Two VU research projects awarded Australia Research Council grants
Victoria University researchers have received an Australia Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project Grant of $352,968 to develop a tool to reduce the risk of online user privacy breaches.
Working with IT company AsyncWorking, the automated tool will focus on industries and government, supporting them to adapt to users’ personalised security requirements enabling maximal data sharing with the confidence that it remains protected and secure.
Lead researcher, Professor Hua Wang said user protection and secure data sharing are critical to Australia's cybersecurity.
“General server providers may not be providing consumers with the most effective protective measures as these are costly and time-intensive. It often results in an increased risk of security breaches,” Professor Wang said.
Our privacy-preserving system would provide a significant boost to the Australian economy by enhancing cybersecurity across commercial businesses and government agencies -minimising data mismanagement risks.
This project will also grow the readiness of the Australian information processing and security research sectors to meet the challenges of emerging technologies.
“The success of this project will benefit many industries and government agencies in reducing users’ privacy breaches, avoiding illegal consequences of sharing data, and enhancing service providers’ service quality,” Professor Wang said.
The ARC Linkage Projects scheme promotes national and international research partnerships between researchers and business, industry, community organisations and other publicly funded research agencies.
Dr Douglas Gomes was recently awarded a competitive ARC Early Career Industry Fellowship worth $464,044 for his work to advance the development of devices capable of detecting powerline breakages.
Funded to cover the trial phase and potential commercialisation, this research will be conducted with his key industry partner, Powercor and demonstrates the success of VU research and industry engagement.
The project will develop improved devices for detecting and locating power line breakages and investigate their use to support renewable sources in regional grids.
“We expect to generate novel power protection technology and support the commercialisation of these devices,” Dr Gomes said.
The work began with a previous feasibility project we did with Powercor. The new outcomes should provide significant benefits, such as mitigating fire-ignition risk and subsequent emissions, faster power recovery times, and insights for increasing the presence of renewable generation in regional networks.
The ARC Early Career Industry Fellowship scheme aims to develop the industry collaboration skills of early career researchers and support them to translate and/or commercialise outcomes.
