Sherman S. M. Chow
B.Eng., M.Phil. (HKU), M.S., Ph.D. (NYU)
EAI Fellow 2019
100 Most
Influential Scholars (Security and Privacy, 2018)
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Sherman is an Associate Professor of
the Department of Information Engineering (IE) at
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK),
which he joined in November 2012.
He received the Early
Career Award 2013/14 by the Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC).
He is also a program co-director of
MSc in Information Science and Technology Management (Full-time), co-offered by CUHK Business School
He was a
research fellow at Department of
Combinatorics and Optimization,
University of Waterloo,
a position he
commenced after receiving his Ph.D. degree from the
Courant Institute of
Mathematical Sciences, New York University.
He interned at
NTT Research and Development (Tokyo),
Microsoft Research (Redmond) and
Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory,
and
has made research visits to
Friedrich-Alexander-U.,
Academia Sinica,
U. Maryland,
U. Calgary,
U. Texas,
MIT,
and
Queensland University of Technology.
He works on
Cryptography,
Cyber Security,
Privacy,
Theoretical
Computer Science and Communications,
and has published in major conferences such as
AsiaCrypt, CCS, EuroCrypt, ITCS, NDSS, S&P, and Usenix Security.
He has served as a program co-chair of
BlockSEA '18,
CANS '17,
Security in Cloud Computing '15,
ISC '14,
and ProvSec
'14,
and as a senior program committee member of PETS '22-'23.
He also serves on the program committees of 240+
international conferences/workshops
(full list in '10-'23)
on cryptography, security, privacy, network, cloud, fintech, access
control,
IoT, PKI, and forensics,
including
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Crypto 2019,
AsiaCrypt
2012-2017,
CT-RSA
2020,
PKC 2015
-
Usenix Security 2021-23,
CCS 2014,
22-23
-
Web 2019,
21-23,
PETS 2018,
21-23
Financial Crypt. 2013-15
-
Infocom
2015-2019 (Distinguished TPC in 2018),
ICDCS
2015-16,
20-23
He is invited to help
He is the Deputy Editor (Cryptography) of
IET Information Security (IET-IFS).
Also, he serves on the editorial boards of
also as a lead guest-editor
of
He is co-chairing the SIG on Fundamentals under
IEEE TEMS Technical Committee on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger
Technologies (since May '21),
a founding member of
IEEE SMC's Blockchain technical committee (since '18),
and a research committee of Hong Kong Blockchain Society (since Sep '19).
Funded Projects (RGC, as PI):
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Decentralizing Cryptosystems, HKD 838K
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Deep Learning with Privacy, HKD 731K
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Password-Hardening Services, HKD 875K
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Sublinear Multi-Writer Searchable Encryption, HKD 700K
-
Searchable Encryption: General Framework and Practical Constructions, HKD
693K
- Accountable Privacy in Online Communications, HKD 916K
Non-funded Projects:
-
Access Control Encryption: General Framework and Practical Constructions
(resulted in an S&P 2021 paper and an ACNS 2021 paper)
-
Functional Credentials: Theory and Practice
(resulted in an AsiaCrypt 2018 paper and an ACSAC 2021 paper)
Openings:
-
Postdoc or
PhD students
with strong interest(s) in my research
areas
(Apply for our
funded Summer Workshop for HK PhD Fellowship.
3 participants got PhD offer in our group.)
- I enjoy working with motivated students.
My students published in
AsiaCrypt, CT-RSA, FC, ITCS, NDSS, PETS, S&P, Usenix Security, etc.
- Impress me with your papers in
reputable venues and your own research statement.
- If you are a CUHK (undergrad / master / PhD) student
and would like to explore cyber security with me,
send me an email.
