Dr Man Ho Allen Au is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science in The Univerrsity of Hong Kong (HKU). Before joining HKU, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Computing of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University during which he helped established the PolyU-MonashU-Collinstar Capital Joint Laboratory on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Technologies, the first university-industry joint research laboratory on blockchain in Hong Kong and served as its founding co-director. Dr Au's research interests include information security, applied cryptography, blockchain technology, and their industrial applications.

Dr Au's research activities have been generously supported by the Innovation Technology Fund, the Research Grant Council of Hong Kong, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, local and foreign companies. His research outcomes appeared at major international conferences and journals, including CRYPTO, ASIACRYPT, ACM CCS, IEEE S&P, NDSS, ACM SIGMOD, IEEE TIFS, TDSC, TC, etc. Currently, he is serving as a committee member of the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 working group 2 - Cryptography and security mechanisms. He is also a committee member of the Hong Kong Blockchain Society R&D division.

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My name in Chinese is .

My parents also gave me the English name Allen when I was young. Please feel free to call me Allen!

Additional information about me can be found via the links below.

Contact

Office: Room 409, Chow Yei Ching Building, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Email: allenau [at] cs.hku.hk

Phone: +852 2857-8243

I am looking for self-motivated PhD students (Fall 2022 Admission) and have a number of Postdoc and RA positions availabe. Please send me an email if you are interested!