Monitor, detect, assess, and counter Information Operations in the Near-Abroad

Project Member(s): Rizoiu, M., Calisa, R., Porritt, T., Booth, E.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Department of Defence (Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator ASCA)
Department of Defence (Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator ASCA)

Start year: 2024

Summary: This project will bolster Australia's defences against complex Information Operations (IO) by creating advanced information spread-based tools for detecting IO activities, assessing their effects, and developing effective countermeasures. Targeted geographic regions are critical to Australia’s interests: Melanesia, archipelagic S.E.Asia, the South China Sea region, and Taiwan. The project leverages the expertise of our multidisciplinary team, currently delivering a Defence Innovation Network-sponsored project countering the PRC's IO in Melanesia. Central to our approach is developing software prototypes, compatible with Defence's Resilient Decision Highway (RDH) framework and enhancing Australia's ability to counter emerging IO challenges in key regions.

Publications:

Yuan, L & Rizoiu, M-A 2022, 'Detect Hate Speech in Unseen Domains using Multi-Task Learning: A Case Study of Political Public Figures'.

Ram, R & Rizoiu, M-A, 'Empirically measuring online social influence', EPJ Data Science, vol. 13, no. 1.
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FOR Codes: Modelling and simulation, Graph, social and multimedia data, Machine learning, Cyber and electronic security and warfare

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.