Biography

Zhe Xia is a Research Fellow in the Department of Computing at the University of Surrey. He received the BSc degree in 2004 from Wuhan University, China. Later, he received the MSc degree in 2005, and the PhD degree in 2009, both from the University of Surrey, UK. Zhe Xia's research interests are in the information security and cryptography area, particularly secure electronic voting. His is currently working on the EPSRC founded project “Trustworthy Voting Systems”.

Publications

1. Steve Schneider, Sriramkrishnan Srinivasan, Chris Culnane, James Heather and Zhe Xia. Prêt à Voter with write-ins. In VOTE-ID 2011. September 2011. Tallinn, Estonia. Lecture Notes of Computer Science, Springer-Verlag.
2. Chris Culnane, David Bismark, James Heather, Steve Schneider, Sriramkrishnan Srinivasan and Zhe Xia. Authentication codes. In 2011 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop. August 8-9, 2011. San Francisco, California.
3. Steve Schneider, Morgan Llewellyn, Chris Culnane, James Heather, Sriramkrishnan Srinivasan and Zhe Xia. Focus group views on Prêt à Voter 1.0. In the Second International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for E-voting Systems (RE-Vote 2011). August 29, 2011. Trento, Italy.
4. Zhe Xia, Chris Culnane, James Heather, Hugo Jonker, Peter Y. A. Ryan, Steve Schneider, Sriramkrishnan Srinivasan. Versatile Prêt à Voter: handling multiple election methods with a unified interface. In the 11th International Conference on Cryptology in India (Indocrypt 2010). December 2010, Hyderabad, India.  Volume 6498 of Lecture Notes of Computer Science, pages 98-114, Springer-Verlag.
5. Peter Y. A. Ryan, David Bismark, James Heather, Steve Schneider and Zhe Xia. Prêt à Voter: a Voter-Verifiable Voting System. In IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (Special Issue on Electronic Voting), volume 4, number 4, pages 662—673. December 2009.
6. David Bismark, James Heather, Roger Peel, Peter Ryan, Steve Schneider and Zhe Xia. Experiences gained from the first Prêt à Voter implementation. In the First International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for E-voting Systems (RE-Vote 2009). August 31, 2009. Atlanta, Georgia.
7. Zhe Xia, Steve Schneider, James Heather and Jacques Traoré. Analysis, improvement and simplification of the Prêt à Voter with Paillier encryption. In 2008 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop. July 28-29, 2008. San Jose, California.
8. Sebastien Foulle, Steve Schneider, Jacques Traoré and Zhe Xia. Threat analysis of a practical voting scheme with receipts. In VOTE-ID 2007. October 2007. Bochum, Germany. Volume 4896 of Lecture Notes of Computer Science, pages 156-165, Springer-Verlag.
9. Zhe Xia, Steve Schneider, James Heather, Peter Ryan, David Lundin, Roger Peel and Philip Howard. Prêt à Voter: All-In-One. In IAVoSS Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (WOTE 2007), Ottawa, Canada, 2007.
10. David Lundin, Helen Treharne, Peter Ryan, Steve Schneider, James Heather and Zhe Xia. Tear and destroy: chain voting and destruction problems shared by Prêt à Voter and Punchscan and a solution using visual encryption. In the Workshop on Frontiers in Electronic Elections (FEE 2006), Hamburg, Germany, 2006.
11. Zhe Xia and Steve Schneider. A new receipt-free e-voting scheme based on blind signature. In IAVoSS Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (WOTE 2006). Cambridge UK, 2006.