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Elena Sitnikova is Associate Professor of Cybersecurity and Networking, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University. A Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional, Elena leads cutting-edge research in Critical Infrastructure protection, focusing on intrusion detection for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems cybersecurity and the Industrial Internet of Things. With cyber-attacks increasing globally, she is exploring system antifragility and using artificial intelligence to analyse abnormal data that may affect critical cyber-physical systems.
Elena has successfully led research grants with a research income of over AU$1.5 million, has many cited publications and supervised six successful PhD completions.
She is an Associate Editor with the Australian Journal of Multidisciplinary Engineering and serves cyber discipline as Chair/Editor of conferences/journals . E.g. International Cyber Warfare, US-based Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education. Elena is Invited Keynote Speaker for many industry and government forums.
Elena is also an innovative university educator in cybersecurity, pioneering online student engagement and research-led teaching. She is a recognised expert in excellence in higher education, holding a UK-based Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and have received an Australian Office for Learning and Teaching Citation award for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.
Elena is the elected national Academic Lead of the Australian Affiliate of the international network Women in Cyber Security (WiCyS).
Completed HDR students
2024: Ranji, Ramtin (PhD under re-examination) Secure trading of unlicensed spectrum in CPS (Joint, UNSW Canberra)
2023: Stewart, Harrison, PhD Strengthening Cybersecurity in Digital Transformation (Joint at Flinders)
2022: Hassan, Marwa, PhD Privacy-preservation for cyber-physical systems (UNSW)
2021: Al-Hawawreh, Muna, PhD Targeted Ransomware intrusion detection for SCADA (Primary at UNSW).
Monks, Kimberley, MpH Intrusion Detection for SCADA systems cybersecurity (Primary at UniSA)
2020: Koroniotis, Nikolaos, Bot-IoT Forensics Framework (Primary UniSA) - recipient of the UNSW Dean’s award for outstanding PhD thesis
2012: Virallikattur, Subramanian Dhenesh, Integrated Tool-Support for Small Team Meetings within Organisations (Primary at UniSA).
Watt, Allan Charles, Development of a Framework for the Investigation into the Methods Used for the Electronic Trafficking and Concealment of Child Abuse Material (Joint at UniSA).
Honours / Final year Engineering Project Completions
2023: Sebastian Hoey, Honours thesis: Analysing and Investigating Utility Residential Solar Inverter Remote Control to Propose an LV Feeder Monitoring Solution Designed to Improve Resilience, Flinders University.
2020: Dominic Hill - final year engineering project: Anomaly Detection during Normal Operation of SCADA Systems using Machine Learning techniques, UNSW Canberra
2019: Kim Offner – Final year health science project with Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney: Towards understanding cybersecurity capability in Australian healthcare organisations: A systematic review of recent trends, threats. (Offner et al 2020, Q1, cv, p.8)
2017: Thomas Marsden – final year engineering project: Probability Risk Identification Based Intrusion Detection System for SCADA Systems. (Marsden et al, cv, p.11) UNSW Canberra
2016: Punett Muddu – final year engineering project: Discovering Cyber Vulnerabilities in SCADA Control System via Examination of Water Treatment Plant in Laboratory Environment. UNSW Canberra
2015: Matthew Gaudie – Honours project: Towards enhancing Australian army capabilities in cybersecurity training. Achieved 1st-Class Honours. UNSW Canberra
Current PhD and Professional Doctorate students
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
PhD, Mathematical Modelling of Space Communication Systems, Georgian Technical University
… → 1992
Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), Information Control Systems, Georgian Technical University
… → 1983
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Sitnikova, E. (Author)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Sitnikova, E. (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Judging Panellist or Panellist
Sitnikova, E. (Author)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Podcast appearance
Sitnikova, E. (Author)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Podcast appearance
Sitnikova, E. (Speaker), Fowler, S. (Speaker) & Joiner, K. F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk