The 6th ACM International Symposium on Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure (BSCI 2024)

Professor Man Ho (Allen) Au
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Abstract: TBD

Speaker's Bio: Prof. Man Ho Allen Au is a Full Professor at the Department of Computing of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests include information security, cryptography, blockchain technology, and their applications. He has published over 200 refereed papers in top journals and conferences, including CRYPTO, ASIACRYPT, ACM CCS, NDSS, IEEE S&P, SIGMOD, SOSP, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TDSC, and others. He was a recipient of the 2023 BOCHK Science and Technology Innovation Prize (STIP) in FinTech and 2009 PET runner-up award for outstanding research in privacy-enhancing technologies. His team won the ZPrize - Open Division Plonk-DIZK GPU Acceleration prize, which came with a cash award of 550K USD. He has been ranked as HKU Scholar in the Top 1% (by Clarivate Analytics in the top 1% worldwide by citations) in 2020 - 2022. He is also listed as the World's Top 2% Scientists by single-year impact and by career-long impact in the list published by Stanford University in Oct 2022 and Oct 2023.



Associate Professor Jiangshan Yu
The University of Sydney, Australia

Abstract: TBD

Speaker's Bio: Dr. Jiangshan Yu is an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney. Previously, he held positions at Monash University and served as Research Director at Monash Blockchain Technology Centre. He received his PhD from the University of Birmingham in 2016. His research focuses on resilient computing and security, particularly in blockchain and trustworthy systems. Dr. Yu has published extensively in top conferences and journals in the field, including IEEE S&P, ACM EuroSys, IEEE ICDE, IEEE/IFIP DSN, IEEE CSF, IEEE ICDCS, FC, IEEE TC, IEEE TPDS, ACM TOPS, IEEE TDSC, and IEEE TIFS. He has received prestigious awards such as Monash Research Talent Accelerator Award (2023), ARC DECRA (2021), and IBM Academic Award (2020). He actively participates in the academic community as a Program Committee member for major conferences like ACM CCS, VLDB, USENIX ATC (ERC), IEEE/IFIP DSN, IEEE ICDCS, FC, ACM AFT, IEEE ICBC, and IEEE Blockchain. Dr. Yu is an elected member of the IFIP 10.4 Working Group on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance. He also serves as an Associate Editor for ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies (ACM DLT) and is on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Austrian Blockchain Centre (Austria).