Raphaël C.-W. Phan

My Research Students

Yue-Syuen Lim

(2026~present)

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

Hanjing Li

(2026~present)

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

Mingze Sun

(2025~present)

PhD @Monash: Emotion recognition

Jianuo Huang

(2026~present)

PhD @Monash: Focus on gen AI

Julia Lau

(2023~present)

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

IEEE ICASSP 2025

Karen Jia-Jun Koh

(2024~present)

PhD @Monash: Gen AI for chemistry

Min-Xuan Tan

(2024~present)

PhD @Monash: Security of gen AI:

IEEE TENCON 2025

Zhuoyu Wu

(2025~present)

PhD @Monash: Focus on gen AI:

Emily Sin-Yee Yap

(finalizing thesis)

PhD @Monash: AI for human brain:

Yuanya Zhuo

(2023~present)

PhD @Monash: Deception detection:

Kai-Jun See

(finalizing thesis)

PhD @Monash: AI for human brain:

IEEE ICIP 2024

Guan-Yuan Tan

(2023~present)

PhD @Monash: Gen AI for computer vision:

Alice Kar-Ee Hoh

(thesis submitted)

PhD @Monash: Gen AI for biology:

Joen Kun

(thesis submitted)

PhD @Monash: AI for crypto

Yue-Tian Goi

(thesis submitted)

PhD @Monash: AI for crypto, published in:

Ai-Fang Chai

(thesis submitted)

PhD @Monash: Gen AI for talking faces

Pei-Sze Tan

(postdoc, National Institute of Informatics @Japan)

PhD @Monash: Facial emotions, published in:

Hong-Hui Yeoh

(recently graduated)

PhD @Monash, 2026: AI for breast cancer:

Sharana Dharshikgan Suresh Dass

(Lecturer, Monash University)

PhD @Monash, 2026: Action recognition:

Ming Kang

(recently graduated)

PhD @Monash, 2026: AI for human brain:

Yin-Yin Low

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

Linh Ngoc Vu

(Tech Product Manager, Zus Coffee)

PhD @Monash, 2025: Speech emotions:

Eusipco 2022

Jia-You Lim

(Founder & CEO, Annco)

PhD @Monash, 2025: Image super-resolution:

Yee-Fan Tan

(Postdoc, UNC Chapel Hill @USA)

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

Jessie Shu-Min Leong

(Lecturer, Monash University)

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

Scarlett Jia-Wen Seow

(Senior ML Engineer, Ant International)

PhD @Monash, 2023: Deepfakes detection:

Neurocomputing

Vinky Chow

(Data Scientist, Nippon @Singapore)

PhD @Monash, 2024: AI for chemistry:

Process Safety & Environmental Protection

Brandon Boo-Guan Khoo

(Lecturer, Sunway University)

PhD @Monash, 2024: Deepfakes detection:

WIRES Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery

About Raphaël C.-W. Phan

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 55.

Past Research Students

Jie Wang

(Associate Professor, Xiamen University of Technology @China)

PhD @Loughborough, UK, 2012: Advanced attack trees

Alex Burrage

(Director - Product Security, Chainguard @UK)

PhD @Loughborough, UK, 2012: Linear complexity

Mahdi Aiash

(Associate Professor, Middlesex University @UK)

PhD @Middlesex, UK, 2012: Security & QoS

Wai-Kong Lee

(Associate Professor, UTAR)

PhD @UTAR, 2018: Hardware designs of crypto