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Yuliang Zheng

Yuliang Zheng. Professor and Chair
yzheng@uab.edu
University Hall 4111
(205) 934-8655
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Research and Teaching Interests: Cryptocurrency, Cyber Security, Digital Privacy, Modern Cryptography

Office Hours: By appointment

Education:

  • B.S., Nanjing Institute of Technology, China
  • M.S., Yokohama National University, Japan
  • Ph.D., Yokohama National University, Japan
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia

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Dr. Yuliang Zheng joined the University of Alabama at Birmingham in July 2015 to serve as the Chair of the Department of Computer Science. An innovator in education, Dr. Zheng has been spearheading UAB’s efforts to establish an interdisciplinary academic program in Big Data Analytics as well as nano-degrees that can be stacked towards a full degree in computer science and related fields.

He is widely known as the father of the signcryption technology, which is now an ISO international standard for cyber security. His pioneering research in immunizing public key encryption against adaptive attacks has been embodied in a multiple number of industry standards including those from ISO, IEEE and IETF. A prolific researcher with more than 230 refereed publications, Dr. Zheng has been at the forefront of establishing international standards for cryptographic engineering. He plays an active leadership role in international research communities, co-founding the annual Public Key Cryptography (PKC) conference sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) and the annual International Conference on Information Theoretic Security (ICITS).

Dr. Zheng serves on the steering committees for a number of research and industrial forums including PKC (Chair of the PKC steering committee since 2007), International Conference on Information Theoretic Security, Information Security Conference, IEEE Security in Storage Workshop, and IEEE Information Assurance Standards Committee. He was invited to serve as an associate editor of The Computer Journal published by the Oxford University Press and as a guest editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Dr. Zheng is among a small group of international experts who have been invited to serve as a member of a program committee for all the five most important annual international conference series in cyber security and cryptography, namely ACM-CCS, RSA, CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT and ASIACRYPT.