James Kang

Associate Professor James Kang

Senior Lecturer, Computer Science

Details

  • College: School of Science, Engineering & Technology
  • Department: School of Science,Engineering & Tech
  • Campus: Saigon South Campus Vietnam
  • james.kang@rmit.edu.vn

About

Dr James Jin Kang is a researcher in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, cloud security, and digital health, with expertise spanning the Internet of Things (IoT), privacy-preserving AI, and data analytics. His research focuses on developing secure, trustworthy, and intelligent systems that address emerging challenges in connected devices, cloud computing, healthcare, and critical digital infrastructure.

His research has contributed to AI-driven cyber threat detection, malware and botnet detection in IoT networks, secure communication protocols for mobile health (mHealth) and wireless body area networks, privacy-preserving machine learning, cloud security, digital watermarking for medical imaging, and physiological signal analytics for healthcare applications. He is particularly interested in the intersection of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, developing explainable, secure, and privacy-aware solutions for next-generation intelligent systems.

Dr Kang has published extensively in leading international journals and conferences, with his research receiving strong international recognition through citation impact and global research rankings. He has been recognised among the world’s top 2% of scientists in Computer Science based on the Stanford University–Elsevier citation impact rankings. His research has attracted international collaborations with academic and industry partners, contributing to the development of secure and resilient digital technologies.

His current research interests include AI security, trustworthy and sovereign AI, privacy-enhancing technologies, digital health, cloud and edge security, and resilient cyber-physical systems.

Academic positions

  • Associate Professor
  • National Taiwan University
  • Taipei, Taiwan
  • 31 Jul 2022 – 31 Aug 2023
  • Lecturer
  • Edith Cowan University
  • Perth, Australia
  • 20 Jul 2019 – 31 Dec 2021

Non-academic positions

  • Solutions Designer
  • Nokia (Australia)
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • 31 Jan 2007 – 31 Jul 2012

Supervisor projects

  • Modeling AI-ML Agents as Dynamical Systems to Mitigate Security Risks
  • 23 Jul 2026
  • Revolutionizing Healthcare with AI-Driven Personalized Life Expectancy Predictions and Wearable Technologies
  • 21 Apr 2026
  • Digital Watermarking Scheme for Tampering Detection and Recovery in Medical Imaging
  • 23 Mar 2026

Teaching interests

Computing and Security

Research interests

  • Medical Informatics: Leveraging AI in healthcare for enhanced data management and decision support systems.
  • Sensory Networks and IoTSensors: Integrating AI algorithms for smarter data processing and decision-making in sensor networks and IoT applications.
  • Inference Algorithms Development: Advancing AI-driven inference algorithms for accurate data analysis and predictive modeling.Cybersecurity
  • Encryption and Authentication: Enhancing cybersecurity measures with AI-powered encryption and authentication technologies to safeguard systems and data.