Jianying Zhou

Professor of Cyber Security, FIEEE
Center Director for iTrust
Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

Email: jianying_zhou@sutd.edu.sg
Home: jianying.space
In:       sg.linkedin.com/in/jianying-zhou-15b811

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Education

• PhD (Information Security) - Royal Holloway, University of London
  
• MSc (Computer Science) - Chinese Academy of Sciences
  
• BSc (Computer Science) - University of Science and Technology of China
  

Areas of Interest

• Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS)
  
• Cyber-Physical System Security (CPSS)
  
• Mobile and Wireless Security
  

iTrust - Centre for Research in Cyber Security

• CPS Testbeds - Offer testbed as a service (TaaS) with remote access
  
• MariOT - Maritime Testbed of Shipboard Operational Technology
  
• Datasets - Generated from industry-grade CPS testbeds
  
• Cyber Exercises - CISS, CIDeX, Locked Shields
  
• NSoE DeST-SCI - National Satellite of Excellence programme for securing critical infrastructure
  
• CiMS - CSA-iTrust Masters Scholarship
  
• iTrust Times - iTrust quarterly newsletter
  

Teaching

• 50.002 [UG] - Computation Structures (2017)
  
• 51.505 [MSSD+MTD+PhD] - Foundations of Cybersecurity (2018-2025)
  
• 51.508 [MSSD+PhD] - Secure Cyber Physical Systems (2018-2026)
  
• 51.702 [MTD] - Security by Design Project (2024-2026)
  

PhD Students [extended list]

• Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed (2015-2019)
  
• Hamid Ghaeini (2015-2019)
  
• John Castellanos (2016-2021)
  
• Flavio Toffalini (2017-2021)
  
• Andrei Bytes (2017-2022)
  
• Bowen Liu (2018-2022)
  
• Teik Guan Tan (2019-2022)
  
• Shijie Luo (2023- )
  
• Geovani Benita (2023- )
  
• Anthony Yeo (2023- )
  
• Tom Yang (2024- )
  
• Xuna Zhan (2024- )
  

Publications [extended list] [citations]

• Jianying Zhou and Dieter Gollmann. "A Fair Non-repudiation Protocol". IEEE S&P 1996, Oakland, USA. [citation] [Non-repudiation Bibliography]
  
• Jianying Zhou and Dieter Gollmann. "Certified Electronic Mail". ESORICS 1996, Rome, Italy. [citation]
  
• Jianying Zhou and Dieter Gollmann. "Observations on Non-repudiation". Asiacrypt 1996, Kyongju, Korea. [citation]
  
• Jianying Zhou and Dieter Gollmann. "An Efficient Non-repudiation Protocol". IEEE CSFW 1997, Rockport, USA. [citation]
  
• Jianying Zhou and Kwok-Yan Lam. "Undeniable Billing in Mobile Communication". ACM MobiCom 1998, Dallas, USA. [citation]
  
• Jianying Zhou and Kwok-Yan Lam. "A Secure Pay-per-view Scheme for Web-based Video Service". PKC 1999, Kamakura, Japan.
  
• Jianying Zhou, Robert Deng, and Feng Bao. "Some Remarks on a Fair Exchange Protocol". PKC 2000, Melbourne, Australia. [citation]
  
• Jianying Zhou. "Non-repudiation in Electronic Commerce". Artech House, 2001. [citation]
  
• Steve Kremer, Olivier Markowitch, and Jianying Zhou. "An Intensive Survey of Fair Non-repudiation Protocols". Computer Communications, November 2002. [citation]
  
• Robert Deng, Jianying Zhou, and Feng Bao. "Defending against Redirect Attacks in Mobile IP". ACM CCS 2002, Washington DC, USA. [citation] [US Patent 7233782]
  
• Zhuowei Li, Amitabha Das, and Jianying Zhou. "Model Generalization and its Implications on Intrusion Detection". ACNS 2005, New York, USA.
  
• Joonsang Baek, Willy Susilo, and Jianying Zhou. "New Constructions of Fuzzy Identity-Based Encryption". ACM AsiaCCS 2007, Singapore. [citation]
  
• Joonsang Baek, Jianying Zhou, and Feng Bao. "Generic Constructions of Stateful Public Key Encryption and Their Applications". ACNS 2008, New York, USA.
  
