Dali is a Professor at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, and Executive Director of The Macquarie University Cyber Security Hub, director of the Data Security and Privacy R&D Program and director of the Cyber Range Training Centre (CRTC) and Cyber Security Curriculum of the Institute of Applied Technology-Digital.
Dali's primary research interests are Data Security and Privacy, with a focus on Privacy-Preserving (or Enhancing) technologies and Information Security for Web and Mobile applications, private date sharing and Trustworthy Secure and Private Machine learning techniques.
Prior to joining Macquarie University, he was group leader (and founder) of the Information Security and Privacy group at CSIRO Data61, a principal researcher at National ICT Australia (NICTA) and a permanent researcher at the Privatics team at INRIA in France.