John Zic
Principal Research Scientist
Contact
ICT Centre
Cnr Vimiera and Pembroke Rds
Marsfield NSW 2122
Tel: +61 2 9372 4122
Fax: +61 2 9372 4585
Projects
- Trusted Collaborative Services
Science Area
- Security and Privacy
Biography
John Zic is a Research Team and Science Leader for Trusted Systems in the CSIRO ICT Centre. He holds a Visiting Associate Professor position in the Schools of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW. Prior to this position, he was Acting Research Director for the laboratory for two years. He has also held research positions at Motorola's Australian Research Centre from 1999 to 2003, has taught networking, advanced networking, and concurrent computing at undergraduate and postgraduate levels from 1982 to 1999 as lecturer in charge and tutor.
He has been involved in networking research, from ALOHA experiment days, through to the development of the first diffuse infrared wireless LAN and onto IPv6 and home networking research.
His research interest is in the application of design and modelling techniques to protocol verification, validation and analysis.
Academic Qualifications
| 1991 | PhD University of Sydney, Real-time process algebra |
| 1979 | BE University of Sydney, Communications |
Recent Professional Experience
| Current: | Research Team and Science Leader, Trusted Systems |
| 2006-2008: | Acting Research Director, Network Technologies Laboratory, ICT Centre, CSIRO and Visiting Associate Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW |
| 2004-2006: | Project Leader, Virtualisation Project, Networking Technologies Laboratory, ICT Centre, CSIRO |
| 2003-2004 | Project Leader, User Centred Identity Management Project, Smart Internet CRC |
| 1999-2003 | Principal Research Engineer, Motorola Australia Research Centre |
| 1992-2000 | Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW |
Other Highlights
| 2003 | Motorola Australia Research Centre -- Initiated and managed a project on home network based content sharing system, transferred two prototype systems and documentation to Cable Modem Product Group. |
| 2000-2001 | Bid team member, Motorola Australia Research Centre, for Smart Internet CRC (successful). |
| 1984 | Developed world's first diffuse wireless infrared networking system (hardware system and protocol) |
| 1982 | Project team member, "Adaptive Bit Majority Protocol Chip", First Australian Multiproject Chip |
| 1980-1982 | Project team member, PACNET project, University of Sydney (The PACNET project is cited in "Development of the ALOHANET", Abramson, N.; IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Volume 31, Issue 2, Mar 1985 Page(s):119 - 123) |
Student Supervision
| 2009 | Hailun Tan, PhD, School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW (with Sanjay Jha) |
| 2005 | Y.J. Lee, PhD, School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW |
| 1998-1999 | Two Master of Engineering theses, School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW |
| 1994-1999 | Approximately 26 4th year projects, School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW |
Top 10 Publications
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| Zic, John J. "Time-constrained buffer specifications in CSP + T and timed CSP", ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS), vol 16, number 6, pages 1661-1674, November 1994 |
| Singh, S., Zic, J., Satchell, C., Bartolo, K.C., Snare, J. and Fabre, J., A Reflection on Translation Issues in User-Centred Design. in 7th International Conference on Work with Computing Systems, WWCS 2004, (Kuala Lumpur, 2004) |
| Lee, J. and J. Zic, On modeling real-time mobile processes, in: Proceedings 25th Australasian Conference on Computer Science (2002), pp. 139–147 |
| Chen, S., Yan, B., Zic, J., Liu, R., and Ng, A. 2006. Evaluation and Modeling of Web Services Performance. In Proceedings of the IEEE international Conference on Web Services (Icws'06) - Volume 00 (September 18 - 22, 2006). ICWS. IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, 437-444. DOI= http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICWS.2006.59 |
| Dean Kuo , Alan Fekete , Paul Greenfield , Surya Nepal , John Zic , Savas Parastatidis , Jim Webber, Expressing and Reasoning about Service Contracts in Service-Oriented Computing, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services, p.915-918, September 18-22, 2006 [doi>10.1109/ICWS.2006.62] |
| C.J. Fidge, J.J. Zic, A simple, expressive real-time CCS, in: Proc. 2nd Australasian Conf. on Parallel & Real-Time Systems, 1995, pp.365–372 |
| S. Chen, J. Zic, K. Tang, and D. Levy. Performance evaluation and modeling of Web services security. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS’07), pages 431–438, 2007 |
| Tang, K., Chen, S., Levy, D., Zic, J., & Yan, B. (2006). A performance evaluation of Web service security. In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC’06) |
| Zic, J. "Extensions to communicating sequential processes to allow protocol performance specification", ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 17, Issue 5, p. 217-227, Oct./Nov. 1987 |
| Parkin, I.A. and Zic, J., "An application of diffuse infra-red communication", J. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Aust., vol 4 no 4, p. 331-336, December 1984 |