Yuliang Zheng, Professor

PhD, Yokohama National University, 1991

MSc, Yokohama National University, 1988

BSc, Nanjing Institute of Technology, 1982

Senior member of IEEE

Expertise and research interests

Cryptography, data and network security, communications and networking, digital money and secure electronic commerce, digital watermarking and copyright protection, firewalls and intrusion detection, secure smart cards and applications, secure software engineering.

Background

Dr Zheng obtained his PhD in electrical and computer engineering from Yokohama National University in Japan. Soon after completing his PhD, he joined the Computer Science Department at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra as a Post-Doctoral Fellow, in a large project involving data and communication security. From February 1992 to January 1995 he was a lecturer in the Computer Science Department, University of Wollongong, He moved to Melbourne in February 1995 to join the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, Monash University. During the academic year 1997, he was a Visiting Professor in the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo.

He is best known as the inventor of a new revolutionary data security technology called "signcryption". Signcryption achieves, dramatically, both the functions of digital signature and public key encryption with a cost significantly smaller than that required by the traditional "signature followed by encryption` approach. Applications of signcryption range from efficient security solutions for mobile communications and secure and authenticated message delivery to economical electronic payment systems.

Dr Zheng has published more than 120 refereed journal and conference papers; edited three books; lodged one patent; submitted two proposals to an international standards organisation and attracted research grants worth $423,000 from both industrial and governmental funding organisations. He has served as a technical program committee co-chair for four international conferences, and a member of program committees for 19 domestic and international conferences. He has been a keynote speaker at two international conferences and a session chair at 10 domestic and international conferences. Over the past years, Dr Zheng has provided consultancy for the federal government, as well as major banks and telecommunications companies in Australia, on issues in security and privacy. In August 1998, Dr Zheng was elected to the grade of Senior Member by the Officers and the Board of Directors of IEEE, in recognition of his significant professional contributions both in research and teaching.

Dr Zheng is a member of the International Expert Committee of IEEE P1363 Standard Specifications for Public Key Cryptographic Technology, overseeing the development of the standard.

His research results are cited by peers from around the world, and emphasised in four of the best selling books in data security (Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier, John Wiley & Sons, 1994 1996; Contemporary Cryptography: the Science of Information Integrity by Gus Simmons, IEEE Press, 1992; Cryptography Theory and Practice by Douglas Stinson, CRC Press, 1995; Handbook of Applied Cryptography by Alfred Menezes et. al, CRC Press, 1997.) More recently, Dr Zheng has been recognised as one of the few world authorities who have made the most significant contributions to data security, in a new book about the advancement of data security over the past two decades or so (Advances in Cryptology 1981-1991, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 1440, Springer-Verlag,1998).

Dr Zheng is the founding Director of LINKS (Laboratory for Information and Network Security), Monash's centre for research, teaching and postgraduate education in security technology and its applications. Projects currently being carried out by LINKS members include cryptography, digital watermarking of multimedia images, smart Java card systems, high speed network security, secure software engineering, digital cash and secure electronic commerce, firewalls and intrusion detection, authentication and identification, and public key infrastructures. LINKS can be reached at http://www.pscit.monash.edu.au/links/

Selected publications

Y Zheng and J Seberry: Immunising public key cryptosystems against chosen ciphertext attacks, the Special Issue on Secure Communications, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 11, No.5, pp.715-724, June 1993.

T Hardjono, Y Zheng and J Seberry: Database authentication revisited, Computer & Security, Vol. 13, No.7, pp.573-580,1994.

Y Zheng: On key agreement protocols based on tamper-proof hardware, Information Processing Letters, Vol. 53, pp.49-54,1995.

J Seberry, X M Zhang and Y Zheng: Nonlinearity and propagation characteristics of balanced Boolean functions, Information and Computation, Vol.119, No. 1, pp.1-13,1995.

Y Mu, J Seberry, and Y Zheng: Shared cryptographic bits via quantised quadrature phase amplitudes of light, Optics Communications, Vol.123, pp.344-352,1996.

X M Zhang and Y Zheng: Cryptographically resilient functions, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 43, No.5, September 1991.

Y Zheng and H Imai: How to construct efficient signcryption schemes on elliptic curves, Information Processing Letters, Vol. 68, pp.227-233, 1998.

Y Zheng, X M Zhang and H Imai: Restriction, terms and nonlinearity of Boolean functions, invited paper, Special Issue on Data Security of Theoretical Computer Science, in honour of Professor Arto Salomaa on the occasion of his 65th birthday, 1999.

J Leiwo, C Gamage and Y Zheng: Harmonization of information security requirements, Informatica - An International Journal of Computing and Informatics, 1999.

Y Zheng: The SPEED cipher, Financial Cryptography-First International Conference FC'97, Anquilla, the British West Indies, 24-28 February 1991, LNCS, Vol. 1318, pp.71-89, Springer-Verlag,1997.

Y Zheng: Digital signcryption or how to achieve cost (signature & encryption) « Cost(Signature) + Cost(Encryption), Advances in Cryptology-CRYPTO'97, LNCS, Vol. 1294, pp.165-179, Springer-Verlag,1991.

K Matsuura, Y Zheng and H Imai: Compact and flexible resolution of CBT multicast key-distribution, in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Worldwide Computing and Its Applications (WWCA'98), 4-5 March, 1998, Tsukuba, Japan, LNCS, Vol. 1368, pp.190-205, Springer-Verlag,1998.

 

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