Dr. Jahan Hassan
PhD (UNSW), BComp (Monash), GCTE (Victoria), SMIEEE, MACS CP IP3PSenior Lecturer - ICT, Discipline Leader- ICT Foundations.
School of Engineering and Technology
Centre for Intelligent Systems
I hold a PhD from the University of New South Wales, and my Bachelor degree from Monash University, both in Computer Science. I worked as Postdoctoral Researcher and Senior Research Fellow in a number of high profile research projects at the University of Sydney, Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre, and the University of New South Wales. I have collaborated with researchers from major industrial R&D labs, including TCS, IBM, and Qualcomm, as well as international academics from top institutions. I am an Area Editor for Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks journal. I have served as Guest Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Network, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, Drones, and published in Q1 journals including IEEE Journal in Selected Areas of Communications and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. I am a co-inventor of a US patent (pending) which has been cited by patents from Facebook/Meta. I am a recipient of the Dean's Award for Research Excellence, Vice-Chancellor’s award for Exemplary Practice in Learning & Teaching, Vice-Chancellor's Commendation for Outstanding Practice in Learning and Teaching, and Student Voice Commendations. In my current research, I focus on mobile and wireless networking, with a particular emphasis on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) assisted wireless networks and Internet of Things (IoT). Additionally, I lead a grand funded multi-disciplinary project on drone and AI assisted targeted weed management. I supervise RHD students in various topics, including IoT, UAV-assisted mobile networks, and Blockchain technology. I also serve as the College of ICT discipline leader for ICT foundation units. Moreover, I hold professional affiliations as a Senior Member of IEEE (since 2019), a Certified Professional and Member of ACS (MACS CP), and an International Professional Practice Partnership Practitioner (IP3P). I have served on the Technical Program Committees (TPCs) of over 30 international conferences, including prestigious ones like IEEE LCN, IEEE PIMRC, and IEEE ICC. Furthermore, I have served as a co-chair of the "Networking Networking Women" (N2Women) initiative at the IEEE WoWMoM conference in 2024 and chaired the Women in Technology workshop at IEEE ITNAC 2020.
Universities Studied At
- The University of New South Wales- Doctor of Philosophy.
- Monash University- Bachelor of Computing.
- Victoria University- Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Education.
Universities Worked At
- Monash University
- The University of Sydney
- The University of New South Wales
- Victoria University
Awards
- Recipient of the 2024 Dean's Award for Research Excellence.
- Special Achievement Award- For Organising the DroneSense-AI 2024 Workshop at SIN 2024.
- CSIRO ON Prime facilitator prize winner (CQU's IoE Research Team), November 2023.
- CSIRO ON Prime performance bonus award, CQU Smart IoT and Drones Team, 2022.
- Finalist , the Regional Universities Network (RUN) Learning and Teaching Awards 2023.
- Recipient of the 2023 Vice Chancellor's Commendation for Outstanding Practice in Learning and Teaching.
- Recipient of the 2021 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Learning and Teaching.
- Recipient of "Student Voice Commendations" for COIT11238 and COIT20261 (2021).
- Recipient of the "Best Paper Award" at the IEEE MICC 2019 Conference, for the paper titled "AETD: An Application-Aware, Energy-Efficient Trajectory Design for Flying Base Stations".
- Recipient of "Highly Commended Paper Award" at the 28th International Telecommunications and Applications Conference 2018 (ITNAC), for the paper titled "Enabling Efficient and High Quality Zooming for Online Video Streaming using Edge Computing".
- Recipient of CQUniversity New Staff Research Grant, 2019.
- Recipient of the University of Sydney Bridging Support Grant, 2006-2007.
