2025 Program

Tuesday 11 February 2025

08:30 – 09:00 Registration | Hawken 50-C207
Stream Plenary
Room Hawken 50-T203
Session Chair Rachel-Cardell-Oliver
09:00 – 09:15 ACSW Official Opening and Welcome
Rachel Cardell-Oliver, President, CORE
09:15 – 09:30 CORE Award Presentations
Rachel Cardell-Oliver, President, CORE
09:30 – 10:00 CORE AGM
10:00 – 10:30 Morning Tea | Hawken 50-C207
Stream Plenary
Room Hawken 50-T203
Session Chair Helen Huang
10:30 – 11:30 Keynote Address – Advancing Graph Mining Techniques for Complex Structures
Jia Wu, Winner, CORE Outstanding Research Contribution Award
11:30 – 12:30 Keynote Address – PsiQuantum: How to build a photonic quantum computer and how to use it
Terry Rudolph, Co-founder and Chief Architect,PsiQuantum
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch | Hawken 50-C207
Stream Plenary
Room Hawken 50-T203
13:30 – 15:00 Panel – The vital role of Computing Researchers in Science Advocacy 

Facilitator: Shazia Sadiq

Panellists:

  • Ben Rubinstein, The University of Melbourne
  • Anton van den Hengel, The University of Adelaide
  • Kylie Walker, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
  • Ann Nicholson, Monash University
15:00 – 15:30 Afternoon Tea | Hawken 50-C207
Stream Plenary
Room Hawken 50-T203
Session Chair David Abramson
15:30 – 16:00 Keynote Address – Advances in Pathfinding Algorithms for Games, Route Planning Software, and Automated Warehouses
Bojie Shen, Winner, CORE Australasian Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award
16:00 – 16:30 Keynote Address – Multi-objective Optimization for an Academic Career: Swings and Roundabouts?
Alan Fekete, Winner, Distinguished Service Award
16:30 – 17:00 Keynote Address – IDEATE: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity in Australian Technology Education
Penny Kyburz, Associate Director (Engagement & Impact), ANU School of Computing, College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics
17:00 – 18:30 Workshop – How to Advance your Career in Learning and Teaching?

  • Claudia Szabo, The University of Adelaide
  • Cheryl Pope, The University of Adelaide
  • Abelardo Pardo, The University of Adelaide

* A light pizza dinner will be provided for workshop attendees.

Wednesday 12 February

08:30 – 09:00 Registration | Hawken 50-C207
Stream Plenary
Room Hawken 50-T203
Session Chair Claudia Szabo
09:00 – 10:00 Keynote Address – Teaching Excellence: A Journey of Innovation, Inclusion, and Resilience
Nicole Herbert, Winner, CORE Teaching Award
10:00 – 10:30 Keynote Address – 80% of the CS1 Classroom for 5% of the Cost
Shaanan Cohney, Winner, CORE Teaching Award Early Career
10:30 – 11:00 Morning Tea | Hawken 50-C207
Stream ACE AusPDC
Room Hawken 50-N201 Hawken 50-N202
Session Chair Claudia Szabo Mohammad Goudarzi
11:00 – 11:30 Broadening Data Science Education: An Experience Report
Debzani Deb and Muztaba Fuad		 Keynote Address – Cloud Computing and Smart Infrastructure
Craig Lawton, Amazon Web Services
11:30 – 12:00 Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Solving Visual Graph and Tree Based Data Structure Problems using Large Multimodal Models
Sebastian Gutierrez, Irene Hou, Jihye Lee, Kenneth Angelikas, Owen Man, Sophia Mettille, James Prather, Paul Denny and Stephen MacNeil
12:00 – 12:30 Automating New Zealand High School Programming Assessment – Teachers’ Experiences
Henry Hickman and Tim Bell
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch | Hawken 50-C207
Stream ACE AusPDC
Room Hawken 50-N201 Hawken 50-N202
Session Chair Cheryl Pope Mohammad Goudarzi
13:30 – 14:00 Distilling PEP 8 for Teaching Introductory Programming
Diana Kirk, Andrew Luxton-Reilly and Ewan Tempero		 Towards the Translation of OpenMP to Hybrid MPI/OpenMP
Richard Sinnott and Steven Tang
14:00 – 14:30 Oversight in Action: Experiences with Instructor-Driven LLM Responses on a Software Engineering Discussion Forum
Shuying Qiao, Paul Denny and Nasser Giacaman		 Invited Presentation – A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Composing Moving IoT Services
Azadeh Ghari-Neiat
14:30 – 15:00 Codetierlist: Competitive Gamification’s Impact on Self-Efficacy, Motivation, and Performance in Computing Education
Yousef Bulbulia, Ido Ben Haim, Jackson Lee, Brian Zhang, Daksh Malhotra, Andrew Petersen and Michael Liut		 A Simple Tiled Approach to Teaching Parallel Computing
Peter Strazdins
15:00 – 15:30 Afternoon Tea | Hawken 50-C207
Stream ACE AusPDC
Room Hawken 50-N201 Hawken 50-N202
Session Chair Rachel Cardell-Oliver Mohammad Goudarzi
15:30 – 16:00 LLM-itation is the Sincerest Form of Data: Generating Synthetic Buggy Code Submissions for Computing Education
Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny, Olli Kiljunen, Stephen MacNeil, Sami Sarsa and Arto Hellas		 Tutorial: Distributed Quantum Computing and Quantum Internet Computing: a Teaser
Seng Loke
16:00 – 16:30 Exploring Gender Disparities and Collaborative Learning in IT
Soonja Yeom, Nicole Herbert and Riseul Ryu
16:30 – 17:00 Breaking the Programming Language Barrier: Multilingual Prompting to Empower Non-Native English Learners
James Prather, Brent Reeves, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, João Orvalho, Amin Alipour, Ali Alfageeh, Thezyrie Amarouche, Bailey Kimmel, Jared Wright, Musa Blake and Gweneth Barbre

Thursday 13 February

08:30 – 09:00 Registration | Hawken 50-C207
Stream ACE AusPDC AISC
Room Hawken 50-N201 Hawken 50-N202 Online
Session Chair Andrew Luxton-Reilly Mohammad Goudarzi
09:00 – 09:30 Framing AI literacy for K-12 Education: Insights from Multi-Perspective and International Stakeholders
Linda Mannila, Jonas Hallström, Charlotta Nordlöf, Fredrik Heintz, Katarina Sperling and Linnéa Stenliden		 Keynote Address – The Importance of Data Governance in a World of Data Lakes
Alistair Innes, Oracle		 09:45 – 10:00 (AEDT)
AISC Opening10:00 – 10:50 (AEDT)
Keynote Address – Blockchain Overview: Past, Present, Future
Vincent Gramoli11:00 – 11:50 (AEDT)
Keynote Address – Lattice-based optimisation techniques, algorithms, and evaluations in post-quantum cryptography
Amin Sakzad

AISC Accepted Papers – 13:00 – 15:30

13:00 – 13:20 (AEDT)
How To Scale Multi-Party Computation
Marcel Keller

13:20 – 13:40 (AEDT)
A Hybrid Approach for Intrusion Detection in FTP Logs via Multi-Pattern Feature Engineering
Kriti Majumdar, Nitesh Kumar, Anand Handa and Sandeep Kumar Shukla

13-40 – 14:00 (AEDT)
PhishEmailLLM:A Meta Model Approach to Detect Phishing emails by leveraging LLMs and Machine Learning models
Ronish Nair, Fahim Abbasi and Shahbaz Pervez

14:00 – 14:20 (AEDT)
Cost-Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Synthesis of Complex Sensitive Data
Sandeep Suresh, Guangsheng Zhang, Bo Liu and Barry Drake