• Jung-Hoon Ha, Sang-Jae Moon, Jianying Zhou, and Jae-Cheol Ha. "A New Formal Proof Model for RFID Location Privacy". ESORICS 2008, Malaga, Spain. [citation]
  
• Joseph Liu, Joonsang Baek, and Jianying Zhou. "Certificate-Based Sequential Aggregate Signature". ACM WiSec 2009, Zurich, Switzerland. [citation]
  
• Joonsang Baek, Willy Susilo, Joseph Liu, and Jianying Zhou. "A New Variant of the Cramer-Shoup KEM Secure against Chosen Ciphertext Attack". ACNS 2009, Paris, France.
  
• Joseph Liu and Jianying Zhou. "An Efficient Identity-Based Online/Offline Encryption Scheme". ACNS 2009, Paris, France. [citation]
  
• Yanjiang Yang, Jianying Zhou, Jian Weng, and Feng Bao. "A New Approach for Anonymous Password Authentication". ACSAC 2009, Honolulu, USA. [citation]
  
• Cheng-Kang Chu, Joseph Liu, Jianying Zhou, Feng Bao, and Robert Deng. "Practical ID-based Encryption for Wireless Sensor Network". ACM AsiaCCS 2010, Beijing, China. [citation]
  
• Joseph Liu, Joonsang Baek, Jianying Zhou, Yanjiang Yang, and Jun-Wen Wong. "Efficient Online/Offline Identity-Based Signature for Wireless Sensor Network". International Journal of Information Security, August 2010. [citation] [ISO/IEC 29192-4]
  
• Joseph Liu, Man-Ho Au, Willy Susilo, and Jianying Zhou. "Short Generic Transformation to Strongly Unforgeable Signature in the Standard Model". ESORICS 2010, Athens, Greece.
  
• Yanjiang Yang, Jianying Zhou, Jun-Wen Wong, and Feng Bao. "Towards Practical Anonymous Password Authentication". ACSAC 2010, Austin, USA. [ISO/IEC 20009-4]
  
• Joonsang Baek, Cheng-Kang Chu, and Jianying Zhou. "On Shortening Ciphertexts: New Constructions for Compact Public Key and Stateful Encryption Schemes". CT-RSA 2011, San Francisco, USA.
• Sherman Chow, Joseph Liu, and Jianying Zhou. "Identity-Based Online/Offline Key Encapsulation and Encryption". ACM AsiaCCS 2011, Hong Kong, China. [citation]
  
• Joonsang Baek and Jianying Zhou. "Compact Identity-Based Encryption without Strong Symmetric Cipher". ACM AsiaCCS 2011, Hong Kong, China.
  
• Cheng-Kang Chu, Wentao Zhu, Sherman Chow, Jianying Zhou, and Robert Deng. "Secure Mobile Subscription of Sensor-Encrypted Data". ACM AsiaCCS 2011, Hong Kong, China.
  
• Tze-Hon Yuen, Joseph Liu, Man-Ho Au, Willy Susilo, and Jianying Zhou. "Threshold Ring Signature without Random Oracles". ACM AsiaCCS 2011, Hong Kong, China. [citation]
  
• Cheng-Kang Chu, Joseph Liu, Xinyi Huang, and Jianying Zhou. "Verifier-Local Revocation Group Signatures with Time-Bound Keys". ACM AsiaCCS 2012, Seoul, Korea. [citation]
  
• Joseph Liu, Man-Ho Au, Willy Susilo, and Jianying Zhou. "Enhancing Location Privacy for Electric Vehicles (at the right time)". ESORICS 2012, Pisa, Italy. [citation]
  
• Jin Han, Qiang Yan, Debin Gao, Jianying Zhou, and Robert Deng. "Comparing Mobile Privacy Protection through Cross-Platform Applications". NDSS 2013, San Diego, USA. [citation] [A*STAR Research]
  
• Qiang Yan, Jin Han, Yingjiu Li, Jianying Zhou, and Robert Deng. "Designing Leakage-Resilient Password Entry on Touchscreen Mobile Devices". ACM AsiaCCS 2013, Hangzhou, China. [citation]
  
• Jia Xu, Ee-Chien Chang, and Jianying Zhou. "Weak Leakage-Resilient Client-side Deduplication of Encrypted Data in Cloud Storage". ACM AsiaCCS 2013, Hangzhou, China. [citation]
  
• Cheng-Kang Chu, Joseph Liu, Jun-Wen Wong, Yunlei Zhao, and Jianying Zhou. "Privacy-Preserving Smart Metering with Regional Statistics and Personal Enquiry Services". ACM AsiaCCS 2013, Hangzhou, China. [citation]
  
