Associate Professor Helen Paik
Helen Paik is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW Sydney and Research Director of the UNSW–UTS Trustworthy Digital Society initiative.
Her research addresses the design and deployment of dependable distributed systems. Her work spans software engineering fundamentals—including distributed architectures, data management, and cyber-physical systems—and their application to digital identity, privacy, security, and trustworthy AI.
Recent projects examine how decentralised technologies such as blockchain, distributed ledgers, and privacy-preserving computation can enable reliable digital services at scale.
She has published over 130 peer-reviewed papers and led industry-embedded research through Cooperative Research Centres and national programs, partnering with organisations in finance, government, infrastructure, cybersecurity, startups, and digital services. These collaborations have produced deployed prototypes, provided inputs to policy discussions, and contributed to emerging technical standards.
At UNSW, she teaches data management and web applications, and supervises doctoral and master's students working on distributed trust systems and applied AI. She serves the research community through editorial boards, technical committee leadership, and program chair roles at international conferences.
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PhD Tran,Frank Kanhere, S (Joint Primary), Joshi, AM (Secondary) Extractive Question-Answering for Legal Documents: Enabling Structured Data Extraction and Linking PhD Hu,Zhibo Paik, H (Primary) (with Dr. Chen Wang, Dr. Yanfeng Shu and Dr. Liming Zhu from Data61/CSIRO) Towards building an AI-enabled, explainable, and configurable scheduler PhD Lou,Haowei Paik, H (Primary), Hu, W (Secondary), Yao, L (Secondary) Generative Artificial Intelligence PhD Shen,Yifan Sui, Y (Joint Primary), Paik, H (Joint) Responsible AI through Software Analysis and Verification PhD Beruwawela Pathiranage,Thirasara Kanhere, S (Joint Primary), Paik, H (Joint), Lu, Q (Secondary) Secure Multi-Mode Privacy-Preserving Platform for IoT Data PhD Yang,Yilin Paik, H (Joint Primary), Sui, Y (Joint) IoT Software Vulnerability Detection Techniques through Machine Learning Masters (Research) Krul,Evan Paik, H (Joint Primary), Ruj, S (Joint), Kanhere, S (Secondary) Trust and Privacy in Self Sovereign Identity: 'Preservation of User Identity Privacy' and 'Data Sharing Trust of Identity Issuers and Verifiers' PhD Chaisawat,Siriboon Paik, H (Joint Primary), Kanhere, S (Joint) Preserving Witness Privacy and Ensuring Credibility of Evidence in Digital Forensics for Connected Autonomous Vehicles Accident