Our People

Our Directors

Professor Lam Kwok Yan
Associate Vice President (Strategy & Partnerships)
Executive Director, Digital Trust Centre (DTC)
Director, Strategic Centre for Research in Privacy-preserving Technologies & Systems (SCRIPTS), Singapore AI Safety Institute
Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE)

Professor Lam Kwok Yan is a renowned Cyber Security researcher and practitioner. He has collaborated extensively with law-enforcement agencies, government regulators, telecommunication operators and financial institutions in various aspects of Infocomm and Cyber Security in the region.

Prior to joining NTU, he has been a Professor of the Tsinghua University, PR China (2002-2010) and a faculty member of the National University of Singapore and the University of London since 1990. He was a visiting scientist at the Isaac Newton Institute of the Cambridge University and a visiting professor at the European Institute for Systems Security.

In 1997, he founded PrivyLink International Ltd, a spin-off company of the National University of Singapore, specializing in e-security technologies for homeland security and financial systems.

In 2012, he co-founded Soda Pte Ltd with a HK-based medical clinics operator. Soda (or Safe of Data App), the Winner of the Most Innovative Start Up Award at the RSA 2015 Conference, is a technology start-up which specialises in data security protection of mobile cloud users. In 1998, he received the Singapore Foundation Award from the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in recognition of his R&D achievement in Information Security in Singapore.  Professor Lam received his B.Sc. (First Class Honours) from the University of London in 1987 and his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1990.

Professor Wang Huaxiong 
Co-Director, Digital Trust Centre (DTC)
Professor, School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences (SPMS)
Deputy Director, Strategic Centre for Research in Privacy-Preserving Technologies & Systems (SCRIPTS)

Professor Wang Huaxiong received a PhD​ in Mathematics from University of Haifa, Israel in 1996 and a PhD in Computer Science from University of Wollongong, Australia in 2001. He has been a professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore since 2006, where he also served as the Head of Division of Mathematical Sci​ences in 2013-2015.

Prior to NTU, he held faculty positions at Macquarie University and University of Wollongong in Australia. He also held visiting positions at ENS de Lyon in France, Fujian Normal University in China, City University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore and Kobe University in Japan.

 

Trust Tech Steering Committee (T2SC)

 

S/N Name Designation/Organisation
1 Mr Lew Chuen Hong (co-chair) CEO/IMDA
2 Prof Luke Ong (co-chair) VP (AI & Digital Economy) and Dean, College of Computing and Data Science
3 Prof Lam Kwok Yan AVP (Strategy and Partnerships) & Executive Director DTC/NTU
4 Mr Quek Gim Pew Senior R&D Consultant/MINDEF
5Prof Lim Keng Hui Assistant CE, SERC/A*STAR
6Dr Ong Chen Hui Assistant CE, BizTech Group/IMDA
7Ms Denise WongAssistant CE, Data Innovation & Protection Group/PDPC
8Mr Lim Min Kwang Director of Capability Masterplanning Office & CIO/CSA
9Dr Marvin Lee Director, Smart Nation & Digital Economy (SNDE)/NRF
10Mr Pradyumna Agrawal MD, Blockchain/Temasek
11Mr Daryl Pereira Director/Google Cloud Asia-Pacific
12Mr Chetan SansareSalesforce
13Dr He Ruimin
Smart Nation & Digital Government Office (SNDGO),
Government Chief Digital Technology Officers' Office
14
Dr Bernice Khoo
Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI)
15Dr Yap Ghim EngGovernment Technology Agency (GovTech)


Trust Tech Technical Committee (T2TC)
S/N Name Designation/Organisation
1Prof Robert Deng (Chair)Deputy Dean/SMU
2Prof Mohan KankankalliProvost’s Chair Professor/NUS
3Prof Chee Yeow MengProfessor/NUS
4Prof Zhou JianyingProfessor/SUTD
5Prof Wang HuaxiongProfessor/NTU
6A/P Adams KongAssociate Professor/NTU
7Mr Marcus Tan Cheng LinDepartment Head (Cybersecurity)/A*STAR

Key Members

Professor Chee Yeow Meng
Industrial Systems Engineering & Management
Associate Vice President (Innovation & Enterprise)
National University of Singapore

Professor Zhou Jianying
Professor and Co-Center Director for iTrust
Singapore University of Technology and Design
Associate Professor Adams Kong
School of Computer Science & Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Assistant Professor Zhao Jun
School of Computer Science & Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Associate Professor Guo Jian
School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
Assistant Professor Kian Han Mao
School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences
Nanyang Technological University

Team Members

Dr. Chi Chi Hung

Senior Principal Research Scientist

Research Interests:

  • Data Science and Engineering
  • Privacy and Trust Enhanced Computation
  • Knowledge and Cognitive Computing
  • Cloud and Service Computing​

