Siaw-Lynn Ng PERSONAL DETAILS Location: West London (UK) Email: s.ng@rhul.ac.uk KEY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE Research and problem-solving: In conducting research for my PhD in mathematics and in my job as a post-doctoral research assistant and later lecturer in information security, I have developed the ability to apply knowledge in one area to solving problems in other related fields, as well as to research new areas, analysing the essential issues of a subject and its links with other areas. Motivation and time management: In my role as a researcher I am motivated and am able to work independently. As part of a team I am able to cooperate with colleagues and work to schedule in organising events as well as producing joint publications. Communication: In publishing research papers and giving seminars I am able to express my clearly on paper and communicate my research findings to my peer groups. In designing and implementing the Royal Holloway Information Security Group website I have also developed the ability to collate and organise information. RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE 2001 - Present Royal Holloway, University of London. Jun Lecturer, Information Security Group (ISG). This involves organising lectures in various areas of information security and secure electronic commerce, as well as carrying out research in the fields of mathematics and information security. I am also responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of the ISG website. 1998 - 2001 Royal Holloway, University of London. Jun Post-doctoral Research Assistant. I worked on an EPSRC-funded research project on authentication protocols with asymmetric computing requirement. This involved collaborative as well as independent research. 1998 - 1999 Royal Holloway, University of London. I took a tutorial group for a first year undergraduate maths course for two terms. 1995 PPES Pinnacle Ltd, Malaysia. Feb - May Programmer Analyst, responsible for computerising the accounts department of a corporation. This involved setting up and maintaining a HP Unix system, customising an accounting package and training users. EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS 1995--1998 Royal Holloway, University of London. PhD in Mathematics under Professor F. Piper. My PhD thesis is entitled ``On covers of point sets in finite geometries''. The work included constructions of minimal sets of points covering a line in finite projective planes, as well as a study on a family of extended generalised quadrangles and a construction of a new example. I also attended courses on various subjects including Elliptic Curves and Number Theory, Computational Algebraic Geometry, as well as seminars and conferences mainly on Discrete Mathematics and its applications. 1994 Adelaide University, Australia. Feb - Nov BSc (Hon.) (Math & Comp Sc), First Class. This was a one year course for an Honours degree in Pure Mathematics, involving attending courses and writing a dissertation. The courses I attended included Codes and Cryptography, Logic, Projective Geometry and other areas in mathematics. My dissertation was on representations of finite translation planes. 1991--1993 Adelaide University, Australia. BSc (Math & Comp Sc), majoring in Pure Maths and Computer Science. 1989--1990 Hwa Chong Junior College, Singapore. 4 `A'-levels: Maths(A), Physics(A), Chemistry(A) and Biology(A), and 2 `AO'-levels in Chinese(A1) and General Paper(A2). 1983--1988 Batu Lintang Secondary School, Malaysia. 9 `O'-level Equivalents, including English, Malay and Chinese. RESEARCH AND PRESENTATIONS Research I have submitted research papers on topics of information security including secret sharing, and authentication protocols, as well as on finite geometry. A list of publications is given below. I have acted as a referee for the journal Electronic Letters since 2000. I have also written a review for Designs, Codes and Cryptography, IEE Proceedings - Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, European Journal of Combinatorics, and for Eurocrypt 2000. Presentations I have presented work at the Discrete Maths and postgraduate information security seminars in Royal Holloway. I have also given a talk at a joint Universities of Ghent-Brussels incidence geometry seminar and at a Bristol University-HP Laboratories information security seminar. PUBLICATIONS (With C. Y. Yeun and C. J. Mitchell) ``Comment: Signature scheme based on discrete logarithm without using one-way hash-function.'' Electronics Letters, Vol 34, No 24, 2329-2330, November 1998. ``Comments on `On the security of three-party cryptographic protocols' by Xu, Zhang and Zhu.'' Operating Systems Review, Vol 33, No 3, 5-6, July 1999. (With C. J. Mitchell) ``Comment: Horng's identification scheme based on Shamir's `RSA for paranoids'.'' Electronics Letters, Vol 36, No 5, 422-422, March 2000. (With P. R. Wild) ``A new family of extended generalized quadrangles of order (q+1, q-1).'' European Journal of Combinatorics, Vol 21, 395-406, 2000. (With P. R. Wild) ``On k-arcs covering a line in finite projective planes.'' Ars Combinatoria, Vol 58, 289-300, January 2001. ``Comments on `Dynamic Participation in a Secure Conference Scheme for Mobile Communications'. '' IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol 50, No 1, 334-335 January 2001. (With M. Walker) ``On the composition of matroids and ideal secret sharing schemes.'' Designs, Codes and Cryptography, Vol 24, 49--67, 2001. ``A representation of a family of secret sharing matroids.'' To appear in Designs, Codes and Cryptography. ``Some properties of the Yoshiara family of planes.'' European Journal of Combinatorics, Vol 23, 77-81, 2002. ``Posets and protocols - picking the right three-party protocol.'' IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, Vol 21, No 1, 55--61 January 2003. (With C. J. Mitchell) ``Comments on mutual authentication and key exchange protocols for low power wireless communications.'' IEEE Communications Letters, Vol 8, No 4, 262--263 April 2004. ``A characterization of posets that are nearly antichains.'' Order, Vol 21, No 1, 1-5 February 2004 . ''Ideal secret sharing schemes with multipartite access structures.'' IEE Proceedings - Communications, Vol 153, No 2, 165-168 April 2006. (With T. Alassiry and P. Wild) ''Attack on Shao's key agreement protocol.'' IEE Proceedings - Information Security, Vol 153, No 2, 54-57 June 2006. (With K. Martin) ''The combinatorics of generalised cumulative arrays.'' Journal of Mathematical Cryptology, Vol 1, 13-32, 2007. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS 1999 - Present Member, International Association for Cryptologic Research. 1997 - Present Associate Member, London Mathematical Society. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION I am familiar with programming and have been exposed to various languages such as C, Ada, Prolog and Fortran. I have experience in programming cryptographic algorithms and also in using software packages such as Microsoft Office and Mathematica. I am also familiar with HTML and have designed and implemented websites. I have long experience in using the document processing software LaTeX. Since 1998 I have used and maintained a Linux server. I was also involved in the setting up of a webserver. I am fluent, both written and spoken, in English, Malay and Mandarin Chinese. I have also attended intensive one-year courses in Japanese and German. I enjoy playing the piano and have obtained a Grade 8 in Piano and Music Theory from the Associate Board of the Royal Schools of Music. I enjoy reading contemporary and classical literature in English and Chinese. I have recently started attending Tai Chi classes. (Last updated 4 October 2006)