I studied for my B.Sc. in Information Technology and M.Sc. in Computer Science at University of Malaya, Malaysia from 1996 to 2000. Upon completion of my Masters degree, I worked at MIMOS, a Malaysian government-owned R&D institution. I then spent almost two years at IBM Malaysia, working with the IBM Global Services Group, providing and managing disaster recovery and security services.

During my stay at IBM, I had developed strong interests in the area of information security. Thus, subsequently in 2002, I decided to pursue a Ph.D degree at the Information Security Group of Royal Holloway, University of London. My doctoral research focussed on various key management and security architectural issues for grid computing systems. In particular, I studied how identity-based cryptography can be exploited to design lightweight, flexible and scalable grid security architectures. 

Upon completion of my PhD degree in 2006, I stayed on at Royal Holloway and worked as a post-doctoral research assistant in an e-Science project funded by the UK EPSRC. In the project, we designed alternative security architectures to PKIs for grid applications. We also examined various access control and policy management techniques for grid environments. 

I then joined SAP Labs France in 2008 as a researcher. There, I was involved in a EU funded collaborative project which looked into methodology and measurement of business process security compliance. As part of the project, we designed privacy-preservation techniques for business process monitoring systems. More generally, we worked on various cryptographic schemes and protocols suitable for enterprise business applications.

I am currently a research fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.