Yi Mu (穆怡)

Born in Nanjing, China, in 1955, Professor Yi Mu earned his PhD in Physics from Australian National University, in 1994, following a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Fuzhou University in 1982. His PhD supervisor was Professor Craig Savage. Although formally trained as a physicist, he also holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science. Over his academic career, he held positions at Western Sydney University, Macquarie University, University of Wollongong (UOW), Fujian Normal University and City University of Macau. At UOW, he served for nearly 17 years, including four years as Head of the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering.

His seminal work in physics includes providing the first exact theoretical proof for the existence of a one-atom laser in 1992 [26], which was later experimentally validated at MIT (1994) and Caltech (2003). He also made pioneering contributions to quantum cryptography by demonstrating that cryptographic key exchange could be achieved using squeezed single photons [24]—an approach distinct from conventional quantum key distribution methods. His subsequent research focused on cryptography and information security, resulting in numerous highly cited publications.

Following his retirement, Professor Mu transitioned to photography, specializing in landscape, avian, and astrophotography. He has authored a book on landscape photography; a selection of his work can be viewed on his online portfolios.

Selected Publications:

1. Yi Mu, Mastering Landscape Photography, 2023

2. Fuchun Guo, Willy Susilo and Yi Mu, Introduction to Security Reduction, Springer, pp. 1-253, 2018

3. Fuchun Guo, Rongmao Chen, Willy Susilo, Jianchang Lai, Guomin Yang, and Yi Mu, "Optimal Security Reductions for Unique Signatures: Bypassing Impossibilities with A Counterexample", CRYPTO 2017, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10402, Springer, pp. 517-547, 2017.

4. Rongmao Chen, Yi Mu, Guomin Yang, Willy Susilo, Fuchun Guo, and Mingwu Zhang, ``Cryptographic Reverse Firewall via Malleable Smooth Projective Hash Functions", ASIACRYPT 2016, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10031, Springer, pp.844-876, 2016

5. Fuchun Guo, Willy Susilo, Yi Mu, Rongmao Chen, Jianchang Lai, and Guomin Yang, ``Iterated Random Oracle: A Universal Approach for Finding Loss in Security Reduction", ASIACRYPT 2016, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10031, Springer, pp.745-776, 2016

6. Rongmao Chen, Yi Mu, Guomin Yang, Willy Susilo, Fuchun Guo, ``Strongly Leakage-Resilient Authenticated Key Exchange", Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9610, CT-RSA 2016, pp.19-36, 2016.

7. Jinguang Han, Willy Susilo, Yi Mu, Jianying Zhou, and Man-Ho Au. ``PPDCP-ABE: privacy-preserving decentralized cipher-policy attribute-based encryption", European Symposium on Research in Computer Security  (ESORICS 2014), pp.73-90.

8. Fuchun Guo, Yi Mu and Willy Susilo, ``Identity-Based Traitor Tracing with Short Private Key and Short Ciphertext", 17th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2012), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7459, Springer Verlag, 2012, pp. 609-626.

9. Mohammad Reza Reyhanitabar, Willy Susilo, and Yi Mu, ``Enhanced Security Notions for Dedicated-Key Hash Functions: Definitions and Relationships", Fast Software Encryption (FSE 2010), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6147, Springer Verlag, 2010, pp. 192-211.

10. Xinyi Huang, Yi Mu, Willy Susilo, Wei Wu, Yang Xiao, ``Further Observations on Optimistic Fair Exchange Protocols in the Multi-user Setting", The 13th International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography (PKC 2010), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6056, 2010, pp.124-141.

11. Xiaofeng Chen, Fangguo Zhang, Haibo Tian, Yi Mu, Kwangjo Kim. ``Three-round Abuse-free Optimistic Contract Signing With Everlasting Secrecy", Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC 2010), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6052, Springer Verlag, 2010, pp. 304-311.

12. Qianhong Wu, Yi Mu, Willy Susilo, Josep Domingo, and Qin Bo, ``Asymmetric Group Key Agreement", Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2009, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5479, Springer Verlag, pp153-170

13. Mohammad Reza Reyhanitabar, Willy Susilo, and Yi Mu, ``Enhanced Target Collision Resistant Hash Functions Revisited", Fast Software Encryption (FSE 2009), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5665, Springer Verlag, pp. 327-344.

14. Man Ho Au and Patrick P. Tsang and Willy Susilo and Yi Mu, ``Dynamic Multiversal Accumulators and Their Application to Attribute-Based Anonymous Credential Systems", CT-RSA 2009, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5473, Springer Verlag, pp. 295-308.

15. Ching Yu Ng, Willy Susilo, Yi Mu, and Rei Safavi-Naini, ``New Privacy Results on Synchronized RFID Authentication Protocols Against Tag Tracing", 14th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2008), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, 2009, pp. 321-336.

16. Ching Yu Ng, Willy Susilo, Yi Mu, and Rei Safavi-Naini, `` RFID Privacy Models Revisited", 13th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2008), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5283, Springer Verlag, 2008, pp.251-266. 

17. Fuchun Guo, Yi Mu, and Zhide Chen, ``Identity-Based Online/Offline Encryption", Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC 2008), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5143, Springer Verlag, 2008, pp.247-261.

18. Man Ho Au, Willy Susilo, and Yi Mu, ``Practical Anonymous Divisible E-Cash From Bounded Accumulators", Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC 2008), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5143, Springer Verlag, 2008, pp.287-301.

19. Man Ho Au, Qianhong Wu, Willy Susilo and Yi Mu, ``Compact E-Cash from Bounded Accumulator", RSA Conference 2007, Cryptographers' Track (CT-RSA 2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2007, pp. 178-195.

20. Huafei Zhu, Willy Susilo and Yi Mu. ``Multi-party stand-alone and setup-free verifiably committed signatures", International Conference on Theory and Practice of Public-Key Cryptography 2007 (PKC 2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4450, Springer Verlag, 2007, pp. 134-149

21. Fangguo Zhang, Willy Susilo, Yi Mu. ``Identity-Based Partial Message Recovery Signatures (or How to Shorten ID-Based Signatures)", Financial Cryptography (FC 2005),  Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 3570), pp.45-56

22. Yi Mu, Vijay Varadharajan, "Anonymous secure e-voting over a network," The 14th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference,  ACSAC 1998, IEEE, pp. 293-299 

23. Khanh Quoc Nguyen, Yi Mu, Vijay Varadharajan, "Micro-digital money for electronic commerce", The 13th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, ACSAC 1997, pp.2-8

24. Yi Mu, Jennifer Seberry, and Yuliang Zheng, "Shared cryptographic bits via quantized quadrature phase amplitudes of light", Journal of Optics Communications, Vol 123, pp. 344-352, 1996. (Quantum Key Distribution)

25. Yi Mu, "Spontaneous emission spectra via cavity-enhanced coherent population trapping in a three-level system",  Journal of Optics Communications, Volume 110, Issues 3–4, 15 August 1994, pp. 334-339

26. Yi Mu and Craig M. Savage, ``One-atom lasers", Physical Review A, 46, 5944 (1992)

Experimental validation of this work: MIT (1994) and Caltech (2003): Experimental realization of a one-atom laser in the regime of strong coupling, Nature 242, 268-271, 2003.

27. Yi Mu and Craig M. Savage, "Parametric amplifiers in phase-noise-limited optical communications", Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Vol. 9, Issue 1, pp. 65-70, 1992