Biography
I received a BSc in Applied Physics
from the University of
Strathclyde in
1981; MSc in Microelectronics in 1987, and doctorate in 1991; both from
the
University Edinburgh. My thesis was on "VLSI architectures for
cryptography".
I then joined the Institute of Microelectronics at the National
University of
Singapore, working on secure NICAM broadcasting and video compression.
In
1994 I moved to General Instrument in California to work on the
Digicipher II
Conditional Access system for digital video broadcasting. Before
joining the
Information Security Group at Royal Holloway in 2003, I was Principal
Engineer
at
Barco Communications Systems where I was responsible for the
development of
the "Krypton" DVB Video Scrambler where I served
for a number of years
on the
DVB Simulcrypt committee.
