School of Computing & Mathematics

Tanveer Zia is a Senior Lecturer in Computing and Course Manager of postgraduate computing courses as well as Bachelor of Information Technology offered from the School of Computing & Mathematics, Faculty of Business, Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga campus. He has earned his PhD from the University of Sydney in 2008, Master of Interactive Multimedia (MIMM) from University of Technology Sydney in 2004, MBA from Preston University USA in 1997, and Bachelors of Science in Computer Sciences from Southwestern University, Philippines in 1992. 

Tanveer has worked as a sessional lecturer in Information Systems at the University of Southern Queensland and University of Ballarat, Sydney campuses, from early 2000 to mid 2008.

Tanveer is a Senior Member Australian Computer Society and Certified Professional (MACS Snr CP), Senior Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Senior Member International Association of Computer Sciences and Information Technology (IACSIT), Member IEEE Computer Society,  and Member Australian Information Security Association (AISA).

Teaching & Administrative Responsibilities

Course Coordinator for:

• Doctor of Information Technology (DInfoTech)
  

Member of the following committees:

• Faculty of Business Courses Committee
• School of Computing & Mathematics Strategic Management Committee
• School of Computing & Mathematics Research Committee
• School of Computing & Mathematics Marketing Committee

Research

Research Focus

Tanveer's broader research interests are in ICT security. Specifically he is interested in security of low powered mobile devices. He is also interested in biometric security, cyber security, information assurance, protection against identity theft, trust management, forensic computing, and law and ethics in ICT. He is serving on Technical and Program Committees of several international conferences.  He actively publishes in international conferences, symposiums, workshops, and refereed journals.

Current Research Students

• Sabih Rehman, PhD - Security of routing protocols in Vehicular Area Networks (VANETs)
• Daniel Winson, PhD –WSN in fire detection and emergency site management
• Nesa Mouzehkesh Pirborj, PhD - Traffic adaptive MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks
• Jason Hambly, PhD - Detecting and mapping extremely low frequency fields (ELF) in WSN
• Craig Wright, PhD - The quantification of information systems risk
• Amjed Majeed, PhD - Concurrency in wireless sensor networks
• Idrees Kocher, PhD - Enhancing wireless sensor networks security (Uni Malaya)
• Chiahan Wu, DIT - Cyber threats and countermeasures in contemporaray organisations
• Bhupesh Mansukhani, DIT - Security in cloud computing

Professional Activities

• Senior Member Australian Computer Society and Certified Professional (MACS Snr CP)
• Senior Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (SMIEEE)
• Senior Member International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology (IACSIT)
• Member Australian Information Security Association (AISA)
• Member IEEE Computer Society (MIEEECS)

Grants and Awards

• Aug. 2011 - Research Excellence Award, awarded by the Faculty of Business, Charles Sturt University.
  
• Nov. 2010 - Research Excellence Award, awarded by the School of Computing and Mathematics, Faculty of Business, Charles Sturt University.
• Sep. 2010 - Sponsorship to attend the World Computer Congress (WCC 2010) held in Brisbane awarded by the Australian Computer Society (ACS).
• Aug. 2010 - Research Fellowship Infrastructure Support Grant awarded by the Centre for Research and Graduate Training (CRGT). 
• July 2010 to January 2011 - Research Fellowship with Centre for Research in Complex Systems (CRiCS).
• Aug. 2010 - Faculty Journal Publication Reward received from the Faculty of Business, CSU.
• Jun. 2010 - Emerging Researcher Award grant awarded by the Faculty of Business, CSU.
• Nov. 2009 - CSU Small Grant to study a project "Information Security in IT Service Management and IT Governance within International Contexts: How is Australia doing"
• Sep. 2008 - Seed Grant from the Faculty of Business, CSU, to conduct research on "Integration of Trust Management in Security Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks".
• Best Paper Presentation Award - International Conference on Network Security ICONS 2007, Jan 29-31 2007, Erode, India
• Oct. 2007 - PRSS Award (Post Graduate Research Support Scheme), School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney.
• Jul 2006 - PRSS Award (Post Graduate Research Support Scheme), School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney.
• Oct. 2005 - ARC-EII (Enterprise Information Infrastructure) PhD Spring school scholarship.
• Oct. 2005 - PRSS Award (Post Graduate Research Support Scheme), School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney.

