Prof Yiu Siu Ming

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Professor Yiu is currently a professor and the Deputy Head at the Department of Computer Science of The University of Hong Kong (HKU). He is also the Director of the Department’s FinTech and Blockchain Laboratory and the Deputy Executive Director of HKU-Standard Chartered Hong Kong FinTech Academy. He was selected three times by Clarivate Analytics as one of the Highly Cited Researchers in the world in 2016, 2017 and 2019, and one of the top 1% researchers in HKU for 12 consecutive years (2011-2022).

Professor Yiu’s research areas include cryptography, cybersecurity, privacy technology, FinTech, and bioinformatics. In the areas of cryptography, he served as the conference chair in Hong Kong for ASIACRYPT 2017, one of the flag-ship conferences in the field and as the programme chair/committee members for other prestigious cybersecurity conferences. In addition to academic research, Professor Yiu has been a consultant to various companies in the areas of cybersecurity and data privacy.

• Deputy Head at the Department of Computer Science of The University of Hong Kong.
• Director of the Department’s FinTech and Blockchain Laboratory
• Deputy Executive Director of HKU-Standard Chartered Hong Kong FinTech Academy