Biography

Kaitai is currently a lecturer (assistant professor) at SCCS (which is one of the top 14 Academic Centres of Excellence in Cyber Security Research recognised by the UK Government Communications Headquarters in partnership with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) and Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey, U.K. His main research interests are applied cryptography, privacy and security in information technology; in particular, encryption, signature, blockchain security, cloud computing security, Internet of things, post-quantum crypto, privacy enhancing technology and lightweight secure system.

He has published over 60 research works with at least 1,5k citations, related to applied cryptography and information security in high tier (Q1 and top 3 of google scholar computer security and cryptography ranking) security international journals and conferences (e.g., IEEE TIFS, ESORICS). He also has prepared (proposal writing) and involved into five European projects (e.g., H2020, UK, Academic of Finland) as PI or CI. He has experience in collaborating with (projects, funding and research) international industries and companies, and in teaching undergraduate, master levels computer science courses and PhD supervision.

He received the Ph.D. degree in computer science (applied cryptography direction) at the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, under the supervision of Duncan S. Wong (currently CEO of CryptoBLK) in October 2014. Before joining Surrey, he was a post-doctoral researcher and a lecturer, at Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, and School of Computing, Mathematics and Digital technology, Manchester Metropolitan University, respectively.

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We are very pleased to inform that our H2020 project ASSURED (no.952697) (4.9 million euros) is granted by EU Commission. Thanks all the partners (TUE,TUD,Martel,DTU,Space Hellas,Intrasoft,and others) for their hard works and look forward to the kick-off meeting.
Congrats to George, and the paper "On-the-fly Privacy for Location Histograms" is accepted by IEEE TDSC.
We are pleased to announce that ESORICS 2020 will be hosted by SURREY. Please submit your research works and welcome to the event.
Welcome submissions to the Workshop on Intelligent Offloading for Internet of Things (affiliated with ICCCN 2020) and Workshop on Cyber-Security Threats, Trust and Privacy Management in Software-defined and Virtualized Infrastructures.
We are currently planning to recruit PhD students supported by CSC. The CSC granted applicants will be top-upped industrial and university funding. That will be a great studentship package. We are welcome all to apply.
[publication update] Our paper: BPAS: Blockchain-Assisted Privacy-Preserving Authentication System for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks is accepted by IEEE TII, congrats to Qi.
[publication update] Our paper: SoProtector: Safeguard Privacy for Native SO Files in Evolving Mobile IoT Applications is accepted by IEEE IoT, congrats to Wei.
[publication update] Our paper: Towards Practical Privacy-Preserving Processing over Encrypted Data in IoT: An Assistive Healthcare Use Case is accepted by IEEE IoT, congrats to Linzhi.
[publication update] Our paper: Efficient Attribute-Based Data Sharing Scheme with Hidden Access Structures is accepted by the Computer Journal, congrats to Yang.
IAS Fellowship (This scheme (£5000) supports visits from international scholars to the University, deadline 31st Oct 2019). Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in these applications.
[publication update] Our paper: Practical Attribute-Based Conjunctive Keyword Search Scheme is accepted by the Computer Journal, congrats to Yang.
[publication update] Our paper: Was I Eclipsed? A Smart Detector of Eclipse Attacks to Ethereum is accepted by Computer & Security, congrats to Xu.
[publication update] Our paper: An efficient blind filter: Location privacy protection and the access control in FinTech is accepted by FGCS, congrats to Li.
Congrats Mr. Rui Wang is granted tuition fee free wavier, and welcome him to join us.
It's my honour to work with eTEU (SMEs, blockchain company) in innovation project.
It's my honour to serve as associate editor for the Computer Journal.
We welcome Mr. Long Meng to join us as a PhD student.
Welcome Mr. Chris Ridden to join us as a PhD student.

DBLP: https://dblp.org/pers/hd/l/Liang:Kaitai

Google citation: https://scholar.google.com.hk/citations?user=_qHKRH4AAAAJ&hl=en

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0262-7678

"As one of the researchers in the field of applied crypto and cybersecurity, you may consider to submit your publications to Top publications in Computer Security and Cryptography".

Areas of specialism

Applied Cryptography ; Privacy Enhancing Technology ; Blockchain; Trusted Computing; Lattice-based Crypto; TPM; Consensus algorithms ; smart contract ; searchable encryption ; Network Security; Cloud Security

University roles and responsibilities

Applicant Day Coordinator

Academic Integrity Officers

Year 3 coordinator

Affiliations and memberships

IEEE member

FHEA

Fellow of The Higher Education Academy

ISO

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27/WG 2 "Cryptography and security mechanisms"