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Tak Cheung (Brian) Lam

Tak Cheung (Brian) Lam
Graduate Student (PH.D.)
Computer Science
503B H. R. Bright Building
(979) 847-8609
brianlam@tamu.edu

Educational Background

PH.D., Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 2003 to Present

M.Phil, Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, 2002

B.Eng., Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, 2000


Experience

Intern, Performance Group, Application Oriented Networking, Cisco Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA, Jan 2007 to Jun 2007

Delegated Administrator, RTDS Lab., Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 2004 to Present

Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 2003 to 2006

Research Assistant, Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, 9/2002 to 12/2002

Teaching Assistant, Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, 2000 to 2002


Research Interest

Information Security and Applied Cryptography

Anonymity, Authenticity and Accountability (AAA)

XML Security and Performance Optimization

E-cash and its Applications for Distributed Computing


Professional Activities

Program Committee of Applied Cryptography and Information Security (ACIS 06)

Reviewer of International Journal of Network Security (IJNS)


Professional Qualifications

Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) 2001


Awards & Service

Second Place Winner, Graduate Poster Engineering Panel, Student Research Week 2005, Texas A&M University, 2005

President of Hong Kong Student Association, Texas A&M University, 2004 - 2005

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001

First Class Honor, Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000

The Chinese Manufactures' Association of Hong Kong CMA and Donors Scholarship, 2000

Academic Prize, United College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000

Dean List, Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999


Publications

Pu Duan, T. C. Lam, and Jyh-Charn Liu , "Efficient secret handshake protocols with reusable credentials and group matching" , Submitted to On Principles of Distributed Systems, 2007.

T. C. Lam, Jason Ding, and Jyh-Charn Liu , "XML document parsing - operational and performance characterisitcs" , Submitted to IEEE Computer Magazine, 2007.

T. C. Lam, Cheng-Chung Tan, Yu-Jen Chang, and Jyh-Charn Liu , "Timed zero-knowledge proof (TZKP) protocol" , Submitted to Journal of Computer Security, 2007.

T. C. Lam, Cheng-Chung Tan, and Jyh-Charn Liu , "Hypercube based divisibility management for integrated credit dispense and computing resource allocation" , Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2007.

T. C. Lam, and Jyh-Charn Liu , "On timed zero-knowledge proof (TZKP) protocols (preliminary results)" , In the 12th IEEE Real-time and Embedded Technology and Application Symposium (RTAS06), WIP session.

T. C. Lam, "A note on the n-spendable extension of Ferguson's single term off-line coins." In Cryptology e-print Archive, Report 2005/439.

Yiping Shen, T. C. Lam, Jyh-Charn Liu and Wei Zhao , "On the confidential auditing of distributed computing systems", In the 24th International Conference of Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2004), pp. 600 - 607.

T. C. Lam and V. K. Wei, "A mobile agent clone detection system with itinerary privacy.", IEEE 11th Int'l Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE-2002), pp.68 - 73.

T. C. Lam and V. K. Wei, "Mobile agent clone detection using general transferable e-cash", International Conference on Information Security (InforSecu '02).


Technical Reports

T. C. Lam, Cheng-Chung Tan, and Jyh-Charn Liu , "Hypercube based divisibility management for integrated credit dispense and computing resource allocation" , Technical Report 2006-9-2, Department of Computer Science, Texas A & M University, 2006 .

T. C. Lam, Cheng-Chung Tan, Yu-Jen Chang, and Jyh-Charn Liu , "Timed zero-knowledge proof (TZKP) protocol" , Technical Report 2006-9-1, Department of Computer Science, Texas A & M University, 2006 .

T. C. Lam and Jyh-Charn Liu, "A hypercube-based divisibility management framework for e-cash algorithms", Technical Report 2004-10-4, Department of Computer Science, Texas A & M University, 2004

Chunhua Tang, T. C. Lam and Jyh-Charn Liu, "On the fair resource-sharing in large peer-to-peer systems", Technical Report 2003-8-7, Department of Computer Science, Texas A & M University, 2003

Xu Yang, T. C. Lam and Jyh-Charn Liu, "On the evidence based TTP election in the P2P network", Technical Report 2003-8-1, Department of Computer Science, Texas A & M University, 2003

T. C. Lam and Jyh-Charn Liu, "On the evidence based peer-to-peer resource management in distributed computing systems", Technical Report 2003-7-2, Department of Computer Science, Texas A & M University, 2003


Teaching Experience

Information Assurance and Network Security (Bachelor Degree Program), Center for Information Assurance and Security, Texas A&M University, Summer 2006.

Cryptography, Information Security, and E-commerce (Master Degree Program), Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Spring 2002.

Channel Coding Theory, Software Engineering (Bachelor Degree Program), Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Fall 2000 to Fall 2001.