Dr Yee Wei Law

Senior Lecturer UniSA STEM

Mawson Lakes Campus (W2-56)
tel +61 8 830 23409

email YeeWei.Law@unisa.edu.au

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Research Degree Supervisor

About me

Cybersecurity
Space systems
Adversarial machine learning
Machine diagnostics and prognostics

I (“Law”) received my BEng, MEng and PhD degrees from University of Southampton, Nanyang Technological University, and University of Twente respectively. Before joining UniSA, I was a Research Fellow at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne.

Research: My research interests are diverse, but I am currently focusing on adversarial machine learning, space system cybersecurity, as well as machine diagnostics and prognostics. I was involved with numerous European projects on sensor networks, including EYES, SENSEI, Internet of Things Initiative, SmartSantander and SocIoTal; in particular, I was a Chief Investigator in the last three projects. In Australia, I was involved with ARC-funded ... Read more

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Research

Research focus

Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Distributed Computing
Communications Technologies
Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
Information Systems

Highlights

Adversarial machine learning
Cybersecurity of space systems
Machine diagnostics and prognostics
Security and privacy aspects of the Internet of Things
Privacy-preserving data mining for participatory sensing or collaborative learning (an emerging data crowdsourcing paradigm)
Secure multihop over-the-air reprogramming of wireless sensor devices using rateless codes
Smart grid
Game-theoretic modeling of security attacks and defences for optimal resource allocation
Technologies for increasing the energy efficiency of power systems
Distributed algorithms for wireless sensor networks
Energy-efficient adaptive sampling for network lifetime maximization

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Chapters

Year	Output
2019	Kristan, M, Leonardis, A, Matas, J, Felsberg, M, Perera, AG, Chahl, J, Law, YW & He, Z and 147 other authors 2019, 'The sixth visual object tracking VOT2018 challenge results', Computer Vision – ECCV 2018 Workshops, Springer, Germany, pp 3-53. 223 8
2019	Perera, AG, Law, YW & Chahl, J 2019, 'UAV-GESTURE: A dataset for UAV control and gesture recognition', Computer Vision – ECCV 2018 Workshops, Springer, Germany, pp. 117-128. Open access 17
2009	Law, YW, Yen, L, Di, PR & Palaniswami, M 2009, 'Secure k-connectivity properties of wireless sensor networks', in Z Jiang & Y Pan (eds), From problem toward solution: wireless sensor networks security, Nova Science Publishers, US, ch. 13, pp. 257-270.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2024	Du, A, Doan, A-D, Law, YW & Chin, T-J 2024, 'Domain adaptation for satellite-borne multispectral cloud detection', Remote Sensing, vol. 16, no. 18, article no. 3469, pp. 1-36. Open access 1 1
2022	McGuire, JL, Law, YW, Dogancay, K, Ho, S-Y & Chahl, J 2022, 'Optimal maneuvering for autonomous vehicle self-localization', Entropy: International and Interdisciplinary Journal of Entropy and Information Studies, vol. 24, no. 8, article no. 1169. Open access 8 3
2021	McGuire, J, Law, YW, Chahl, J & Doğançay, K 2021, 'Optimal beacon placement for self-localization using three beacon bearings', Symmetry, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 1-14. Open access 5 3
2020	Nasimi, F, Khayyambashi, MR, Movahhedinia, N & Law, YW 2020, 'Exploiting similar prior knowledge for compressing ECG signals', Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, vol. 60, article no. 101960, pp. 1-13. Open access 12 7
2020	Perera, AG, Law, YW, Ogunwa, TT & Chahl, J 2020, 'A multiviewpoint outdoor dataset for human action recognition', IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 405-413. 46 33 1
2019	Perera, A, Law, YW & Chahl, J 2019, 'Drone-action: an outdoor recorded drone video dataset for action recognition', Drones, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 1-16. Open access 70 55 2
2018	Lyu, L, Bezdek, JC, Law, YW, He, X & Palaniswami, M 2018, 'Privacy-preserving collaborative fuzzy clustering', Data and Knowledge Engineering, vol. 116, pp. 21-41. Open access 27 16
2018	Perera, AG, Law, YW & Chahl, J 2018, 'Human pose and path estimation from aerial video using dynamic classifier selection', Cognitive Computation, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 1019-1041. Open access 16 16 1
2018	Perera, AG, Law, YW, Al-Naji, A & Chahl, J 2018, 'Human motion analysis from UAV video', International Journal of intelligent Unmanned Systems, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 69-92. 4 3 3
2017	Li, J-W, Li, S-N, Zhang, Y, Gu, T, Law, YW, Yang, Z, Zhou, X & Palaniswami, M 2017, 'An analytical model for coding-based reprogramming protocols in lossy wireless sensor networks', IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 24-37. 8 7
2015	Law, YW, Alpcan, T & Palaniswami, M 2015, 'Security games for risk minimization in automatic generation control', IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 223-232. 100 79
2014	Marusic, S, Gubbi, J, Sullivan, H, Lawand, YW & Palaniswami, M 2014, 'Participatory sensing, privacy, and trust management for interactive local government', IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 62-70. 2 2
2013	Law, YW, Palaniswami, M, Kounga, G & Lo, A 2013, 'WAKE: Key management scheme for wide-area measurement systems in smart grid', IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 34-41. 67 48
2013	Lo, A, Law, Y & Jacobsson, M 2013, 'A cellular-centric service architecture for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications', IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, vol. 20, no. 5, article no. 6664485, pp. 143-151. 68 58
2012	Yen, L-H, Law, YW & Palaniswami, M 2012, 'Risk-aware distributed beacon scheduling for tree-based ZigBee wireless networks', IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 692-703. 22 17
2011	Law, YW, Moniava, G, Gong, Z, Hartel, P & Palaniswami, M 2011, 'KALwEN: A new practical and interoperable key management scheme for body sensor networks', Security and Communication Networks, vol. 4, no. 11, pp. 1309-1329. Open access 15 13
2011	Law, YW, Zhang, Y, Jin, J, Palaniswami, M & Havinga, P 2011, 'Secure rateless deluge: Pollution-resistant reprogramming and data dissemination for wireless sensor networks', Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 2011, article no. 685219, pp. 1-22. Open access 29 20
2011	Zhang, Y, Zhou, X, Law, YW & Palaniswami, M 2011, 'A pollution-resistant method for reprogramming (PRMR) in wireless sensor networks', Journal of Northwestern Polytechnical University, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 443-448.
2009	Law, YW, Palaniswami, M, Hoesel, L, Doumen, J, Hartel, P & Havinga, P 2009, 'Energy-efficient link-layer jamming attacks against wireless sensor network MAC protocols', ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, vol. 5, no. 1, article no. 6, pp. 1-38. 133 100

