🔥 About me

Welcome to my personal page!

My name is Zhibo Zhang (张志博), a Phd student at University of New South Wales, Canberra, School of Systems & Computing. My supervisors are Prof. Jiankun Hu, Prof. Hemanshu Pota, Dr. Shabnam Kasra Kermanshahi, and Prof. Benjamin Turnbull 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 and cyber-physical systems.

I graduated from Northwestern Polytechnical University with a bachelor’s degree in Mechatronic Engineering. During my final year of my bachelor’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 master’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).

📖 Educations

University of New South Wales 📅 [Feb 2024 – Now]

Phd candidate in Computer Science

Khalifa University 📅 [Sep 2021 – June 2023]

Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering

National University of Singapore Suzhou Institute 📅 [Sep 2020 – Jun 2021]

Exchange student

Northwestern Polytechnical University 📅 [Sep 2017 – Jun 2021]

Bachelor of Science in Mechatronic Engineering

🔥 News

• 2024.12: 🎉🎉 I establish and serve as the chair as IEEE Industry Applications Society ACT Student Branch Chapter
• 2024.02: 🎉🎉 I arrive in Canberra, Australia, and start my PhD’s career there!
• 2023.09: 🎉🎉 I arrive in Hong Kong SAR, China, and start my Research Assistant there!
• 2023.07: 👨‍🎓👨‍🎓 I get my master’s degree!
• 2022.12: 🎉🎉 I am awarded the Prize for Outstanding Young Researcher by Khalifa University!
• 2021.08: 🎉🎉 I arrive in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and start my master’s career there!
• 2021.07: 👨‍🎓👨‍🎓 I get my bachelor’s degree!

📝 Publications

• 2025.07: A Comprehensive Survey on the Usage of Machine Learning to Detect False Data Injection Attacks in Smart Grids accepted by IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society
• 2025.04: UNSW-MG24: A Heterogeneous Dataset for Cybersecurity Analysis in Realistic Microgrid Systems accepted by IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society
• 2025.04: A survey on resilient microgrid system from cybersecurity perspective accepted by Applied Soft Computing
• 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 Adults’ 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

✨ 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

🏆 Honors and Awards

• IAS Chapter Establishment Grant, Apr 2025
• UNSW Development and Research Training Grant (DRTG), Apr 2025
• 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
• Master of Research and Teaching Scholarship, Khalifa University, Sep 2021
• Outstanding Undergraduate Scholarship of NPU; Dec 2019, Dec 2018

✨ 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, Discover Computing, 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.

💻 Experiences

Tutor at Australian National University

July 2025 – Dec 2025

Tutor of Control System (ENGN3223/6223)

Instructor: Dr. Philipp Braun

Research Assistant at City University of Hong Kong

Sep 2023 – Feb 2024

Tutor work at Khalifa University

Sep 2021 – Feb 2022

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

Instructor: Dr. Jamal Alsawalhi

Sep 2022 – Feb 2023

Tutor of undergraduate course， Foundation of Computer Science(COSC101)

Instructor: Dr. Rabeb Mizouni

Zhibo Zhang