Dr Siaw-Lynn Ng

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.

• 2017 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.

I am happy to supervise MSc projects in the areas of 

• Availability and resilience in distributed data storage systems.
• Applications of discrete mathematics in information security/cryptography.
• Security and privacy in distributed data storage systems.
• Anti-jamming techniques.
• Security in swarm robotics.
• Any other areas of information security as long as they are interesting!

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