Current Post-Doctoral Research Fellow:
Current
PhD Students:
-
Jack P. K. Ma,
BSc(CUHK)
(working on Anonymous Credentials, Secure Multi-party Computation)
-
Harry W. H. Wong, BSc(CUHK)
(working on Lattice-Based Cryptography, Threshold Cryptography)
-
Huangting Wu,
BSc(CUHK)
(working on Pairing-Based Cryptography)
-
Minxin Du, MS(WHU), BS-HongYi(WHU)
(working on Differential Privacy, internd at Huawei)
-
Yu Zheng,
BEng(NEU)
(working on Machine Learning and Differential Privacy)
-
Andes Y. L. Kei, BEng(CUHK), HK PhD Fellowship (HKPFS) Awardee
(working on AI and Blockchain)
-
Ying-yu Pan, MSc, BEng(BUPT)
Current
MPhil Student:
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Donald P. H. Wong, BEng(CUHK)
(working on Machine Learning)
Past Post-Doctoral Research Fellows:
-
Yongjun Zhao, PhD, BEng(CUHK)
(Sep '18 - Sep '19)
-
Yu Chen
(Aug '15 - Jan '16, results: PKC '16, JoC '22)
Alumni:
-
Tao
Zhang, PhD, BEng(CUHK), interned at I2R; currently with Tencent
"Contribution to Structure-Preserving Cryptography and Accountable
Privacy"
(CT-RSA, ESORICS, FC)
-
Yongjun Zhao, PhD, BEng(CUHK), visited U. Surrey, now with ByteDance
"Privacy Enhancing Technologies: New Primitives and New Systems"
(AsiaCCS->TDSC, FC, PETS, WPES)
-
Russell W. F. Lai, RA (Aug '16 - Jul '17), MPhil, BEng+BSc(CUHK)
"Secure Delegation of Parallel Computation"
(ACNS, ITCS)
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Raymond K. H. Tai,
MPhil, BSc(CUHK)
"Privacy-Preserving Decision Trees Evaluation Protocols"
(ESORICS, NDSS)
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Xiuhua Wang, PhD(CUHK); now with HUST
"Secure and More Practical Access Control Encryption"
(ACNS, S&P)
-
Lucien K. L. Ng,
MPhil, BSc-Elite(CUHK); now studying at Georgia Tech.
"Crypto-/Hardware-Assisted Privacy-Preserving Deep Neural Network
Frameworks"
(AAAI, Usenix Security)
-
Jiafan Wang,
PhD(CUHK), BSc(CSU); joining CSIRO's Data61, Australia.
"New Notions of Multi-Client Searchable Encryption"
(Usenix Security)
Mid-Term Visitors:
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Yvo Desmedt (University of Texas at Dallas, and UCL) [talk]
- Russell W. F. Lai (PhD student at FAU, now with Aalto) [talks: 1, 2]
- Giulio Malavolta (was a PhD student at FAU, now with MPI-SP)
[talk]
- Viktoria Ronge (PhD student at FAU)
- Rong Hu (was a PhD student at Kyushu University)
-
Kai-Min Chung (Academia Sinica, TW) [talk]
-
Cong Zhang (previously RA at HKU, now with ZJU)
Short-Term Visitors:
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Jonathan Katz (University of Maryland College Park) [talk]
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Florian Kerschbaum (University of Waterloo) [talk]
-
Qiang Tang (New Jersey Institute of Technology, now U. of Sydney) [talk]
-
Ioannis Demertzis (now UC. Santa Cruz)
-
Peizhao Hu (Rochester Institute of Technology) [talk]
-
Ming Li (University of Arizona) [talk]
-
Joseph Bonneau (now NYU/University of Melbourne) [talk]
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Dominique Schroeder (now FAU, Germany) [talk]
-
Linfeng Zhou (now with Coinbase)
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Anthony T.S. Ho (University of Surrey, UK) [talk]
-
Zhen Liu (was with ASTRI, now SJTU)
-
Yong Guan (Iowa State University, US) [talk]
-
Liqun Chen (HP Labs, now U. Surrey, UK) [talk]
-
Brian A. LaMacchia (Microsoft Research Redmond) [talk]
Past Part-Time RA:
- Anna Woo (MIE-Elite, now with U. Mich)
- Erwin Chan (MIE)
Past UG Research Intern:
-
Yu Zheng (Northeastern University, China)
(Mar '18 - May '18, now PhD student)
-
Shuyang Tang
(Shanghai Jiaotong University)
(Oct '17 - Feb '18, result: ACISP 2019 Best Student Paper Award)
Past Summer Research Interns:
- Andes Y. L. Kei (FinTech-Elite)
- Anna P. Y. Woo (MIE-Elite, Best
Project Award winner)
- Feng Zhao (CS)
- Yixiang Zhou
- Kelvin K. C. Chan (MIE)
- Jack P. K. Ma (MIE)
- Wenjie Zhao (MIE)
- Jianhan Song (IE, Current PhD student at UT Austin)
- Angela Xuan (MIE)
- Russell W. F. Lai (MATH+IERG,
Best Project Award winner)
- Luke Wang (IBBA+IERG)
Past
FYP Supervisions: (Selected projects)
-
Exploitation and Hacking in Android Games: Jingdong Huang, Yu Wai Wong
(Final Year Project
Award!)
