Career Research Funding

2021 Department of Defence, Australian Government 

Mass Influence Organisations

Emily Ebbott, Morgan Saletta, Richard Stearne, Atif Ahmad et al. 

$430,000

2017 - 2021 Academic Centre of Cyber Security Excellence

Chris Leckie (Director),  Atif Ahmad (Deputy Director). 

$950,000

2019 - 2020 Oceania Centre of Cyber Security Excellence

A Research Methodology for Video-Enhanced Storytelling using Digital Artifacts in Cybersecurity Education

Atif Ahmad (Lead), Sean Maynard, Humza Naseer, Prof Rens Scheepers (Deakin)

Industry Partner: Holmes Institute

$100,000

2016 - 2019 Australian Research Council Discovery Project

Enhancing Information Security through Organisational Learning

Atif Ahmad (Lead), Sean Maynard, Richard Baskerville, Mary Crossan, Graeme Shanks (Retired)

$270,000

2018 Oceania Cyber Security - Proof of Concept Project

Executive Learning in Cyber Security: Video-enhanced Storytelling for Online Education

Atif Ahmad (Lead), Rens Scheepers, Sean Maynard

$78,000

2015 Melbourne Networked Society Institute

Active Defense: A Novel Risk Management Approach to Network Infrastructure Protection

Atif Ahmad (Lead), Chris Leckie, Ben Rubinstein, Tansu Alpcan, Andre Gygax

$50,000

2015 Centre for Business Analytics

Enhancing Situation-Awareness using Big Data Analytics

Atif Ahmad, Chris Leckie, Graeme Shanks, Sean Maynard

$20,000

2015 Melbourne School of Government

Social Media Warfare

Christoph Breidbach, Atif Ahmad, Tim Baldwin, David Malet

$23,000

2015 Melbourne Networked Society Institute

Protecting Personal Data: Australian Privacy Principles and the Internet of Things

Rachelle Bosua, Megan Richardson, Sean Maynard

$25,000

2010 University of Melbourne Early Career Researcher Competitive Grant Scheme

Organisational Learning and Innovation in Information Security

Atif Ahmad

$21,000

2008 Industry Research Grant

Market and Trend Analysis for Internet Security and Usability

Atif Ahmad, Wally Smith

$50,000

2004 Australian Research Council Linkage APAI Grant

Protecting Knowledge Assets in Organisations

Rens Scheepers, Atif Ahmad, Wally Smith

$72,000

2004-2012 Australian Research Council Networks

Research Network for a Secure Australia

Priyan Mendis (Lead Investigator), Atif Ahmad and others as Investigators

$1.9M

2021 - 2025 Menzies Foundation  

New Legal Thinking for Emerging Technologies

Tim Miller, Jeannie Paterson, Atif Ahmad, Lars Kulik 

$800,000