Four faculty members of Division of Science and Technology (DST) of UIC projects were funded by the foundation. They are: Prof. Amy Zhang from CST, Dr. Alice Hui from STAT, Prof. Sun Weiwei from AM and Dr. Donglong Chen from DS.

Assistant Professor Dr Donglong Chen’s project is about the research on the software and hardware collaborative computing platform of Quantum secure Lattice Cipher system. This research was awarded funding of 240,000 yuan as a Youth Program of Science Foundation.

Dr Chen received his PhD degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong. In August 2019, he joined the Data Science Programme in Division of Science and Technology at UIC as an assistant professor. His research interests are the cooperative optimal design of cryptographic algorithm and hardware, together with accelerated computing of software and hardware in deep learning algorithm.

The rapid development of quantum computer technology has brought threats to traditional information security systems. To meet the computing needs of cloud security services with high performance, high versatility, and easy expansion, Dr Chen's topic ‘Research on the Software and Hardware Collaborative Computing Platform of Quantum Secure Lattice Cipher System’ combines lattice cryptosystem algorithms, arithmetic algorithms, and hardware architecture, optimizes and improves the algorithm for the key operators in the algorithm of the lattice cryptosystem, and construct a scalable hardware coprocessor for lattice cryptography through parameterized design methods. It is expected that the research results can provide computing platforms of independent capabilities, high performance, high versatility, and expansibility for the cloud security service market.

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Editors: Samuel Burgess, Covee Wang, Zhang Fan