14:20 – 14:40 (AEDT)
Technical Framework to Ensure Data Subject’s Rights in GDPR: A Conceptual Design
Arwa Najdi, Rukshan Athauda, Dilum Bandara and Suhuai Luo

14:40 – 15:00 (AEDT)
An Agentic Framework for Compliant, Ethical and Trustworthy GenAI Applications in Healthcare
Veena Priscilla Menezes, Mohammad Jabed Morshed Chowdhury and Abdun Mahmood

15:00- 15:20 (AEDT)
Predicting IoT Device Vulnerability Fix Times with Survival and Failure Time Models
Carlos A. Rivera A., Xinzhang Chen, Arash Shaghaghi, Gustavo Batista and Salil Kanhere

 

AISC PhD Symposium – 15:30 – 16:30

15:30 – 15:50 (AEDT)
Presentation
Fitrio Pakanka

15:50 – 16:10 (AEDT)
Generic Construction of Withdrawable Signature from Hash-Then-One-Way Signature
Xin Liu

16:10 – 16:30 (AEDT)
Key Cooperative Attribute-Based Encryption
Luqi Huang

16:45 – 17:45 (AEDT)
Keynote Address – Accountable Anonymous Credentials: Applications and Challenges
Zuoxia Yu

17:45 – 18:00 (AEDT)
AISC Closing Remarks
09:30 – 10:00 On the Need to Clean Student’s Duplicated and Verbose Code: The Arrows problem
Cruz Izu and Yin Cyrus Hui
10:00 – 10:30 On the Opportunities of Large Language Models for Programming Process Data
John Edwards, Arto Hellas and Juho Leinonen
10:30 – 11:00 Morning Tea | Hawken 50-C207
Stream ACE AusPDC
Room Hawken 50-N201 Hawken 50-N202
Session Chair Simon Mohammad Goudarzi
11:00 – 11:30 An Experience Report on a Conversion Masters Degree Program in Computer Science for Non-CS Majors
Md Tahmidul Islam Molla, Gary Krenz, Thomas Kaczmarek and John Moyer		 Panel Discussion: AI Innovations in Distributed Systems
Seng Loke, Richard Sinnott, Alistair Innes
11:30 – 12:00 Leveling up Learning: Serious Games for Computing Education – Long-Term Opportunities and Risks
Burkhard Wünsche, Steffan Hooper, Jacqueline Whalley, Ingjerd Straand, Paul Denny, Tyne Crow, Dominik Lange-Nawka, Andrew Luxton-Reilly and Samuel E. R. Thompson
12:00 – 12:30 Analyzing LLM Usage in an Advanced Computing Class in India
Anupam Garg, Aryaman Raina, Aryan Gupta, Jaskaran Singh, Manav Saini, Prachi Iiitd, Ronit Mehta, Rupin Oberoi, Sachin Sharma, Samyak Jain, Sarthak Tyagi, Utkarsh Arora and Dhruv Kumar
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch | Hawken 50-C207
Stream ACE
Room Hawken 50-N201
Session Chair Carolyn Seton
13:30 – 14:00 Achievement Goals in CS1-LLM
Annapurna Vadaparty, Francis Geng, David Smith, Daniel Zingaro and Leo Porter
14:00 – 14:30 Incorporating cultural difference in Computer Science education – Indigenous perspectives
Tracy M. Maniapoto, Manuhuia Barcham, Tyne Crow, Kari Noe, Padriac O’Leary and Jon Corbett
14:30 – 15:00 From Automation to Cognition: Redefining the Roles of Educators and Generative AI in Computing Education
Tony Haoran Feng, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Burkhard C. Wünsche and Paul Denny
15:00 – 15:30 Afternoon Tea | Hawken 50-C207
Stream ACE
Room Hawken 50-N201
Session Chair
15:30 – 16:00 Meetings – ACE Program Committee, SIGCSE Australasian Chapter AGM. Is this the last ACE? All welcome.
16:00 – 16:30
16:30 – 17:00

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