Our People

Prof. Lam Kwok Yan

Associate Vice President (Strategy & Partnerships)

Director, SCRIPTS

Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering

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.

Prof. Wang Huaxiong

Deputy Director, SCRIPTS

Professor, School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences

Email: [email protected]

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 Sciences 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.

Assoc. Prof. Chng Eng Siong

School of Computer Science & Engineering

Dr Chng Eng Siong is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Prior to joining NTU in 2003, he has worked in several research centers/companies, namely: Knowles Electronics (USA), Lernout and Hauspie (Belgium), Institute of Infocomm Research (I2R, Singapore), and RIKEN (Japan). He received both PhD and BEng (Hons) from Edinburgh University, U.K. in 1996 and 1991 respectively. His area of focus is in speech research, machine learning and signal processing. To date, he has been Principal Investigator of research grants awarded by AI-SG, NTU-Rolls Royce, Mindef, MOE and AStar with a total funding amount of over S$9 million under the “Speech and Language Technology Program (SLTP)” at SCSE. His publications include 2 edited books and over 100 journal/conference papers. He has served as the publication chair for 5 international conferences (Human Agent Interaction 2016, INTERSPEECH 2014, APSIPA-2010, APSIPA-2011, ISCSLP-2006) and local organizing committee in ASRU 2019.

Assoc. Prof. Anupam Chattopadhyay

School of Computer Science & Engineering

Anupam Chattopadhyay is an associate professor with the School of Computer Science and Engineering in NTU. He received his B.E. degree from Jadavpur University, India, MSc. from ALaRI, Switzerland and PhD from RWTH Aachen in 2000, 2002 and 2008 respectively. From 2008 to 2009, he worked as a Member of Consulting Staff in CoWare R&D, Noida, India. From 2010 to 2014, he led the MPSoC Architectures Research Group in RWTH Aachen, Germany as a Junior Professor. Since September, 2014, Anupam was appointed as an Assistant Professor in SCSE, NTU, where he got promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure from August, 2019. In the past, he held visiting positions at Politecnico di Torino, Italy; EPFL, Switzerland; Technion, Israel and Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Anupam’s research interests are in security/privacy technologies, efficient application-specific system design, emerging nanotechnologies, and electronic design automation. He is a senior member of ACM and a senior member of IEEE. Anupam received Borcher's plaque from RWTH Aachen, Germany for outstanding doctoral dissertation in 2008, nomination for the best IP award in the ACM/IEEE DATE Conference 2016 and nomination for the best paper award in the International Conference on VLSI Design 2018, 2020.

Assoc. Prof. Adams Kong

School of Computer Science & Engineering

Prof. Kong is an associate professor with the School of Computer Science and Engineering in NTU. He has developed three patents, of which, four were approved and others were filed. He served as an expert witness to the US Department of Justice for child sexual abuse cases in 2008, consultant for legal cases in Singapore, as well as associate editor for TIFS. Since attaining his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo, Canada in 2007, he has published 12 journals and over 20 conference papers, including TPAMI, TIP, TIFS, TSMC, TCSVT, CVPR and Pattern Recognition. His research interests include pattern recognition, image processing, computer vision, and biometric security.

Assoc. Prof. Ng Wee Keong

School of Computer Science & Engineering

Prof. Ng is an associate professor with the School of Computer Science and Engineering in NTU. He contributes to companies and industries as technology consultant on projects involving data analytics, artificial intelligence, data privacy and security, and blockchain. His other appointments include associate editor and member of editorial boards of five journals. His areas of research specialisation include machine learning, privacy-preserving data analytical techniques, query-permissible encrypted databases, enterprise blockchain systems, data security, and blockchain security.

Asst. Prof. Zhao Jun

School of Computer Science and Engineering

Jun Zhao is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. He received a PhD degree from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in the USA, and a bachelor's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China.

His research interests are as follows:

• AI and Data Science: federated learning, deep learning, adversarial machine learning, computer vision (CV), natural language processing (NLP), reinforcement learning, optimization, etc.

• City Brain and Smart Nation: federated learning, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud/edge/fog computing, 6G wireless communications, signal processing, smart grid, cyber-physical systems (CPS).

• Security and Privacy: federated learning, blockchains, adversarial machine learning, differential privacy, applied cryptography, secure multi-party computation.

His papers have received Best Paper Awards in several conferences and journals.

Assoc. Prof. Guo Jian

School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences

Guo Jian is an associate professor with the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences in NTU. Prior to joining the university, he was a principal investigator in Temasek Labs. After the completion of his doctorate from NTU in 2011, he joined the Institute for Infocomm Research in Singapore. Over the years, his research interests focused on symmetric-key cryptography, particulary in cryptanalysis, design and implementation of (lightweight) hash functions, block ciphers, authenticated encryption schemes, as well as their applications including message authentication codes.

Asst. Prof. Kiah Han Mao

School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences

Han Mao Kiah is an assistant professor with the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences in NTU. Prior to his appointment at the university, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He earned his doctorate degree in mathematics from NTU in 2014. His key focus remains in coding theory including design and analysis of encoding and decoding schemes, bounds on the size and constructions of optimal codes as well as combinatorics such as construction of combinatorial designs with application to codes, methods in enumerative and extremal combinatorics.

