**Interested Areas**
- *** AI & Data >> Responsible AI, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Knowledge Mining, LLMs, Agentic AI
- *** Cyber >> Security Analytics, Threat Intelligence, AI Security, Human-AI & Trust
- *** Business >> Analytics & AI, Security & Governance, Data/AI-Driven Transformation & SMEs
Dr. Iqbal H. Sarker (Profile Summary and CV Highlight)
- [Research Fellow (Ongoing)] Working as a Research Fellow (AI & Data -> Cyber & Business Analytics) @Edith Cowan University (ECU), Perth, Australia.
[Key roles -> Planning and Leading Research Projects/Publications, Supervising PhD and Master's by Research Students, and Global Academia-Industry Collaboration ] (Official Web Page) - [Publications and Citation Impact] with a Track Record of 100+ peer-reviewed publications, including Books, Q1-ranked journals and top-tier conferences (A*/A); [ H-index = 50+, i10-index = 100+, Citations = 25,000+ ] (Ref & Updated Info - Google Scholar)
- [BOOKs Author - Research Monograph - Springer] Lead Book Author: (i) I. H. Sarker et al. "Context-Aware Machine Learning and Mobile Data Analytics: Automated Rule-based Services with Intelligent Decision-Making", and (ii) I. H. Sarker. "AI-Driven Cybersecurity and Threat Intelligence: Cyber Automation, Intelligent Decision-Making and Explainability", Springer Nature, Switzerland. [Single/Lead Authored]
- [Global Recognition and Award] Received IEEE Award at the IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (IEEE DSAA 2016), Montreal, Canada; and ELSEVIER Journal Award, 2025 ICT Express Best Paper Runner Award, Portugal. Also ranked by ScholarGPS (2025) and listed among the world's top 2% most-cited scientists by Elsevier and Stanford University, USA (2021~Now). [Latest Published Date: 7 Oct 2026] (Ref: Elsevier Data Repository, DOI: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.9) (Ref Page)
- [Industry Engagement & Collaboration] includes WA mining company, SMEs, SMTAFE, CyberWest Hub, Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), CSIRO Data61, WA Police, IMNIS, AUAI and so on.
- [Teaching Experience and Student Supervision] Academic Experience with Teaching multiple courses (In the area of AI/Data, Cyber and Digital Business), Program coordinator, Course Curriculum and Materials development and successful supervision of both UG and PG (Ph.D. and Master by Research) students.
- [Leadership in Global Research Communities & National-International Collaboration] through Journal Editorial roles, Book/Grant proposal (International) evaluation, and program committee roles for reputed international conferences and workshops, with a global academia-industry network spanning Australia, UK, USA, UAE, Malaysia, Japan and Bangladesh.
- [Adjunct/Visiting] Dr. Sarker is an Adjunct Fellow of the DigiSAS Lab, School of Computer Science, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Sydney, Australia, and Institute of Computer Science and Digital Innovation, UCSI University, Malaysia, as well as an Academic Fellow of Australian AI Society (AUAI) (Australian AI Society).
- [PhD & Postdoc - Australia] Ph.D. in Computer Science (Data Science: AI/ML Modeling), Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia; & Post-Doc (AI/Data-Driven Cybersecurity), CSCRC & ECU, Australia.
[Published Springer BOOKs by Sarker et al. (Lead Author)]
[*** This book mianly explores the potentiality of AI/XAI based modeling towards cybersecurity automation, intelligent computing and Human-AI decision-making. This includes machine learning and deep learning methods, data science modeling, advanced analytics, knowledge and rule mining, generative AI, text and language modeling, and so on highlighting diverse real-world applications and research issues *** ] (Springer Link)
[*** This book mainly covers data-driven and machine learning algorithms design with experimental analysis towards transparent and explainable user behavior modeling in the broad area of AI and data science. This includes time-series data clustering, tree-based modeling, knowledge and rule mining, data-driven decision-making, recency mining, etc. highlighting diverse real-world applications and research issues ***] (Springer Link)
[Conference Proceedings (Edited Book)]
[*** This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 41st IFIP International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection, SEC 2026, held in Perth, Australia, during June 9–11, 2026. Topic covers: AI for Cyber Security; Cryptography; Cyber-Physical Systems Security; Data and Applications Security; Network and Systems Security; Privacy, Identification, Authentication and Access Control. *** ] (Springer Link)