Media Citations
Cornell University Networking course blog post on Game Theory, Brinkmanship, and Wireless Carriers, mentioning my Game Theory paper (published September 18, 2022)
Farming Ahead- IoT-augmented drones to take war on weeds to the skies (15 February, 2023)
Grain Central- CQU’s drones take war on weeds to the skies. (10 February, 2023)
North Queensland Register- CQU's drones take war on weeds to the skies (15 February, 2023)
ABC Western Queensland AM Radio Rural Reports on our AI & drone assisted weed management project. (13 February, 2023)
ABC North Queensland AM Radio Rural Reports (11 February, 2023)
ABC Capricornia AM Radio Rural Reports (11 February, 2023)
Queensland Country Life- CQU’s drones take war on weeds to the skies. (February 11 2023 )
CQU’s IoT-augmented drones are taking war on weeds to the skies (CQUniNews, Feb 08, 2023)
Research project video on IoT-augmented drones for precision weed management
Facebook’s lax security has left millions of users with a lot to worry about (The NewDaily, Mar 22, 2019)
Drones could be recharged without disrupting their mission flight path (CQUniNews, October 11, 2019)
Mid-air wireless charging could keep drones aloft indefinitely-CQU looks at drone-to-drone charging (iTnews, October 21, 2019)
Previous teaching
Taught ICT/Computer Science subjects at the following Australian universities:
- Monash University
- University of New South Wales
- University of Sydney
- Victoria University
- Federation University
Professional Experience
- Book Editor: IGI Global book "Intelligent Internet of Everything for Automated and Sustainable Farming".
- Technical Program Committee Member for International Conference on Wireless Communication, Sensing, and Computing 2025 (WCSC 2025).
- Tutorial presentation, "Next-Generation Sensing for Precision Agriculture: Tools and Techniques for the Modern Farm", ITNAC 2024, November 29, 2024, Sydney, Australia.
- Chair, DroneSense-AI 2024: The 1st Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Networked Drone and Sensor Applications, December 02, 2024 (CFP, LinkedIn post).
- Reviewer for Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications (2024).
- PhD Thesis Examiner- Topic area: IoT Data Governance, University of South Australia (2024).
- N2WOMEN Co-Chair, IEEE WOWMOM 2024.
- Book Editor (Lead): IGI Global book "Applications of Machine Learning in UAV Networks".
- Area Editor, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks journal (Since 2021- ) (Q1, IF 4.8, Citescore 12.1).
- Guest Editor for Energies Special Issue on Energy Harvesting for Industry 4.0 in B5G (Q1, IF: 3.252, Citescore 5.0), 2023.
- Reviewer for Elsevier Swarm and Evolutionary Computation (2022).
- Reviewer for IEEE SECON 2022, IEEE ICC 2022, IEEE LCN 2022, ACSW 2022, IEEE ITNAC 2022, IEEE LCN 2023, IEEE LCN 2024.
- Guest Editor for Drones Special Issue on Drone Computing Enabling IoE (Q1, IF: 5.532, Citescore 7.2), 2022.
- Technical Program Committee Member for ACN 2023.
- Technical Program Committee Member for CoCoNet 2023.
- Technical Program Committee Member for IEEE Local Computer Networks Conference (LCN): LCN 2021, LCN 2022, LCN 2023, LCN 2024.
- Technical Program Committee Member for Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW) 2022.
- Technical Program Committee Member for International conference on connected systems and intelligence (CSI), 2022.
- Technical Program Committee Member & Reviewer for COMSNETS 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.
- PhD Thesis Examiner- Topic area: Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks, Curtin University (2021).
- Steering Committee Member for International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC) (since 2021).
- Technical Program Committee Member for International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC) since 2021.
- Session Chair at IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, Nevada (Online mode), 2021.
- Reviewer for IEEE Communications Magazine (2021).
- Reviewer for Elsevier Pattern Recognition (2021).
- Reviewer for Digital Communications and Networks (2021).
- Reviewer for Elsevier Computer Communications (2021).
