ProfessorKatina Michael

Katina has received over $8.5 million (AU) in grant funding. The vast majority of this funding was received within small transdisciplinary teams at Arizona State University. She was a Co-PI on the Smart Cities and User-Centred Design grant in 2018, and a teaching collaborator on the Medical Devices Human-Centred Mindset grant in 2022- two large scale $3M (USD) National Science Foundation Research Traineeships, respectively. Together with collaborators all over the world, she has been successful in receiving competitive funding from the USA, Canada, England, Australia and the UAE. She puts this down to her research versatility as a transdisciplinary scholar. Funding is increasingly hard to come by, but research outcomes and impact can continue years after a grant's funding cycle has ended.

 

Funded Research Projects

Z.R. Khan et al. Using AI Simulation for Building Trust (Yatiku) in AI and AI Literacy
2025-03 to 2028-03 | National Competive Grant

Katina's Role: International Co-PI
Dubai Research Development and Innovation (Dubai, United Arab Emirates, AE)
Homepage URL: https://dubairdi.ae/grant-initiatives-using-ai-simulation-for-building-trust-yatiku-in-ai-and-ai-literacy/

 

H. Love et al. Anti-Racism and Social Justice through Technology Ethics: IEEE ETHICS-2025

Katina's Role: Collaborator
2025-06 to 2025-06 | National Competive Grant
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Ottawa, Ontario, CA)
Homepage URL: https://sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/competition-results/award-recipients/2024/connection-grants-nov.aspx

G. Withers et al., Joint Impact Assessment of Critical Emerging Technologies in Support of Peace and Stability
2024-11 to 2025-11 | National Competive Grant

Katina's role: Partner Investigator Lead

Australia-India Cyber and Critical Technology Partnership Grant Scheme Round 4

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, AU)
Homepage URL: https://www.socialcyber.co/social-cyber-institute/aus-india-tia-publications-videos

 

K. Michael, et al., AI and Swarm Systems: Disruptive Impact on Intelligence and Global Security

2024-06 to 2025-07 | Trilateral Grant

Katina's Role: Primary Co-Lead
Security+Defence - PLuSAlliance (Agreement between ASU, KCL and UNSW)
Homepage URL: https://securityanddefenceplus.plusalliance.org/2024-seed-grant-scheme-video-showcase/

K. Vogel, Shaping Society's Experience of Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence

2022-10 to 2023-02 | National Competive Grant

Katina's Role: Co-PI

The Alan Turing Institute (London, England, GB)
Homepage URL: https://www.turing.ac.uk/
Grant Number: G060 / R-DST-CSW

M. O'Gorman et al., Critical by Design: Fostering Responsible Innovation with Critical Design Methods
2022-09 to 2027-09 | National Competive Grant

Katina's Role: Faculty Researcher
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Ottawa, Ontario, CA)
Homepage URL: https://criticalbydesign.ca/our-team/

Grant Number: 435-2022-0296

 

K. Michael, et al., Co-design: An Exploration

2022-02 to 2023-02 | Trilateral Grant

Katina's Role: Chief Investigator
PLuSAlliance (Agreement between ASU, KCL and UNSW)
Homepage URL: https://plusalliance.org/

L. Ladani et al., Design and Manufacturing of Medical Devices and Implants: Cultivating a Human-Centered Mindset
2022-01 to 2027-06 | National Competive Grant

Katina's Role: Program Team Member - Teaching / Collaborator

Partner Organisation: Mayo Clinic

National Science Foundation (Alexandria, Virginia, US)
Homepage URL: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2152254&HistoricalAwards=false
Grant Number: 2152254

T. McDaniel et al., NRT: Citizen-Centered Smart Cities and Smart Living
2018-09-01 to 2024-08-31 | National Competive Grant

Katina's Role: Co-PI

National Science Foundation: Directorate for STEM Education (Alexandria, US)
Homepage URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.7734693
Grant Number: 1828010

 

S. Srivastava et al., Safe Skill-Aligned On-The-Job Training with Autonomous Systems
2019-09 to 2021-05 | National Competive Grant