-
Improving Latency of Secure Neural Network Inference:
Nash Chow, Peter Wong
-
Deep Neural Network in Secure Linux Container with Trusted Processor:
Gary Chow, Donald Wong (Final Year Project Award!)
-
Secure Machine Learning: Lucien K. L. Ng (Bronze
Award of the ASM Technology Award 2018!)
-
TLS 0-RTT Key Exchange: Erwin Chan, Lynus Wong
- Permissions-Oriented Android Apps Store: King Ng, Edwin Sin
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Privacy Preserving Machine Learning Classification:
Jack Ma, Raymond Tai (published in ESORICS 2017!)
MSc Alumni (with research project supervision):
- 2021-22: Liping Xia
- 2021: Zheng Yang
- 2019-20: Xiang Li (next: University of Tokyo)
- 2018-19: Qian Chen, Luohong Yang, Yixin Yue
- 2015: Zhenjie Song, Yisong Wu, Rachel Zhu
- 2014: Hua Tong, Muren Zhang
- 2013-14: Teresa Dermawan (co-supervised with
C. C. Loy), Weiyi Mao
- 2013-14: Huirui Han
- 2013: Bo Chen
- 2013: Yingkai Tang
- 2012: Rongbin Li
Upcoming/Recent Papers
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[NDSS 2023] Real Threshold ECDSA
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[Usenix Security 2022] Omnes pro uno: Practical Multi-Writer
Encrypted Database
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[AsiaCCS 2022] Secure-Computation-Friendly Private Set Intersection from Oblivious Compact Graph Evaluation
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[ACSAC 2021]
Sipster: Settling IOU Privately and Quickly with Smart Meters
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[ACL 2021 (Findings)] Differential Privacy for Text Analytics via Natural
Text Sanitization
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[DBSec 2021] Simple Storage-Saving Structure for Volume-Hiding Encrypted
Multi-Maps (Best Student Paper Award)
Videos:
Freeware:
Recent Invited Talks:
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4th Intl' Workshop on Application Intelligence and
Blockchain Security (AIBlock), co-located with ACNS
(Jun '22, Rome (Virtual), Italy)
-
CUHK x ASTRI Industry Talk Series (Vol. 2)
(Apr '21, Shatin, Hong Kong)
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4th
CUHK Conference on Financial Technology
(Nov '20, Shatin, Hong Kong)
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13th Intl' Conference on Network and System Security
(Dec '19, Sapporo, Japan)
- Summer Summit on Cryptocurrency and Blockchain
Technologies 2019
(Aug '19, Kowloon, Hong Kong)
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7th Intl' Workshop on Security in Cloud Computing (SCC)
(Jul '19, Auckland, New Zealand, also a panelist)
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22nd Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography
(Nov '18, Osaka, Japan)
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1st Intl' Conference on Frontiers in Cyber Security
(Nov '18, Chengdu, China)
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14th Intl' Conference on
Information Security Practice and
Experience
(Sep '18, Tokyo, Japan)
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12th Intl' Conference on Network and System Security
