News 

• Opening positions for @ CRYPTAI lab: recruiting self-motivated, talented and diligent PhD (4-year) and post-docs (at least 2-year) in security and AI, post-quantum cryptography for blockchain; full scholarship supported, tuition fee exempt. If you are interested, please send your CV to us.  

• Opening MSc projects: If you are interested in the MSc projects w.r.t. privacy-preserving federated learning, searchable encryption, secure blockchain and smart contract, please check the "Final Project/Thesis MSc Computer Science Research group themes" in project forum or some examples at CRYPTAI lab. 

• Please follow ACM CCS 2024 news @acm_ccs. 

• Pleased to work with Cristiano Giuffrida (Vrije Universiteit), Lieven Eeckhout (Ghent University) and George to organize the joint ACM ASPLOS and EuroSys, 30th March - 3th April 2025, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Welcome submission. 

• Great pleasure to work with Toby Murray  (Uni. Melbourne), Tamara Rezk (INRIA) and Luca Mariot (Uni. Twente) to organize IEEE CSF 2024 and see you all in Enschede. 

• [Thanks] George, David Evans (Uni. Virginia), Herbert Bos (VU), all chairs and attendees for IEEE EuroS&P 2023. 

• [Thanks] George, Gene Tsudik (Uni. California), Mauro Conti (Uni. Padua), all chairs and attendees for ESORICS 2023. 

• [Thanks] Fengjun Li (Uni. Kansas), Zhiqiang Lin (Ohio State Uni.), Sokratis Katsikas (NTNU), all chairs and attendees for SecureComm 2022.  

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• It is pleased and exciting to see that our colleagues and I are still at the top 2% citations across the world [2020 till now], "Ioannidis, John P.A. (2022), “September 2022 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"”, Mendeley Data, V4, doi: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.4. " 

• Cyberproof your manufacturing organisation. Get a headstart in securing your organisation from cyberthreats with hands-on advice share in a recent EIT Manufacturing whitepaper and webinar. More details can be seen: https://www.eitmanufacturing.eu/news-events/news/cyberproof-your-manufacturing-organisation/. 

• I worked with excellent researchers to setup an assistant professor network (APNet) across the whole Netherlands, involving all universities, education and research institution. Welcome to APNet and feel free to join the community. We take pride in establishing the APNet, a fundamental association aimed at supporting Assistant Professors throughout the Netherlands in managing diversity, inclusiveness, networking, cross-disciplinary collaborations, research grant opportunities, promotion-related concerns, transparency, work-life balance, and other related matters. We give a warm welcome to all to join the APNet, as we unite to become stronger together.

Bio 

Dr. Liang is a tenured faculty member (UD1) of the Cybersecurity group at Delft University of Technology. He received his PhD degree at City University of Hong Kong. He worked as an information security researcher at I2R (A*STAR, Singapore), post-doctoral researcher at Aalto University (Finland, supported by AoF funding), and held a permanent assistant professor position in secure systems at the University of Surrey, before joining TU Delft. During his PhD and post-doctoral studies, he was a visiting researcher at KU Leuven (Belgium), UCL (United Kingdom), IBM, and Northeastern University (United States). With over 10 years experiences on cybersecurity R&D, his main focus is on the design and implementation of cryptographic protocols to security. 

He has led as a PI in several European funded projects, e.g., TANGO, ASSURED, IRIS, and delivered real-world impact via these projects with academic and industrial partners (e.g., IBM, Fujitsu, NEC, EIT Manufacturing, BIBA, ATOS, UBITECH). He has published a series of research works, applying information security and crypto tools to address cybersecurity challenges. These publications have appeared in high-tier international information security journals and A* conferences, e.g., USENIX Security, NDSS, ESORICS (where he was honored with the Best Research Paper Award in 2015), Asiacrypt, IEEE TIFS, and IEEE TDSC. 

Beyond his research contributions, Dr. Liang has played an active role in the academic community. He has served as a Technical Program Committee, General Chair, and Steering Committee member for renowned international security and privacy conferences, including USENIX Security, IEEE EuroS&P, ESORICS, IEEE CSF, and PoPETs. Furthermore, he has made valuable contributions to ISO standards as a member of the standards committee 381027 "Cybersecurity & Privacy" at NEN. In addition to his academic pursuits, Dr. Liang serves as an Associate Editor for esteemed journals such as the Computer Journal, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, and the EURASIP Journal on Information Security. Furthermore, he acts as a cybersecurity consultant for SMEs, sharing his expertise and guidance in the field. 

Recognizing his contributions to higher education, Dr. Liang is a Fellow of The Higher Education Academy. Since 2016, he has been actively involved in the design, teaching, and evaluation of international Master's and Bachelor's courses in countries such as Finland, the UK, and the Netherlands.

Research Interests

Data protection, privacy-preserving federated learning, attacks on AI & secure systems, blockchain R&D. Please take a look at the research outputs presented at my CRYPTAI Lab, with references on Google Scholar top publication venue, core conference/journal ranking and CSRankings: Cybersecurity.   

Selected Academic activities 

Conference contributions: 

IEEE CSF steering committee and 2024 general chair, 

ACM CCS 2024 publicity chair,

USENIX Security TPC member 2024, 

IEEE EuroS&P 2023 general chair and TPC member 2024, 

ESORICS 2023 general chair and TPC member 2018 - 2022, 2024, 

PoPETs editorial board member 2024/2025,  

SecureComm 2022 general chair,

other TPC members, session chairs, publicity chairs: ACNS, ACM ASIACCS, ARES, CANS, ISC, SecureComm, etc.  

Associate editor: 

The Computer Journal (2021 - current), 

Journal of Information Security and Applications (2022 - current), 

IEEE Open Journal of the Communication Society (2023 - current), 

IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (2021 - current), 

IEEE Systems Journal (2020-2024), 

Guest editor for the Journal of Computer Security. 

NEN cybersecurity and privacy committee, ISO/IEC SC27 Work Group 2 (former UK). 

Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (UK). 

Some invited talks given at One Conference, Japan Advanced Instituted of Science and Technology, AIT, University of Padua, CyberSciTech.....please feel free to contact for the presentation slides. 

Teaching

MSc: 

Security and Cryptography

Privacy-enhancing Technology

Hacking Lab

Cybersecurity Data Analytics 

AI and Security

Undergraduate:

Computer Security 

Algebra and Cryptography

Supervision, publications and research  

We have a group of Bachelor, MSc, PhD and Post-doc researchers working in several cybersecurity topics, please take a look at our CRYPTAI Lab. 

Admin  

Cyber Security special (MSc) programme coordinator (2021-2023)

Board of Examiner 

Other useful links

• AISYLAB

• Cyber Analytics lab

• Delft Blockchain Lab

• Dutch Blockchain Coalition

• Do IoT Fieldlab

• 4TU Cyber Security Programme

• CryptoBLK

• Computer Security & Cryptography Google Scholar top publication venue list