Conferences

Year	Output
2024	Doss, R, Ranasinghe, D, Paik, H, Pal, S, Law, YW & Venkataraman, N and 15 other authors 2024, 'SPT-IoT 2024: 7th International workshop on security, privacy and trust in the internet of things - welcome and committees', IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events, PerCom Workshops, IEEE, pp. 46-47.
2023	Edwards, A, Law, YW, Mulinde, R & Slay, J 2023, 'Evaluation of quantum key distribution for secure satellite-integrated IoT networks', in RL Wilson & Major B Curran (eds), 18th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, Academic Conferences International, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 67-76. Open access 2
2023	Law, YW, Gliponeo, JJ, Singh, D, McGuire, J, Liang, J, Ho, S-Y & Slay, J 2023, 'Detecting and tracking hypersonic glide vehicles: a cybersecurity-engineering analysis of academic literature', in RL Wilson and Major B Curran (eds), 18th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security 2023 (ICCWS 2023, Academic Conferences International Limited, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 189-198. Open access 2
2023	Law, YW, Qiao, Y, Chow, C, Marian, R, Gorjian Jolfaei, N, Gorjian, N & Pan, J-S 2023, 'Diagnosing rolling-element bearing faults in the real world: problem solved?', IECON 2023- 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IEEE, pp. 1-6. Open access
2023	Uhongora, U, Mulinde, R, Law, YW & Slay, J 2023, 'Deep-learning-based intrusion detection for software-defined networking space systems', in A Andreatos & C Douligeris (eds), European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, Academic Conferences International Limited, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 639-647. Open access 6
2022	Du, A, Chen, B, Chin, T-J, Law, YW, Sasdelli, M, Rajasegaran, R & Campbell, D 2022, 'Physical adversarial attacks on an aerial imagery object detector', 22nd IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), IEEE, 3798-3808. Open access 58 29
2022	Du, A, Law, YW, Sasdelli, M, Chen, B, Clarke, K, Brown, M & Chin, TJ 2022, 'Adversarial attacks against a satellite-borne multispectral cloud detector', International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, IEEE, pp. 1-8. Open access 2
2022	Law, YW & Slay, J 2022, 'SIEM4GS: Security information and event management for a virtual ground station testbed', in T Eze, N Khan & C Onwubiko (eds), 21st European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, Academic Conferences International Limited, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 150-159. Open access
2020	Li, J, Doğançay, K, Nguyen, NH & Law, YW 2020, 'DRSS-based localisation using weighted instrumental variables and selective power measurement', ICASSP 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), IEEE, pp. 4876-4880. Open access 6 3
2020	Lyu, L, Law, YW, Siong Ng, K, Xue, S, Zhao, J, Yang, M & Liu, L 2020, 'Towards Distributed Privacy-Preserving Prediction', 2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE, pp. 4179-4184. 6
2019	Li, J, Dogancay, K, Nguyen, NH & Law, YW 2019, 'Reducing the bias in DRSS-based localization: an instrumental variable approach', 27th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2019, IEEE, pp. 1-5. Open access 6
2019	Perera, AG, Law, YW & Chahl, J 2019, 'Cross-correlation-based robust object tracking in aerial videos', AIAC18: 18th Australian International Aerospace Congress (2019), Engineers Australia, pp. 222-228. Open access
2018	Perera, A, Ali Abdulelah Al-Naji, Law, YW & Chahl, J 2018, 'Human detection and motion analysis from a quadrotor UAV', 7th Sustainability in Aerospace Engineering and Technology, AEROTECH 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing, vol. 405, no. 1, article no. 012003, pp. 1-12. Open access 17 9 2
2017	Lyu, L, He, X, Law, YW & Palaniswami, M 2017, 'Privacy-preserving collaborative deep learning with application to human activity recognition', CIKM '17: Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, ACM, pp. 1219-1228. 66 50
2017	Lyu, L, Law, YW, Jin, J & Palaniswami, M 2017, 'Privacy-preserving aggregation of smart metering via transformation and encryption', 16th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, 11th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering and 14th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, IEEE, article no. 8029476, pp. 472-479. Open access 15 11
