Speakers: 

Robert Deng, Singapore Management University
Biography:   Robert H. Deng received his Bachelor from National University of Defense Technology, China, his MSc and PhD from the Illinois Institute of Technology, USA. He has been at the Singapore Management University since 2004, and is currently Professor, Associate Dean for Faculty & Research, and Director of SIS Research Center, School of Information Systems. Prior to this, he was Principal Scientist and Manager of Infocomm Security Department, Institute for Infocomm Research. He has 26 patents and more than 150 technical publications in international conferences and journals in the areas of computer networks, network security and information security. He has served as general chair, program committee chair and member of numerous international conferences, including the co-chair of the program committee of the 2007 ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security. He received the University Outstanding Researcher Award from the National University of Singapore in 1999 and the Lee Kuan Yew Fellow for Research Excellence from the Singapore Management University in 2006.

Prof Sihan Qing, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Biography:    Prof. Sihan Qing is a chief scientist in Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He also serves as the Chair of Department of Information Security in Peking University. He has provided many professional services such as Vice Director of Information Security Committee of China Computer Federation, member of the expert working group on the network banking development and supervision of Peoples Bank of China, member of expert committee of the National Standardization Committee of Information Security, chair of the workgroup of Trusted Computing of China, member of steering committee of ASIACRYPT, etc.. He has served as PC Chair for many international conferences of information security. He is the author of eight books and more than 100 scientific papers. 

Dr Wenbo Mao, EMC
Biography:    Dr. Wenbo Mao obtained a BSc in mathematics from Fudan University in Shanghai, China (1982), an MSc in computer science from Beihang University in Beijing, China (1987), and a PhD in computer science from Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Scotland (1992). From 1992-1994, Wenbo Mao held a post-doctoral research position in Manchester University in Manchester, UK.

In 1994, Wenbo Mao joined Hewlett-Packard Laboratories at Bristol, UK, and from 2005-2007 he helped found the organization's Beijing research lab. In HP, he held the positions of Senior Member of Technical Staff (since 1996), and Principal Engineer, Technical Lead (since 2000). In HP, Wenbo led HP's participation in several international projects, including: Secure Electronic Transactions (SET) of VISA-MasterCard, European Union Project CASENET for formal analysis of E-commerce systems, and co-chaired Global Grid Forum Project Trusted Computing for Grid Security.

In May 2007, Wenbo Mao joined EMC as Director and Chief Engineer of EMC Research China (ERC) in Beijing. ERC is a core industry research laboratory in EMC's newly created global technological collaborative organization: Innovation Network.

Wenbo Mao has served the international research community in various roles including chairing, organizing and directing conferences, standards groups, research forums and summer schools. Dr. Mao has also held honorary and adjunct professorship positions in several universities including Fudan University, Queensland University of Technology, Bristol University and Beijing University of Science and Technology.

Graeme Proudler (HP): TCG Technology Basics
Biography:    Graeme Proudler is a researcher at Hewlett Packard Laboratories and the Chair of the Trusted Computing Group's Technical Committee. He was the technical lead of the HP-Labs' research group that contributed to Trusted Computing Platform Alliance specifications, a founder member of the TCPA Technical Committee, and original editor of the TCPA main specification. Graeme read Physics at Wadham College, Oxford. After graduation, he designed communication-security equipment. Since joining HP Laboratories, he has worked on information security, networking and mobile communications. His current interests are trust and information security in computer platforms and networks.

Tuomas Aura (Microsoft): BitLocker
Biography: Tuomas Aura received his doctoral degree from Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), Finland, in 2000. His thesis was on authorization and availability in open networks. Since then, he has been working on software and network security at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK. His current focus is on the security of Internet mobility protocols and privacy of mobile users.

Dirk Kuhlmann:  Open TC: Open Standard, Virtualization of OS
Biography:   Dirk Kuhlmann is the technical director of the EC funded OpenTC project. His current research focuses on the potential of Open Source software for IT security, and he has been actively involved in the international discussion on Trusted Platform technology.   He joined HP after receiving his diploma in Computer Sciences from the Technical University Berlin.   During the last eleven years, he has been working as a research engineer in the Trusted Systems group of  HP Laboratories in Bristol. His work areas included public key infrastructures, security protocols, platform and system security.

Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia
Biography:    Prof. Vijay Varadharajan is Professor of Computing and Microsoft Chair at Macquarie University since 2001. He is also the Director of Information and Networked System Security Research. Previous to this, he was the Foundation Chair and Head of School of Computing and IT at the University of W.Sydney, Australia (1995-2000). Prior to this, was head of Security Research at Hewlett-Packard Labs UK (1988-1995). Before this, he was Research Manager at British Telecom Research Labs. U.K. (1986-1988). Previous to this he has held academic appointments in the UK (Lecturer at Reading University, Research Fellow at Plymouth University). He did his Ph.D in Computer and Communication Security in the U.K in 1984, which was sponsored by British Telecom Research Labs. He did his Electronic Engineering Hons Degree from Sussex University, UK (1978-1981).

Professor Varadharajan has been working in the area of security over 20 years in various aspects including network security, operating system security, distributed system security, application security, mobile computing security, security models and architectures, security policies, formal specification and cryptography. He has published more than 250 papers in International Journals and Conferences and has co-authored and edited 8 books on Security, Networks and Distributed Systems. His research work over the years has contributed to the development of several secure commercial systems. He w

He has also acted as an Expert for European Union and worked with the UK Dept. of Trade and Industry, and has worked several European Research Projects. He is on Editorial Board of several journals including International Journal of Information Security, Springer-Verlag and ACM Transactions on Information Systems Security. He has been a member of the Board of Advisors in Trusted Computing Platform Association (TCPA) and is on the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board (TCAAB). He has held several invited Visiting Professorships including INRIA Research Labs (France), British Telecom Labs (UK), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mathematical Sciences (NUS, Singapore), Indian Institute of Sciences as well as Visiting Scientist at Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK. He is a Fellow of several professional institutions IEE, BCS, ACS, IMA and IEAust.

Seiji Munetoh, IBM Research
Biography:  Seiji Munetoh is the advisory researcher of IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory. He joined IBM after receiving his Bachelor and MSs in Electronic Engineering from Tohoku University, Japan.  His research interests include operating system and security, modeling, analysis and testing.

Prof Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, University of Bochrum
Biography:    Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi is the head of the Chair for System Security at Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.  He has received his MSc in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and his PhD in Computer Science with focus on privacy protecting cryptographic systems. Prior to academia he has been working in Research and Development of IT and Telecommunications enterprises.  Currently he is leading several research and development projects on design and implementation of trustworthy computing platforms based on trusted computing technology as well on design of various cryptographic systems.    His research interests include security architectures, Trusted Computing, privacy enhancing technologies, and design of cryptographic protocols.

Richard Brown, HP Labs
Biography:    As the Department Manager within the Trusted Systems Laboratory, Richard Brown is responsible for shaping the lab’s technology agenda and leading a team of IT security specialists at HP Labs in Bristol.    The technology expertise of the team is very broad covering many aspects of IT security. Over the last few years the Richard has led the research on innovative security solutions such as Virus Throttling and Active Countermeasures, designed to protect against the increasingly changing threat landscape. More recently he is leading his team in the area of Trusted Infrastructure and Virtualization technologies.   Richard joined HP Labs in 1987, and has worked across a range of technologies prior to focusing on security including network management for LANs/WANs and monitoring and surveillance technologies for telecommunications networks.  Before joining HP Labs, Richard worked as a software engineer at GEC developing network protocols such as X25.   Richard received First Class Honors Degree in Mathematics and Computer Sciences from The University of Birmingham.

Dr Hisanori Mishima of Hitachi will give a talk representing the Japanese TCG Committee.
Biography: 
Chairman
TC Committee
Information Technology Committee
Information Technology & Industrial Systems Board Japan Electronics & Information Technology Industries Association  (JEITA)

1985 graduated from Tohoku University, BSc.
1985 Hitachi, Ltd.
1987~1988 study at JAIMS (Japan-America Institute of Management Science)
1988~1998 Hitachi, Ltd., Public Systems Division, charged for System engineer of Government system 1998~2006 move to Hitachi, Ltd., System Development Laboratory study cryptography (elliptic curve), PKI, TCG
2003~2005 Chair of Interoperability Working Group, Asia PKI http://www.asia-pkiforum.org/
2007~ Chair of TC Committee in JEITA http://www.jeita.or.jp/english/
also,
2005~2006 part-time lecturer of Tokyo University of Technology ("Information security", for after graduate students)
Publication : "Information Security in Internet Era ~ Cryptography and Digital Watermark", KYORITSU SHUPPAN CO., LTD , 2000

 

 

Dr Wang Zi, Sinosun Technology Ltd
David Grawrock (Intel): LeGrande Technology