• Yi-Ruei Chen, Cheng-Kang Chu, Wen-Guey Tzeng, and Jianying Zhou. "CloudHKA: A Cryptographic Approach for Hierarchical Access Control in Cloud Computing". ACNS 2013, Banff, Canada. [citation]
  
• Jin Han, Su-Mon Kywe, Qiang Yan, Feng Bao, Robert Deng, Debin Gao, Yingjiu Li, and Jianying Zhou. "Launching Generic Attacks on iOS with Approved Third-Party Applications". ACNS 2013, Banff, Canada. [citation] [demo] [A*STAR Research] [Straits Times] [Communications of the ACM] [Computer World] [Science Daily]
  
• Rodrigo Roman, Jianying Zhou, and Javier Lopez. "On the Features and Challenges of Security & Privacy in Distributed Internet of Things". Computer Networks, July 2013. [citation]
  
• Cheng-Kang Chu, Sherman Chow, Wen-Guey Tzeng, Jianying Zhou, and Robert Deng. "Key-Aggregate Cryptosystem for Scalable Data Sharing in Cloud Storage". IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, February 2014. [citation]
  
• Jia Xu and Jianying Zhou. "Leakage Resilient Proofs of Ownership in Cloud Storage, Revisited". ACNS 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland. [citation]
  
• Aldar Chan and Jianying Zhou. "Cyber-Physical Device Authentication for the Smart Grid Electric Vehicle Ecosystem". IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, July 2014. [citation] [A*STAR Research] [Science Daily] [Technology.Org] [Charged EV Magazine]
  
• Jinguang Han, Willy Susilo, Yi Mu, Jianying Zhou, and Man-Ho Au. "PPDCP-ABE: Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Cipher-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption". ESORICS 2014, Wroclaw, Poland. [citation]
  
• Joseph Liu, Man-Ho Au, Xinyi Huang, Willy Susilo, Jianying Zhou, and Yong Yu. "New Insight to Preserve Online Survey Accuracy and Privacy in Big Data Era". ESORICS 2014, Wroclaw, Poland.
  
• Yanjiang Yang, Joseph Liu, Kaitai Liang, Raymond Choo, and Jianying Zhou. "Extended Proxy-Assisted Approach: Achieving Revocable Fine-Grained Encryption of Cloud Data". ESORICS 2015, Vienna, Austria. [citation] [Best Paper Award] [A*STAR Research] [Science Daily]
  
• Yanjiang Yang, Haibing Lu, Joseph Liu, Jian Weng, Youcheng Zhang, and Jianying Zhou. "Credential Wrapping: From Anonymous Password Authentication to Anonymous Biometric Authentication". ACM AsiaCCS 2016, Xian, China.
  
• Weizhi Meng, Wenjuan Li, Duncan Wong, and Jianying Zhou. "TMGuard: A Touch Movement-based Security Mechanism for Screen Unlock Patterns on Smartphones". ACNS 2016, London, UK. [citation]
  
• Aldar Chan, Jun-Wen Wong, Jianying Zhou, and Joseph Teo. "Scalable Two-factor Authentication using Historical Data". ESORICS 2016, Heraklion, Greece. [US Patent 10230532] [A*STAR Research] [Straits Times]
  
• Jia Xu, Anjia Yang, Jianying Zhou, and Duncan Wong. "Lightweight Delegatable Proofs of Storage". ESORICS 2016, Heraklion, Greece.
  
• Weizhi Meng, Wenjuan Li, Wang-Hao Lee, Lijun Jiang, and Jianying Zhou. "A Pilot Study of Multiple Password Interference between Text and Map-based Passwords". ACNS 2017, Kanazawa, Japan.
  
• Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed, Martin Ochoa, Jianying Zhou, Aditya Mathur, Rizwan Qadeer, Carlos Murguia, and Justin Ruths. "NoisePrint: Attack Detection Using Sensor and Process Noise Fingerprint in Cyber Physical Systems". ACM AsiaCCS 2018, Incheon, Korea. [citation]
  
• Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed, Jianying Zhou, and Aditya Mathur. "Noise Matters: Using Sensor and Process Noise Fingerprint to Detect Stealthy Cyber Attacks and Authenticate Sensors in CPS". ACSAC 2018, San Juan, Puerto Rico. [citation]
  
• John Castellanos, Martin Ochoa, and Jianying Zhou. "Finding Dependencies between Cyber-Physical Domains for Security Testing of Industrial Control Systems". ACSAC 2018, San Juan, Puerto Rico. [citation]
  
