Long Statement for IACR 2024 Election

Short Statement:

I have been dedicated for cryptography research and IACR community services for 18 years, by serving as IACR board director from 2020, Program Co-Chair of Asiacrypt 2023, PC member of IACR conferences, General (co-)Chair of FSE 2013 and Asiacrypt 2021, co-founder of the Asian-workshop on Symmetric-Key Cryptography (ASK), member of Asiacrypt Steering Committee since 2017. Within NTU Singapore, I also co-founded and have since been a Director of the Master of Science in Cyber Security program. I also work closely with industry such as being a consultant for Huawei International, LatticeX Foundation and the principal investigator for R&D projects with PayPal Inc. I would contribute further my experiences to promote research, education, and collaborations in the crypto community.

More information:

Founding and Incumbent Program Director: Master of Science in Cyber Security, NTU Singapore

Steering Committee Member:

- ASIACRYPT (2017 - Present )

General Chair:

- ASIACRYPT 2021

- FSE 2013

Member:

- IACR Board of Directors, as General Chair of Asiacrypt 2021 (2020 - 2021, 2022-2024 elected)

- Security and Privacy Standards Technical Committee (SPSTC), Singapore Standards Council; Part of ISO Singapore; Supported by SPRING and IMDA, since 2017

Co-Founder:

- The Asian Workshop on Symmetric Key Cryptography, cum General Co-Chair of ASK 2011

Program Co-Chair:

- ASIACRYPT 2023

Program Committee Member:

- ASIACRYPT (2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023)

- CRYPTO (2024, 2025)

- EUROCRYPT (2018, 2020)

- ToSC/FSE (2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023)

- ACM CCS (2024)

- Inscrypt (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)

- CFail (2021), ACISP (2018), SPACE (2018), ICICS (2016), ECRYPT II Hash Workshop (2011)

Editorial Board:

- Journal of Cryptologic Research (2020 - 2024)

Program Session Chair:

- 2020: EUROCRYPT, ASIACRYPT, FSE

- 2019: FSE

- 2017: FSE, ASIACRYPT, ASK

- 2015: ASIACRYPT

- 2014: Dagstuhl Seminar, Inscrypt

- 2013: FSE, ASK

Reviewer for most of crypto conferences and journals.

Even more information:

My research interests focus on symmetric-key cryptography, details of which are available here. I have published about 50 papers with IACR with cryptodb entry here. I also lead the Cryptanalysis Taskforce research team dedicating on symmetric-key cryptography at NTU Singapore since year 2014, which currently comprises about 10 members and a few exchange students. The team also maintains a regular visitor program and a seminar series.

This page was created on 23 Sept 2021, and last modified on 23 Sept 2024.