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Willy Susilo

Willy Susilo (/ˈsusiloʊ/) [1] is an Australian cybersecurity scientist and cryptographer. He is a Distinguished Professor at the School of Computing and Information Technology, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences[2] University of Wollongong, Australia.[3]

Willy Susilo
Susilo in 2017
Born
Surabaya, Indonesia
Alma materUniversity of Wollongong (PhD)
University of Wollongong (MCompSc)
University of Surabaya (BEng)
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Wollongong
Doctoral advisor
WebsiteUniversity of Wollongong — Willy Susilo

Willy Susilo is a fellow of IEEE (Computer Society), IET, ACS, and AAIA. He is the director of Institute of Cybersecurity and Cryptology, School of Computing and Information Technology, University of Wollongong. Willy is an innovative educator and researcher. Currently, he is the Head of School of Computing and Information Technology at UOW (2015 - now). Prior to this role, he was awarded the prestigious Australian Research Council Future Fellowship[4] in 2009. He was the former Head of School of Computer Science and Software Engineering (2009 - 2010) and the Deputy Director of ICT Research Institute at UOW (2006 - 2008).

He is currently serving as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) and has served an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier Computer Standards and Interface [5] and the Information journals.[6] His research interest is cybersecurity and cryptography.

Willy obtained his PhD from the University of Wollongong in 2001. He has published more than 400 papers in journals and conference proceedings in cryptography and network security. He has served as the program committee member of several international conferences.

In 2016, he was awarded the "Researcher of the Year" at UOW, due to his research excellence and contributions. His work on the creation of short signature schemes[7] has been well cited and it is part of the IETF draft.[8]

Biography edit

Willy received his Bachelor degree from the Faculty of Engineering at Universitas Surabaya,[9] Indonesia. He went to the University of Wollongong, Australia, to pursue his Master's and Ph.D. degrees. He was awarded a Ph.D. degree in 2001 from the University of Wollongong, Australia.

Research edit

Willy Susilo's research is in the area of cybersecurity and cryptography. His primary research focus is to design solutions and cryptographic algorithms to contribute towards securing the cyberspace. In 2023 he was awarded an Australian Laureate Fellowship to further his research in cryptography and cloud computing.[10]

Publications and awards edit

Distinguished Professor Willy Susilo is author and co-author of over 400[11] research papers. His work in cryptography, computer-security, information-technology, cyber-security, and network-security.

  • 2021, IET Fellow[12]
  • 2021, IEEE Fellow[13]
  • 2021, ACS Fellow[14]
  • 2021, AAIA Fellow[15]
  • 2020, "Vice Chancellor's Global Strategy Award"
  • 2019, "Vice-Chancellor's Award For Research Supervision"
  • 2016, "Vice Chancellor's Research Excellence Award for Researcher of the Year"

Books edit

  • F. Guo, W. Susilo and Y. Mu. Introduction to Security Reduction. Springer, 2018. ISBN 978-3-319-93048-0
  • K.C. Li, X. Chen, and W. Susilo. Advances in Cyber Security: Principles, Techniques, and Applications. Springer, 2019. ISBN 978-981-13-1483-4
  • X. Chen, W. Susilo, and E. Bertino. Cyber Security Meets Machine Learning. Springer, 2021. ISBN 978-981-33-6726-5

Professional Services edit

Willy Susilo is the Editor-in-Chief of two journals. He is also General and PC Co-chair of more than 20 different international conferences in cryptography and cybersecurity.

Editor-in-Chief edit

  • Computers Standard and Interfaces (Elsevier)
  • Information journal (MDPI)

Professional Membership edit

  • Fellow of IET.
  • Fellow of IEEE.
  • Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA).[16]
  • Fellow of the Australian Computer Society (ACS).
  • Member of the International Cryptographic Association Research (IACR).

References edit

  1. ^ "Willy Susilo". sites.google.com.
  2. ^ "Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences". University of Wollongong. November 2023.
  3. ^ "Willy Susilo | University of Wollongong - Academia.edu". uow.academia.edu.
  4. ^ "Australian Research Council Future Fellowship". arc.gov.au. 24 May 2018.
  5. ^ "Computer Standards & Interfaces" – via www.journals.elsevier.com.
  6. ^ "Information Journal". Archived from the original on 24 May 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
  7. ^ Zhang, Fangguo; Safavi-Naini, Reihaneh; Susilo, Willy (27 May 2004). "An Efficient Signature Scheme from Bilinear Pairings and Its Applications". In Bao, Feng; Deng, Robert; Zhou, Jianying (eds.). Public Key Cryptography – PKC 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 2947. Springer. pp. 277–290. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-24632-9_20. ISBN 978-3-540-21018-4 – via Springer Link.
  8. ^ Hitt, L. (10 December 2013). "ZSS Short Signature Scheme for Supersingular and BN Curves (Draft)". tools.ietf.org.
  9. ^ "Universitas Surabaya Home Page". Universitas Surabaya (Ubaya).
  10. ^ "2023 Laureate Profile: Professor Willy Susilo". Australian Research Council. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  11. ^ "Willy Susilo – Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  12. ^ "Fellow membership". theiet.org. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  13. ^ "About the IEEE Fellow Program". ieee.org. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  14. ^ "Fellows 2021-2022". www.acs.org.au. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  15. ^ "AAIA Fellows". www.aaia-ai.org/fellows. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  16. ^ Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association

External links edit

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