Scholarly and Professional Activities

• Conference General Chair - The Fourth International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing (ICMLC 2012). March 10-12, 2012, Hong Kong.
• Member Technical Program Commitee - The 2012 FTRA International Conference on Advanced IT, engineering and Management (AIM 2012). February 6-8, 2012, Seoul, Korea.
• Chair Symposium on Sensor Networks - The Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2011). December 6-9, 2011, Adelaide, Australia.
• Member Program Committee - The Fifth International Conference on Human-centric Computing (HumanCom 2012). September 6-8, 2012 in Gwangju, Korea.
• Member Technical Program Committee - The 3^rd International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT 2012). August 27-29, 2012, Niagra Falls, ON, Canada.
• Member Program Committee - The Sixth International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (Sensorcomm 2012). August 19-24, 2012 in Rome, Italy.
• Member Technical Program Committee - The 2011 International Workshop on Human centric computing, P2P, Grid and Cloud Computing (FTRA WCC-HPGC 2011). December 12-15, 2011 in Jeju, Korea.
• Reviewer - 9^th Australian Information Security Management Conference (secau Security Congress 2011. December 5 - 7, 2011, Perth, Australia
• Reviewer - 9^th Australian Digital Forensics Conference (secau Security Congress 2011). December 5 - 7, 2011, Perth, Australia
• Member Program Committee - The 3rd International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications CSA 2011, December 12-15, 2011 in Jeju, Korea
• Member Technical Program Committee - The 2nd International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies ANT 2011, September 19-21, 2011 in Ontario, Canada
• Member Program Committee - The Fifth International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications Sensorcomm 2011, August 21-27, 2011 in Cote d'Azur, France
• Member Program Committee - The Fourth International Conference on Human-centric Computing HumanCom 2011 August 11-13, 2011 in Enshi, China
• Session Chair - Algorithms, designs and methods session, Annual International Conference on Information Technology Security ITS 2010. November 29-30, 2010. Phuket, Thailand
• Invited to participate in panel discussion on topic "The tensions between research and applications - obstacles in technology transfer" at Annual International Conference on Information Technology Security ITS 2010. November 30, 2010. Phuket, Thailand
• Member Program Committee - 21st Australian Conference on Information Systems ACIS 2010, to be held on December 1-3, 2010, Brisbane, Australia
• Member Program Committee - The 3rd International Workshop on Smart Homes for Tele-Health smartel 2010 to be held in conjunction with IEEE Globecom 2010. December 6, 2010, Miami, Florida, USA
• Member Program Committee - The 3rd International Conference on Human-centric Computing HumanCom 2010. August 11-13, 2010, Cebu, Philippines
• Member Technical Program Committee - The Fourth International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications Sensorcomm 2010. July 18-25, 2010, Venice, Italy
• Reviewer ICIEA 2010 - The 5th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications. June 15-17, Taichung, Taiwan
• Co-Chair 'Security and Information Assurance Track' - 2010 ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications AICCSA May 16-19, 2010 in Hammamet, Tunisia
• Member Program Committee - The 2nd International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications CSA 2009, December 10-12, 2009, Jeju, Korea
• Reviewer - The 2nd International Multi-Conference on Engineering and Technologica; Innovation: IMETI 2009, July 10-13, 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA
• Co-Chair QoSecWSN09 - The 1st International Workshop on Quality of Security (QoSec) in Wireless Sensor Networks, to be held in conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Network & System Security NSS 2009, October 19-21, 2009, Gold Coast, Australia
• Member Technical Program Committee - The International Workshop on Frontiers of Information Assurance & Security FIAS 2009, held in conjunction with the 3 rd International Conference on Network & System Security NSS 2009, October 19-21, 2009, Gold Coast, Australia
• Member Technical Program Committee - The International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications Sensorcomm 2009 June 18-23, 2009, Athens, Greece
• Member Technical Program Committee - The 4th International ICST Conference on Scalable Information Systems INFOSCALE 2009, June 10-12, 2009, Hong Kong, China
• Reviewer of ICIEA 2009 - the 4th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications. May 25-27, International Conference Center, Xi'an, China
• Chair technical session on Wireless Sensor Networks at ISSNIP 2008 - Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing ISSNIP 2008, December 15-18, 2008, Sydney, Australia
• Member Technical Program Committee - The International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (Sensorcomm 2008) Aug. 25-31, 2008, Cap Esterel, France
• Reviewer IEEE Globecom 2007 Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium, Nov 26-30, 2007 Washington, DC, USA
• Reviewer NPC 2007 (IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing). September 18-21, 2007, Dalian, China
• Reviewer ICEME2, International Conference on Embedded Systems, Mobile Communication and Computing August 3-5, 2007, PESIT, Bangalore, India
• Served as Co-Chairman for the Technical Session "Authentication Protocol of ICONS" 07, Jan 29, 2007, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India
• Reviewer MASS 2006, the Third IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems, October 9-12, 2006, Vancouver, Canada
• Reviewer LCN 2006, the 31st Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), November 14-16, 2006, Tampa, Florida
• Reviewer Journal of Zhejiang University - Science
• Reviewer Wiley Journal of Security and Communication Networks
• Reviewer Elsevier Journal of Computer Communications
• Reviewer Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
• Reviewer ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) Journal

