Biography and expertise

Biography

Ruitao FENG is a lecturer at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University. He is driven by curiosity and passion, with a love for music, movies, food, and travel. He is eager to collaborate with brilliant, ambitious students who dream big—let's work together to make them a reality!

He is a member of SCU's Research Clusters:

  • ZeroWaste
  • Harvest to Health

His work contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals

Source: Scopus

Research

His research centres on security and quality assurance in software-enabled systems, particularly AI4Sec & SE. This encompasses learning-based intrusion/anomaly detection, malicious behaviour recognition for malware, and code vulnerability detection. His previous research outcomes primarily go to top conferences/journals (CORE A/A*, CCF A) in Computer Security and Software Engineering.

Teaching

INFO6002 Cybersecurity Essentials

ISYS1003 Cybersecurity Management

ISYS6002 Advanced Cybersecurity

COMP2004 Systems Security and Operation

DATA2001 Database Systems

ISYS3001 Managing Software Development (UA)

PROG6001 Managing Software Development Projects (UA)

Other

He is also looking for self-motivated Ph.D. students with strong programming skills and relevant experience. Please email your CV and cover letter if you are interested. For SCU undergraduate and master students who wish to do honours or minor thesis, please feel free to reach out.

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Organisational affiliations

Academic Integrity Officer (Deputy), Faculty of Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University

Lecturer in IT (Cybersecurity), Faculty of Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University

Adjunct Research Fellow, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore, Singapore) - NTU

Past affiliations

Information Technology, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University

Education

Computer Science and Engineering
20162021, Doctor of Philosophy, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore, Singapore) - NTU
Computer Science
20102014, Bachelor of Computer Science (BCompSc), Tianjin University (China, Tianjin) - TJU