2016	Lyu, L, Law, YW, Erfani, SM, Leckie, C & Palaniswami, M 2016, 'An improved scheme for privacy-preserving collaborative anomaly detection', IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, IEEE, pp. 1-6. 13 1
2014	Erfani, SM, Law, YW, Karunasekera, S, Leckie, CA & Palaniswami, M 2014, 'Privacy-preserving collaborative anomaly detection for participatory sensing', in VS Teng et al. (eds), Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Springer, pp. 581-593. 9
2014	Ning, B, Jin, J, Zheng, J & Law, YW 2014, 'Connectivity control and performance optimization in Wireless Robotic Networks : issues, approached and a new framework', 2014 International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control, IEEE Press, pp. 142-148. 3 1
2013	Gubbi, J, Marusic, S, Rao, AS, Law, YW & Palaniswami, M 2013, 'A pilot study of urban noise monitoring architecture using wireless sensor networks', International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics, IEEE, pp. 1047-1052. 26 12
2013	Law, YW, Gong, Z, Luo, T, Marusic, S & Palaniswami, M 2013, 'Comparative study of multicast authentication schemes with application to wide-area measurement system', CM SIGSAC Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security, ACM, pp. 287-298. 11
2013	Li, J, Li, S, Zhang, Y, Law, YW, Zhou, X & Palaniswami, M 2013, 'Analytical model of coding-based reprogramming protocols in lossy wireless sensor networks', IEEE International Conference on Communications, IEEE, pp. 1867-1871. 8 5
2012	Gong, Z, Nikova, S & Law, YW 2012, 'KLEIN : a new family of lightweight block ciphers', 7th International Workshop on RFID Security and Privacy, Springer, pp. 1-18. Open access 254 206
2012	Law, YW, Alpcan, T & Palaniswami, M 2012, 'Security games for voltage control in smart grid', Fiftieth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, IEEE, pp. 212-219. 15 10
2012	Law, YW, Alpcan, T, Lee, V, Lo, A, Marusic, S & Palaniswami, M 2012, 'Demand response architectures and load management algorithms for energy-efficient power grids : a survey', Seventh International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems, IEEE Press, pp. 134-141. 65 41
2012	Law, YW, Alpcan, T, Palaniswami, M & Dey, S 2012, 'Security games and risk minimization for automatic generation control in smart grid', in J Walrand & J Grossklags (eds), Third International Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security, GameSec 2012, Springer, pp. 281-295. 11
2012	Luo, T, Tan, H, Quan, P, Law, YW & Jin, J 2012, 'Enhancing responsiveness and scalability for OpenFlow networks via control-message quenching', 2012 International Conference on ICT Convergence (ICTC), IEEE, article no. 6386857, pp. 348-353. 21
2011	Gong, Z, Qiang, T, Law, YW & Chen, H 2011, 'KALwEN+: practical key management schemes for gossip-based wireless medical sensor networks', 6th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Springer, pp. 268-283. 2 1
2010	Hanselmann, T, Zhang, Y, Morelande, M, Nor, M, Tan, JWJ, Zhou, X & Law, YW 2010, 'Self-localization in wireless sensor networks using particle filtering with progressive correction', 2010 5th International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China, IEEE, article no. 5684653 pp. 1-6. Open access 2 1
2010	Jin, J, Law, YW, Palaniswami, M & Man, Z 2010, 'A unified flow control approach for QoS balance in differentiated services', IEEE International Conference on Communications, IEEE Press, article no. 5502604, pp. 1-6. Open access 1
2009	Palaniswami, M, Jin, J, Chatterjea, S, Law, YW & Hanselmann, T 2009, 'Energy-efficient data acquisition by adaptive sampling for wireless sensor networks', ACM International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, ACM, pp. 1146-1151. Open access 29
2009	Schott, W, Munari, A & Law, YW 2009, 'Dynamic tunnel routing for reliable and resilient data forwarding in wireless sensor networks', IEEE 20th Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications Symposium, IEEE Press, pp. 1178-1182. Open access 2 2
2009	Zhou, X, Law, YW, Zhang, Y & Palaniswami, M 2009, 'Insider DoS attacks on epidemic propagation strategies of network reprogramming in wireless sensor networks', 2009 Fifth International Conference on Information Assurance and Security, IEEE, pp. 263-266. Open access
2008	Wang, W, Law, YW, Palaniswami, M & Jin, J 2008, 'A Hierarchical transport architecture for wireless sensor networks', International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing, IEEE, pp. 145-150. Open access 3 1

