The Croucher Foundation

Advanced Study Institute

Cryptography and Wireless Security

11 - 16 DECEMBER 2004
CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

Department of
Computer Science

      THE LECTURERS

	Agnes Chan		Lily Chen
	Robert Deng		James Kempf
	Silvio Micali		Adi Shamir
	Doug Tygar		Andrew Yao
	Wei Zhao

Agnes Chan, Northeastern University

Professor Chan focuses on cryptography and communication security. In particular, she researches efficient algorithms for generating symmetric keys and analyzes their security. She has also worked on designing divisible electronic cash (e-cash), which often requires exact payment in cash transactions and is more efficient when subdivided into smaller denominations to be spent independently. Professor Chan's divisible e-cash design satisfies these constraints and allows efficient implementation. With private communications carried out via public channels, security and integrity are increasingly important issues in designing coding schemes. Professor Chan's research considers coding schemes that are easy to implement, make it difficult for others to eavesdrop, and are resilient to noise interference. Now generating pseudorandom sequences for ultrafast networks, Professor Chan continues to study sequences generated by nonlinear feedback shift registers. With researchers at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, she has considered use of nonlinear feedback functions to design an ultrafast optical feedback shift register sequence generator to encrypt large, bursty files for transmission through optical TDM networks. In a related project on mobile communication, Professor Chan is examining fast, efficient algorithms to generate encryption keys for voice and data security. Currently, she is working on a fast algorithm for software implementation. Professor Chan holds two patents, one related to generating ultrafast pseudorandom sequences and the other to divisible electronic cash. She serves on the editorial board of Cryptologia and is active in promoting interest in science and engineering among women.

Lily Chen, Motorola

Dr. Lily Chen received her Ph.D degree from Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark in Applied Mathematics in 1994. Her academic research areas had been cryptography and information security. She started her industry career in 1996 as the Corporate Cryptographer of Cylink Corp and joined Motorola in 1999. Dr. Chen is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff of Motorola Inc. During the last five years, Dr. Chen has applied cryptography and security technologies in wireless and mobile communications. Her main contributing areas include 3G mobile communication security, trusted mobile and wireless platform, and security in converged network. She edited and actively contributed to various standards, e.g. X9F1, IEEE 1363, AES, 3GPP, 3GPP2, and TCG. She served as a review editor of IEEE Communications Letters and program committee member for conferences in cryptography and security.

Robert Deng, Institute for Infocomm Research

Robert Deng is a Principal Scientist and the Manager of the Infocomm Security Department, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore. He studied error-control techniques and their applications in digital communications and data storage systems during his PhD program (1983-1985) at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago and during his post-doctor position (1986-1987) at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, both under the guidance of Professor Daniel J.Costello, Jr. He worked on network performance and network fault management while with the Institute of Systems Science (1987-1991), Singapore. His interest was mainly in wireless communications and coding for data storage systems when he was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering (1991-1994), National University of Singapore. Since mid 1994, he has been with Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Laboratories for Information Technology and currently Institute for Infocomm Research, all in Singapore, and most of his R&D effort has been spent on cryptographic techniques, network and distributed systems security and information security.

James Kempf, Docomo Labs USA

Dr. James Kempf graduated from University of Arizona with a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering in 1984 and immediately went to work in Silicon Valley. Prior to his current position, Dr. Kempf spent 13 years at Sun Microsystems, primarily in research, where, among other projects, in 1994 he was technical lead for a project to develop a mobile, wireless SparcStation that used an early version of 802.11. In 2002, Dr. Kempf joined Docomo Labs USA as a Research Fellow, where he works on IP protocols and architectures for 4G wireless systems. Dr. Kempf is active in IETF as working group chair of two working groups, Seamoby and SEND, developing wireless-related protocols, and is a former member of the Internet Architecture Board.

