Rate My Professor Carlo Kopp

Dr. Carlo Kopp is a part-time Computer Science Lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University, Clayton campus, Department of Software Systems and Cybersecurity. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from Monash University in 2000, focusing on high-capacity ad hoc networks and long-range microwave datalinks using radar apertures; an MSc in Computer Science (Research) from Monash in 1996, on interprocess communications and I/O abstraction in secure operating systems; and a BE with First Class Honours in Electrical Engineering from the University of Western Australia in 1984. His academic career includes roles as Adjunct Research Fellow at the Monash Asia Institute from 2005 to 2010 and Visiting Research Fellow at ADFA@UNSW in 2004. Prior to and alongside academia, Kopp held extensive industry positions as chief engineer, project manager, and engineering manager for an Australian computer manufacturer, overseeing ISO9001 accreditation; and as a consultant advising on strategic planning, technology futures, tender evaluations, computer systems performance analysis up to mainframe scale, and new technology demonstrations. He designed and developed hard real-time embedded software, Unix device drivers, communications protocols, high-speed digital hardware including SPARC motherboards and graphics adaptors, and analogue hardware for wideband and optical receivers and transmitters.

Kopp's primary research interests encompass modelling deceptions in social and biological systems, perceptual and decision modelling using information theory, cognitive cycle modelling, ad hoc networks with propagation challenges, and distributed computing. Earlier work covered operating systems, radio-frequency propagation, radar signature modelling, optical communications, and satellite navigation protocols, including adaptation of AESA radars for digital communications and tropospheric propagation for airborne platforms. Key publications include 'Ignorance of the crowd: dysfunctional thinking in social networks' (2025), 'Optimizing Renewable Energy Utilization in Cloud Data Centers through Dynamic Overbooking: An MDP-based Approach' (2024), 'Defining Measures of Effect for Disinformation Attacks' (2024), and 'Are Problem-Solving Assessments More Effective for Evaluating Learning in Computing Engineering Education?' (2025). He developed and taught Australia's first university-level honours course on Information Warfare in 2006 and serves as chief examiner and lecturer for units such as FIT2020 Network Architecture, FIT2069 Computer Architecture, FIT2100 Operating Systems, FIT3142 Distributed Computing, and FIT3143 Parallel Computing. Awards include the Innovation in Teaching Award (2025), Outstanding Teaching Award for the Faculty of Information Technology (2015), Best Paper Award at the 3rd Australian Information Warfare and Security Conference (2002), Australian Industry Certificate Award (2010), Fellow of the Lean Systems Society, Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Senior Member of the IEEE.