Dr Surya Nepal is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO, where he has worked since 2000. His research focuses on the development and deployment of cybersecurity technologies. He holds a BE from the National Institute of Technology, Surat (India), an ME from the Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand), and a PhD from RMIT University (Australia). Dr Nepal has authored 400+ publications in top-tier venues and 26,000+ citations and an h-index of 76 as per Google Scholar), and has received multiple CSIRO publication and invention awards.

He currently leads the Cybersecurity research at CSIRO with research spanning critical technology security (including AI and quantum systems) and critical infrastructure protection. He is a co-inventor of 8 patents, has edited three books, and actively serves as a program chair and committee member for major international conferences. He has delivered keynotes, invited talks, and tutorials globally. He has served as Interim Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Service Computing and as an editorial board member of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. He is currently an Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Internet Technology and a steering committee member of ACM AsiaCCS.
Dr Nepal has held several leadership roles within CSIRO, nationally and internationally.

Within CSIRO, he has served as Project Leader, Team Leader, Group Leader, Program Director, Mission Leader, and Deputy Director over more than 25 years. Nationally, he served as Theme Leader and Deputy Research Director of the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre (CRC). He currently serves as Theme Leader for the Responsible AI Research Centre (RAIR), a joint initiative of CSIRO and UoA, and holds positions as Adjunct Professor at UNSW and Honorary Professor at Macquarie University. Internationally, he has been invited to serve on several IEEE and ACM award committees. He is a Fellow of IEEE.