Robert H Deng

Robert Deng is AXA Chair Professor of Cybersecurity, Director of the Secure Mobile Centre, and Deputy Dean for Faculty & Research, School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University. He has an Msc from Illinois Institute of Technology, USA & a PhD Illinois Institute of Technology, USA. Robert's areas of specialisation include - Applied cryptography, Security protocols, Data security & privacy, Mobile systems security & IoT security.

He received the Outstanding University Researcher Award from National University of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew Fellowship for Research Excellence from SMU, and Asia-Pacific Information Security Leadership Achievements Community Service Star from International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium. He serves/served on the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, IEEE Security & Privacy, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, and Steering Committee Chair of the ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security. He is a Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of Academy of Engineering Singapore.

Research Interests

• Applied cryptography
• Data security and privacy
• Multimedia security
• Mobile, wireless and sensor network security
• Trusted computing and system security

Honors and Awards

• KRDL Achievement Award, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore, June 1998
• KRDL Excellence Award, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore, March 1999
• University Outstanding Researcher, National University of Singapore, 1999
• Lee Kuan Yew Fellow for Research Excellence, Singapore Management University, 2006
• Asia-Pacific Information Security Leadership Achievements (ISLA) Community Service Star and Showcased Senior Information Security Professional, International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium ((ISC)2), 2010
• Distinguished Paper Award, the 19th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2012), USA, 2012
• Best Paper Award, the 13th Joint IFIP TC6 & TC11 Conference on Communications and Multimedia Security (CMS 2012), UK, 2012
• Huawei Dstinguished Collaboration Project Award, Huawei Shield Lab, Singapore, 2016
• 2017 Best Journal Paper Award, IEEE Communications Society, Big Data Technical Committee, 2017
• National Day Awards, Public Administration Medal (Silver), awarded by Singapore Government, for merit and service to Singapore's education, 2020
• Best Paper Award, the 25th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2020), UK, 2020
• Best Paper Award, the 26th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2020), HK, 2020

Recent Professional Activities

• Editorial Board, ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, 2020-now
• Associate Editor, IEEE Security & Privacy Maganize, 2016-now
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2012-2016
• Guest Editor, Special Issue on Security and Privacy of Electronic Health Information Systems, International Journal of Information Security, Vol. 14, No. 6, November 2015
• Editorial Board, International Journal of Information Security, Springer, 2013-2015
• Guest Editor, Special Issues on Trust in Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, Computer & Security, Vol. 47, November, 2014
• Guest Editor, Special Issue on Cryptography in Cloud Computing, Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 30, January 2014
• Editorial Board Member, Special Issue on Security and Privacy in Complex Systems, IEEE Systems Journal, Vol. 7, No. 3, September 2013
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2009-2012
• Associate Editor, Security and Communication Networks, Wiley, 2007-2013
• Information Security Area Editor, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Science Press, China and Springer, 2006-now
• Chair of Steering Committee, ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), 2013-2017