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• Senior Fellow, School of Computing and Information System, The University of Melbourne

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Dr. Jongkil Jay Jeong is a Senior Fellow in the School of Computing and Information System, University of Melbourne. He also serves as the Managing Director at cybersecurity research company TNK.

His current research focuses on the human-centric aspects of cyber security such as:

- Adoption of next-generation authentication and identity technologies.
- Quantification of human-centric cyber risk and its impact on cyber insurance.
- Enhancing Cyber Security Education Training & Awareness (SETA) programs.
- Developing Cyber security maturity building for nations.

Prior to his current role, he was a CyberCRC Senior Research Fellow at Deakin University, and also a Research Fellow at Monash University, investigating how a nations cybersecurity capability is influenced by socio-cultural factors. This research was undertaken in conjunction with the Oceania Cyber Security Centre (OCSC) and Oxford University.

On top of his academic positions, Jay also has extensive industry experience serving as the the Managing Director of Elegant Minds - a digital advisory company, and as the head of the Webasia Initiative at Melbourne IT where he was responsible for orchestrating a strategic partnership agreement with Alibaba.

Experience

• 2023–present Principal Research Scientist, TNK
• 2025–present Senior Fellow, University of Melbourne
• 2008–present Managing Director, Elegant Minds
• 2019–2024 Senior Research Fellow, Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre
• 2018–2019 Research Fellow, Cyber Security, Monash University
• 2006–2008 Project Coordinator - Webasia, Melbourne IT
• 2004–2006 Managing Director, Synaptic Limited
• 2000–2001 Technical Analyst, AhnLab

Education

• 2018 University of Melbourne, PhD - Engineering
• 2011 University of Melbourne, Master of Information Systems
• 2003 University of Otago, Bachelor of Commerce - Information Science

Publications

• 2024 Examining usable security features and user perceptions of Physical Authentication Devices, Computers & Security
• 2023 Towards Higher Levels of Assurance in Remote Identity Proofing, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine
• 2022 Examining the Current Status and Emerging Trends in Continuous Authentication Technologies through Citation Network Analysis, ACM Computing Surveys
• 2022 Improving Unlinkability of Attribute Based Authentication through Game Theory, ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security
• 2020 The Importance of Social Identity on Password Formulations, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Professional Memberships

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Association for Information Systems (AIS)
• Australian Information Security Association (AISA)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• SAE International (SAE)

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