Professor of Distributed Systems & Chair in Applied Data Sciences, Director of the Trusted Networks Lab
Queensland University of Technology
Prof Raja Jurdak is a Professor of Distributed Systems & Chair in Applied Data Sciences, as well as the Director of the Trusted Networks Lab at Queensland University of Technology. His main research interest is around dynamic network modelling. Networks and network science provide powerful representation of physical and logical relationships to gain insights into a broad range of systems, from communication and cyber-physical systems and Internet of Things to individual and entity relationship networks and interactions to guide value-creating decisions.
He is particularly interested in delivering end-to-end trust in data and systems involved in distributed networks, using tools such as blockchain and distributed ledger technology, understanding network dynamics driven by mobility to forecast diffusion processes, such as disease spread, and sustainable in-situ intelligence in networks.
From 2008 to 2019, he was at CSIRO, where he established and led the Distributed Sensing Systems Group that spans Brisbane, Hobart, and Canberra, and is one of the leading large scale sensing group worldwide. He currently maintains a visiting scientist role with the DSS Group. He has a PhD in Information and Computer Science at University of California, Irvine, an MS in Computer Networks and Distributed Computing from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UCI, and a BE at the American University of Beirut.