung Hee University, South Korea

  • 2006

    MCS
    Kohat University of Science and Technology (KUST), Pakistan

  • 2003

    BSc
    University of Peshawar, Pakistan

Achievements and Awards

  • May 2020-May 2020

    SCS Science Excellence Award (May 2020)
    CSIRO

  • Nov 2020-Nov 2020

    SCS Collaboration Award (Nov 2020)
    CSIRO

Current Roles

  • Senior Research Scientist
    Develop AI-powered and impactful relevant to cybersecurity.

We have publications by Dr Ejaz Ahmed