Shar Lwin Khin

Dr Lwin Khin Shar is an assistant professor in School of Information Systems at SMU. He was a research scientist in School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and a research associate at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg. He received his PhD and Bachelor of Engineering (honors) from NTU. He has worked on European and Industrial research projects in collaboration with industrial partners and European universities. Specifically, he worked on the analysis of software privacy leakage in collaboration with Saarland University, Germany. Dr Khin also worked on the industrial-driven research project on access control testing of distributed information sharing platform in collaboration with HITEC, International Emergency Response and Crisis Management Centre based in Luxembourg.

He also worked on requirements-driven security testing of mobile applications in collaboration with university of Geneva and industrial partners from UK and Switzerland. His current research focuses on scalable and effective analysis of security and privacy issues in web and mobile applications, using program analysis, constraint solving, search-based testing, and machine learning techniques.

Research Interests

• Security analysis
• Software testing

Research and Project Areas

• Cybersecurity
• Software Engineering

Education

• PhD, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2014
• Bachelor of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2008