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Biography
Dr Shahroz Tariq is a Research Scientist at CSIRO in Sydney, working at the intersection of trustworthy AI and cybersecurity. His research focuses on AI security, deepfake and generative media forensics, continual learning, explainable AI, and human–AI collaboration for high-stakes operational environments such as security operations centres and digital media ecosystems.
He develops robust, adaptive, and human-aligned AI systems that perform reliably under real-world conditions, including distribution shift, adversarial manipulation, and evolving threat landscapes. His work spans multimodal deepfake detection, synthetic media analysis, anomaly detection, and human–AI teaming, with a strong emphasis on deployment and real-world impact.
Shahroz received the Australian AI Awards 2025 “AI Rising Star of the Year” for his contributions to trustworthy AI. His research has been published in leading venues including NeurIPS, IEEE S&P, KDD, WWW, ACM Multimedia, and ACM Computing Surveys, and has attracted 3000+ citations with an h-index of 25+ (2026).
Shahroz holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Sungkyunkwan University and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at CSIRO Data61 (2022–2024) before his current role.
He contributes to the community through workshop organisation, mentoring, and science communication, including co-organising WDC at AsiaCCS and 3D-Sec at ACM CCS. He has supervised 2 students, currently supervises 2 PhD students, and mentored 10+ students, as well as SMEs and junior staff through CSIRO programs.
Selected Publications (last 5 years)
Ronal Singh, Shahroz Tariq, Fatemeh Jalalvand, Mohan Baruwal Chhetri, Surya Nepal, Cecile Paris, and Martin Lochner. "Llms in the soc: An empirical study of human-ai collaboration in security operations centres.", 2083–2102, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, IEEE S&P 2026 [CORE A*] [Distinguished Paper Award]
Razaib Tariq, Minji Heo, Shahroz Tariq, and Simon Woo. "Through the Lens: Benchmarking Deepfake Detectors Against Moiré-Induced Distortions." Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38 (2025), NeurIPS 2025 [CORE A*].
Shahroz Tariq, Simon S. Woo, Priyanka Singh, Irena Irmalasari, Saakshi Gupta, and Dev Gupta. "From prediction to explanation: Multimodal, explainable, and interactive deepfake detection framework for non-expert users." In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia, pp. 11716–11725, ACMMM 2025 [CORE A*].
Shahroz Tariq, Mohan Baruwal Chhetri, Surya Nepal, and Cecile Paris. "A2C: A modular multi-stage collaborative decision framework for human–AI teams." Expert Systems with Applications 282 (2025): 127318, [IF (2024): 7.5]
Binh M. Le, Jiwon Kim, Simon S. Woo, Kristen Moore, Alsharif Abuadbba, and Shahroz Tariq. "SOK: Systematization and benchmarking of deepfake detectors in a unified framework." In IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2025, pp. 883–902, EuroS&P 2025 [CORE A].
Shahroz Tariq, Mohan Baruwal Chhetri, Surya Nepal, and Cecile Paris. "Alert fatigue in security operations centres: Research challenges and opportunities." ACM Computing Surveys 57, no. 9 (2025): 1–38, [IF (2024): 28.0].
Beomsang Cho, Binh M. Le, Jiwon Kim, Simon Woo, Shahroz Tariq, Alsharif Abuadbba, and Kristen Moore. "Towards understanding of deepfake videos in the wild." In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM international conference on information and knowledge management, pp. 4530-4537. 2023, CIKM 2023 [CORE A].
Shahzeb Tariq, Shahroz Tariq, SangYoun Kim, Simon S. Woo, and ChangKyoo Yoo. "Distance adaptive graph convolutional gated network-based smart air quality monitoring and health risk prediction in sensor-devoid urban areas." Sustainable Cities and Society 91 (2023): 104445. [IF (2024): 12.0]
Shahroz Tariq, Binh M. Le, and Simon S. Woo. "Towards an awareness of time series anomaly detection models' adversarial vulnerability." In Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, pp. 3534-3544. 2022, CIKM 2021 [CORE A].
Shahroz Tariq, Sowon Jeon, and Simon S. Woo. "Am I a real or fake celebrity? Evaluating face recognition and verification APIs under deepfake impersonation attack." In Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022, pp. 512-523. 2022, WWW 2022 [CORE A*].
