Yuliang Zheng

Professor Yuliang Zheng is an internationally recognized authority in cryptography and network security, known as the father of signcryption, a technology now standardized by ISO. He earned his B.Sc. in computer science from Nanjing Institute of Technology in 1982, M.E. in 1988 and Ph.D. in 1991 from Yokohama National University, and has held faculty positions at institutions including University of North Carolina at Charlotte and currently serves as Chair and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has published over 200 scholarly articles, holds multiple patents in cybersecurity, and co-founded the Public Key Cryptography (PKC) conferences.