Grants

A list of notable past and present grants:

YearsTitleInvestigatorsGrant Body/NumberValue
2026-2027Increasing the value of Australian beef with a device that measures meat-eating qualityW Ranathunge, M RoughanAEA Seed$203,500
2025-2026Human-centred AI solutions for trustworthy and resilient management of complex energy systemsA Ma-Wyatt, E Abbasnejad, M Roughan, J-D Diguet, V Debusschere, B Rousillon, N Hadjsaid, F WurtzFACET (Franco-Australian Centre for Energy Transition)$389,000
2024-2026Provable Network SecurityH Nguyen, M RoughanDefence Partnership Project$2,260,000
2024-2027Movember-SAiGENCI Transformational Integrated Repository & Platform (MSTIR)C Sweeney, M Davis, B Cornes, J Verjans, M Roughan, M Centenera, A DonaldsonMovember Foundation$3,000,000
2023-2026“Using network science analytics for identifying and disrupting covert threats”C Whelan, D Bright, M Roughan, L MitchellNISDRG NI230100042$598,000
2022-2024Artificially-intelligent feature mining for cyber defence: automated event detection and state inference of captured network traffic dataM White, J Zanotti, Z Szpak, M RoughanDefence Partnership Project$776,000
2024-2025LC4 Modelling and SimulationM RoughanDefence$377,104
2023-2024LC4 Modelling and SimulationM RoughanDefence$526,644
2021-2023Mathematical modelling of information flow in social networksL Mitchell, M Roughan, J BagrowARC DP210103700$390,000
2021-2023Antifragile Programmable Networks over Multiple Defence domains and BearersH Nguyen, M Roughan, I Reid, M Webb, M. BrittonDefence NGTF-IDS$900,000
2021-2023Provable Network SecurityH Nguyen, D Ranathunga, P Pourbeik, M Roughan, M BrittonDefence NGTF-Cyber$700,000
2021-2022Trusted AI Frameworks for Change and Anomaly Detection in Observed ISR PatternsM Roughan, B Whitington, TJ Chin, M Humpries, G Nguyen, J Tuke, L MitchellSmartSat CRC$440,000
2020Machine learning solutions for BGP-based software defined combat cloudsH Nguyen, M Roughan, I Reid, M BritonDefence NGTF (IDS)$100,000
2020Autonomous Analysts for Estimation of Unexpected Events using EntropyA Feutrill, L Mitchell, J Ross, M RoughanDefence DIP CRF$150,000
2019-2021Verifiable Policy Defined Networking (PDN) in cyber-securityH Nguyen, M RoughanBoeing Defence$45,000
2014-2021ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical FrontiersHall, Bartless, Bean, Burrage, DeGier, Delaigle, Forrester, Geweke, Kohn, Kroese, Mengersen, Pettitt, Pollett, Roughan, Ryan, Taylor, Turner, Wand, Caley, Churches, Elazar, Gupta, Harch, Tam, Weegberg, WillingerARC CE140100049$20 million
2014-17Software Defined Networking: Transforming Emergency OperationsNguyen and RoughanARC Linkage grant LP140100489$195,000
2015Test-bed for Wide-Area Software Defined Networking ResearchSivaraman, A/Prof Vijay; Roughan, Prof Matthew; Abolhasan, A/Prof Mehran; But, Dr Jason A; Varadharajan, Prof Vijay; Russell, Dr Craig L; Moors, Dr Timothy C; Safaei, Prof Farzad; Portmann, A/Prof Marius; Liang, A/Prof Weifa; Gregory, Dr Mark A; Jha, Prof Sanjay K; Taubman, Prof David S; Nguyen, Dr Hung X; Falkner, Dr Nickolas J; Mao, Prof Guoqiang; Braun, Prof Robin M; Armitage, Prof Grenville J; Tupakula, Dr Udaya K; Indulska, Prof Jadwiga; Strazdins, A/Prof Peter E; Raad, Dr RaadARC LIEF LE150100030$270,000
2011-13Internet traffic-matrix synthesisRoughan and WillingerARC DP110103505$425,000
2010-13Autoconfiguration of critical network infrastructureRoughanARC LP100200493 with CQR$128,000
2010Roughan and NguyenLocal ECMS$15,000
2009-11Network Management in a World of SecretsRoughan and ShenARC DP0985063$315,000
2009Roughan and NguyenLocal ECMS$25,000
2006-7Information Discovery in Network DataRoughanDSTO postdoctoral fellowship$240,000
2005-7Ensuring the Robustness of IP RoutingBean and RoughanARC DP0557066$388,000