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)	SINGAPORE
Australian National University	AUSTRALIA
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications	CHINA
Chinese Academy of Sciences	CHINA
Czech Technical University in Prague	CZECH REPUBLIC
Deakin University	AUSTRALIA
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)	NETHERLANDS
Free University of Tbilisi	GEORGIA
IBM Zurich Research Laboratory	AUSTRALIA
Institute for Infocomm Research	SINGAPORE
Linköping University	SWEDEN
Monash University	AUSTRALIA
Nanyang Technological University	SINGAPORE
National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences	TAIWAN
National University of Singapore	SINGAPORE
Nicta	AUSTRALIA
Northwestern Polytechnical University	CHINA
Peking University	CHINA
RMIT University	AUSTRALIA
Seeing Machines Ltd	AUSTRALIA
Shandong University of Science and Technology	CHINA
Shanghai Jiao Tong University	CHINA
South China Normal University	CHINA
Swinburne University of Technology	AUSTRALIA
Unicloud Engine Technology Co.	CHINA
Universita di Roma Tre	ITALY
University of Adelaide	AUSTRALIA
University of Birmingham	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Cambridge	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Isfahan	IRAN
University of Ljubljana	SLOVENIA
University of Melbourne	AUSTRALIA
University of New South Wales	AUSTRALIA
University of Oxford	UNITED KINGDOM
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Tokyo	JAPAN
University of Twente	NETHERLANDS
Uppsala University	SWEDEN
VIT University	INDIA
York University	CANADA

External engagement & recognition

Engagement/recognition	Year
Editorial Board Member Journal of Computer Security and Data Forensics	2021
Certificate of Recognition for V2X Vulnerability Analysis",", 109162" DST Group	2020
Editorial Board Member Digital Signal Processing	2020
Editorial Board Member International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks	2019
Editorial Board Member Digital Signal Processing	2019
Editorial Board Member International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks	2018
Editorial Board Member International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks	2017
Editorial Board Member International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks	2016

Teaching & student supervision

Teaching strengths

Computational thinking
Model-based design using MATLAB/Simulink
Model-based systems engineering using 3DEXPERIENCE

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
Cyber mission assurance for space launch	Current
Development of intelligent security controls for software defined networking-based space systems	Current
Establishing and maintaining cyber-worthiness of critical space systems infrastructure	Current
Physical adversarial attacks against machine learning models for satellite imagery	Current
Prognostics for rotating machinery through representation learning	Current
Smart repair and replacement decision support model for cathodic protection	Current
Understanding and characterising optical emissions from hypersonic vehicles to inform real-time detection	Current
Biomimetic processing of celestial orientation cues	Completed
Emergent auto-informative behaviour of mobile agents from estimator information measures	Completed
Exploration of the properties of a method to construct a trade-space of system life cycle cost with reliability and maintainability requirements	Completed
Human motion analysis from drone video	Completed
Localization by differential received signal strength: pseudolinear methods and optimal geometries	Completed
Machine vision for detection of invertebrates on crops	Completed
Path planning, path tracking, and motion control of autonomous vehicle	Completed
Robust visual simultaneous localisation and mapping, and place recognition systems for autonomous field robots	Completed

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