Our Faculty
Dr Mohamed Elyas
Cybersecurity, Research Fellow
Dr Elyas is a research fellow and founding member of Holmes Institute’s Cyber Security Research and Innovation Centre (CSRIC). Dr Elyas is leading a number of research projects at CSRIC with a focus on the security and privacy of the Internet of Things (IoT). Dr Elyas is also a lecturer at the Department of Business Information Systems at Holmes Institute where he teaches and coordinates computer programming. Additionally, Dr Elyas is currently the Chair for the Staff Research and Development Committee, the Chair for Human Research Ethics Committee, the Coordinator for the CSRIC’s Industry Advisory Board and the Coordinator for Holmes Staff Training Program. He is also a member of the Executive Council of IoT Alliance Australia, which is the peak body for IoT in the country.
Dr Elyas completed an exhaustive scientific review where the major security and privacy challenges faced by the Internet of Things were identified. Based on the findings, a cybersecurity awareness program for the Internet of Things was developed.
Dr Elyas currently takes part in various collaborative projects with the industry including a film-based cybersecurity awareness program with Oceania Cyber Security Centre and Melbourne University and a cybersecurity certification program for LoRaWan devices with NNN Co.
Apart from research, Dr Elyas has strong exposure to industry practices in the cybersecurity space stemming from a two-year work experience at a managed security services firm. Dr Elyas’s research has been published in high-impact journals such as Computers & Security and Journal of Computer Information Systems. His research areas of interest include IoT security and privacy, information security policy and standards, and cybersecurity awareness.
Dr Shuiyin Liu
Cybersecurity, Research Fellow
Dr Shuiyin Liu is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Business Information Systems, Holmes Institute. He is leading the technological theme of Holmes Institute’s Cyber Security Research and Innovation Centre (CSRIC). He received his PhD degree in 2011 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Imperial College London, UK. Between 2012 and 2018, he was with Monash University, Australia, as a research fellow in the field of information security and wireless communications. His research was supported by the Australian Research Council (ARC).
Dr Shuyin Liu currently takes part in several research projects with National Narrowband Network Communications (NNN Co.), including developing lightweight cryptosystems for the Internet of Things (IoT) devices. He also collaborates with researchers at Monash University, working on communications technology, wireless security, and coding techniques for IoT communications.
His research has been published in high-impact journals such as IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He is a Member of IEEE, a member of the IEEE Communications Society, and IEEE Information Theory Society. He was a Technical Program Committee Member for 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications in China. He was the Local Arrangement Chair of 2016 Australian Communications Theory Workshop at Melbourne. He was selected as 2017 Exemplary Reviewer of IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. His research interests include information security, cryptography, wireless communications, IoT, and coding theory.