Time: 9:00-12:00 AM, Mar 29th, 2018
Place: Lecture Room, 1st Floor of Yifu International Conference Hall
Speaker: Professor Yi Mu
Sponsored by：Central China Normal University Wollongong Joint Institute
Speakers Information:
Professor Yi Mu is currently a full professor at University of Wollongong, Australia. He was the Head of School of Computer Science and Software Engineering at University of Wollongong (UOW) during 2011-2015. His current research interest includes cryptography, information security and quantum cryptography. He has published over 450 research papers, including over 180 journal papers and many papers at top-tier cryptography and security conferences such as Crypto, Eurocrypt, Asiacrypt, PKC, FSE, CT-RSA, ESORIS, etc. He has served as program chair and member of program committee over 200 conferences including ACM CCS, ESORICS, ACISP, AisaCCS, etc. Professor Yi Mu is the editor-in-chief of International Journal of Applied Cryptography and serves as associate editor for several other international journals.
Topic 1: Security and Privacy in Cloud Computing
Overview：
Cloud computing offers new types of computing services to end users via computer networks. It has become a trend that individuals and enterprises store data remotely in the cloud in a flexible on-demand manner. Cloud computing has reduced the burden of storage management and maintenance on hardware and software. Despite the great benefits from cloud computing, data security is still a very important and challenging problem. In this talk, we will walk through some recent progresses on cloud security, including data integrity, privacy, secure computing, data confidentiality, along with some basic knowledge about usefulness of cryptography.
Topic 2: Blockchain: Construction, Applications and Research
Overview：
Blockchain technology has exhibited many useful applications such as bitcoin, smart contract, voting, IoT, etc. In this talk, the blokchain technology will be introduced in terms of its theoretical foundation and applications. In particular, we will walk through the key path and history the blockchain has been developed and understand the research foci of the crypto community.
Central China Normal University Wollongong Joint Institute
2018.3.26
