Dr. K. Liang @ Cybersecurity group, TU Delft, The Netherlands

Van Mourik Broekmanweg 6

2628 XE Delft

The Netherlands

Email: kaitai (dot) liang (at) tudelft (dot) nl 

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Short 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 (UK) and trained by University Teaching Qualification (The Netherlands). 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.   

Research Projects

Selected Academic activities 

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.  


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


Teaching

MSc: 

Undergraduate:

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

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