[3] Willy Susilo is a fellow of IEEE (Computer Society), IET, ACS, and AAIA.

He is the director of Institute of Cybersecurity and Cryptology, School of Computing and Information Technology, University of Wollongong.

Prior to this role, he was awarded the prestigious Australian Research Council Future Fellowship[4] in 2009.

He was the former Head of School of Computer Science and Software Engineering (2009 - 2010) and the Deputy Director of ICT Research Institute at UOW (2006 - 2008).

His primary research focus is to design solutions and cryptographic algorithms to contribute towards securing the cyberspace.