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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
Best Paper Awards at FSE 2018 and ACISP 2022
NTU/SPMS Collaborative Research Award 2022 (Co-PI)
NTU/SPMS Young Researcher Award 2021
NTU Accelerating Creativity and Excellence Award 2020 (Co-PI)
Best Publication Awards by Temasek Labs@NTU in 2015, 2016, and 2017
Multiple-time winner of The Keccak Crunchy Crypto Collision and Pre-image Contest (2012–2019)
Program Committee member for CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT, ASIACRYPT, FSE (since 2017), and ACM CCS (since 2024)
Program Co-Chair of ASIACRYPT 2023; General (Co-)Chair of ASIACRYPT 2021 and FSE 2013
Member of the ASIACRYPT Steering Committee since 2017
Member of the IACR Board of Directors since 2020
Invited speaker at CryptoIC 2024, Huawei STW 2023, ChinaCrypt 2023, ASIACRYPT 2022, and others
Research Experience
Head of Cryptanalysis Taskforce at NTU since 2014
Co-Founder and Program Director of the Master of Science in Cyber Security since 2022
Adjunct Outstanding Young Scholar at Shandong University since 2024
Consultant for JD.COM since 2025
Consultant for Huawei since 2023
Consultant for LatticeX Foundation since 2022
Principal Investigator for collaborative R&D project with PayPal Inc (2021–2023)
Principal Investigator for collaborative R&D project with LatticeX Foundation (2022–2025)
Leading joint postdoc programs in symmetric-key cryptography with Tsinghua University (PI: Xiaoyang Dong) and Wuhan University (PI: Jie Chen)
Background
Currently an Associate Professor (with tenure) at the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, with a courtesy appointment at the College of Computing and Data Science
Research interests focus on cryptography, especially cryptanalysis, design, and implementation of (lightweight) hash functions, block ciphers, authenticated encryption schemes, and their applications such as message authentication codes
Heads the Cryptanalysis Taskforce at NTU
Actively serves the cryptographic community through conference organization and program committee roles
Continuously seeking PhD candidates and Postdoc Research Fellows in symmetric-key cryptography and privacy-preserving technologies