• John Castellanos and Jianying Zhou. "A Modular Hybrid Learning Approach for Black-Box Security Testing of CPS". ACNS 2019, Bogota, Colombia. [PCT/SG2020/050271]
  
• Flavio Toffalini, Eleonora Losiouk, Andrea Biondo, Jianying Zhou, and Mauro Conti. "ScaRR: Scalable Runtime Remote Attestation for Complex Systems". RAID 2019, Beijing, China. [citation]
  
• Hamid Reza Ghaeini, Matthew Chan, Raad Bahmani, Ferdinand Brasser, Luis Garcia, Jianying Zhou, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Nils Ole Tippenhauer, and Saman Zonouz. "PAtt: Physics-based Attestation of Control Systems". RAID 2019, Beijing, China. [citation]
  
• Chenglu Jin, Zheng Yang, Marten van Dijk, and Jianying Zhou. "Proof of Aliveness". ACSAC 2019, San Juan, Puerto Rico. [PCT/SG2020/050619]
  
• Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed, Jay Prakash, Rizwan Qadeer, Anand Agrawal, and Jianying Zhou. "Process Skew: Fingerprinting the Process for Anomaly Detection in Industrial Control Systems". ACM WiSec 2020, Linz, Austria. [PCT/SG2021/050340]
  
• Zheng Yang, Chenglu Jin, Yangguang Tian, Junyu Lai, and Jianying Zhou. "LiS: Lightweight Signature Schemes for Continuous Message Authentication in Cyber-Physical Systems". ACM AsiaCCS 2020, Taipei, Taiwan. [PCT/SG2021/050594]
  
• Yangguang Tian, Nan Li, Yingjiu Li, Pawel Szalachowski, and Jianying Zhou. "Policy-based Chameleon Hash for Blockchain Rewriting with Black-box Accountability". ACSAC 2020, Austin, USA. [citation]
  
• Daniel Reijsbergen, Pawel Szalachowski, Junming Ke, Zengpeng Li, and Jianying Zhou. "LaKSA: A Probabilistic Proof-of-Stake Protocol". NDSS 2021, San Diego, USA. [citation]
  
• Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed, Martin Ochoa, Jianying Zhou, and Aditya Mathur. "Scanning the Cycle: Timing-based Authentication on PLCs". ACM AsiaCCS 2021, Hong Kong, China. [citation] [PCT/SG2021/050415]
  
• Flavio Toffalini, Mariano Graziano, Mauro Conti, and Jianying Zhou. "SnakeGX: A Sneaky Attack against SGX Enclaves". ACNS 2021, Kamakura, Japan.
  
• Jay Prakash, Clarice Chua, Tanvi Thombre, Andrei Bytes, Mohammed Jubur, Nitesh Saxena, Lucienne Blessing, Jianying Zhou, and Tony Quek. "Countering Concurrent Login Attacks in Just Tap Push-based Authentication: A Redesign and Usability Evaluations". IEEE EuroS&P 2021, Vienna, Austria. [PCT/SG2021/050454]
  
• Daniel Reijsbergen, Zheng Yang, Aung Maw, Tien Tuan Anh Dinh, and Jianying Zhou. "Transparent Electricity Pricing with Privacy". ESORICS 2021, Darmstadt, Germany.
  
• John Castellanos, Martin Ochoa, Alvaro Cardenas, Owen Arden, and Jianying Zhou. "AttkFinder: Discovering Attack Vectors in PLC Programs using Information Flow Analysis". RAID 2021, San Sebastian, Spain.
  
• Zheng Yang, Chenglu Jin, Jianting Ning, Zengpeng Li, Tien Tuan Anh Dinh, and Jianying Zhou. "Group Time-based One-time Passwords and its Application to Efficient Privacy-Preserving Proof of Location". ACSAC 2021, Virtual.
  
• Zheng Yang, Zhiting Bao, Chenglu Jin, Zhe Liu, and Jianying Zhou. "PLCrypto: A Symmetric Cryptographic Library for Programmable Logic Controllers". FSE 2022, Athens, Greece.
  
• Vishal Sharma, Pawel Szalachowski, and Jianying Zhou. "Evaluating Blockchain Protocols with Abusive Modeling". ACM AsiaCCS 2022, Nagasaki, Japan.
  
• Flavio Toffalini, Mathias Payer, Jianying Zhou, and Lorenzo Cavallaro. "Designing a Provenance Analysis for SGX Enclaves". ACSAC 2022, Austin, USA.
  
