Kaitai Liang

Dr. Kaitai Liang joined the Cybersecurity group at Delft University of Technology in 2020. Before joining TU Delft, he was an Assistant Professor in Secure Systems at the University of Surrey, UK, and an academic member of the Surrey Centre for Cyber Security. He received his PhD degree in computer science from Department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong. With over 11 years experiences on cybersecurity R&D, his main focus is on the design and implementation of cryptographic protocols to security. He has involved (as PI and CI) in several European funded projects and H2020 proposals, e.g., IRIS, ASSURED, Academic of Finland, and delivered real-world impact via these projects with his academic and industrial partners (e.g., IBM, Huawei Germany, Infineon). He has also maintained a tight and strong research relationships with Europe, Asia-pacific and northern America academic communities. He has published a series of research works (> 100 publications, > 3,400 citations), applying information security and crypto tools to tackle real-world problems, in many high tier international journals and conferences (>10 core A* and >10 core A publications in the past five years), e.g., IEEE TIFS, IEEE NETWORK, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, ESORICS (best research paper award), CVPR, USENIX Security. He has served as technical program committee for over 25 renowned international security/privacy conferences, e.g., ESORICS, ACNS, SecureComm, TRUSTCOM, ASIACCS. He has contributed to ISO standards as an NEN member of the standards committee 381027 “Cybersecurity & Privacy”. In addition to being an active reviewer for many international journals/conferences, he also serves as associate editor, e.g., for the Computer Journal, guest editor, e.g., for the Journal of Computer Security, IEEE Transactions on industrial informatics, and cybersecurity consultant for SMEs. He is the Fellow of The Higher Education Academy, and has contributed to international (Finland, UK, The Netherlands) MSc, Bachelor courses design, teaching and evaluations since 2016.

For a personal website please visit: https://sites.google.com/view/kaitailiang

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