Professor, School of Information Technology and Computer Science

Director, Telecommunication and Information Technology Research Institute

Director, Centre for Information Security (CIS)

Research Interests:

• Cryptography: Unconditional security, Authentication codes, Hashing and Message authentication, Credential and Identification Systems, Privacy enhancing systems, Provable security, Broadcast encryption, Fingerprinting, Key distribution schemes, Traceability, Signature schemes.
• Rights Management: Digital rights management, Privacy rights management, Secure content sharing, Encryption and authentication of images and visual data, Watermarking and data hiding.
• Network Security: Security in sensor networks, Ad hoc network security, Covert channel analysis, Next generation firewalls and intrusion detection systems, Wireless security

Current Professional Activities:

• Program co-Chair, ACM DRM 2006
• Program co-Chair, ACISP 2006
• Program Committee Member , Asiacrypt 2006
• Program Committee Member , AsiaCCS 2006
• Program Committee Member , Crypto 2007

Education:

• BSc (EE), MSc (EE) University of Tehran
• PhD (EE), University of Waterloo

Contact:

Telephone: (61) 2 42-213800
Fax: (61) 2 42-214170
Email: rei (at) uow (dot) edu (dot) au