Professor Yiu is currently a professor and the Master Programme Director at the School of Computing and Data Science of The University of Hong Kong (HKU). He is also the Director of the School’s FinTech and Blockchain Laboratory. He was selected three times by Clarivate Analytics as one of the Highly Cited Researchers in the world in 2016, 2017 and 2019, and one of the top 1% researchers in HKU for 12 consecutive years (2011-2022).

Professor Yiu’s research areas include cryptography, cybersecurity, privacy technology, FinTech, and bioinformatics. In the areas of cryptography, he served as the conference chair in Hong Kong for ASIACRYPT 2017, one of the flag-ship conferences in the field and as the programme chair/committee members for other prestigious cybersecurity conferences. In addition to academic research, Professor Yiu has been a consultant to various companies in the areas of cybersecurity and data privacy.

AI systems have been used in our daily lives now. However, a common misunderstanding is that people may think that AI systems are 100% correct, and also overlook the security and privacy issue. In this talk, we will provide examples that AI systems is not 100% correct and there are a lot of things that AI systems may not be able to provide an accurate answer. On the other hand, security and privacy issues are also main concerns in these systems. We will show more examples and identify the issues to be resolved.

时间：2026年9月3日（周四）10:00—11:00

地点：清华大学汽研所301