Mr. Andre Gunawan

Research Engineer

Research Interests:

  • Web 3.0 & Decentralized Computing (Decentralized Finance)
  • Trust Data Sharing with Selective Retrieval from Database

 

Mr. Darian Gunamardi

Research Engineer

Research Interests:

  • Systems Architecture
  • Cloud Computing
  • Blockchain Technology
  • Digital Identity

Ms. Jiang Yu

Research Engineer

Research Interests:

  • Blockchain Technology
  • Digital Identity
  • Data Science and Engineering

 

Ms. Kimberly Wee 

Research Engineer

Main Tasks:

  • Support Legal and Regulatory Research.
  • Manage the DTC website and digital content.
  • Organise events and support stakeholder engagement.
  • Coordinate research project demonstrations.

 

Ms. Brenda Yong Siew Hua

Assistant Manager

Main Tasks:

  • Research administration, procurement, grants and other administrative support
  • Office assets, expense tracking and facilities management
Ms. Tse Man Nga

Assistant Manager

Main Tasks:

  • Management of grants administration to ensure the grant processes have adequate governance and are compliance with the grant policy.
  • General administration and event management.
Ms. Amanda Ho

Senior Research Engineer

Main tasks:

  • Conducting international engagement
  • Build TrustTech ecosystem involving multinational corporations and international organizations and maintain strong relationships
Mr. Ye Kyaw Tun

Research Engineer

Research Interests:

  • AI and Machine Learning
  • Cyber Security & Forensics
  • Blockchain & Smart Contract
  • Distributed Systems 
Mr. Hasventhran Baskaran

Research Engineer

Research Interests:

  • Blockchain Technology
  • Data Privacy Preservation
  • AI and Machine Learning

 

Dr. Liu Ziyao

Senior Research Engineer

Research Interests:

  • Secure Multi-Party Computation
  • Trusted Data Analysis and Computation
  • Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning

Ms. Hansani Vihanga
Research Engineer

Research Interests:

  • Privacy Preserving Technologies
  • Cyber Security and Digital Forensics
  • AI for Threat Detection

 

Mr. Kwok Chin Yuen
Research Engineer

Research Interests:

  • Audio Deepfake Detection
  • Continual Learning
  • Speech Processing Technologies

Ms. Zheng Yongsen
Research Fellow

Research Interests: 

  • Human-AI Dialogue System
  • Conversational Recommender System
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Knowledge Graphs
  • Large Language Models
  • AI Safety
  • Causal Reasoning.

Mr. Mahran Morsidi 
Research Engineer 

Research Interests:

  • Blockchain Technology
  • Blockchain Scalability
  • Blockchain Optimization
  • Layer 1 Solutions for Blockchain Scalability
  • Blockchain Sharding Techniques

Ms. Jilline Tan
Senior Assistant Manager

Main Tasks

  • Centre Administration
  • Recruitment
  • Visiting appointments
  • Safety, event management

Mr. Naga Nikshith
Research Engineer 

Research Interests

  • Differential Privacy
  • Federated Learning
  • AI Safety 

Mr. Jiang Haipeng
Senior Research Engineer 

Research Interests

  • Cloud Infra Architecture​
  • Privacy-Preserving AI Technology
  • Cloud-Native Application and Big Data Analytics
  • AIOT, IIOT System Engineering

Mr. Lau Hon Leong
Senior Research Engineer 

Research Interests:

  • ML & Federated Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Explainable AI for Decision Support
  • Smart Infrastructure Systems Research

Dr Lu Zhengliang
Research Fellow

Research Interests:

  • Blockchain
  • Consensus
  • Distributed Computing/Cryptography
  • Byzantine Storage
  • Order Fairness.

Gabriel Matienzo
Research Engineer 

Research Interests:

  • AI and Machine Learning
  • AI Safety and Governance
  • Solutions Development


 

 

 

Siti Nur’Atiqqa
Senior Executive, Research Grants Management

Main Tasks:

  • Managing pre- and post-award research grant processes
  • Maintaining research project databases, records, and documents

 

 

Ms Jing Hua
Research Engineer 

Main tasks:

  • User-Centered Research & Design
  • Prototyping & Interface Development
  • Strategic Collaboration

 

Federico Pfahler
Research Engineer 

Research Interests:

  • Federated Learning for Privacy-Preserving Security
  • Cloud Architecture & Distributed Systems
  • Edge Computing & IoT in Federated Learning

Dr Florian Gondesen 
Senior Research Engineer 

Research Interests:

  • Network Intrusion Detection
  • Physical Unclonable Functions
  • Behaviour Analytics
  • Brain-Computer-Interfaces

Mr Clement Neo
Research Engineer

Research Interests:

  • AI Safety & Security
  • Mechanistic Interpretability