Research Interests
- Applied cryptography
- Data security and privacy
- Mobile, wireless and sensor network security
- Trusted computing and system security
Publications
Honors and Awards
- KRDL Achievement Award, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore, June 1998
- KRDL Excellence Award, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore, March 1999
- University Outstanding Researcher, National University of Singapore, 1999
- Lee Kuan Yew Fellow for Research Excellence, Singapore Management University, 2006
- Asia-Pacific Information Security Leadership Achievements (ISLA) Community Service Star and Showcased Senior Information Security Professional, International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium ((ISC)2), 2010
- Distinguished Paper Award, the 19th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2012), USA, 2012
- Best Paper Award, the 13th Joint IFIP TC6 & TC11 Conference on Communications and Multimedia Security (CMS 2012), UK, 2012
- Huawei Dstinguished Collaboration Project Award, Huawei Shield Lab, Singapore, 2016
- 2017 Best Journal Paper Award, IEEE Communications Society, Big Data Technical Committee, 2017
- National Day Awards, Public Administration Medal (Silver), awarded by Singapore Government, for merit and service to Singapore's education, 2020
- Best Paper Award, the 25th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2020), UK, 2020
- Best Paper Award, the 26th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2020), HK, 2020
- Best Paper Award, the 5th IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE DSC 2022), Edinburgh, UK, 22-24 June 2022
- Outstanding Paper Award, the 21st IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom 2022), 9-11 December 2022
Recent Professional Activities
- Editorial Board, ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, 2020-2022
- Associate Editor, IEEE Security & Privacy Maganize, 2016-2020
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2012-2016
- Guest Editor, Special Issue on Security and Privacy of Electronic Health Information Systems, International Journal of Information Security, Vol. 14, No. 6, November 2015
- Editorial Board, International Journal of Information Security, Springer, 2013-2015
- Guest Editor, Special Issues on Trust in Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, Computer & Security, Vol. 47, November, 2014
- Guest Editor, Special Issue on Cryptography in Cloud Computing, Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 30, January 2014
- Editorial Board Member, Special Issue on Security and Privacy in Complex Systems, IEEE Systems Journal, Vol. 7, No. 3, September 2013
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2009-2012
- Associate Editor, Security and Communication Networks, Wiley, 2007-2013
- Information Security Area Editor, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Science Press, China and Springer, 2006-now
- Chair of Steering Committee, ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), 2013-2017
Recent Invited Talks and Keynotes
- Keynote, " Post-quantum cryptography - research and migiration ", the 2nd International Conference
on Data Security and Privacy Protection (DSPP), 25-28 October 2024, Xi’an, China
- Keynote, " Toward practical client-side encryption in cloud computing ", the 19th ACM ASIA Conference
on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), 1-5 July 2024, Singapore
- Keynote, "TEE-assisted crypto systems – towards designing practical data security solutions ", the 25th
International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS 2023), 18-20 November 2023, Tianjin, China
- Keynote, "Hardware-assisted data security & privacy solutions ", the 19th EAI International Conference
on Security and Privacy in Communications Networks (SecureComm 2023), 19-20 October 2023, Hong Kong
- Keynote, "Privacy-preserving deep packet inspection on TLS traffic ",
the 14th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2020), November 2020, Melbourne, Australia
- Keynote, "Towards leakage resilient user authentication ",
the 22nd International Conference on Information and Communications Security (Inscrypt 2019), December 2019, Beijng, China
- Keynote, "When seeing is not believing defeating spoofing attacks in face authentication in mobile platforms ",
the 15th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (Inscrypt 2019), December 2019, Nanjing, China
- Keynote, "Long road towards secure and usable password authentication ",
the IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (DSC 2019), November 2019, Hangzhou. China
- Keynote, "Protecting data security and privacy in untrusted servers ",
the 14th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (Inscrypt 2018), December 14-17, 2018, Fuzhou, China
- Keynote, "New cryptographic techniques for data security and privacy protection in the cloud ",
Huawei Connect 2018, October 10-12, 2018, Shanghai, China
- Keynote, "A user centric and layered approach to mobile security ",
14th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience (ISPEC 2018), September 25-27, 2018, Tokyo, Japan
- Invited Talk, "Cyber risks - current landscape and emerging trends ",
GIA Cyber Risk Forum, September 13, 2018, Singapore
- Invited talk, " End-to-end secure mobile computing in the Internet of Things ",
23rd European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2018), September 3-7, 2018, Barcelona, Spain
- Keynote, " A user centric approach to secure mobile systems and applications ",
14th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm 2018), August 8-10, 2018, Singapore
- Keynote, "Strenghening the weakest links in IoT security ",
23rd Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP 2018), July 11-13, 2018, Wollongong, Australia
- Invited Talk, "A layered approach to secure mobile computing ",
Cyber Week 2017 – Academic Track, 25-29 June 2017, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Keynote, "Achieving end-to-end security in mobile computing ",
21st ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT 2016), 6th-8th June, 2016, Shanghai
- Keynote, "Flexible and scalable search and sharing of encrypted data in the cloud",
7th International Conference on Trusted Systems (Intrust 2015), 7th-8th December, 2015, Beijing
- Keynote, "Efficient and privacy-preserved sharing of encrypted data in the cloud",
14th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE Trustcom 2015),
20-22 August, 2015. Helsinki, Finland
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