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Dr Naipeng Dong
Dr

Naipeng Dong

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Overview

Background

Dr. Naipeng Dong is an expert in automatic formal verification of security and privacy in cryptographic protocols, Android applications and blockchain systems.

She has developed efficient automatic formal verification techniques with a focus on attacker reasoning and analysis on cryptogrpahic protocols, developed algorithms to verify fault-tolerance of systems with dishonest participants, and analysed systems in e-auction, e-health, Single-Sign-on authentication, and blockchain consensus.

Availability

Dr Naipeng Dong is:
Available for supervision
Media expert

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Université du Luxembourg

Research interests

  • Formal Verification

    I develop rigorous verification methods to ensure the correctness and trustworthiness of complex software and system behaviours.

  • Security and Privacy

    My work focuses on identifying, analysing, and mitigating security and privacy vulnerabilities in modern software ecosystems such as AI, Blockchain, Android, Authentication, e-Health.

  • Quantum Safety

    I investigate post-quantum security mechanisms and assurance techniques to safeguard systems against emerging quantum-enabled threats.

  • Cryptographic Protocols

    I analyse and design secure cryptographic protocols with a focus on reliability, robustness, and compliance in real-world deployments.

  • Blockchain and Smart Contract

    I study the security, correctness, and privacy properties of blockchain systems and smart contracts to enable trustworthy decentralised applications.

Funding

Current funding

  • 2025 - 2026
    Reliable AI-Driven Decision Making for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles in Marine Life Surveys (Australia's Economic Accelerator Ignite Grant administered by Griffith University)
    Griffith University
    Open grant
  • 2025 - 2026
    Enhancing UGVs' multi-agent collaboration capabilities using federated reinforcement learning
    Queensland Defence Science Alliance
    Open grant
  • 2023 - 2027
    Secure and Ethical XR Based HSE Training for First Responders in Crisis Situations
    CSIRO
    Open grant

Past funding

  • 2022 - 2023
    Algorand Centre of Excellence (ACE) on Sustainability Informatics for the Pacific (administered by Monash University)
    Monash University
    Open grant
  • 2022 - 2023
    Blockchain-based Event Ticketing System
    Innovation Connections
    Open grant
  • 2022
    Quantitative analysis of Consensus Protocols
    SupraOracles
    Open grant
  • 2021 - 2022
    A lightweight and adaptive LSTM model (Defence Science and Technology Group grant administered by The University of Melbourne)
    University of Melbourne
    Open grant

Supervision

Availability

Dr Naipeng Dong is:
Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Multimodal Membership Inference: A Causal Perspective

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Privacy Compliance in Software Ecosystems

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Guowei Yang

  • Doctor Philosophy

    System Privacy Compliancy

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Miao Xu

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Privacy attacks and defences in cross-cyber physical domains

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    LLMs for Regulation Compliance

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Miao Xu

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Enhancing VR Testing by Leveraging Large Language Models: Developing an Adaptive, Automated Framework for GUI Verification

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Analysis of Machine Learning Systems

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Miao Xu

  • Doctor Philosophy

    A Trustworthy Compiler for Ethereum Smart Contracts

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Mark Utting

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Adversarial Cyber-Attacks and Defences for In-Vehicle Networks

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Dan Kim

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Robustness Verification of Neural Network

    Associate Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Interpretable Dependable Secure Intrusion Detection System (IDS-IDS, IDS^2)

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Dan Kim

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Virtualized Root of Trust in Cloud Computing

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Ryan Ko

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Automated Testing of Deep Learning Systems

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Dan Kim, Dr Guowei Yang

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Measuring and Enhancing Honeypot Interactivity to Derive Attack Strategy Insights for Industry Control Systems Security

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Ryan Ko

  • Doctor Philosophy

    A comprehensive framework for automated cybersecurity assessment, mitigation, and education using graphical security models

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Dan Kim

Completed supervision

Media

Enquiries

Contact Dr Naipeng Dong directly for media enquiries about:

  • Blockchain
  • Formal Verification
  • Security and privacy

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