- Reviewer for IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2021
- Lead Guest Editor for Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal Special Issue on Trends and Challenges in Energy-Efficient UAV Networks (IF: 3.643 ), 2021
- Chair for Women in Technology Workshop at 30th International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC) 2020
- PhD Thesis Examiner- Topic area: Performance management of UAV Networks, University of Wollongong (2020)
- Technical Program Committee Member for IEEE Local Computer Networks Conference (LCN) 2020
- Technical Program Committee Member for 30th International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC) 2020
- Reviewer for IEEE Local Computer Networks Conference (LCN) 2020
- Reviewer for International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC) 2020
- Reviewer for IEEE Communications Magazine (2020)
- Reviewer for IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM) 2020
- Reviewer for Wiley Engineering Reports Open access journal (2020)
- Reviewer for MDPI Applied Sciences Journal (2020)
- Reviewer for MDPI Journal on Internet of Things (2020)
- Reviewer for Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (2019)
- Reviewer for Elsevier Computer Communications (2019)
- Technical Program Committee Member and Reviewer for International Telecommunication Network and Applications Conference (ITNAC), 27-29 November, 2019, Auckland, New Zealand
- Technical Program Committee Member and Reviewer for International Telecommunication Network and Applications Conference (ITNAC), 21-23 November, 2018, Sydney, Australia
- "Women in Technology" track co-chair for 6th IEEE CSDE, 9-11 December, 2019, Melbourne, Australia
- Guest Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine Special Issue on “Traffic management for mobile broadband networks”, 49(10): 90-100 (2011)
- Guest Editor for IEEE Network Special Issue on "Improving quality of experience for network services", 24(2):4-6 (2010)
- Technical Program Committee member and Reviewer for IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE WCNC), 7-10 April, 2013, Shanghai, China
- Technical Program Committee member and Reviewer for IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC), 9-13 June, 2013, Budapest, Hungary
- Technical Program Committee member and Reviewer for IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (IEEE PIMRC), 9-12 September, 2012, Sydney Australia
- Technical Program Committee member and Reviewer for IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC), 10-15 June, 2012, Ottawa, Canada
- Technical Program Committee member and Reviewer for IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications(IEEE ICNC), 30 January-2 February, 2012, Hawaii, USA
- Technical Program Committee member and Reviewer for IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE WCNC), 28-31 March, 2011, Cancun, Mexico
- Technical Program Committee member and Reviewer for IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE Globecom), 6-10 December, 2010, Miami, USA
- Technical Program Committee member and Reviewer for IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE WCNC), 18-21 April, 2010, Sydney, Australia
- Technical Program Committee member and Reviewer for IEEE 2nd International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing (ISWPC), 7-9 May, 2008, Santorini, Greece
- Technical Program Committee member and Reviewer for IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC), 24-28 June 2007, Glasgow, Scotland
- Technical Program Committee member and Reviewer for IEEE 2nd International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing (ISWPC), 5-7 February, 2007 San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Technical Program Committee member and Reviewer for IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), 15-18 October 2007, Clontarf Castle, Dublin, Ireland
- Technical Program Committee member and Reviewer for IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), November, 2006, Tampa, Florida, USA
Professional Memberships
- Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)- Senior Member (since April 2019)
- Australian Computer Society (ACS)- Member and Certified Professional (ACS CP), IP3P
Responsibilities
Discipline Lead – ICT Foundations (UG & PG combined), College of ICT.
Editor
- Lead Editor for IGI Global book "Applications of Machine Learning in UAV Networks".
- Book Editor for IGI Global book "Intelligent Internet of Everything for Automated and Sustainable Farming".
- Guest Editor for Energies Special Issue on Energy Harvesting for Industry 4.0 in B5G (Q1, IF: 3.252, Citescore 5.0), 2023.
- Guest Editor for Drones Special Issue on Drone Computing Enabling IoE (Q1, IF: 5.532, Citescore 7.2), 2022.
- Area Editor for Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks (2021-present).
- Lead Guest Editor for Special issue on "Trends and Challenges in Energy-Efficient UAV Networks", Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, 2021. (CFP)
- Guest Editor for Special issue on “Traffic management for mobile broadband networks”, IEEE Communications Magazine, 2011 .
- Managing Guest Editor for Special issue on “Improving quality of experience for network services”, IEEE Network, 2010.
Development of Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for detection and growth stage classification of Chinee apple and Navua Sedge weeds based on UAV captured imageries
Grant: Contract Research (Category 2: Other Public Sector)
Funding Scheme: Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) Queensland - Development of AI Algorithms - Contract Research
Total Funding: $2,700.00
Artificial Intelligence driven internet of Drones for targeted weed spraying (EATP 038)
Grant: Competitive Grant (Category 2: Other Public Sector)
Funding Scheme: Emerging Aviation Technology Partnerships Program: Round One
Total Funding: $447,607.00
Vice-Chancellor's Award for Exemplary Practice in Learning and Teaching 2021
Grant: Scholarly activity (Ineligible)
Funding Scheme: CQU Internal Learning and Teaching Awards 2021
Total Funding: $0.00
Accreditation
I am currently accredited for supervision in the following:
- 4699 Other Information and Computing Sciences
- 4604 Cybersecurity and privacy
- 4606 Distributed computing and systems software
Current Capacity
Current Supervision
Education Systems - Higher Education
Linking theory to practice, Active learning, Innovative assessments.
Communications Technologies - Computer Communications Networks
Wireless Local Area Networks, Wireless Mesh Networks, UAV technology, Internet of Things, Network Security.