Minha Kim, Shahroz Tariq, and Simon S. Woo. "Cored: Generalizing fake media detection with continual representation using distillation." In Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, pp. 337-346. 2021, ACMMM 2021 [CORE A*].
Hasam Khalid, Shahroz Tariq, Minha Kim, and Simon S. Woo. "FakeAVCeleb: A Novel Audio-Video Multimodal Deepfake Dataset." In Thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track (Round 2), NeurIPS 2021 [CORE A*].
Sangyup Lee, Shahroz Tariq, Youjin Shin, and Simon S. Woo. "Detecting handcrafted facial image manipulations and GAN-generated facial images using Shallow-FakeFaceNet." Applied soft computing 105 (2021): 107256. [IF (2021): 8.2].
Shahroz Tariq, Sangyup Lee, and Simon Woo. "One detector to rule them all: Towards a general deepfake attack detection framework." In Proceedings of the web conference 2021, pp. 3625-3637. 2021, WWW 2021 [CORE A*].
Minha Kim, Shahroz Tariq, and Simon S. Woo. "Fretal: Generalizing deepfake detection using knowledge distillation and representation learning." In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF conference on computer vision and pattern recognition, pp. 1001-1012. 2021
Academic Qualifications
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2021
Ph.D. in Artifical Intelligence
Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea (Uni Rank: 87th) -
2017
M.S. in Computer Science
Sangmyung University, South Korea -
2014
B.S. in Computer Science
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST-NUCES)
Achievements and Awards
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2026-2026
Distinguished Paper Award
IEEE S&P Conference -
2025-2025
Winner of Australian AI Award - Rising Star of the Year
Australian AI Awards -
2025-2025
Early Career in Science - Software and Computational Systems Biannual Award
CSIRO -
2025-2025
Collaboration - Software and Computational Systems Biannual Award
CSIRO -
2024-2024
Best Poster Award at Computational Trends and Digital Science (CTDiS)
CSIRO -
2023-2023
Software and Computational Systems (SCS) Biannual Award
CSIRO -
2018-2018
3rd Prize AI R&D Challenge
South Korean Government -
2017-2017
Most Outstanding Project Award
Jeju Global Hackathon, South Korea -
2017-2017
2nd Prize National Data Science Challenge
Korea University, South Korea -
2014-2014
Bronze Medal for excellent academic performance
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES-FAST), Pakistan
Current Roles
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Research Scientist
Human Centric Security Team, CSIRO, Australia
Fields of Research
Grants
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2025-2029
1 Industry PhD iPHD ($200,000 from CSIRO, $50,000 from Queensland Reconstruction Authority)
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2026-2030
1 Industry PhD iPHD ($200,000 from CSIRO, $50,000 from Detack Pty Ltd)
Professional Experiences
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2022-2024
Postdoctoral Fellow
CSIRO, Australia -
2019-2021
Senior Research Assistant
DASH Lab at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea -
2017-2019
Research Assistant
DASH Lab at Stony Brook University, South Korea -
2015-2017
Research Assistant
Pi:Lab at Sangmyung University, South Korea -
2014-2015
Software Engineer
Bentley Systems Inc., USA
Community and Corporate Citizenship
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2022-Now
Organiser/Chair: ACM Workshop on the Security Implications of Deepfakes and Cheapfakes (WDC)
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2025-Now
Organiser/Chair: ACM Deepfake, Deception, and Disinformation Security Workshop (3D-Sec)
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2023-2023
Organiser/Chair: International Workshop on Anomaly and Novelty detection in Satellite and Drones systems (ANSD)
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2022-2026
TPC/Reviewer: NeurIPS (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026)
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2023-2025
TPC/Reviewer: ICML (2023, 2025)
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2023-2025
TPC/Reviewer: AAAI (2023, 2024, 2025)
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2022-2025
TPC/Reviewer: KDD (2022, 2025)
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2021-2025
TPC/Reviewer: WWW (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
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2025-2025
TPC/Reviewer: USENIX Security (2025)
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2025-2025
TPC/Reviewer: CVPR (2025)
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2022-Now
CSIRO Marsfield Site GYM Committee Member
Professional Areas
Publications
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