Katina's Role: Co-PI
National Science Foundation: C-Accel Pilot- Track B2 (National Talent Ecosystem) (Alexandria, Virginia, US)
Homepage URL: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1936997&HistoricalAwards=false
Grant Number: 1936997

T. Miller et al., Autonomous Vehicles for Mobility Access: How Self-Driving Cars Can Reduce Transportation Expenses for Middle-Class Arizonans
2018-08 to 2019-01 | Grant

Katina's Role: Co-PI
Schmidt Futures (NY, US)
Homepage URL: https://news.asu.edu/20181227-asu%E2%80%99s-schmidt-futures-finalists-take-ideas-helping-middle-class-national-competition

 

H. Tootell et al., Total Curriculum Management

2008-08 to 2009-08 | Grant

Katina's Role: Co-PI

University of Wollongong Internal Grant: ESDF Educational Strategies Development Fund (Wollongong, AU)

K. Michael, Toward the Regulation of the Location-Based Services Industry: Influencing Australian Government Telecommunications Policy
2008-01 to 2012-12 | National Competive Grant

Katina's Role: Sole Chief Investigator
Australian Research Council (Canberra, AU)
Homepage URL: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0oSenaUAAAAJ&hl=en
Grant Number: DP0881191

 

K. Michael et al., Security in the Workplace

2008-02 to 2008-11 | Grant

Katina's Role: Co-Lead

Internal UOW Small Grant

 

Bronitt, S. et al., Policing and Security

2007-01 to 2015-12 | National Competitive Grant

Katina's Role: External Collaborator / Outreach

Australian Research Council - Centre of Excellence

https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/SR0700002

Grant Number: LP1701000985

 

K. Michael, SISAT Total Curriculum Management - A Lifecycle Approach

2007-06 to 2007-12 | Grant

Katina's Role: Sole Chief Investigator

Internal UOW Grant: Faculty Teaching & Learning Scholar Grant

 

K. Michael et al., Radio-frequency Identification Technology

2007-03 to 2007-12 | Grant

Katina's Role: Co-Lead

Internal UOW Grant: Research Infrastructure Block Grant (RIBG)

 

K. Michael et al., IP Location Services

2006-03 to 2007-11 | Grant

Katina's Role: Chief Investigator

Andrew Corporation (Wollongong, Australia)

External Company Grant

 

P. Mendis, Research Network for a Secure Australia 

2005-02 to 2012-12 | National Competive Grant

Katina's Role: Industry Outreach and Young Investigator's Grants

Australian Research Council - Centre of Excellence

https://rnsa.au/

Grant Number: RN0459557

 

K. Michael, Spatial Database National Australia

2003-02 to 2003-11 | Grant

Katina's Role: Sole Chief Investigator

UOW Internal Grant (Wollongong, AU)

 

 

Supervision

Katina has completed supervision of about 60 honours, masters by research, PhD candidates since 2003. Since 2002 she also supervised 11 Capstone computer science projects, and examined about 25 PhDs and Masters by Research theses internationaly, inclusive of attending several virtual and in person vivas.

 

Her supervision has been mainly in the following areas:

• Digital strategy, public interest technology and innovation
• Human-centric / human factors and social implications
• RFID and automatic identification technologies
• Technology adoption and management
• Location / location-based services
• Privacy, security, cybersecurity
• Socio-technical systems
• Infrastructure, data, and smart communities
• Indigenous knowledge and communities

 

Below are a list of higher degree research topics that Katina has chaired, co-chaired, or a satellite supervisor:

