Research Bites: News Digest (Sept – Oct 2025)

Research Bites is your research news digest which aims to capture the diverse research happening in our faculty, collated from various media outlets. In this edition…


Dr Leo Lin (School of Policing Studies) was honoured to be invited speaker at the Social Sciences Week – Translational Criminology Seminar Series, hosted by the Crime & Security Science Research Group at the University of Technology Sydney. He explored the rising risks of AI-driven deepfakes and cryptocrime, sharing insights from major cases, such as the Arup fraud and the Bybit hack.


Professor Manoranjan Paul | SoCME | recently published his research with colleagues from various institutions in the prestigious IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence journal where they developed an efficient and lightweight point cloud learning network termed PillarCoder using a new attention map.


Dr Geberew Mekonnen (Centre for Law and Justice) and Dr Leo Lin (School of Policing Studies) shared their current research in the Euro Crim 2025 conference in Athens, Greece, hosted by the European Society of Criminology (ESC). It was an incredible opportunity to present two papers “๐˜”๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ˆ๐˜-๐˜‹๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜–๐˜ฏ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ๐˜๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฎ๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜Œ๐˜ฅ๐˜ถ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ: ๐˜๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜š๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜™๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ๐˜ถ๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜”๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜Œ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜Š๐˜บ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ค๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜—๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ” and “๐˜–๐˜ณ๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜Š๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜™๐˜ฆ๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜—๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜‹๐˜บ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ด: ๐˜Œ๐˜น๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ด ๐˜‹๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜Š๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜›๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ ๐˜๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ถ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜š๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ˆ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ข” and engage with brilliant minds in criminology.


Celebrating Assoc Prof Cliff Lewis‘ recent success as visiting researcher at the Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria | Read more here.


Professor Ashad Kabir | SoCME | has been honoured by being invited as a Distinguished Speaker at the International Congress on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI).



Wonderful news for the editorial board of Journal of Agriculture, as Professor Lihong Zheng | SoCME joins the board. Lihong looks forward to contributing to the journalโ€™s continued success and supporting the publication of high-quality research in the field.