Van Mourik Broekmanweg 6
2628 XE Delft
The Netherlands
Email: kaitai (dot) liang (at) tudelft (dot) nl
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Opening MSc projects for 2024/2025: If you are interested in the MSc projects w.r.t. privacy-preserving federated learning, searchable encryption and its attack, secure blockchain oracle (TEE), please check the "Final Project/Thesis MSc Computer Science Research group themes" in project forum and some examples at CRYPTAI lab.
I was invited to server as TPC member for ACM CCS 2025.
I was invited to server as associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.
I was invited to server as TPC member for ESORICS 2025.
Pleased to receive the "Distinguished Reviewer Award" by one of the flagship computer security conferences ESORICS 2024, many thanks for the recognition of the security community.
It was pleased to be awarded as Rotterdam Knowledge Ambassador due to contributions of the development and collaborations for academic, industry and society in Rotterdam.
I was invited to server as TPC member for USENIX Security 2024.
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As co-general chair, many thanks to George, Cristiano Giuffrida (VU), Lieven Eeckhout (Ghent University), all other chairs and over 1100 attendees for the first joint ACM ASPLOS+EuroSys 2025 in Rotterdam.
As co-general chair, it was a great pleasure to work with Toby Murray (Uni. Melbourne), Tamara Rezk (INRIA) and Luca Mariot (Uni. Twente) to host IEEE CSF 2024 in Enschede.
I started serving as steering committee for IEEE CSF.
As co-general chair, many thanks to George, David Evans (Uni. Virginia), Herbert Bos (VU), all chairs and over 250 attendees for IEEE EuroS&P 2023 in Delft.
As co-general chair, many thanks to George, Gene Tsudik (Uni. California), Mauro Conti (Uni. Padua), all chairs and 350 attendees for ESORICS 2023 in The Hague.
As co-general chair, many thanks to Fengjun Li (Uni. Kansas), Zhiqiang Lin (Ohio State Uni.), Sokratis Katsikas (NTNU), all chairs and attendees for SecureComm 2022.
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], Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators.
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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.
Introduction
Introduction
Dr. Liang is a tenured faculty member in the Cybersecurity group at TU Delft, where he also leads the CRYPTAI Lab. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from CityU Hong Kong. Prior to joining Delft, Dr. Liang held several academic positions, including as an information security research intern at A*STAR, a postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University, and an academic visitor at universities, e.g., UCL and Northwest University. He was an assistant professor in secure systems at the University of Surrey.
Since joining Delft in 2020, Dr. Liang has gained significant recognition within the cybersecurity and ICT communities. He has secured European funding for several high-impact projects related to cybersecurity and AI, serving as PI and accumulating over 2.5 million euros in funding. His research has led to real-world impact through collaborations, e.g., IBM, Fujitsu, NEC, BIBA, ATOS, with use cases, e.g., smart satellite (ASSURED, Greece), smart transportation (IRIS, Spain), and cross-border biometric data exchange (TENSOR, Portugal).
Dr. Liang’s research, which applies information security tools to tackle cybersecurity challenges, has earned over 5,700 citations (top 2% citation scientist). His work has been featured in top-tier conferences, e.g., USENIX Security, NDSS, CVPR, SIGMETRICS, ESORICS, Asiacrypt, and many others, as well as in leading international journals, e.g., IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. He's also delivered information security keynotes to international conferences and received awards, e.g., distinguished reviewer, best research paper.
A sought-after expert, Dr. Liang has been invited to serve on PC member, as General Chair, and as a Steering Committee member for renowned security and privacy conferences, e.g., USENIX Security, ACM CCS, IEEE Euro S&P, ESORICS, IEEE CSF, PoPETs, as well as keynotes for information security topics. He also serves as an Associate Editor for prominent journals, e.g., The Computer Journal, IEEE Open Journal of the Communication Society, IEEE Systems Journal, Journal of Information Security and Applications, IEEE Transactions on artificial intelligence.
Dr. Liang has contributed to ISO standards, as a member of the BSI (when he was in UK) and as part of the NEN committee 381027 "Cybersecurity & Privacy" in the Netherlands. He has also been invited to serve on funding review committees and panels for NWO (Dutch research council) and other external funding bodies. As one of the founding members, he contributed to the development and settlement of APNet (a national network supporting assistant professors across the Netherlands).
Dr. Liang is a Fellow of The Higher Education Academy, UK, and holds UTQ, the Netherlands. Since 2016, he has been involved in designing, teaching, and evaluating MSc, Bachelor's courses, as well as supervising MSc, PhD theses in countries e.g., Finland, UK, the Netherlands.
As one of the renowned European universities, TU Delft advocates each researcher and research group to achieve "four excellences" - in education, research, leadership and valorisation. It is pleased to evidently witness that the cybersecurity group and myself have contributed these excellences, over recent years, in teaching BSc/MSc courses and PhD supervision/graduation (e.g., 4+ BSc group projects, 20+ MSc projects, at least 4 PhDs, 1 graduated, 2 on the way of graduation), securing promising research funding (e.g., over 1.5 million accumulated funding) - contributing to supports on admin and department wide travel funding, publishing top-tier conferences and journals (e.g., USENIX Security, NDSS, IEEE TDSC), promoting cybersecurity community as chairs via renowned conferences (e.g., ACM ASPLOS/EuroSys, IEEE EuroSP, ESORICS, IEEE CSF), boosting local economic and expanding local cybersecurity and ICT collaborations via conferences' attendees, being TPC and associate editors for international cybersecurity conferences (e.g., USENIX Security, ACM CCS) and journals (e.g., IEEE TDSC, IEEE TAI), putting forward use cases/pilots to various European countries via projects (e.g., TANGO, ASSURED). The cybersecurity group's performance is phenomenal in the four excellences. I am very proud of closely working with my team members (all the PhDs and post-docs) and the group members (e.g., Alex, Lilika and the section head George).
