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Irfan is the Head of School, School of Computing and Mathematics. Prior to entering tertiary education, Irfan worked as a computer programmer. Since 1980 Irfan has been involved in computing and computational mathematics education and research.

Before joining CSU Irfan worked at the following universities: University of Saskatchewan (Canada), Middle East Technical University (Turkey), George Washington University (USA) and the University of Queensland (Australia). Irfan's research interests are broad; he has published papers on data mining, image processing, mesh generation, multigrid algorithms and computational fluid dynamics. Irfan is involved in research projects at international and national levels in these areas.

Research Interests

Research Focus

  • Data mining;
  • Numerical solution of differential equations;
  • Use of the Internet and new technology in teaching;
  • Network security;
  • Development of scientific parallel algorithms.

Professional Information

Memberships
  • Digital Careers - NSW Steering Committee
  • Box Hill Institute IT Curriculum Committee
  • Cisco Certified Academy Instructor
  • Cisco Certified Network Associate
  • Microsoft Certified Professional
Past memberships
  • Member of Australian Mathematical Society
  • Member of American Mathematical Society
  • Member of Canadian Mathematical Society

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  • MAPX: An explainable model-agnostic framework for the detection of false information on social media networks

    Condran, S., Bewong, M., Kwashie, S., Islam, Z., Altas, I. & Condran, J., 2025, Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2024 - 25th International Conference, Proceedings: 25th International Conference Doha, Qatar, December 2–5, 2024 Proceedings, Part II. Barhamgi, M., Wang, H. & Wang, X. (eds.). Singapore: Springer, Vol. 15437. p. 116-127 12 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 15437 LNCS).

    Research output: Book chapter/Published conference paperConference paperpeer-review

    Open Access
  • Decision trees in federated learning: Current state and future opportunities

    Heiyanthuduwage, S., Altas, I., Bewong, M., Islam, Z. & Deho, O., 09 Aug 2024, In: IEEE Access. 12, p. 127943-127965 23 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    Open Access
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    1 Citation (Scopus)
    36 Downloads (Pure)
  • A survey on mining program-graph features for malware analysis

    Islam, M. S., Islam, M. R., Kayes, A. S. M., Liu, C. & Altas, I., 2014, International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks: 10th International ICST Conference, SecureComm 2014 Beijing, China, September 24–26, 2014 Revised Selected Papers, Part II. Belgium: Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, Vol. 153. p. 220-236 17 p.

    Research output: Book chapter/Published conference paperConference paperpeer-review

    3 Citations (Scopus)
  • Exploring timeline-based Malware classification

    Islam, M. R., Altas, I. & Islam, S., 2013, Security and privacy protection in information processing systems : 28th IFIP TC 11 International Conference, SEC 2013, Auckland, New Zealand, July 8-10, 2013. Proceedings . Janczewski, L. J., Wolfe, H. B. & Shenoi, S. (eds.). Germany: Springer, p. 1-13 13 p. (IFIP advances in information and communication technology; vol. 405).

    Research output: Book chapter/Published conference paperChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

    2 Citations (Scopus)
    6 Downloads (Pure)
  • A comparative study of malware family classification

    Islam, M. R. & Altas, I., 2012, Information and communications security: 14th International Conference, ICICS 2012, Hong Kong, China, October 29-31, 2012. Proceedings. Chim, T. W. & Yuen, T. H. (eds.). Berlin, Germany: Springer, p. 488-496 9 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 7618).

    Research output: Book chapter/Published conference paperChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

    7 Citations (Scopus)