Publications

Refereed journal articles

• Zia, T. A., and Zomaya, A. Y. (2011). A Lightweight Security Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks, Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing and Dependable Applications (JoWUA).Published byInnovative Information Science & Technology Research Group.Vol. 2, No. 3. ISSN (print):2093-5374, ISSN (on-line): 2093-5382. (2012 ERA listed journal).
• Yang, P., and Zia, T. A. (2011).Privacy-preserving Efficient Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks. International Journal of Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences. Published by Natural Publishing.ISSN: 1935-0090. (in-press)
• Gawdan, I. S, Chow, C. Zia, T. A. and Sarhan, Q. I. (2011). Cross-layer based security solutions for wireless sensor networks. International Journal of the Physical Sciences Vol. 6 (17), pp. 4245-4254. Academic Journals. ISSN 1992-1950(in-press)
• Yang, P., Cao, Z., Dong, X., and Zia, T. A.(2011). An Efficient Privacy Preserving Data Aggregation Scheme with Constant Communication Overheads for Wireless Sensor Networks. IEEE Communication Letters. ISSN1: 1089-7798 ISSN2: 1558-2558. (2012 ERA listed journal)
• Labraoui, N., Gueroui, M., Aliouat, M., Zia, T. A. (2011). Data Aggregation Security Challenges in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey.International Journal of Ad-hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks. Old City Publishing, Inc. Vol. 12, pp.295-324. (2012 ERA listed journal)   
• Zia, T. A., and Zomaya, A. Y. (2010). Quality of Security (QoSec) through Triple Key Scheme in Wireless Sensor Networks, Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. Wiley Interscience.Vol. 10, Issue 5, pp. 722-732. (2010 ERA-ranked A journal).
• Zia, T. A., Al-Saggaf, Y., Islam, M. Z., Zheng, L., and Weckert, J., (2009). The Digital Divide in Asia:Cases from Yemen, Bangladesh, Pakistan and China. Journal of Information Ethics (JIE). McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers.Fall 2009, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 50-76. (2010 ERA-ranked B journal).