Research Interests
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 cybersecurity publication venue (top ranking cybersecurity journals and conferences, e.g., IEEE TIFS, IEEE TDSC), core conference/journal ranking (top ranking A* cybersecurity conferences, e.g., USENIX Security, NDSS, ACM CCS) and CSRankings: Cybersecurity.
Research Projects
Research Projects
REWIRE: REWiring the ComposItional Security VeRification and AssurancE of Systems of Systems Lifecycle (No. 101070627) and spans on the period 2022-2025, Primary Investigator. REWIRE envisions a holistic framework for continuous security assessment of open-source and open-specification hardware and software for IoT devices and the development of cybersecurity certification in accordance with the requirements and guidelines of recent EU Cybersecurity Act.
TANGO: Digital Technologies ActiNg as a Gatekeeper to information and data flOws (No. 101070052, 2022-2025), Primary Investigator. TANGO will establish a stronger cross-sector data sharing, in a citizen-centric, secure and trustworthy manner, by developing innovative solutions while addressing environmental degradation and climate change challenges.
IRIS: H2020-SU-DS-2020, (no. 101021727, 36 months, 2021-2024), Primary Investigator. IRIS aims to establish the first dedicated online training and cyber exercises to prepare CERTs/CSIRTs to collaboratively protect critical infrastructures and systems against cross-border AI and IoT threats. Pilot demonstrators will be conducted in Helsinki, Tallinn, and Barcelona.
ASSURED H2020-SU-ICT-2018-2020, (no. 952697, 36 months, 2020-2023), Primary Investigator. ASSURED introduces an innovative, formally verified runtime assurance framework for securing CPS supply chains: by leveraging edge computing ecosystems, a universal distributed solution is developed for the transformation of CPSoS into distributed safety-critical CPSoS solutions, hosting multiple mixed-criticality applications. Completed. Highlighted partners: NVIDIA, BIBA, TU Darmstadt.
CUREX funded by the European Commission, H2020-SC1-FA-DTS-2018-1/SU-TDS-02-2018 (36 months, 2018-2021), Co-Investigator. Completed. Highlighted partners: ATOS, INTRASOFT.
SPEAR funded by the European Commission, H2020-DS-SC7-2017/DS-07-2017-RIA (36 months, 2018-2021), Co-Investigator. Completed. Highlighted partners: TECNALIA, SCHNEIDER.
FutureTPM funded by the European Commission, H2020-DS-2016-2017/DS-06-2017-RIA, (36 months, 2017-2020), Co-Investigator, Completed. Highlighted partners: IBM, ROYAL HOLLOWAY, SURREY, INFINEON.
Selected Academic activities
Selected Academic activities
Conference contributions: since 2020, Dr. Liang has been invited to serve as general chairs for IEEE Euro S&P, IEEE CSF, ACM ASPLOS, ACM EuroSys and ACM CCS, ESORICS, and SecureComm, along with pc members for ACM CCS, USENIX Security, IEEE Euro S&P, PoPETs, and other conferences. He is also one of the steering committees for IEEE CSF.
ACM CCS publicity chair 2024, organizing committee 2024/2026, PC member 2025,
USENIX Security PC member 2024,
IEEE Euro S&P general chair 2023, PC member 2024,
ESORICS general chair 2023, PC member 2018 - 2022/2024/2025,
SecureComm general chair 2022,
other PC members, session chairs, publicity chairs: ACNS, ACM ASIACCS, ARES, CODASPY, CANS, ISC, SecureComm, ACISP, ICICS, PST, ISPEC, Provsec, IEEE TrustCom, IEEE TPS, etc.
Associate editor: Since 2020, Dr. Liang has been invited to serve several international information security journals as associate editor.
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (2025 - current),
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),
EURASIP Journal on Information Security (2021 - current)
Guest editor for Journal of Computer Security, Sensors.
ISO Standardization: Dr. Liang is currently the NEN cybersecurity and privacy committee and was a member at ISO/IEC SC27 Work Group 2 (former UK).
Education/teaching training certificate: Dr. Liang was granted the Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (UK) and participated into University Teaching Qualification (The Netherlands).
Panel committee for funding/grant review: UK Research and Innovation, Dutch Research Council personal grant NWO Veni, NWO KIC.
Invited keynotes: One Conference, ProvSec, Japan Advanced Instituted of Science and Technology, AIT, University of Padua, CyberSciTech.....please feel free to contact for the presentation slides.
Peer review: ACM CCS, Eurocrypt, Asiacrypt, ACM AsiaCCS, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TCC, IEEE TC, IEEE TAI, IEEE TDSC, ACM TPS, IEEE IoT, ACM CSUR, ESORICS, PoPETs, IEEE TSC, IEEE TMC, IEEE Euro S&P, JISA, etc.
Supervision, publications and research
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.
Teaching
Teaching
MSc:
MSc:
Cybersecurity Data Analytics [Delft]
Privacy-enhancing Technology [Delft]
Hacking Lab [Delft]
Security and Privacy [Delft]
AI and Security [prospective course]
Multimedia Security and Digital Forensic
Distributed Systems
Cryptography and Data Security
Undergraduate:
Undergraduate:
Algebra and Cryptography [Delft]
Algorithms and Data Structure
Introduction to Computer Programming
Advance Programming and Software Design
Admin
Admin
Cyber Security specialisation (MSc) programme coordinator (2021-2023) [Delft]
Academic Integrity Officer
Final Year Student Mentor
Board of Examiner
Studies program evaluation panel
Internal and external PhD defense committee (e.g., TU Delft, DTU, Uni Padua)
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