Kang Xin's Bio

Xin KANG received his B. Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, in 2005, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from National University of Singapore, Singapore, in 2011. He was a research scientist in Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore, from 2011 to 2014. After that, he joined Shield Lab, Huawei Singapore Research Center as a senior researcher. He is now also a honored professor with University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Prof. Kang has published 70+ top-tier journal and conference papers, and 10+ of them are listed as SCI highly cited research papers. He has received the Best Paper Award from IEEE ICC 2017, and Best 50 Papers Award from IEEE GlobeCom 2014. Besides, he is also very active in standardization. Up to now, he has filed more than 50 patents , and contributed more than 30 technical proposals to 3GPP SA3, and 17 of his proposals have been accepted by 3GPP SA3. He is one of key contributors to the newly published ITU-T standard X.1365, and newly established work item X.ztd-iot. He is also one of the key contributors to Huawei 5G security white papers. Prof. Kang has more than 15 years’ research experience and his research interests include but not limited to optimization, wireless communications, network security, trust modelling, digital identity, blockchain, security protocol design, and applied cryptography.