Dr. Mahshid Sadeghpour
Details
College: School of Science
Department: School of Science
Campus: City Campus Australia
mahshid.sadeghpour@rmit.edu.au
ORCID: 0000-0002-7964-329X
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Mahshid Sadeghpour is a Lecturer at the School of Science at RMIT University, holding a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics. Her research interests include Cyber Security, Biometrics, Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning, and Children’s Online Safety.
She has developed the first privacy-preserving retinal recognition system and created the first large-scale high-quality synthetic retinal image dataset using data-driven generative modelling. Her contributions have earned numerous awards for research excellence, innovative teaching, and community outreach icluding:
- School of Science Work Integrated Learning (WIL) Supervisor Commendation. RMIT University, 2025
- School of Science Outreach Award. RMIT University, 2024
- HDR Science Prize. RMIT University, 2024
- RMIT HDR Prize for Research Excellence. RMIT University, 2023
- The Young Scientist Research Prize. The Royal Society of Victoria, 2022
Mahshid is passionate about research, teaching, and industry collaboration. Outside of work, she enjoys coffee, ice-skating, and learning Chinese.
Supervisor projects
- Echo Chamber Investigation and Identification Utilising Sentiment Analysis
- 9 Dec 2024
Teaching interests
MATH2200 (Introduction to Probability and Statistics)
INTE2656 (Coding for CyberCommunication)
INTE1122 (Case Studies in Cyber Security)
INTE1130 (Industry Awareness Project) ---> Work Integrated Learning
INTE1131 (Industry Linkage Project) ---> Work Integrated Learning
MATH2391 (Numerical Techniques)
MATH2414 (Advanced Mathematics for Engineers)
Research interests
Biometrics, Social Media Analysis, Machine Learning, Sharenting, and Children's Online Privacy
Open Research Projects
- Generative modelling for synthesising biometrics images
- Semi-supervised and self-supervised learning for biometrics system development
- Machine unlearning for regulatable biometrics
- Privacy protection technologies for children’s e-safety
- Automated detection of hostile Instagram discourse around One Nation ideology
Enquiries from master and Ph.D. applicants are welcome.