1. "The operationalisation of responsible innovation within global organisations."
2. "A critical analysis of socio-technical systems theory in the public interest: Universalization of general-purpose technologies in urban communities."
3. "Cybersecurity for all: Towards a cyber harm framework for citizens."
4. "Centering indigenous knowledge sovereignty for community memory keeping: An exploration of digital storytelling and countermapping."
5. "Unraveling sociotechnical imaginaries and data power: Assemblages, and narratives of a smart campus through an ‘IoT’ pole case study."
6. "Electric skateboards as a solution to the last mile of personal transportation."
7. "Exploring the role of information and communications technology in facilitating inclusive development in indigenous communities in Guyana."
8. "Complex adaptive systems for hacker and cybersecurity communities."
9. "Measuring knowledge combination in AI inventions and its impact."
10. "The development of a sustainable framework for an industry driven career-focused ICT curriculum in producing sought after ICT graduates."
11. "'Bottomline of law' meets 'higher moral aspiration': A qualitative analysis of state and citizen interpretations and engagements with China's social credit system project."
12. "Can I consider you my friend?" Moving beyond one-sided conversation in social robotics."
13. "A proactive systematic approach to enhance and preserve users tech applications: Data privacy awareness and control in smart cities."
14. "Constructing a visualization dashboard to improve educational standards in Arizona legislative districts."
15. "Cloud computing data breaches: socio-technical implications."
16. "Proximity surveillance: pets and privacy."
17. "Advancing methods to monitor and assess personal ultraviolet radiation exposure during physical activity."
18. "‘Disability means, uh, dysfunctioning people’: A qualitative analysis of the meaning and experience of disability among adults with intellectual disabilities."
19. "The socioethical implications of body worn computers: An ethnographic study."
20. "Attitudes towards smart homes and IOT."
21. "Body-modifying technologies and the individual's right of moral autonomy."
22. "Graph-based network analysis for improving the management of hydrological infrastructure in coastal megacities."
23. "Urban flood modelling using geo-social intelligence."
24. "Identifying and reducing technological contributions to end-user vulnerability."
25. "Do smart phones bring us closer? A family life and family vacation perspective."
26. "A privacy framework for secondary use of medical data."
27. "Location-based services (LBS) regulation in Australia: a socio-technical approach."
28. "Location-based mobile phone service utilisation for emergency management in Australia."
29. "Exploring trust issues in mobile location-based service applications."
30. "Legal ramifications of human microchipping in the United States of America."
31. "RFID adoption in the retail industry: balancing consumer value, privacy and control."
32. "Improving inventory control in a small-to-medium retailer using radio frequency identification (RFID)."
33. "ePassport security under the microscope."
34. "Active RFID application in Sydney’s e-tollways."
35. "Usability perceptions, attitudes and expectations of in-car navigation systems."
36. "The social implications of humancentric chip implants."
37. "Future development trends of optical transport network infrastructure."
38. "Location based services and the price of security."
39. "Minimizing product shrinkage in the supply chain through the use of radio-frequency identification."
40. "The threat of public data availability to critical infrastructure protection."
41. "The importance of utilizing electronic identification for total farm management: a case study of dairy farms on the south coast of NSW."
42. "Ethical issues arising from the real-time tracking and monitoring of people using GPS-based location services."
43. "An investigation into GIS management strategies: a case study on one of Australia's largest telecommunications carriers."
44. "RFID privacy and security: a content analysis."
45. "Humancentric applications of precise location-based services."
46. "WI-FI drivers and inhibitors: the Australian context."
47. "E-business solutions: complete versus segmented."
48. "The integration of positioning technologies for precise location identification."
49. "Digital distribution music services and the demise of the traditional music industry: three case studies on mp3.com, Napster and Kazaa."
50. "The advantages and disadvantages of barcodes and radio frequency identification in supply chain management."
51. "Humancentric applications of RFID: the current state of development."
52. "The digital aid framework: A conceptual, end-to-end technology integration platform for humanitarian (refugee) relief operations."
53. Mobile adoption and diffusion in the China market: 1998-2003."
54. "The structure of e-malls and their significance to business online."
55. "The motivation behind adoption of information technology in Australian small business: two case studies."

 

Below are a list of computer science capstone and honours/masters projects where Katina has acted as primary supervisor in the final year:

1. “Active RFID Application in Sydney’s E-Tollways”
2. “AVIAN Flu Tracker: Containing Pandemics through the Application of Location‐Based Services"
3. “The Smart Supermarket System”
4. “Enterprise Location Assertion Database”
5. “Mobile Location Centre Phone Tracker”
6. “Conference Organiser”
7. “Mobile Location Centre Central Request Manager”
8. “Universal Entity Location System”
9. “Thesaurus Linguae Graeca Search Program”
10. “MapInfo: Geo‐Statistical Target Marketing”
11. “GeoLocator”