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Hui Cui served as a Lecturer in the School of Information Technology at Murdoch University. She earned her PhD in Cybersecurity from the University of Wollongong, focusing on Privacy Preserving Public Key Cryptography in the School of Computing and Information Technology. Prior to her appointment at Murdoch University, she held research fellow positions at Singapore Management University in Singapore, RMIT University in Australia, and Data61 at CSIRO in Australia. Her academic career demonstrates a strong commitment to advancing security technologies through research and teaching, including serving as Unit Coordinator for courses such as ICT287 Computer Security in 2019 and ICT579 in 2021.
Dr. Cui's research specializations encompass cryptography, applied cryptography, cloud security, IoT security, and blockchain security. At Murdoch University, she supervised several postgraduate theses, including 'Model Protection and Privacy Preservation of Federated Learning' by M. Elahi in 2026 under the School of Information Technology, and 'Investigating the Practicability of RFID Protocols for Secure Maritime IoT' by G.G. Mudra in 2024. She contributed as Program Co-Chair for ACISP 2020. Key publications associated with her work include 'Authenticated Key Exchange under Bad Randomness, Revisited' (Mathematics, 2023, co-authored with Glen Mudra); 'Survey: An Overview of Lightweight RFID Authentication Protocols Suitable for the Maritime Internet of Things' (2023, co-authored with Glen Mudra and Michael N. Johnstone); 'Multi-Keyword Searchable and Verifiable Attribute-Based Encryption' (IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2023); 'An Overview on Privacy Preserving Federated Learning in Computer Networks and Communications' (2023, co-authored with M. Elahi and Mohammed G. Kaosar); 'Understanding Consumer Acceptance for Blockchain-Based Digital Payment Systems in Bhutan' (2025, co-authored with Norbu Tenzin, Joo Park, and Kok Wong); 'Two-Factor Decryption: A Better Way to Protect Data Security in Cloud Storage' (The Computer Journal, 2021); and 'Blockchain-Empowered H-CPS Architecture for Smart Agriculture' (2025). She shared the Best Student Paper Award on 28 August 2025. Her scholarly output includes 48 journal articles, 23 conference papers, and other contributions, reflecting significant impact in the field of information security.

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