• Zheng Yang, Chao Yin, Junming Ke, Tien Tuan Anh Dinh, and Jianying Zhou. "If You Can't Beat Them, Pay Them: Bitcoin Protection Racket is Profitable". ACSAC 2022, Austin, USA.
  
• Yaxi Yang, Jian Weng, Yufeng Yi, Changyu Dong, Leo Yu Zhang, and Jianying Zhou. "Predicate Private Set Intersection with Linear Complexity". ACNS 2023, Kyoto, Japan.
  
• John Castellanos, Mohamed Maghenem, Alvaro Cardenas, Ricardo Sanfelice, and Jianying Zhou. "Provable Adversarial Safety in Cyber-Physical Systems". IEEE EuroS&P 2023, Delft, Netherlands.
  
• Daniel Reijsbergen, Aung Maw, Zheng Yang, Tien Tuan Anh Dinh, and Jianying Zhou. "TAP: Transparent and Privacy-Preserving Data Services". USENIX Security 2023, Anaheim, USA.
  
• Andrei Bytes, Prashant Hari Narayan Rajput, Constantine Doumanidis, Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Michail Maniatakos, and Jianying Zhou. "FieldFuzz: In Situ Blackbox Fuzzing of Proprietary Industrial Automation Runtimes via the Network". RAID 2023, Hong Kong, China.
  
• Jie Meng, Zeyu Yang, Zhenyong Zhang, Yangyang Geng, Ruilong Deng, Peng Cheng, Jiming Chen, and Jianying Zhou. "SePanner: Analyzing Semantics of Controller Variables in Industrial Control Systems based on Network Traffic". ACSAC 2023, Austin, USA. [Distinguished Paper Award]
  
• Fuyi Wang, Zekai Chen, Lei Pan, Leo Yu Zhang, and Jianying Zhou. "CryptGraph: An Efficient Privacy-Enhancing Solution for Accurate Shortest Path Retrieval in Cloud Environments". AsiaCCS 2024, Singapore.
  
• Zeyu Yang, Hongyi Pu, Liang He, Chengtao Yao, Jianying Zhou, Peng Cheng, and Jiming Chen. "Deception-Resistant Stochastic Manufacturing for Automated Production Lines". RAID 2024, Padua, Italy.
  
• Fuyi Wang, Zekai Chen, Mingyuan Fan, Jianying Zhou, Lei Pan, and Leo Yu Zhang. "PrivGNN: High-Performance Secure Inference for Cryptographic Graph Neural Networks". FC 2025, Miyakojima, Japan.
  
• Fuyi Wang, Jinzhi Ouyang, Leo Yu Zhang, Lei Pan, Shengshan Hu, Robin Doss, and Jianying Zhou. "SEBioID: Secure and Efficient Biometric Identification with Two-Party Computation". ACNS 2025, Munich, Germany.
  
• Yaxi Yang, Xiaojian Liang, Xiangfu Song, Ye Dong, Linting Huang, Hongyu Ren, Changyu Dong, and Jianying Zhou. "Maliciously Secure Circuit Private Set Intersection via SPDZ-Compatible Oblivious PRF". PETS 2025, Washington DC, USA.
  
• Mingyuan Fan, Fuyi Wang, Cen Chen, and Jianying Zhou. "Boosting Gradient Leakage Attacks: Data Reconstruction in Realistic FL Settings". USENIX Security 2025, Seattle, USA.
  
• Shijie Luo, Matheus Garbelini, Sudipta Chattopadhyay, and Jianying Zhou. "SNI5GECT: A Practical Approach to Inject aNRchy into 5G NR". USENIX Security 2025, Seattle, USA. [Sni5Gect] [tool] [CVD-2024-0096] [Security Week] [The Register] [Hackaday] [The Hacker News] [Kaspersky Daily]
  
• Xuelian Cao, Zheng Yang, Tao Xiang, Jianting Ning, Yuhan Liu, Zhiming Liu, and Jianying Zhou. "Infiltrated Selfish Mining: Think Win-Win to Escape Dilemmas". ACM AsiaCCS 2025, Hanoi, Vietnam. [TechXplore]
  
• Howard Halim, Eyasu Getahun Chekole, Daniel Reijsbergen, and Jianying Zhou. "BlowPrint: Blow-Based Multi-Factor Biometrics for Smartphone User Authentication". ESORICS 2025, Toulouse, France.
  
