Primary Focus Areas

I do ACE research: AI, Cybersecurity/Cryptography, & Energy.

Collaboration

Co-Founder of Singapore National Internet Governance Forum (IGF) under the United Nations (UN).

Partners of my research: Alibaba, Ant Financial Group, OCBC, LingoAI, World Web3 Alliance, Digital Assets Association, Artificial Intelligence International Institute, PwC, EY, Sony, SAP, TikTok.

Broader R&D Areas (related paper links to be added)

• Privacy-Preserving AI or Analytics
  • Privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs)
  • Homomorphic encryption + AI
  • Secure multiparty computation (MPC) + AI
  • Zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) + AI, ZKML
  • Private set intersection (PSI)
  • Searchable symmetric encryption (SSE) + analytics
  • Data synthesis (DS)
  • Federated learning (FL)
  • Differential privacy (DP)
  • Trusted execution environment (TEE); e.g., Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX)
• AI Safety
  • AI model risk assessments
  • LLM, retrieval augmented generation (RAG)
  • Trusted accreditation of AI: fairness, transparency, explainability, accountability
  • AI governance, AI failure mitigation
  • Hallucination
  • AI copyright
  • AI supply chain risk
• Security and Cryptography
  • Cybersecurity, digital trust
  • Post-quantum cryptography (PQC)
  • Side-channel analysis, fault-injection attacks
• Decentralisation, Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)
  • Decentralized identity (DID), self-sovereign identity (SSI)
  • Financial technology (FinTech)
  • Web 3.0
  • Scam prevention
• Systems and Infrastructure
  • Critical information infrastructure (CII): energy, sustainability, smart grid, water system, maritime, shipyard
  • Internet of Things (IoT), cyber-physical systems (CPS), edge/fog computing, O-RAN, vertical takeoff & landing (VTOL)
  • Digital twin
• Quantum
  • PQC, quantum circuits, quantum sensing and computing