Dr. Mahrokh Abdollahi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Telecom Resilience Centre (NTRC), University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Data Engineering from UTS in 2016 and 2022, respectively. During her doctoral studies, she was awarded a UTS Doctoral Scholarship, the 2019 FEIT Female HDR Top-Up Scholarship, and the Vice-Chancellor’s Postgraduate Research Student Conference Fund. From 2006 to 2014, she worked as a Computer Engineer on a range of networking projects. Prior to joining NTRC, she worked at CSIRO’s Data61, where she contributed to research in O-RAN and privacy-enhancing technologies. At NTRC, she leads and contributes to research in telecommunications resilience, emergency communications, O-RAN, machine learning and AI for communication systems, software-defined networking, privacy, and cybersecurity.