Refereed conferences

• Zia, T. A., and Rizvi, A. (2011).Source Code Embedded (SCEM) Security Framework. 9^th Australian Information Security Management Conference (secau Security Congress 2011). December 5 - 7, 2011, Perth, Australia. (2010 ERA-ranked B conference).
• Yang, P., Zia, T. A., Cao, Z., and Dong, X. (2011).Efficient and Expressive Attribute-Based Signature in the standard model. 9^th Australian Information Security Management Conference (secau Security Congress 2011). December 5 - 7, 2011, Perth, Australia. (2010 ERA-ranked B conference).
• Mansukhani, B., and Zia, T. A. (2011).An Empirical Study of Challenges in Managing the Security in Cloud Computing. 9^th Australian Information Security Management Conference (secau Security Congress 2011). December 5 - 7, 2011, Perth, Australia. (2010 ERA-ranked B conference).
• Wright, C.S., and Zia, T. A. (2011).Using Checklists to make better best. 9^th Australian Information Security Management Conference (secau Security Congress 2011). December 5 - 7, 2011, Perth, Australia. (2010 ERA-ranked B conference).
• Wright, C.S., and Zia, T. A. (2011). Modeling System Audit as a Sequential test with Discovery as a Failure Time Endpoint. International Conference on Business Intelligence and Financial Engineering (ICBIFE 2011). December 12-13, 2011, Hong Kong. (in-press)
• Mouzehkesh, N., and Zia, T. A. (2011).A Dynamic Back-off Approach for Wireless Sensor Networks. Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2011). Dec 6 - 9, 2011, Adelaide, Australia. (2010 ERA-ranked B conference).
• Gawdan, I. S, Chow, C. Zia, T. A. and Sarhan, Q. I. (2011). A Novel Secure Key Management Module for Hierarchical Clustering Wireless Sensor Networks. Third International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Modeling and Simulation (CIMSim 2011). September 20 - 22, 2011, Langkawi, Malaysia.
• Wright, C.S., and Zia, T. A. (2011). Of Black Swans, Platypii and Bunyips. ISACA's Oceania Computer Audit Control Security Conference (CACS 2011). Sep 18 - 23, 2011, Brisbane, Australia.
• Balasubramanian, V., Zia, T. A. and Hoang, D. B. (2011). Addressing the Confidentiality and Integrity of Assistive Care Loop Framework using Wireless Sensor Networks. 21^st International Conference on Systems Engineering (ICSEng 2011). August 16 - 18, 2011, Las Vegas, USA. (2010 ERA-ranked B conference).
• Hambly, J. T. and Zia, T. A. (2011). Towards Detecting Extremely Low Frequency Fields using a Wireless Sensor Network. 12^th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNDP 2011), to be held on July 6 - 8, 2011, Sydney, Australia.
• Wright, C.S., and Zia, T. A. (2011). Rationally Opting for the Insecure Alternative:Negative Externalities and the Selection of Security Controls. 4^th International Conference in Security for Information Systems (CISIS 2011). June 8 - 10, 2011, Torremolinos, Malaga, Spain. (2010 ERA-ranked B conference).
• Wright, C.S., and Zia, T. A. (2011). A Quantitative Analysis into the Economics of Correcting Software Bugs. 4^th International Conference in Security for Information Systems (CISIS 2011). June 8 - 10, 2011, Torremolinos, Malaga, Spain. (2010 ERA-ranked B conference).
• Zia, T. A. (2010). An Analytical study of IT Security Governance and its adoption in Australian Organizations. 8^th Australian Information Security Management Conference (secau Security Congress 2010). November 30 - December 2, 2010, Perth, Australia. (2010 ERA-ranked B conference).
• Zia, T. A. (2010). Development Delivery and Dynamics of a New Digital Forensics Subject. 8^th Australian Digital Forensics Conference (secau Security Congress 2010). November 30 - December 2, 2010, Perth, Australia. (2010 ERA-ranked B conference).
• Wright, C.S., and Zia, T. A. (2010). The Economics of Developing Security Embedded Software.8^th Australian Information Security Management Conference (secau Security Congress 2010). November 30 - December 2, 2010, Perth, Australia. (2010 ERA-ranked B conference).
• Zia, T. A., and Ahmad, Z. (2010). IT Security Governance in Australian Context. Annual International Conference on Information Technology Security (ITS 2010). November 29-30, 2010. Phuket, Thailand.
• Zia, T. A. (2010). Network Security: Contents, delivery and assessments of an undergraduate subject. Annual International Conference on Information Technology Security (ITS 2010. November 29-30, 2010. Phuket, Thailand.
