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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 AI to tackle critical challenges in both open-source and closed-source software environments. His work spans open-source software including software supply chain security, vulnerability management and prioritisation, 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
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2014
PhD
Kyung Hee University, South Korea -
2011
MS
National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Pakistan
Achievements and Awards
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July 2024-June 2027
Julius Career Award
CSIRO -
May 2020-May 2020
SCS Science Excellence Award (May 2020)
CSIRO -
Nov 2020-Nov 2020
SCS Collaboration Award (Nov 2020)
CSIRO
Current Roles
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Senior Research Scientist & Team Lead of Automated Security
Develop novel science-based methods and leverage AI to solve challenging problems in the software security domain.
Grants
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2023-2025
Project lead of "Open-Source Software Supply Chain Security" project, a $1M Google and CSIRO-funded initiative under the Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience (CIPR) Mission.
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2020-2024
Project Lead of the DSTG-funded "Rapid Malware Triage" project, with a $362k budget.
Professional Areas
Attachments
Related links
- Media coverage of my tool for ransomware detection.
- Media coverage of Google-CSIRO Project led by me
- Media coverage of my work on Voice Liveness Detection (Void).
- One of my best works
- The Google-CSIRO project I led resulted in the development of advanced tools for software vulnerability management, enhancing security for critical infrastructure.
Publications
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Published data & software
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