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Professor Monica Whitty serves as Head of the Department of Software Systems and Cybersecurity and Professor of Human Factors in Cyber Security in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. She earned her PhD in Psychology from Macquarie University in 2000 and her BA (Hons) in Psychology from the same university in 1992. Her research focuses on human factors in cybersecurity, including the prevention, disruption, and detection of cyber fraud—particularly romance scams and investment scams—cyber security training, identities created in cyberspace, online security risks, behaviour in cyberspace, insider threats, and mis/disinformation. Whitty has authored over 100 articles and five books, with key publications such as 'Age/sex/location: uncovering the social cues in the development of online relationships' (2001), 'A systematic literature review of profiling victims of cyber scams: setting up a framework for future research' (2025), 'Audio Deepfake Detection: What Has Been Achieved and What Lies Ahead' (2025, with B. Zhang, H. Cui, V. Nguyen), and 'COVID-19 lies and truths: Employing the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) and Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) to gain insights into the persuasive techniques evident in disinformation (fake news)' (2025, with C. Ruddy).