• Fuyi Wang, Fangyuan Sun, Mingyuan Fan, Jianying Zhou, Jin Ma, Chao Chen, Jiangang Shu, and Leo Yu Zhang. "FLAME: Flexible and Lightweight Biometric Authentication Scheme in Malicious Environments". ACSAC 2025, Honolulu, USA.
• Fangyuan Sun, Yaxi Yang, Jia Yu, and Jianying Zhou. "PACS: Privacy-Preserving Attribute-Driven Community Search over Attributed Graphs". NDSS 2026, San Diego, USA.
  
• Xuelian Cao, Zheng Yang, Daniel Reijsbergen, Jianting Ning, Junming Ke, Zhiqiang Ma, and Jianying Zhou. "HHGS: Forward-secure Dynamic Group Signatures from Symmetric Primitives". CT-RSA 2026, San Francisco, USA.
  
• Ye Dong, Yan Lin Aung, Sudipta Chattopadhyay, and Jianying Zhou. "ChatIoT: Large Language Model-based Security Assistant for Internet of Things with RAG". ACNS 2026, New York, USA.
  
• Geovani Benita, Matheus Garbelini, Sudipta Chattopadhyay, and Jianying Zhou. "ORANClaw: Shredding E2 Nodes in O-RAN via Structure-aware MiTM Fuzzing". ACM WiSec 2026, Saarbrucken, Germany. [ORANClaw] [tool]
  
• Eyasu Getahun Chekole, Howard Halim, Daniel Reijsbergen, and Jianying Zhou. "BlowLive: Blow-Based Multi-Factor Biometrics with Liveness Detection and Revocability". ESORICS 2026, Rome, Italy. [Cybernews]
  

Professional Activities [extended list] [top conferences ranking]

• ACNS - International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security
  • Co-founder & Steering Committee Co-chair (2003- )
    
  • General Chair: ACNS'04, ACNS'12
    
  • Program Chair: ACNS'03, ACNS'06, ACNS'10, ACNS'20
    
  • Workshop Chair: ACNS'19, ACNS'20, ACNS'21, ACNS'22, ACNS'23
    
  • Publicity Chair: ACNS'07, ACNS'08
    
  • PC Member: ACNS'05, ACNS'07, ACNS'08, ACNS'09, ACNS'11, ACNS'13, ACNS'14, ACNS'15, ACNS'16, ACNS'17, ACNS'18, ACNS'19, ACNS'22, ACNS'23, ACNS'24, ACNS'27 (RHUL, UK, June 28 - July 1, 2027) - 1st round submission due Sept 24, 2026
    
• CCS - ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
  • General Chair: CCS'28
    
  • Publicity Chair: CCS'99
    
  • PC Member: CCS'07, CCS'08, CCS'19
    
  • SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee Member (2019)
    
  • SIGSAC CACM Research Highlights Committee Member (2022)
    
  • SIGSAC Award Committee Member (2025)
    
  • SIGSAC Outstanding Early-Career Researcher Award Committee Member (2025)
    
• AsiaCCS - ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security
  • Steering Committee Chair (2017- ): AsiaCCS'27 (Macau, July 12-16, 2027) - 1st round submission due Aug 21, 2026
    
  • Steering Committee Member (2015- )
    
  • General Chair: AsiaCCS'24
    
  • Program Chair: AsiaCCS'15
    
  • PC Member: AsiaCCS'07, AsiaCCS'09, AsiaCCS'10, AsiaCCS'11, AsiaCCS'12, AsiaCCS'14, AsiaCCS 16, AsiaCCS'17, AsiaCCS'18, AsiaCCS'19, AsiaCCS'20, AsiaCCS'21
    
  
• CPSS - ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop
  • Founder & Steering Committee Chair (2015- )
    
  • Program Chair: CPSS'15, CPSS'16, CPSS'17, CPSS'18, CPSS'19, CPSS'24
    
  • PC Member: CPSS'20
    
• NDSS - Network and Distributed System Security Symposium
  • General Chair: NDSS'28, NDSS'29
    
  • PC Member: NDSS'27 (Seoul, Korea, March 22-26, 2027) - 2nd round submission due Aug 19, 2026
    
• ESORICS - European Symposium on Research in Computer Security
  • Program Chair: ESORICS'18
    
  • Workshop Chair: ESORICS'22
    
  • PC Member: ESORICS'07, ESORICS'08, ESORICS'12, ESORICS'14, ESORICS'15, ESORICS'16, ESORICS'17, ESORICS'20, ESORICS'21, ESORICS'22, ESORICS'25
    
• RAID - International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses
  • PC Member: RAID'06, RAID'07, RAID'08
    
• CSF - IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium
  • PC Member: CSF'15
    
• ICICS - International Conference on Information and Communications Security
  • Steering Committee Chair (2019- )
    
