Biography

Pritheega Magalingam received her B.Sc. (Computer) Degree in 2006 and completed her M.Sc. (Information Security) Degree in 2009 from University Technology Malaysia. Her MSc. thesis comprises Digital Evidence Retrieval and Forensic Analysis Guideline for an Illegal Gambling Machine. She has completed her PhD at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia in July 2015 and was supervised by Prof. Dr. Asha Rao. Her research focuses on complex network analysis to build a new approach to detecting a criminal community. She has 8 years of experience in building new tools using R for network science applications. She is now a senior lecturer at Razak Faculty of Technology and Informatics, UTM Kuala Lumpur and her area of expertise is Digital Forensics Analysis and Validation, Information Security Risk Management and Applications of Complex Network Analysis.