• Find an Expert
  • Contact
  • SearchSearch icon
  • Menu
  • Help
  • Report an issue

Contact


Email

cohneys@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security
School of Computing and Information Systems
Education
Masters
University of Pennsylvania
PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Graduate Certificate
University of Melbourne
Bachelors Degree
University of Melbourne
ORCID

0000-0002-0890-6590

Dr Shaanan Cohney

Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security
School of Computing and Information Systems

44 Scholarly works
5 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Conference Proceedings

    SoK: Trusted Setups for Powers-of-Tau Strings
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-07024-1_12
  • 2026

    Report

    Measuring the Impact of Google AI Overviews and WebGuide on User Search Behavior
  • 2026

    Report

    Brief of Technologists as Amici Curiae in Support of Neither Party in Chatrie v. United States
  • 2026

    Media

    What the Moltbook experiment is teaching us about AI
  • 2026

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Safe & Sound: Privacy-Enhancing Technologies to Protect Young People Online
  • 2025

    Research contracts (non-grants)

    Fuzzing-Enhanced Protocol Reverse Engineering
  • 2022

    Internal Research Grant

    Enabling Internet‐Scale Measurement of Digital Platform Competition
Shaanan Cohney

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2024
Teacher of the Year Faculty of Engineering and IT
2024
Excellence in Mid-Career Research Award Faculty of Engineering and IT
2024
Best Paper IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering
2023
Kelvin Medal for Teaching Excellence University of Melbourne

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    Trailblazer: Practical End-to-end Web API Fuzzing (Registered Report)
    DOI: 10.1145/3713081.3731717
  • 2025

    Media

    OpenAI says DeepSeek 'inappropriately' copied ChatGPT - but it's facing copyright claims too
    DOI: 10.64628/AA.pc3r5tgqg
  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    'It's been Lovely Watching you': Institutional Decision-Making on Online Proctoring Software
    DOI: 10.1109/SP61157.2025.00018
  • 2025

    Report

    Submission to the Education and Workforce Committee: Inquiry into the harm young New Zealanders encounter online, and the roles that Government, business, and society should play in addressing those harms
  • 2024

    Journal article

    NOTRY: Deniable messaging with retroactive avowal.
    DOI: 10.56553/popets-2024-0056
  • 2024

    Conference Proceedings

    Detecting Excessive Data Exposures in Web Server Responses with Metamorphic Fuzzing

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2025

    Research contracts (non-grants)

    Enhancing Fuzz Testing for the Matter SDK With Aflnet
  • 2021

    Research Grant

    (CRYPTO) - Deploying NFTs for Artists and Arts Organizations/Towards Sustainable Blockchain Education

We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campuses are situated

Read about our commitment to reconciliation  

About us  

Careers at Melbourne  

Safety and respect  

Newsroom  

Contact  

Phone: 13 MELB ( 13 6352)

International: +61 3 9035 5511


Address:
The University of Melbourne
Grattan Street, Parkville,
Victoria, 3010, Australia


View all Campus locations  
facebookIconlinkedinIconinstagramIcontwitterIcon

Emergency information  |  Disclaimer and copyright  |  Accessibility  |  Privacy  |  VaxFACTS

CRICOS number: 00116K     ABN: 84 002 705 224