Dr. Son Hoang Dau
Details
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Department: School of Computing Technologies
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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sonhoang.dau@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0002-2276-017X
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Dr Son Hoang Dau (preferred name: Hoang) is a senior lecturer in computer science at School of Computing Technologies. He is also the program manager of the Bachelor of Computer Science (Professionals).
Research fields
- 461301 Coding, information theory and compression
- 460402 Data and information privacy
- 460404 Digital forensics
- 490404 Combinatorics and discrete mathematics (excl. physical combinatorics)
UN sustainable development goals
- 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
- 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Academic positions
- Senior Lecturer
- RMIT University
- School of Computing Technologies
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jan 2023 – Present
- Program Manager of the Bachelor of Computer Science
- RMIT University
- School of Computing Technologies
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jan 2023 – Present
- Lecturer & DECRA Fellow
- RMIT University
- School of Computing Technologies
- Melbourne, Australia
- 21 Jan 2019 – 31 Dec 2022
- Research Fellow & DECRA Fellow
- Monash University
- Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
- Melbourne, Australia
- 16 Nov 2017 – 19 Jan 2019
- Research Fellow
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Coordinated Science Laboratory
- Urbana, United States
- 15 Aug 2015 – 15 Aug 2017
- Research Fellow
- Singapore University of Technology and Design
- Engineering Product Development
- Singapore, Singapore
- 1 Oct 2012 – 1 Aug 2015
Supervisor projects
- Testing and Verification of Smart Contracts
- 15 Oct 2025
- Machine Learning methods for Fraud Detection on Blockchain networks
- 2 Apr 2025
- Robust Computer vision for surveillance and threat detection
- 2 Oct 2024
- Efficient Repair of Reed-Solomon Codes
- 22 Jun 2022
- Privacy Protection for Verifiable Data Structures
- 6 Aug 2021
- Defending Ethereum and The Like from Crypto Scams
- 28 Jul 2021
Teaching interests
Courses that he has taught include Algorithms & Analysis (RMIT), Introduction to Mathematics for Computing (RMIT), Mathematics for Computing 1 (RMIT), and Probability Theory (Monash University). In 2026, he will also be teaching Blockchain Innovations & Case Studies (RMIT University).
Research interests
His research interests include blockchain forensics, data and information privacy, coding theory, and discrete mathematics.
Digital forensics (460404)
Data and information privacy (460402)
Coding, information theory and compression (461301)
Combinatorics and Discrete Mathematics (490404)
