Nour Moustafa

Dr. Nour Moustafa is an Associate Professor and ARC DECRA Fellow at the School of Systems & Computing (SysCom), University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra, Australia. He leads the Intelligent Security Group and focuses on developing AI/ML-driven cybersecurity frameworks for smart systems.

• Educated at Helwan University (BSc/MSc in Information Systems) and UNSW (PhD in Cybersecurity).

Research Interests include intrusion detection, threat intelligence, privacy preservation, digital forensics, and cyber resilience, with methodologies spanning statistical analysis, machine learning, and deep learning applied to IoT, Edge/Cloud, and Industrial IoT environments.

His work emphasizes federated learning for privacy preservation, blockchain for secure AI, and digital twins for network self-healing. Notable contributions include the TON-IoT, Bot-IoT, and UNSW-NB15 datasets for cybersecurity evaluation.

• Scientific Awards:
  • 2020 Spitfire Memorial Defence Fellowship
  • ACM Distinguished Speaker
  • IEEE Senior Member

He has served as guest associate editor for IEEE Transactions journals and held leadership roles in conferences like IEEE TrustCom. His research bridges academia and industry, with over 75 publications in top-tier venues.