Dr Kaitai Liang

Who am I?

I am a lecturer (assistant professor) at School of Computing, Mathematics and Digital Technology.

How I’ll teach you

I would like to pay more attention to provoke your creativity, difference, diversity and diligence .

Academic and professional qualifications

I am currently a lecturer (assistant professor) at School of Computing, Mathematics and Digital Technology, Manchester Metropolitan University in UK.

Other academic service (administration and management)

Why study Computer Science, Cybersecurity, data security, user privacy, applied cryptography ?

Undergraduate courses

2012-2013
CS1302 Introduction to Computer Programing, City University of Hong Kong.
2011-2012
CS3342 Software Design, City University of Hong Kong.
CS3391 Advanced Programming, City University of Hong Kong.

Postgraduate teaching

2015
T-79.4502 Cryptography and Data SEcurity, Aalto University, Finland.

Research expertise

Cybersecurity, privacy and security in information technology; in particular, cloud security, big data security, genomic privacy, privacy enhancing technology, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, privacy in internet of things, and lightweight secure systems. Currently, I am interested in bringing back security and privacy to big data analysis, and exploring secure blockchain technology in other commercial/business scenarios.

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Top publications - Computer Security & Cryptography

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Academic collaborations

Publications

• Journal articles

  C. Gritti, W. Susilo, T. Plantard, K. Liang, DS. Wong (2016). Broadcast encryption with dealership. International Journal of Information Security. 15(3), pp.271-283.

  J. Shao, R. Lu, X. Lin, K. Liang (2016). Secure bidirectional proxy re-encryption for cryptographic cloud storage. Pervasive and Mobile Computing. 28, pp.113-121.

  J. Wei, G. Yang, Y. Mu, K. Liang (2016). Anonymous Proxy Signature with Hierarchical Traceability: TABLE 1. The Computer Journal. 59(4), pp.559-569.

  A. Yang, K. Liang, Y. Zhuang, DS. Wong, X. Jia (2015). A new unpredictability‐based radio frequency identification forward privacy model and a provably secure construction. Security and Communication Networks. 8(16), pp.2836-2849.

  K. Liang, W. Susilo, JK. Liu, DS. Wong (2015). Efficient and Fully CCA Secure Conditional Proxy Re-Encryption from Hierarchical Identity-Based Encryption. The Computer Journal. 58(10), pp.2778-2792.

  K. Liang, L. Fang, DS. Wong, W. Susilo (2015). A ciphertext‐policy attribute‐based proxy re‐encryption scheme for data sharing in public clouds. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. 27(8), pp.2004-2027.

  K. Liang, C-K. Chu, X. Tan, DS. Wong, C. Tang, et al. J. Zhou. (2014). Chosen-ciphertext secure multi-hop identity-based conditional proxy re-encryption with constant-size ciphertexts. Theoretical Computer Science. 539, pp.87-105.

• Conferences

  C. Luo, A. Fylakis, J. Partala, S. Klakegg, J. Goncalves, et al. K. Liang, T. Seppänen, V. Kostakos. (2016). A data hiding approach for sensitive smartphone data. In: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing.

  K. Liang, C. Su, J. Chen, JK. Liu (2016). Efficient Multi-Function Data Sharing and Searching Mechanism for Cloud-Based Encrypted Data. In: Proceedings of the 11th ACM on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security.

  S. Lai, JK. Liu, K-KR. Choo, K. Liang (2016). Secret Picture: An Efficient Tool for Mitigating Deletion Delay on OSN. pp.467-477.

  Y. Tian, G. Yang, Y. Mu, K. Liang, Y. Yu (2016). One-Round Attribute-Based Key Exchange in the Multi-party Setting. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). pp.227-243.

  C. Lin, F. Zhu, W. Wu, K. Liang, K-KR. Choo (2016). A New Transitive Signature Scheme. pp.156-167.

  TVX. Phuong, G. Yang, W. Susilo, K. Liang (2016). Edit Distance Based Encryption and Its Application. pp.103-119.

  P. Zhang, Z. Chen, K. Liang, S. Wang, T. Wang (2016). A Cloud-Based Access Control Scheme with User Revocation and Attribute Update. pp.525-540.

  K. Liang, A. Miyaji, C. Su (2016). Secure and Traceable Framework for Data Circulation. pp.376-388.

  W. Liu, J. Liu, Q. Wu, B. Qin, K. Liang (2016). Online/Offline Public-Index Predicate Encryption for Fine-Grained Mobile Access Control. pp.588-605.

  R. Lu, X. Lin, J. Shao, K. Liang (2014). RCCA-Secure Multi-use Bidirectional Proxy Re-encryption with Master Secret Security. pp.194-205.

  K. Liang, MH. Au, W. Susilo, DS. Wong, G. Yang, et al. Y. Yu. (2014). An Adaptively CCA-Secure Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Proxy Re-Encryption for Cloud Data Sharing. pp.448-461.

  K. Liang, L. Fang, W. Susilo, DS. Wong (2013). A Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Proxy Re-encryption with Chosen-Ciphertext Security. In: 2013 5th International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems. 9/9/2013.

  K. Liang, Q. Huang, R. Schlegel, DS. Wong, C. Tang (2013). A Conditional Proxy Broadcast Re-Encryption Scheme Supporting Timed-Release. pp.132-146.

  K. Liang, . Zhen Liu, . Xiao Tan, . Duncan S. Wong, . Chunming Tang (2013). Information Security and Cryptology – ICISC 2012. Seoul, Korea, 28/11/2012.

Prizes and awards

- ESORICS best research paper, 2015. 

- Certificate of Merit in the Teaching Students: Fist Steps Course, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, March 2013.

Membership of professional associations

IEEE Membership