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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.
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.
| S/N | Name | Designation/Organisation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mr Lew Chuen Hong (co-chair) | CEO/IMDA |
| 2 | Prof Luke Ong (co-chair) | VP (AI & Digital Economy) and Dean, College of Computing and Data Science |
| 3 | Prof Lam Kwok Yan | AVP (Strategy and Partnerships) & Executive Director DTC/NTU |
| 4 | Mr Quek Gim Pew | Senior R&D Consultant/MINDEF |
| 5 | Prof Lim Keng Hui | Assistant CE, SERC/A*STAR |
| 6 | Dr Ong Chen Hui | Assistant CE, BizTech Group/IMDA |
| 7 | Ms Denise Wong | Assistant CE, Data Innovation & Protection Group/PDPC |
| 8 | Mr Lim Min Kwang | Director of Capability Masterplanning Office & CIO/CSA |
| 9 | Dr Marvin Lee | Director, Smart Nation & Digital Economy (SNDE)/NRF |
| 10 | Mr Pradyumna Agrawal | MD, Blockchain/Temasek |
| 11 | Mr Daryl Pereira | Director/Google Cloud Asia-Pacific |
| 12 | Mr Chetan Sansare | Salesforce |
| 13 | Dr He Ruimin | Smart Nation & Digital Government Office (SNDGO), Government Chief Digital Technology Officers' Office |
| 14 | Dr Bernice Khoo | Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI) |
| 15 | Dr Yap Ghim Eng | Government Technology Agency (GovTech) |
| S/N | Name | Designation/Organisation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prof Robert Deng (Chair) | Deputy Dean/SMU |
| 2 | Prof Mohan Kankankalli | Provost’s Chair Professor/NUS |
| 3 | Prof Lee Mong Li, Janice | Professor/NUS |
| 4 | Prof Zhou Jianying | Professor/SUTD |
| 5 | Prof Wang Huaxiong | Professor/NTU |
| 6 | A/P Adams Kong | Associate Professor/NTU |
| 7 | Mr Marcus Tan Cheng Lin | Department Head (Cybersecurity)/A*STAR |
Professor Chee Yeow Meng
Industrial Systems Engineering & Management
Associate Vice President (Innovation & Enterprise)
National University of Singapore
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Senior Principal Research Scientist
Research Interests:
- Data Science and Engineering
- Privacy and Trust Enhanced Computation
- Knowledge and Cognitive Computing
- Cloud and Service Computing
Research Engineer
Research Interests:
- Web 3.0 & Decentralized Computing (Decentralized Finance)
- Trust Data Sharing with Selective Retrieval from Database
Research Engineer
Research Interests:
- Systems Architecture
- Cloud Computing
- Blockchain Technology
- Digital Identity
Research Engineer
Research Interests:
- Blockchain Technology
- Digital Identity
- Data Science and Engineering
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Research Engineer
Main Responsibilities:
- Manage and maintain the Digital Trust Centre (DTC) website and digital content
Organise events and support stakeholder engagement initiatives
Assistant Manager
Main Responsibilities:
- Management of grants administration to ensure the grant processes have adequate governance and are compliance with the grant policy.
- General administration and event management.
Senior Research Engineer
Main Responsibilities:
- Conducting international engagement
- Build TrustTech ecosystem involving multinational corporations and international organizations and maintain strong relationships
Research Engineer
Research Interests:
- Blockchain Technology
- Data Privacy Preservation
- AI and Machine Learning
Research Fellow
Research Interests:
- AI Safety
- Privacy-Enhancing Technology
Ms. Hansani Vihanga
Research Engineer
Research Interests:
- Privacy Preserving Technologies
- Cyber Security and Digital Forensics
- AI for Threat Detection
Ms. Zheng Yongsen
Research Fellow
Research Interests:
- Human-AI Dialogue System
- Conversational Recommender System
- Natural Language Processing
- Knowledge Graphs
- Large Language Models
- AI Safety
- Causal Reasoning
Mr. Mahran Morsidi
Research Engineer
Research Interests:
- Blockchain Technology
- Blockchain Scalability
- Blockchain Optimization
- Layer 1 Solutions for Blockchain Scalability
- Blockchain Sharding Techniques
Mr. Naga Nikshith
Research Engineer
Research Interests:
- Differential Privacy
- Federated Learning
- AI Safety
Mr. Jiang Haipeng
Senior Research Engineer
Research Interests:
- Cloud Infra Architecture
- Privacy-Preserving AI Technology
- Cloud-Native Application and Big Data Analytics
- AIOT, IIOT System Engineering
Mr. Lau Hon Leong
Senior Research Engineer
Research Interests:
- ML & Federated Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Explainable AI for Decision Support
- Smart Infrastructure Systems Research
Dr. Lu Zhengliang
Research Fellow
Research Interests:
- Blockchain
- Consensus
- Distributed Computing/Cryptography
- Byzantine Storage
- Order Fairness.
Mr. Gabriel Matienzo
Research Engineer
Research Interests:
- AI and Machine Learning
- AI Safety and Governance
- Solutions Development
Ms. Jing Hua
Research Engineer
Main Responsibilities:
- User-Centered Research & Design
- Prototyping & Interface Development
- Strategic Collaboration
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Mr. Federico Pfahler
Research Engineer
Research Interests:
- Federated Learning for Privacy-Preserving Security
- Cloud Architecture & Distributed Systems
- Edge Computing & IoT in Federated Learning
Mr. Clement Neo
Research Engineer
Research Interests:
- AI Safety & Security
- Mechanistic Interpretability
Dr. Kevin Fu
Research Fellow
Research Interests:
- Network Security
- AI Security
- OS Security
Dr. Sunnie Yujing Sun
Senior Research Fellow
Main Responsibilities:
- Lead research translation
Oversee industrial and research projects
Mr. Michael Lee
Senior Research Scientist
Main Responsibilities:
- Build Strategic Partnerships
- Facilitate Technology Transfer and Value Capture
Chia Bing Shan
Research Engineer
Research interests
- AI and Machine Learning
- Large Language Models
- Natural Language Processing
Zhong Jiahao
Research Engineer
Research Interests:
- Privacy Enhancing Technology
- Fully Homomorphic Encryption
- Privacy-preserving Machine Learning
Dr. Ivan Tjuawinata
Research Fellow
Research Interests:
- Design and Analysis of Privacy-enhancing Technologies
- Design and Application of Multi-Party Computation Schemes
- Coding Theory
Dr. Kangjie Chen
Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Red-teaming for Foundation Models
- Safety and Security of LLM-Based Agents
- Backdoor Attacks in Deep Learning
Dr. WANG Di
Research Fellow
Research Interests:
- Digital identity management
- Applied cryptography
- Zero-knowledge proof
Ethan Leung
Research Engineer
Research Interests:
- Digital Trust and Cyber Risk Governance
- AI Post-quantum era
- Privacy-enhancing technologies
- Public–private collaboration models for secure data sharing and trusted digital infrastructure
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Dr. Zhang Yuanzhe
Research Fellow
Research Interests
- Blockchain Sharding
- Decentralized Finance
- Decentralized Identity
- Stablecoin