Jian Weng

Jian Weng

Vice President, Professor

About me

Jian Weng is a professor with the College of Cyber Security in Jinan University. He received his Ph.D. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2008. Over his career, he has published more than 100 papers in leading international conferences and journals, including CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT, ASIACRYPT, USENIX Security, NDSS, IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TIFS, and IEEE TDSC. Jian Weng has also successfully led over 10 major research projects in China, supported by the National Key R&D Program, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (including Distinguished Young Scholars, Key Program, General Program, and Young Scientists Fund), and several significant projects in basic and applied research in Guangdong Province.

Research interests: public key cryptography, data security and privacy, blockchain

Email: cryptjweng[at]gmail.com

Publications

My Journal and Conference Publications can be found at my Google Scholar profile.

Selected Professional Activities

  • Co-Chair of ASIACRYPT 2023
  • Program Chair of ChinaCrypt 2023
  • General Chair of Inscrypt 2021
  • General Chair of SecureComm 2016
  • Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2018-2020)
  • Program Chair of ISPEC 2011
  • Program Chair of RFIDsec 2013
  • Program Committee Member for over 50 international conferences, including IWSEC 2013, ISPEC 2013, IWSEC 2012, ISPEC 2012, ISC 2011, and WISTP 2011

Selected Recent Grants

  • “Research on Key Technologies of Cryptography-Based Multi-Party Privacy-Enhancing Computing”, the Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, PI, Duration: 2024.01~2028.12.
  • “Research on a Novel Cross-Chain System Supporting Interoperability Across Heterogeneous Blockchains”, the National Key Research and Development Program of China, PI, Duration: 2020.11~2023.10.
  • “Public Key Cryptography”, the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China, PI, 2019.01~2023.12.
  • “Research on Key Technologies for Information Detection and Security Protection in Vehicular Networks”, the Joint Funds of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, PI, Duration: 2018.01~2021.12.

Selected Social Services

  • Member of the Cybersecurity and Information Security Expert Group of the Ministry of Science and Technology in China
  • Chief Scientist of the National Key R&D Program in China
  • Member of the Cyberspace Security Discipline Review Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council in China
  • Member of the Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Education in China
  • President of the Guangdong Institute of Digital Government
  • Director of the Guangdong Data Security Compliance Committee

Selected Awards

  • First Prize of the Guangdong Science and Technology Progress Award (2023)
  • Guangdong Ding Ying Science and Technology Award (2023)
  • First Prize of the Guangdong Natural Science Award (2021)
  • Second Prize of the National Technological Invention Award (2020)
  • Best Paper Award at the 25th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2020)
  • Outstanding Network Security Teacher Award in China (2017)
  • Best Student Paper Award at the 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2017)
  • Best Student Paper Award at the 10th International Conference on Provable Security (ProvSec 2014)
  • Best Paper Award at the 26th Symposium on Cryptography and Information Security (SCIS 2011)