๐Ÿ”ฅ About me

Welcome to my personal page!

My name is Zhibo Zhang (ๅผ ๅฟ—ๅš), a Phd student at University of New South Wales, Canberra, School of Systems & Computing. My supervisors are Prof. Jiankun Hu and Prof. Hemanshu Pota I am also an external researcher of Khalifa University, C2PS advised by Prof. Ernesto Damiani and Dr. Chan Yeob Yeun. I am trying to find internship opportunities in Australia or online. My research interests include smart grids, cyber-physical systems, and explainable AI (XAI).

I graduated from Northwestern Polytechnical University with a bachelorโ€™s degree in Mechatronic Engineering. During my final year of my bachelorโ€™s, I studied at the National University of Singapore Suzhou Institute as an exchange student. And I finished my Final Year of Project advised by Dr. Peter C. Y. Chen there.

I graduated from Khalifa University with a masterโ€™s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. My advisors are Prof. Ernesto Damiani, Dr. Chan Yeob Yeun, and Dr. Fatma Taher at Center for Cyber-Physical Systems (C2PS).

๐Ÿ“– Educations


University of New South Wales ๐Ÿ“… [Feb 2024 โ€“ Now]

Phd candidate in Computer Science


Khalifa University ๐Ÿ“… [Sep 2021 โ€“ June 2023]

Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering


National University of Singapore Suzhou Institute ๐Ÿ“… [Sep 2020 โ€“ Jun 2021]

Exchange student


Northwestern Polytechnical University ๐Ÿ“… [Sep 2017 โ€“ Jun 2021]

Bachelor of Science in Mechatronic Engineering

๐Ÿ”ฅ News

  • 2024.12: ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰ I establish and serve as the chair as IEEE Industry Applications Society ACT Student Branch Chapter
  • 2024.02: ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰ I arrive in Canberra, Australia, and start my PhDโ€™s career there!
  • 2023.09: ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰ I arrive in Hong Kong SAR, China, and start my Research Assistant there!
  • 2023.07: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŽ“๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŽ“ I get my masterโ€™s degree!
  • 2022.12: ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰ I am awarded the Prize for Outstanding Young Researcher by Khalifa University!
  • 2021.08: I arrive in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and start my masterโ€™s career there!
  • 2021.07: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŽ“๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŽ“ I get my bachelorโ€™s degree!

๐Ÿ“ Publications

  • 2024.10: A Method for Battery SoH Estimation Based on K-means and LightGBM algorithm accepted by ** 6th International Conference on System Reliability and Safety Engineering (SRSE)**
  • 2024.09: Enhancing Reliability and Performance of Load Frequency Control in Aging Multi-Area Power Systems under Cyber-Attacks accepted by Applied Sciences
  • 2024.08: Experimental Demonstration of Risks and Influences of Cyber Attacks on Wireless Communication in Microgrids accepted by 21st Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST)
  • 2024.08: Towards SAR Automatic Target Recognition: Multi-Category SAR Image Classification Based on Light Weight Vision Transformer accepted by 21st Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST)
  • 2024.07: A hybrid stacking model for enhanced short-term load forecasting accepted by Electronics
  • 2024.06: Research on Older Adultsโ€™ Interaction with E-Health Interface Based on Explainable Artificial Intelligence accepted by International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII)
  • 2023.10: A Robust Adversary Detection-Deactivation Method for Metaverse-Oriented Collaborative Deep Learning accepted by IEEE Sensors Journal
  • 2023.07: Reputation-Based Federated Learning Defense to Mitigate Threats in EEG Signal Classification accepted by International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering (ICCAE 2024)
  • 2023.02: Explainable Data Poison Attacks on Human Emotion Evaluation Systems based on EEG Signals accepted by IEEE ACCESS
  • 2023.01: Multi-Feature Data Fusion Based Load Forecasting of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Using Deep Learning Model accepted by Energies
  • 2022.08: Explainable Artificial Intelligence to Detect Image Spam Using Convolutional Neural Network accepted by International Conference on Cyber Resilience (ICCR 2022)
  • 2022.08: Explainable Artificial Intelligence Applications in Cyber Security: State-of-the-Art in Research accepted by IEEE ACCESS

โœจ Skills


  • Programming Languages:
    • Python, C/C++, SQL, MATLAB,
  • Script Tools/Text Editor/Management Tools:
    • Shell, Vim, Git, Latex, Office
  • Language:
    • Mandarin (Native)
    • English (IELTS: 7.5, W: 6.5, R: 9.0, L: 8.0, S:6.5)
    • Japanese (Beginner)
  • Technical Tools:
    • Kali, GNS3, PowerFactory, Solidity

๐Ÿ† Honors and Awards

  • Best Oral Presentation, SRSE 2024 Conference, OCT 2024
  • UNSW PhD Research Full Scholarship, UNSW, Feb 2024
  • Award for Outstanding Young Researcher, Khalifa University, Dec 2022
  • Mater of Research and Teaching Scholarship, Khalifa University, Sep 2021
  • Outstanding Undergraduate Scholarship of NPU; Dec 2019, Dec 2018

โœจ Academic Services

  • Founder and Chair of IEEE Industry Applications Society ACT Student Branch Chapter
  • Serve as a reviewer for many prestigious journals including, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, Journal of parallel and distributed computing, etc.
  • Serve as a technical committee member for conferences, including 16th International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering (ICCAE 2024), 7th International Conference on Control, Robotics and Informatics (ICCRI 2024), 13th International Conference on Software and Computing Technologies (ICSCT 2024), etc.

๐Ÿ’ป Experiences


Research Assistant at City University of Hong Kong

Sep 2023 โ€“ Feb 2024

Tutor work at Khalifa University

Sep 2021 โ€“ Feb 2022

Tutor of undergraduate course๏ผŒ Introduction to Computing Using MATLAB(ENGR133)

Instructor: Dr. Jamal Alsawalhi

Sep 2022 โ€“ Feb 2023

Tutor of undergraduate course๏ผŒ Foundation of Computer Science(COSC101)

Instructor: Dr. Rabeb Mizouni


Zhibo Zhang