(Aug '18, Hong Kong, short talk + panelist)
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IEEE Intl' Workshop on Blockchain for the Internet of Things,
(July '18, Halifax,
Canada)
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9th IEEE Intl' Conf. on Cloud
Computing Technology and Science
(Dec '17, Hong Kong, also a
panelist) -
Cryptography and Security Frontier Forum
(Aug '17, State Key Laboratory
of Cryptology, Beijing, China)
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3rd Cyber Security Workshop
(June '17, Wuhan, China)
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3rd Intl. Symposium on Mobile Security
(Dec '16, Seoul, South Korea)
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2nd
IoT Privacy, Trust, and Security
(May '16, Xi'an, China)
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Next-generation Cryptography
(Sep '15, IMI, Kyushu University; and ISIT,
Japan)
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"Information
Security Leading Edge Forum"
(July '15, Guangzhou University, China)
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Intl. Cryptology and Information Security Conference
(June '14, Putrajaya, Malaysia)
Upcoming Conferences to "Attend":
Recent Conferences Attended:
- ('22, still virtually... :)
The Web,
AsiaCCS,
ACNS (AIBlock),
PETS,
Usenix Security
- ('21, still virtually :)
IJCAI '20,
AAAI,
NDSS,
The Web,
S&P,
AsiaCCS,
ACNS,
ICDCS,
PETS,
DBSec,
Usenix Sec.,
PPML@Crypto,
ESORICS,
ACSAC,
AsiaCrypt,
IndoCrypt
- ('20, virtually :)
DASFAA, ACNS,
AsiaCCS,
AsiaCrypt,
CANS
- ('19 :)
PKC,
AsiaCCS (SCC),
NSS
- ('18 :)
Infocom,
AsiaCCS,
ESSA 2,
IEEE
Blockchain,
NSS,
ISPEC,
CCS (WPES),
FCS,
BlockSEA (@ICDM),
ECC,
AsiaCrypt
- ('17 :)
FC,
Cyber
Security,
ACNS,
Usenix Security,
CANS,
AsiaCrypt,
CloudCom
- ('16 :)
PKC,
AsiaCCS (IoTPTS),
SACMAT,
ICDCS,
TrustCom,
IWSEC,
SecureComm,
ProvSec,
Mobile Security
(MSEC)
- ('15 :)
FC,
AsiaCCS (SCC),
Infocom,
ProvSec,
AsiaCrypt
- ('14 :)
CT-RSA,
Infocom,
AsiaCCS,
Malaysia Cryptology,
ProvSec,
ISC,
IEEE-CNS,
ACM CCS,
AsiaCrypt,
Inscrypt
- ('13 :)
FC, AsiaCCS
- ('12 :)
EuroCrypt,
ACNS,
AsiaCrypt
School-Programs Attended:
Teaching:
IEMS 5725 Blockchain and Applications
(Spring 2023)
ENGG 5383
Applied Cryptography
(Spring 2023, Fall 2020, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013)
IERG 4150 Introduction to Cryptography
(Fall 2022, Fall 2021)
DSME 6788
Cyber Security (1st Trimester, 2022-23;
2nd Trimester, 2021-22;
3rd Trimester, 2020-21, 2019-20;
2nd Trimester, 2018-19)
SBMS 3208 Forensic Science (Guest Lecture on IT Forensics, Fall
2022, 2021, 2020, 2019)
CSCI/IERG 5590/IEMS 5709
Advanced topics in Blockchain (Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2019)
IERG 4210 Web Programming and
Security
(Spring 2021)
IERG 5310
Security & Privacy in Cyber Systems
(Fall 2019, Spring 2015)
IERG 4220
Secure Software Engineering
(Springer 2018, Spring 2017)
IERG 4130 or ESTR 4306
Intro. to Cyber Security
(Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2014, Fall 2013)
Some Other Duties:
Topics in Cryptography:
Conferences/Journals in Cryptography:
Links: