Raphaël's Research

My Research Students


YueSyuen

Yue-Syuen Lim

(2026~present)

Honours thesis research @Monash: Research focus on Gen AI bias

JiaXin

Jia-Xin Kang

(2025~present)

Research assistant @Monash: Research focus on AI for chemistry

JiaXin

Lee-Ann Choong

(2025~present)

Research assistant @Monash: AI for chemistry

YinYing

Yin-Ying Quah

(2025~present)

BCS research intern @Monash: AI for chemistry

Hanjing

Hanjing Li

(2026~present)

MAI thesis research @Monash: Her focus is on AI bias

Andrew

Andrew Yu-Zhang Ooi

(2025~present)

MAI thesis research @Monash: AI for crypto

Jianhuo

Jianuo Huang

(incoming)

PhD @Monash: Focus on gen AI

Mingze

Mingze Sun

(2025~present)

PhD @Monash: Emotion recognition

Julia

Julia Lau

(2023~present)

PhD @Monash: Focus on gen AI safety, published in:

Karen

Karen Jia-Jun Koh

(2024~present)

PhD @Monash: Gen AI for chemistry

MinXuan

Min-Xuan Tan

(2024~present)

PhD @Monash: Security of gen AI:

Zhuoyu

Zhuoyu Wu

(2025~present)

PhD @Monash: Focus on gen AI:

Joe

Joen Kun

(finalizing thesis)

PhD @Monash: AI for crypto

Alice

Alice Kar-Ee Hoh

(finalizing thesis)

PhD @Monash: Gen AI for biology:

ZiQian

Zi-Qian Yong

(2023~present)

PhD @Monash: Security of gen AI:

GuanYuan

Guan-Yuan Tan

(2023~present)

PhD @Monash: Gen AI for computer vision:

PeiSze

Pei-Sze Tan

(postdoc, National Institute of Informatics @Japan)

PhD @Monash: Facial emotions, published in:

AiFang

Ai-Fang Chai

(finalizing thesis)

PhD @Monash: Gen AI for talking faces

Emily

Emily Sin-Yee Yap

(finalizing thesis)

PhD @Monash: AI for human brain:

MingKang

Ming Kang

(finalizing thesis)

PhD @Monash: AI for human brain:

YueTian

Yue-Tian Goi

(finalizing thesis)

PhD @Monash: AI for crypto, published in:

YeeFan

Yee-Fan Tan

(Postdoc, UNC Chapel Hill @USA)

PhD @Monash, 2025: Gen AI for human brain:

Sharana

Sharana Dharshikgan Suresh Dass

(recently graduated)

PhD @Monash, 2026: Action recognition:

KaiJun

Kai-Jun See

(finalizing thesis)

PhD @Monash: AI for human brain:

YinYin

Yin-Yin Low

(Lecturer, Monash University)

PhD @Monash, 2025: Adversarial AI, published in:

Linh

Linh Ngoc Vu

(Tech Product Manager, Zus Coffee)

PhD @Monash, 2025: Speech emotions:

JiaYou

Jia-You Lim

(Founder & CEO, Annco)

PhD @Monash, 2025: Image super-resolution:

HongHui

Hong-Hui Yeoh

(recently graduated)

PhD @Monash, 2026: AI for breast cancer:

Jessie

Jessie Shu-Min Leong

(Lecturer, Monash University)

PhD @Monash, 2023: Hidden emotions, published in:

Scarlett

Scarlett Jia-Wen Seow

(Senior ML Engineer, Ant International)

PhD @Monash, 2023: Deepfakes detection:

Vinky

Vinky Chow

(Data Scientist, Nippon @Singapore)

PhD @Monash, 2024: AI for chemistry:

Brandon

Brandon Boo-Guan Khoo

(Lecturer, Sunway University)

PhD @Monash, 2024: Deepfakes detection:


About Raphaël C.-W. Phan


Me

Professor, Monash University

Focus on Security & Malicious AI

Raphaël adversarially researches on diverse aspects of security, privacy & AI; with recent passions being on
unconventional crypto, invisible motions, hidden emotions, fake fingers, and dark side AI.

He has led research projects funded by the UK government and MoD, as well as the Malaysian government and industry totalling in excess of RM4million.
He is co-designer of the U.S. NIST SHA-3 finalist BLAKE (used in the Blakecoin crypto currency) and has been invited to serve in over 100 peer-reviewed security conferences since 2005. He was the Program Chair of Mycrypt 2016, and General Chair of Asiacrypt 2007 & Mycrypt 2005. He is also the Coordinating Editor of the IOS Press Series in Cryptology & Information Security, and is in the Editorial Board of the Cryptologia journal. He has guest editted a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Dependable & Secure Computing with focus on paradigm shifts in cryptographic engineering.

Raphael has published over 100 refereed journal papers, has Erdős number 2, and h-index 54.


Past Research Students


Jie

Jie Wang

(Associate Professor, Xiamen University of Technology @China)

PhD @Loughborough, UK, 2012: Advanced attack trees

Alex

Alex Burrage

(Director - Product Security, Chainguard @UK)

PhD @Loughborough, UK, 2012: Linear complexity

Mahdi

Mahdi Aiash

(Associate Professor, Middlesex University @UK)

PhD @Middlesex, UK, 2012: Security & QoS

WaiKong

Wai-Kong Lee

(Associate Professor, UTAR)

PhD @UTAR, 2018: Hardware designs of crypto


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