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 “๐๐ช๐ต๐ช๐จ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐-๐๐ณ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐๐ฏ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ฎ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ฅ๐ถ๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ: ๐๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ต๐ถ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐จ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ค๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ช๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฏ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐บ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ค๐ณ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ” and “๐๐ณ๐จ๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐๐ณ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ ๐๐บ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ค๐ด: ๐๐น๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐ด ๐๐ณ๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ถ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐๐ด๐ช๐ข” 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).


Prof Zahid Islam, along with co-Authors, Assoc Prof Rafiqul Islam, Dr Arash Mahboubi, and Jannatul Ferdous | SoCME, are thrilled to share that our paper โA Novel Technique for Ransomware Detection Using Image-Based Dynamic Features and Transfer Learning to Address Dataset Limitationsโ is now published.
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 journalโs continued success and supporting the publication of high-quality research in the field.

