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Dr. Hai Dong is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He is the Leader of the Systems and Security Group and Founding Director of the CloudTech-RMIT Green Cryptocurrency Joint Research Laboratory (GreenCryptoLab). Previously, he was a Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow at RMIT University and a Curtin Research Fellow at Curtin University, Australia. He holds a PhD from Curtin University, a Bachelor's degree from Northeastern University, China,
and a Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching.
He has published a monograph and 150+ (including 100+ CORE-A*/A or JCR/SJR-Q1) research articles in international journals and conferences, such as AAAI, ACM MM, ASE, ESORICS, ICML, ICSOC, ICWS, TIFS, TMC, TOSEM, TSC, and TSE. He received the Best Paper Award at ICSOC 2016 and IEEE ICBC 2025, as well as the 2023 RMIT Award for Research Engagement and Impact - Industry Engagement in Graduate Research. He has secured 5 million+ research funding as a chief investigator from government sources (ARC, CRC, QNRF) and industry (ANZ, CloudTech, Telstra). He currently chairs the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Task Force on Deep Edge Intelligence. He has served on the organising and program committees of 100+ international conferences, such as AAAI, CIKM, ICDM, ICSOC, ICWS, and WWW, and has been an invited reviewer for 50+ international journals, such as CSUR, TKDE, TOIT, and TSC. His primary research interests include: Service-Oriented Computing, Edge Intelligence, Blockchain, AI Security, Cyber Security, and Machine Learning. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
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Contact Details
Address:
School of Computing Technologies
RMIT University
Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia
Email: hai.dong@rmit.edu.au
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Recent News
- (12/2025) Our paper "Energy and Memory-Efficient Federated Learning with Ordered Layer Freezing" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (CORE-A*, CCF-A, JCR-5%, SJR-5%)
- (12/2025) I have been invited to serve as a Program Chair for The 2026 IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications (IEEE EDGE 2026)
- (11/2025) Our paper "A Private Ethereum Testbed for Network Traffic Dataset Collection" received the Highly Commended Paper Award at The IEEE 2025 35th International Telecommunication Networks And Applications Conference (ITNAC 2025)
- (09/2025) I have been invited to serve as an Area Chair for The 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2026)
- (09/2025) I will have been promoted to Associate Professor at the School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University, in 2026.
- (08/2025) Our Cybersecurity: Securely Managing Your Organisation workshop has been selected as part of the Digital Jobs Program organised by the Department of Business Victoria
- (08/2025) Our paper "DSPFL: A Deep-Layer Sign Sharing Personalized Federated Learning Scheme for Mitigating Poisoning Attacks" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (CORE-A*, JCR-5%, SJR-5%)
- (08/2025) I have been invited to serve as a PC member for The 2026 ACM Web Conference (WWW 2026) (CORE-A*, CCF-A)
- (07/2025) My PhD student, Yasaman Samadi, has been selected as a finalist for Best in Quantum in Cybersecurity Champion and Best Use of AI in Cybersecurity Champion in the 2025 Australian Women in Security Awards
- (07/2025) I have been invited to serve as a Senior PC member for The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026) (CORE-A*, CCF-A)
- (07/2025) Our paper "A Review of Learning-based Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection: A Perspective on Code Representation" has been accepted by ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (CORE-A*, CCF-A, JCR-10%, Impact Factor: 6.6, SJR-10%)
- (06/2025) Our paper "Querying Autonomous Vehicle Point Clouds: Enhanced by 3D Object Counting with CounterNet" has been accepted by The 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2025) (CORE-A*, CCF-A)
- (06/2025) Our paper "Efficient and Secure Sleepy Model for BFT Consensus" has been accepted by The 30th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2025) (CORE-A) (Acceptance Rate: 16%)
- (06/2025) Our paper "Legal Compliance Evaluation of Smart Contracts Generated by Large Language Models" received the Best Paper Award in The 2025 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (IEEE ICBC 2025)
- (05/2025) Our papers "DAG-FGL: An Enhanced Approach for Accurate Workflow Task Execution Time Prediction with Complex Dependencies" and "Privacy-Preserving and Efficient Offloading for Cooperative Vehicle Infrastructure Systems" have been accepted by The 2025 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS 2025) (CORE-A) (Acceptance Rate: 18%)
- (03/2025) I have been invited to serve as a Senior PC member for The 2025 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2025) (CORE-A)
- (03/2025) I have been invited to join the program committee of The 23rd International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2025) (CORE-A)
- (02/2025) I have been invited to join the program committee of The 2025 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS 2025) (CORE-A)
- (01/2025) Our paper "TAEFuzz: Automatic Fuzzing for Image-based Deep Learning Systems via Transferable Adversarial Examples" has been accepted by ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (CORE-A*, CCF-A, JCR-10%, Impact Factor: 6.6, SJR-10%)
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I am looking for highly self-motivated PhD/Master by Research applicants. You are welcome to contact me if you are interested in conducting research in the areas of Edge Intelligence, Blockchain, and AI Security.
Scholarships
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Call For 2026 Semester 1/2 RMIT PhD Stipend Scholarship Application (Domestic and International Only - EoI Deadline: 31 August 2025) Note: Applicants need to graduate from a QS Top-100 university with a CGPA of 4.0 (out of 4).
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Call For 2026 Semester 1 Data61 PhD Scholarships Application (EoI Deadline: Aug 2025) Note: Applications are open to 1) domestic and international students who currently live in Australia, or 2) international students overseas at the time of application, who hold a visa to study in Australia. Applicants must hold a first-class honours (H1) Bachelor's degree or equivalent in the CS/IT research area (completed or near completion)
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Call For 2026 China Scholarship Council (CSC) PhD Scholarship Application (Chinese Citizens Only - Top-Up Scholarship and Tuition Fee Waiver will be provided) Note: Applicants need to obtain a master's degree in CS/IT from a Chinese university
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