Summary of Activities

No.	Date	Event
1	24th January 2017	Attended meeting organized by CyberSecurity Malaysia to discuss the plan in developing "Senarai Algoritma Kriptografi Terpercaya Negara".
2	31st March 2017	Discussed possible research collaboration with NEM.
3	31st March 2017	Attended 24th IdeaXchange Session on "Introduction to YSN-ASM Mentor Mentee Program" and "Introduction to Blockchain and Its Disruptive Potential".
4	4th - 6th April 2017	Attended meeting organized by CyberSecurity Malaysia to review existing hash functions.
5	16th-17th May 2017	Presented as an invited speaker at 3rd Malaysian Cryptology and Information Security Lecture Series 2017 organized by UPM.
6	9th June 2017	Invited external speaker (Dr. Syh-Yuan Tan) from Multimedia University to give a talk on provable security and discuss possible research collaboration.
7	21st July 2017	Met Vice President of NextLabs in Singapore for external industry grant discussion.
8	22nd July 2017	Attended and presented at UTAR R&D Colloquium 2017 (1.0) on blockchain technology; Discussed possible multi-centre research collaboration.
9	16th August 2017	Attended meeting organized by CyberSecurity Malaysia to discuss the progress in developing "Senarai Algoritma Kriptografi Terpercaya Negara".
10	11th August 2017	Invited external speaker (Prof. Dr. Xinyi Huang) from Fujian Normal University (China) to give a talk on online password guessing and discuss possible research collaboration.
11	13th October 2017	Meeting with NextLabs Malaysia and UM research team on the progress of research grant at UM Wisma R&D.
12	3rd - 5th November 2017	Setup a boost on biometric security at KLESF: The Fair 2017 at MINES International Exhibition and Convention Centre .
13	10th November 2017	Discussed possible research collaboration with Chaintope.
14	24th November 2017	Meeting between interns and postgraduate students hired by NextLabs Malaysia at Seremban 2.
15	2nd December 2017	Discussed possible multi-centre research collaboration at UTAR R&D Colloquium 2017 (2.0).
16	7th December 2017	Discussed possible research collaboration with Soliton.
17	12th December 2017	Gave a talk on biometric security in Monash University and discussed possible collaboration with Monash University.
18	15th December 2017	Joint collaboration with Dr. Tze Chuen Lu from Chaoyang University of Technology (Taiwan) as Guest Editor for a special issue of Symmetry (Tier Two SCI/SCIE indexed Journal).