DataVaults and DevLeChain

Speaker:   Prof. Weizhi Meng
           Technical University of Denmark (DTU

Title:    "DataVaults and DevLeChain"

Date:     Tuesday, 3 September 2024

Time:     10:00am - 11:00am

Venue:    Rom 3598 (via lift 27/28), HKUST

Abstract:

The lack of trusted, secure, ethical-driven personal data platforms and
privacy-aware analytics, hinders the growth of the data economy and
creates concerns. The talk first aims to introduce DataVaults, a platform
to address this kind of concerns that pertain privacy, ethics and
intellectual property rights, by allowing individuals to take ownership
and control of their data and share them at will, through flexible data
sharing and fair compensation schemes with other entities (companies or
not). Then this talk aims to introduce an open blockchain platform --
DevLeChain, which comes with unified access method, easy-to-understand
development workflow, and constant design philosophy. It provides an easy
toolset to customize and control the underlying blockchain's behavior.


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Biography:

Dr. Weizhi Meng is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of
Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark
(DTU), Denmark. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Prior to joining DTU, he worked
as Research Scientist in Institute for Infocomm Research, A*Star,
Singapore. He won the Outstanding Academic Performance Award during his
doctoral study, and is a recipient of the Hong Kong Institution of
Engineers (HKIE) Outstanding Paper Award for Young Engineers/Researchers
in both 2014 and 2017. He also received the IEEE ComSoc Best Young
Researcher Award for Europe, Middle East, & Africa Region (EMEA) in 2020.
His primary research interests are cyber security and intelligent
technology in security, including intrusion detection, IoT security,
biometric authentication, and blockchain. He serves as associate editors /
editorial board members for many reputed journals such as IEEE TDSC and
IEEE TIFS, as well as chair for various international conferences such as
ACM CCS 2023 and ESORICS 2022. He is an ACM Distinguished Speaker.