Biography
Ruitao FENG is a lecturer at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University. He is driven by curiosity and passion, with a love for music, movies, food, and travel. He is eager to collaborate with brilliant, ambitious students who dream big—let's work together to make them a reality!
He is a member of SCU's Research Clusters:
- ZeroWaste
- Harvest to Health
His work contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals

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His research centres on security and quality assurance in software-enabled systems, particularly AI4Sec & SE. This encompasses learning-based intrusion/anomaly detection, malicious behaviour recognition for malware, and code vulnerability detection. His previous research outcomes primarily go to top conferences/journals (CORE A/A*, CCF A) in Computer Security and Software Engineering.
Teaching
INFO6002 Cybersecurity Essentials
ISYS1003 Cybersecurity Management
ISYS6002 Advanced Cybersecurity
COMP2004 Systems Security and Operation
DATA2001 Database Systems
ISYS3001 Managing Software Development (UA)
PROG6001 Managing Software Development Projects (UA)
Other
He is also looking for self-motivated Ph.D. students with strong programming skills and relevant experience. Please email your CV and cover letter if you are interested. For SCU undergraduate and master students who wish to do honours or minor thesis, please feel free to reach out.