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Last updated: September 2026

Education

• PhD, University of Wollongong, 2010
• MPhil in Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006
• BEng in Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004

Academic and professional appointments

Associate Professor, February 2024 – present

Department of Software Systems and Cybersecurity, Monash University

• Deputy Director of Master of Cybersecurity, Department of Software Systems and Cybersecurity
• Associate Director (Technology), Fintech Impact Lab
• Teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses in software systems and cybersecurity
• Research areas: public-key cryptography, privacy-enhancing technologies, blockchain security, and digital finance
• Supervision experience includes PhD and Master’s research students in cryptography, privacy, blockchain security, and digital finance.

Assistant Professor, July 2018 – December 2023

Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong

• Taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in computer science and financial technology
• Research areas: public-key cryptography, blockchain, and privacy
• Supervision experience includes PhD and Master’s research students in cryptography, privacy, blockchain security, and digital finance.- Supervised seven PhD students and more than ten Master’s students

Senior Researcher, December 2013 – July 2018

Shield Lab, Huawei Singapore Research Centre

• Member of Huawei’s Cryptography Expert Group
• Conducted research and provided cryptographic consultation for mobile devices, network equipment, databases, software, and cloud applications
• Developed research prototypes in key management, pseudorandom number generation, big-data privacy, and identity-based encryption

Postdoctoral Fellow, December 2010 – December 2013

The University of Hong Kong

• Research areas: identity-based encryption, attribute-based encryption, leakage-resilient cryptography, and anonymous credentials

Selected grants and funding

• Australian Research Council. NextGen Blockchain Privacy & Security: Practical and Quantum-Safe Solutions. Chief Investigator, 2026–2029.
• Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia. Building Cyber Resilience in Fiji: Securing the Nation’s Digital Future. Chief Investigator, 2026–2027.
• Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research. CBDC Technologies and Their Role in Monetary Policy. Principal Investigator, 2026.
• Ethereum Foundation. More Efficient and Scalable Post-Quantum Multi-Signatures. Chief Investigator, 2024–2025.

Selected publications

• Identity-Based Encryption Resilient to Continual Auxiliary Leakage
  EUROCRYPT 2012

• DualRing: Generic Construction of Ring Signatures with Efficient Instantiations
  CRYPTO 2021

• Efficient Online-friendly Two-Party ECDSA Signature
  ACM CCS 2021

• BlindHub: Bitcoin-Compatible Privacy-Preserving Payment Channel Hubs Supporting Variable Amounts
  IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2023

• Efficient Unbalanced Private Set Intersection Cardinality and User-friendly Privacy-preserving Contact Tracing
  USENIX Security 2023

• O-Ring and K-Star: Efficient Multi-party Private Set Intersection
  USENIX Security 2024

• Posterior Security: Anonymity and Message Hiding of Standard Signatures
  ACM CCS 2025

• Scalable zkSNARKs for Matrix Computations: A Generic Framework for Verifiable Deep Learning
  ASIACRYPT 2025

For the complete publication list, please see the Publications page.

Selected talks

• zkMatrix: Batched Short Proof for Committed Matrix Multiplication
  Invited talk, ACISP 2024, Sydney, Australia

• Privacy-Enhancing Consortium Blockchain
  Invited talk, ACM Workshop on Blockchains, Cryptocurrencies and Contracts, 2018

• Blockchain: How Crypto Meets the Industry?
  Invited talk, ISPEC 2017, Melbourne, Australia

For further presentations, please see the Talks page.

Patents

• Filed patents:

  • 崔韩东, 邓锐波, 李颖杰, 王国林, 阮子汉. “数据处理方法、装置、电子设备及存储介质”. Chinese Patent CN117201025A.

  • T. H. Yuen, S. We, W. He. “Data Processing Method, Related Apparatus, and Blockchain System”. Singapore Patent PCT/SG2018/050200, 26 Apr 2018. Google Patents record.

  • R. Hu, F. Jiang, T. H. Yuen, Y. Jiang, H. Zhou. “Data Access Rights Control Method and Device”. US Patent Application No. 201810224356.1, 19 Mar 2018. (Also in PCT/CN2019/075719.) Granted.

  • T. H. Yuen, S. Wu, W. He. “Transaction Processing Method and Related Equipment”. Singapore Patent PCT/SG2017/050654, 28 Dec 2017. (Also in WO2019132767A1.) Granted.

  • S. Wu, T. H. Yuen, H. Lei. “Heterogeneous Identity-Based Interactive System and Method”. Singapore Patent PCT/SG2017/050566, 10 Nov 2017. (Also in WO2019093963A1.) Granted.

  • T. H. Yuen, S. M. Chow, W. F. Lai. “Searchable Encryption with Hybrid Index”. Singapore Patent SG10201706106QA, 26 Jul 2017. (Also in PCT WO2019022669A1.) Granted.

  • B. Smyth, E. Quaglia, T. H. Yuen. “A Wireless Communication Device for Communication in a Wireless Communication Network”. EU Patent EP3379766B1, 20 Mar 2017. Google Patents record. Granted.

  • T. H. Yuen, Z. Zhang. “System and Method for Performing Cryptographic Operations”. Singapore Patent 10201609472S, 11 Nov 2016. (Also in WO2018088958A1.)

  • H. Cui, R. H. Deng, Y. Li, G. Wang, T. H. Yuen. “Data Processing Method and Apparatus”. China Patent 201610640301.X, 5 Aug 2016. (Also in US10868670B2, PCT/SG2017/050114, and PCT/SG2017/050328.) Granted.

  • T. H. Yuen, S. Wu. “Method of Obfuscating Data”. Singapore Patent 10201502401X, 26 Mar 2015. (Also in WO2016153430A1.) Granted.

  • T. H. Yuen. “System and Method for Searching a Symmetrically Encrypted Database for Conjunctive Keywords”. Singapore Patent 10201407705S, 18 Nov 2014. (Also in US10282448B2.) Granted.

Awards

• Best Paper Award, International Congress on Information and Communication Technology (ICICT), 2018
  Security-Mediated Certificateless Undeniable Signature Scheme

• Best Paper Award, European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 2014
  Identity-Based Encryption with Post-Challenge Auxiliary Inputs for Secure Cloud Applications and Sensor Networks

Service and leadership

• Founding member, Hong Kong Monetary Authority Central Bank Digital Currency Expert Group, 2023–present
• Co-chair, IEEE TEMS Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies Technical Committee Special Interest Group

Journal editorial service

• Editorial Board Member, The Computer Journal, 2024–present

Conference leadership

• Programme Chair, International Conference on Provable and Practical Security (ProvSec), 2019, 2026
• Publication Chair, ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), 2021
• Publication Chair, International Conference on Information and Communication Security (ICICS), 2012
• Track Chair, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Ledger Technologies (ICDLT), 2025

Selected programme-committee service

• ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS)
• ACM International Symposium on Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure (BSCI)
• European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS)
• Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP)
• International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS)
• International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience (ISPEC)
• International Conference on Information and Communication Security (ICICS)
• IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (DSC)
• IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom)
• International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS)
• International Conference on Provable Security (ProvSec)