• Mansukhani, B., and Zia, T. A. (2010). Adoption of Cloud Computing in Indian Organizations. International Conference on Intelligent Network and Computing (ICINC 2010). November 26-28, 2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• Sarhan, I., Chow, C. O., Ishii, H., and Zia, T. A. (2010). Threat Models and Security Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks. International Conference on Intelligent Network and Computing (ICINC 2010). November 26-28, 2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• Majeed, A., andZia, T. A. (2010). Multi-Set Architecture for Multi-Applications Running in Wireless Sensor Networks.In the sixth International Workshop on Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (HWISE) co-located with the International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2010), April 20-23, 2010. Perth, Australia. (AINA 2010 acceptance rate 25%). AINA is ERA-ranked B conference.
• Zia, T. A. (2010). Revisiting Reputation-based Trust Management in Wireless Sensor Networks. ICaST - ICST's Global Community Magazine.ICaST 10.03 - March 2010 ISSN: 2032-8745. Belgium.(Published as a technical paper)
• Zia, T. A., and Islam, M.Z. (2010). Communal Reputation and Individual Trust (CRIT) in Wireless Sensor Networks, in the proceedings of 5^th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2010). February 15-18, 2010, Krakow, Poland. (ARES 2010 acceptance rate 22%) ARES is ERA-ranked B conference.
• Majeed, A., and Zia, T. A. (2009). Running Multi-Sequence Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks.In the proceedings of the 7^th (ACM) International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM 2009), Dec 14-16, 2009. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (MoMM 2009 acceptance rate 28%)
• Labraoui, N., Gueroui, M., Aliouat, M., Zia, T. A. (2009). Cryptographic vs Trust Based Secure Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks.In the proceedings IEEE Global Information Infrastructure Symposium (GIIS 2009), June 22-26, 2009. Hammamet, Tunisia. (GIIS 2009 acceptance rate 32%)
• Labraoui, N., Gueroui, M., Zia, T. A. (2009). Data Aggregation Security Challenges in Wireless Sensor Networks.In the proceedings of the 9^th International Symposium on Programming and Systems (ISPS 2009), May 25-27, 2009. Algiers, Algeria.
• Labraoui, N., Gueroui, M., Zia, T. A. (2009). Secure In-Network Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks.In the proceedings of 6 ème Colloque sur l'Optimisation et les Systèmes d'Information (COSI 2009), May 25-27, 2009. Annaba, Algeria.
• Zia, T. A. (2008). Reputation-based Trust Management in Wireless Sensor Networks. In the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing ISSNIP 2008, December 15-18, 2008, Sydney, Australia.(ISSNIP 2008 acceptance rate 27%).ISSNIP is ERA-ranked B conference.
• Zia, T. A.,Zomaya, A. Y. and Ababneh, N. (2007). Evaluation of Overheads in Security Mechanisms in Wireless Sensor Networks. In the proceedings of the International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications SENSORCOMM 2007, October 14-20 2007, Valencia, Spain. (SENSORCOMM 2007 acceptance rate 34%)
• Zia, T. A., and Zomaya, A. Y. (2007). Secure Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks. In the proceedings of the Fourth Asian Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (AsiaCSN 2007), April 2-4 2007, Phuket, Thailand.
• Zia, T. A., and Zomaya, A. Y. (2007). Malicious Node Detection Mechanism in Wireless Sensor Networks. In the proceedings of the International Conference on Network Security ICONS 2007, Jan 29-31 2007, Erode, India. This paper has received the best paper presentation award.
• Zia, T. A., and Zomaya, A. Y. (2006). Security Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks. In the proceedings of the International Conference on Systems and Networks ICSNC 2006, Nov 2- 4, 2006, Tahiti, French Polynesia. (ICSNC 2006 acceptance rate 34%)
• Zia, T. A., and Zomaya, A. Y. (2006). A Secure Triple-Key Management Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks. In the proceedings of the IEEE INFOCOM 2006 Workshop, April 23-24, 2006, Barcelona, Spain. (INFOCOM 2006 acceptance rate 18%). INFOCOM is ERA-ranked A and CORE A* conference.
• Zia, T. A., and Zomaya, A. Y. (2006). WSNSF: Wireless Sensor Networks Security Framework. In the proceedings of the IEEE Sensor Applications Symposium SAS 2006, February 7-9, 2006, Houston, Texas.
• Zia, T. A., and Zomaya, A. Y. (2005). An Analysis of Simulations and Programming in Wireless Sensor Networks. In the proceedings of the International Workshop on Sensor Networks and Applications SNA 2005, October 21-22, 2005, Beijing, China.