Prof. Jiankun Hu
Associate Professor,
School of Computer Science and IT, RMIT University, Australia

Bio-Cryptography and Network Security: A Converged View

The theoretic framework of network security has been based on the conventional cryptography. Hence it has inherited the same fundamental flaw when user authentication is involved: knowledge or taken based mechanism cannot authenticate the genuine users. While biometrics such fingerprint, face, iris etc can authenticate genuine users, they suffer a different built-in weakness: biometric uncertainty. This talk will discuss challenges and future directions in this converged field.

About Prof. Jiankun Hu

Dr. Jiankun Hu is Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science and IT, RMIT University, Australia. He heads the Network Cluster in the Discipline of Distributed Systems and Networks.

Dr. Hu obtained his PhD in Computer Control Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China; Masters by research from School of Software Engineering, Monash University Australia; and Bachelor of Engineering from Department of Industrial Automatic Control, Hunan University, China. He has been awarded the prestigious research fellowship of German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation working in Ruhr University Germany; Research fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering, the University of Melbourne, Australia; and Research fellow in Delft University, the Netherlands. He has been awarded three ARC (Australia Research Council) grants related to anomaly intrusion detection, and biometric security. He also has over 60 publications in this field. Dr. Hu has been serving as program chair, symposium chairs etc for several internationals conferences including IEEE Globecom, and IEEE ICC. He has served as associate editor for about 6 international journals.