Hello! I received my BEng from National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China, my MSc and PhD from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA. I am a Professor of Information Systems at Singapore Management University (SMU) and an Adjunct Professor at Zhejiang University, China. My current research interests include information security, network and distributed systems security, and applications of security technology in digital business.
Prior to 2004, most of my working career was spent in research institutes. I was Research Staff Member and Project Leader of Communications Group with the Institute of Systems Science (07/1987-06/1991); a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore (07/1991-06/1994); a Senior Research Staff Member and Manager of Information Security Group, Institute of Systems Science (07/1994-03/1998); Principal Research Staff Member, Deputy Director and then Director of Ubiquity Lab, Kent Ridge Digital Labs (04/1998-12/2001); Principal Research Staff Member and Director of Ubiquitous and Distributed Computing Program, Labs for Information Technology; and Principal Scientist and Manager of Infocomm Security Department, Institute for Infocomm Research (11/2002-07/2004).
I am the inventor of 26 patents, some of them have been incorporated into commercial products. I have more than 200 papers in refereed conferences and journals, served on numerous program and technical committees of international conferences. I received the Outstanding Researcher Award from National University of Singapore in 1999 and the Lee Kuan Yew Fellow for Research Excellence, Singapore Management University in 2006.