  • General Chair: ICICS'20
    
  • Program Chair: ICICS'13, ICICS'19
    
  • PC Member: ICICS'01, ICICS'02, ICICS'03, ICICS'04, ICICS'05, ICICS'06, ICICS'07, ICICS'08, ICICS'09, ICICS'10, ICICS'11, ICICS'12
    
• ISC - Information Security Conference
  • Steering Committee Member (2017- )
    
  • Program Chair: ISC'05, ISC'11, ISC'17
    
  • PC Member: ISC'01, ISC'04, ISC'06, ISC'12, ISC'14, ISC'15, ISC'16, ISC'18, ISC'19, ISC'20, ISC'21, ISC'22, ISC'23, ISC'25, ISC'26
    
• Asiacrypt
  • Steering Committee Member (2008- )
    
  • PC Member: Asiacrypt'06
    
  • Advances in security research in the Asiacrypt region (CACM, Vol.63, No.4, 2020)
    
• FC - International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security
  
  • PC Member: FC'14, FC'15
    
• PKC - International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography
  • Publication Chair: PKC'04
    
  • PC Member: PKC'02, PKC'04
    
• S&P - IEEE Security & Privacy
  • Associate Editor-in-Chief (2023- )
    
  • Editor (2018-2023)
    
  • Guest Editor: Securing Critical Infrastructure across Cyber and Physical Dimensions (Vol 21, No 4, 2023) [cfp]
    
• TDSC - IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  • Editor (2018-2023)
    
• TIFS - IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
  • Editor (2013-2016)
    
• TR - IEEE Transactions on Reliability
  • Editor (2022-2025)
    
• COSE - Computers & Security, Elsevier
  • Editor (2011-2015)
    
  • Guest Editor: Advances in Robust Intrusion Detection through Machine Learning (2025)
    

Awards & Honours

• IEEE Fellow (2026), for contributions to applied cryptography and cyber-physical system security
  
• IFIP WG 11.3 Outstanding Contribution Award (2025)
  
• ACSAC Distinguished Paper Award (2023)
  
• ACM CPSS Best Paper Award (2023)
  
• ACM Distinguished Member (2022)
  
• IFIP DBSEC Best Student Paper Award (2022)
  
• IEEE DAPPS Best Paper Award (2021)
  
• IEEE DSC Best Student Paper Award (2021 & 2022)
  
• ESORICS Outstanding Contribution Award (2020)
  
• ESORICS Best Paper Award (2015)
  

Selected Research Grants

• DSO-PO62512946 - DSO funded project (2025-2027)
  
• DeST-SCI-NCR25-NSoE005 - CSA funded National Satellite of Excellence programme: Phase 2 (2023-2026)
  
• DTC-T2FI-CFP-0002 - IMDA funded project (2022-2027)
  
• MariOT-SMI-2022-MTP-05 - MPA/SMI funded project (2022-2024) [ABS] [MPA] [ClassNK certificate] [MOT award]
  
• EstateSense-CoT-V2-2021-1 - HDB funded project (2021-2024)
  
• SecAV-UMGC-L011 - LTA funded project (2021-2023)
  
• SMI-2020-MA-04 - MPA/SMI funded project (2020-2021)
  
• COSMO-IAF-PP-A19D6a0053 - A*STAR funded project (2019-2022)
  
• DeST-SCI-NRF2018NCR-NSoE005 - CSA funded National Satellite of Excellence programme (2019-2022)
  
• MOE2018-T2-1-111 - MOE funded project (2019-2021)
  
• SRG-ISTD-2017-124 - SUTD start-up research project (2017-2020)
  
• SecUTS-NRF2014NCR-NCR001-031 - NRF funded project (2015-2018) [media release]
  
• SPARK-1224104047 - A*STAR funded project (2013-2015)
  
• SecDC-112172014 - A*STAR funded project (2011-2014)
  
• SecSG-EPD090005RFP(D) - EMA funded project (2010-2013) [media release]
  
• SEDS-0721330047 - A*STAR funded project (2008-2011)
  
• SMEPP-033563 - EU funded project (2006-2009)
  

Research Highlights

• 2025.09.09 - Maritime cybersecurity: A big change ahead [MariOT]
  
• 2025.09.04 - Attacks on 5G networks: The arms race continues [Sni5Gect]
  
• 2025.09.01 - A new attack reshapes the rules of Bitcoin mining
  
• 2024.08.20 - Singapore's Operational Technology Cybersecurity Masterplan 2024
  
• 2024.07.17 - The need of testbeds for cyber-physical system security [iTrust testbeds]
  
