Dr. Philip Branch

Telephone:
+61 3 9214 5847
 
eMail:
pbranch at swin.edu.au
Position:
Senior Lecturer (Telecommunications)
Qualifications:
BSc, MTech (Tas), DipBus (Hobart College), PhD (Monash), GCTL (Swinburne)

Employment history

2003 - Present:
Senior Lecturer, SUT
2000 - 2003:
Development Manager, Ericsson AsiaPacific Labs
1999 - 2000
Business Analyst, Melbourne IT Ltd
1994 - 1999:
Research Engineer, ANSPAG/Research Fellow, Monash University (Joint appointment)
1992 - 1994:
Research Associate, University of Tasmania
Before 1992:
Software engineering positions in Tasmania and NSW

Teaching 2011

HET317 Network Security and Resilience
HIT6631 eForensic Fundamentals
HET104 LAN Principles
HET183 Telecommunications Projects
HET550/HET556 Project supervisor
HET724 Project supervisor

Research

Lawful Interception of IP networks (LIFE project)
Teletraffic analysis and simulation of multiplayer online games (GENIUS and SONG projects)

Publications

Postgraduate supervision

Coordinating Supervisor

Tony Cricenti
Abofazl Nazari
Rhys Shobbrook

Associate Supervisor

Warren Harrop
Imrul Hassan
Hong Suong Nguyen
Thuy Nguyen
Lawrence Stewart
Sebastian Zander

If you are interested in doing research leading to an Masters or PhD with me, have a look here. I am interested in supervising research projects in the general areas of network security, lawful interception, wireless networks and teletraffic analysis. I have a specific interest in machine learning techniques applied to network related Law Enforcement.

Administration

Research Higher Degrees Coordinator for CAIA

Course panel for B.Eng ( Telecommunications and Network Engineering)

Course panel for BICT (Network Design and Security)

Unit convenor for HET317, HIT7720, HET183, HIT6631
Swinburne University Human Research Ethics Committee
Show Cause Committee

Media Commentary

The Conversation "Hackers squeeze BlackBerry for spilling juice on London riots", August 2011
The Conversation "Evil descends on the NBN? Erm, not quite", July 2011

ABC Radio Evening Show (Sydney) commenting on recent hacking events, July 2011

SEN Radio commenting on recent hacking events, June 2011
The Conversation "LulzSec takes down CIA website in the name of fun, fun, fun" June, 2011
The Conversation "Pentagon, LulzSec, News of The World ... we live in interesting times for hacking", July 2011
Webinar "eForensics - Privacy, Security and Online Media", June 2011
   
Last Updated: Thursday 18-Aug-2011 16:46:09 EST | Maintained by: Philip Branch (pbranch@swin.edu.au) | Authorised by: Grenville Armitage ( garmitage@swin.edu.au)