Lam Kwok Yan

Lam Kwok Yan

Kwok-Yan Lam (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree (first class honors) from the University of London, London, U.K., in 1987 and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K., in 1990. He is the Associate Vice President (Strategy and Partnerships) and Professor in the College of Computing and Data Science at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He is currently also the Executive Director of the Digital Trust Centre Singapore (DTC), Executive Director of the Singapore A.I. Safety Institute, and Director of the Strategic Centre for Research in Privacy-Preserving Technologies and Systems (SCRiPTS). Since August 2020, Professor Lam has been on part-time secondment to the INTERPOL as a Consultant at Cyber and New Technology Innovation.  He has been a Professor of the Tsinghua University, China (2002-2010) and a faculty member of the National University of Singapore and the University of London since 1990. His research interests include distributed systems, IoT security infrastructure, distributed authentication, biometric cryptography, homeland security, and cybersecurity. Prof. Lam received the Singapore Foundation Award in 1998 from the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in recognition of his R&D achievement in Information Security in Singapore. Professor Lam is the recipient of the 2022 Singapore Cybersecurity Hall of Fame Award.