• 2024.05.29 - Enhancing cybersecurity with "moving trees"
  
• 2024.01.18 - Guidelines for cyber risk management in autonomous shipping [brief] [full]
  
• 2022.01.12 - Guidelines for cyber risk management in shipboard OT systems [IMO] [brief] [full]
  
• 2021.01.07 - Securing critical infrastructure against cyber attacks
  
• 2017.05.09 - Historical data helps Internet of Things resist hacks
  
• 2016.07.13 - Taking control back from the cloud
  
• 2015.02.04 - Security for both real and cyber worlds
  
• 2014.07.30 - Recharging in private
  
• 2014.06.18 - Cracks emerge in the cloud
  
• 2013.12.04 - Friendly app attacks detect vulnerabilities
  
• 2013.11.06 - Enhancing security in Apple devices
  
• 2013.10.09 - Android versus Apple
  
• 2013.06.05 - Plugging smart grid weaknesses
  

In Media

• 2026.07.09 - Cybernews: Science has cracked the concept of a better password - your breath
  
• 2025.08.26 - The Hacker News: New Sni5Gect attack crashes phones and downgrades 5G to 4G without rogue base station
  
• 2025.08.18 - Hackaday: Sniffing 5G with software-defined radio
  
• 2025.08.18 - The Register: Boffins say tool can sniff 5G traffic, launch 'attacks' without using rogue base stations
  
• 2025.08.18 - Security Week: Novel 5G attack bypasses need for malicious base station
  
• 2025.03.25 - Channel News Asia (Singapore): Launch of MariOT testbed [YouTube]
  
• 2025.03.25 - Channel 8 (Singapore): Launch of MariOT testbed
  
• 2025.03.25 - Zao Bao (Singapore): Launch of MariOT testbed
  
• 2024.04.16 - Zao Bao (Singapore): Interview on maritime cybersecurity
  
• 2023.05.04 - Channel News Asia (Singapore): Interview on security of passkeys
  
• 2022.01.11 - Channel 8 (Singapore): Interview on phishing scam
  
• 2020.04.16 - Channel 8 (Singapore): Interview on security of video conferencing [YouTube]
  
• 2018.03.25 - Channel 8 (Singapore): Interview on Facebook personal information leakage
  
• 2017.05.29 - Science Daily (USA): Taking control back from the cloud
  
• 2016.04.22 - Straits Times (Singapore): Smart inventions - Two-factor authentication for IoT devices
  
• 2015.05.27 - Science Daily (USA): Recharging electric vehicles in private
  
• 2015.02.10 - Charged EV Magazine: New security system protects grid-connected EVs from cyberattacks
  
• 2015.02.06 - Technology.Org: A combined cyber and physical security system will protect customers charging electric vehicles on smart electricity grids
  
• 2015.02.04 - Science Daily (USA): Protecting customers charging electric vehicles on smart electricity grids
  
• 2014.10.16 - Today (Singapore): S$42m awarded to R&D to boost cybersecurity
  
• 2014.06.19 - Science Daily (USA): Cracks emerge in the cloud - Security weakness of cloud storage services
• 2014.02.06 - Straits Times (Singapore): System offers greater security for charging of electric vehicles
  
• 2013.12.04 - Science Daily (USA): Friendly app attacks detect vulnerabilities
  
• 2013.10.02 - Straits Times (Singapore): Apple fixes iOS 7 after Singapore researchers identify flaws
  
• 2013.10.02 - Computer World (Singapore): Researchers from Singapore help fortify iOS platform
  
• 2013.06.12 - Smart Grid News (USA): Smart grid security alert - Singapore scientists find gaps in NIST standards
  
• 2011.05.03 - Asian Power Magazine (Singapore): Smart grid security in the presence of plug-in electric vehicles
  
• 2010.10.30 - Straits Times (Singapore): Intelligent energy system - With smart apps come security risks
  
• 2010.10.18 - Zao Bao (Singapore): EMA invested 10 million dollars to support smart energy challenge projects
  
• 2009.03.12 - Nikkei News (Japan): Future University and Institute for Infocomm Research do joint research on mobile device security
  

Misc

• I was a recipient of K C Wong Scholarship and ORS Award for my PhD study.
  
• I am an alumnus of Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London. [RHUL alumni reception (Singapore, 2023)]
  
• I maintain CIF-based Top Cyber Security Conferences Ranking. [history] - 2025 ranking released
  
  

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