Prof. Ronald Cramer

CWI & Leiden University, the Netherlands

Professor Cramer is head and founder of the Cryptology Group at CWI, the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and he is professor at the Mathematical Institute, Leiden University (both since 2004). He holds a PhD from University of Amsterdam (1997, cryptology) and an MSc from Leiden University (1992, pure maths.). During 1997--2004 he held research positions at ETH Zurich and University of Aarhus. Since 2008, he is a visiting professor at Division of Mathematical Sciences at NTU. Cramer is a Fellow of IACR, the International Association for Cryptologic Research, and he is Member of the KNAW, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. He is an author (with Damgard and Nielsen) of the book Secure Multiparty Computation and Secret Sharing (Cambridge University Press, 2015), the first textbook on secure computation. His research area is cryptology, particularly, secure computation, public-key cryptography, cryptographic protocol theory, and mathematical cryptology at-large.

Prof. Benny Pinkas

Bar Ilan University, Israel

He is a professor in the Department of Computer Science in Bar Ilan University since 2010. Prior to joining the university, he was a researcher at STAR Lab of Intertrust Technologies in Princeton, and at HP Labs in Haifa. He was also a faculty member in the University of Haifa and a visiting scientist in Google in 2011-2012. He received his Ph.D. from Weizmann Institute of Science in 2000. His clinical and scientific research interests include design and analysis of solutions to applied security problems using the methods of the theory of cryptography, with a focus on secure multi-party computation.

Dr. Eran Toch

Tel Aviv University, Israel

Dr. Eran Toch is an assistant professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel Aviv University, co-head of the iWit Lab (Interacting with Technology Lab), and also a visiting professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering, Cornell Tech, in New York. Prior to that, he was a post-doctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, and obtained his Ph.D. from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. His research works has focused on Usable privacy and security, Human-Computer Interaction, and Machine Learning in analyzing Human Behavior.

Prof. Xun Yi

RMIT University, Australia

Xun Yi is a professor with the Computer Science and Software Engineering, School of Science, RMIT University, Australia. His research interests include applied cryptography, computer and network security, mobile and wireless communication security, and data privacy protection. Recently, his has led some Australia Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects in data privacy protection. Since 2014, he has been an Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. Dependable and Secure Computing. He has published more than 160 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings.

Prof. Xing Chaoping

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Prof. Xing is a chair professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University. He received his PhD degree in 1990 from University of Science and Technology of China. From 1990 to 1993, he was a lecturer and associate professor in the same university. He joined University of Essen, Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow from 1993 to 1995. After this, he spent most time in Austrian Academy of Sciences until 1998. From March of 1998 to November of 2007, he was working in National University of Singapore as an assistant/associate/full professor. From December of 2007 to October of 2019, he was working in Nanyang Technological University as a full professor. Since November 2019, he has been with Shanghai Jiaotong University as a chair professor. He has been working on the areas of coding theory/cryptography, algebraic number theory and theoretical computer science.

Dr. Ivan Tjuawinata
Research Fellow

Research Interests:

Design and Application of Multi-Party Computation schemes
Coding-based Cryptosystem
Coding Theory

Dr. Wang Xiangning
Research Fellow

Research Interests:

Differential Privacy
Cryptography

Dr. Zhang Linru
Research Fellow

Research Interests:

Functional Encryption
Leakage-resilient Cryptography

Dr. Li Feng
Research Fellow

Research Interests:

Internet of Things
Satellite Communications
Wireless Networks

Dr. Chen Shiyao
Research Fellow

Research Interests:

Symmetric Cryptography
Lightweight Block Cipher Design
MPC/FHE/ZK friendly Cryptanalysis and Design

Dr. Prastudy Mungkas Fauzi
Research Fellow

Research Interests:

Post-quantum cryptography
Pairing-based cryptography
Privacy-preserving technologies

Dr. Wang Jiabo
Research Fellow

Research Interests:

Post-quantum cryptography
Coding theory

Dr. Ren Yan
Research Fellow

Research Interests:

Image and Video Cosegmentation
Optimization based Shipboard Power Management System
Few-shot Image Instance Segmentation

Dr. Guo Jiale
Research Fellow

Research Interests:

Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
Blockchain
Privacy-preserving Machine Learning

Dr. Yang Wenzhuo
Research Fellow

Research Interests:

Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning
IoT Security
Intrusion Detection

Ms. Jenn Ong
Centre Manager

Main Tasks:

Coordinate the Centre research activities and implementation of industrial projects
Facilitate the collaboration work between the Centre and Industry Partners

Ms. Wendy Song
Assistant Manager

Main Tasks:

General administrative support and facilities management
Office assets and expenses tracking

Dr. Chi Hung Chi
Senior Principal Research Scientist

Research Interests:

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

Mr. Low Yang Chiang
Research Engineer

Main Tasks:

Collaborate the relevant research design and participate in the project, according to requirement & specifications of product development
Promote and conduct Privacy Preserving awareness workshop to public

Mr. Tan Kheng Leong
Senior Research Engineer

Research Interests:

Privacy-Enhancing Techniques
Secure Software Design
Blockchain and Digital Identity

Mr. Andre Gunawan

Research Engineer

Research Interests:

Microservices
Cloud Computing
Data science & Engineering

Mr. Darian Gunamardi

Research Engineer

Research Interests:

Systems Architecture
Cloud Computing
Blockchain Technology
Digital Identity

Ms. Kimberly Wee
Research Engineer

Main Tasks:

Participate in collaboration discussion and liaise with industrial/government collaborators.
To assist in demos preparation of SCRIPTS research projects.
Provide support in law and regulations related data privacy projects