Silvio Micali, MIT

Born in Palermo, Italy, Silvio Micali received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1982. He is Professor of Computer Science in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science since '83 and a member of the Cryptography and Information Security Group of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. Founder of the Algorithmic Theory of Pseudoramdomness and co-inventor of Zero Knowledge Proofs, Professor Micali is interested in cryptography, secure protocols and their applications to Electronic Commerce. Professor Micali holds the Godel Prize in Theoretical Computer Science.

Adi Shamir, The Weizmann Institute (Turing Award Winner 2003)

Professor Shamir was one of the inventors of the RSA algorithm, along with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman. Also, with Eli Biham and Sean Murphy, he was one of the (public) inventors of the powerful technique of differential cryptanalysis. He specializes in the design and analysis of cryptographic schemes and protocols. In recognition of this contribution to cryptography, Shamir was awarded, together with Rivest and Adleman, the 2002 ACM Turing Award. Shamir is a member of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Weizmann Institute.

Doug Tygar, UC Berkeley

Doug Tygar is Professor of Computer Science and Information Management at UC Berkeley. He works in the areas of computer security, privacy, and electronic commerce. His current research includes strong privacy protections, security issues in sensor webs, and digital rights management. His newest book, Secure Broadcast Communication in Wired and Wireless Networks (with Adrian Perrig) will appear in Fall 2002. He designed cryptographic postage standards for the US Postal Service and has helped build a number of security and electronic commerce systems including: Strongbox, Dyad, Netbill, and Micro-Tesla. He serves as chair of the Defense Department's ISAT Study Group on Security with Privacy, and was a founding board member of ACM's Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce. Dr. Tygar previously was tenured faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's Compuer Science Department for many years (and retains an Adjunct Professor position there). He received his doctorate from Harvard and his undergraduate degree from Berkeley.

Andrew Yao, Princeton University (Turing Award Winner 2000)

Professor Yao was born in Shanghai, China. He received a B.S. degree in Physics from National Taiwan University in 1967, a Ph.D. degree in Physics from Harvard University in 1972, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois in 1975. His research interests include the analysis of algorithms, computational complexity, and emerging new areas of computation such as quantum computing and cryptography. Professor Yao was a faculty member at MIT, Stanford, and UC Berkeley, before joining Princeton University in 1986 as William and Edna Macaleer Professor of Engineering and Applied Science. He has received many honors including the George Polya Prize, the Donald E. Knuth Prize, and the A.M. Turing Award. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Academia Sinica.

Wei Zhao, Texas A&M

Dr. Wei Zhao is currently an Associate Vice President for Research at Texas A&M University. He completed his undergraduate program in physics at Shaanxi Normal University, Xian, China, in 1977. He received his M.Sc. degree and Ph.D in Computer and Information Science from the University of Massachusetts , Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1983 and 1986, respectively. In 1990, he joined Texas A&M University where he has been a full professor in the Department of Computer Science since 1996. Between 1997 and 2001, he served as a department head. Dr. Wei Zhao is an IEEE Fellow. His current research interests includes secured real-time computing and communication, distributed operating systems, databases, and fault tolerant systems. He has played critical leadership roles in projects NetEx and NetCamo. His research group has been recognized by various awards and prizes, including the outstanding paper award from the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems in 1992, the best paper award from the IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference in 1997, an award on technology transfer from the Defense Advanced Research Program Agency (DARPA) in 2002, and the 2nd prize in the international ACM student research contest in 2002. Dr. Zhao is an inventor for two U.S. patents and has published over 180 papers in journals, conferences, and book chapters. Dr. Wei Zhao is active in professional services. Dr. Zhao was an editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers between 1992 and 1996. He currently is on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. He was program and general chairs of the IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposia in 1995 and 1996, respectively. He served as program and general chairs of the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposia in 1999 and 2000, respectively. He was the co-program chair for the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems in 2001. He will be the co-general chair of the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems in 2003. He will be the guest editor for a special issue on security in parallel and distributed computing systems for the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, to be published in 2003.