Dr Siaw-Lynn Ng B.Sc. (Adelaide) Ph.D. (London) was awarded a B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Mathematics from the University of Adelaide in 1995, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Royal Holloway, University of London in 1998.

She was a post-doctoral research assistant at Royal Holloway from 1998 to 2001. Her research interests includes combinatorics and finite geometry and their applications in information security. Siaw-Lynn was appointed as a lecturer in 2001 and a senior lecturer in 2015.

My research interest lies in combinatorics and finite geometry and their applications in information security. I have published research papers in the fields of finite geometry, secret sharing schemes and security protocols and many of them demonstrate the symbiosis between discrete mathematics and information security. I am interested in the combinatorial properties of privacy and security in storage of information (such as distributed storage systems, and coded caching for content delivery), and in combinatorial objects associated with codes for information storage and transmission.

I am happy to supervise MSc projects in the areas of 

• Applications of discrete mathematics in information security/cryptography.
• Any other areas of information security as long as they are interesting!

• 2021- Module leader for the second/third year computer science course Introduction to Information Security (IY2760/DC3760).
• 2017-2020 Spring term: Module leader for the third year and MSc course on Error-correcting codes (MT3610/MT5461).
• 2015-2016 Module leader for a third year Mathematics undergraduate course (MT3620 Cipher Systems) and the postgraduate course (MT5462 Advanced Cipher Systems).
• 2014 Autumn term: Sabbatical.
• 2004-2013 Module leader for a third year Mathematics undergraudate course (MT3620 Cipher Systems) and the postgraduate course (MT5462 Advanced Cipher Systems).
• 2001-2004 Module leader for two MSc in Information Security courses: Business and Security Issues Raised by Electronic Commerce, and Secure Electronic Commerce and Other Applications.

Series editor (2015-2022), the Computer Weekly (Search Security) Royal Holloway Information Security Thesis Series. 

These articles can be found at https://royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-teaching/departments-and-schools/information-security/research/explore-our-research/computer-weekly-search-security-awards/