A Waterloo Engineering expert in cryptography will head a collaborative project between the Open Application Network (OAN) and the University of Waterloo to investigate ways of ensuring privacy of open applications on blockchain networks.
Guang Gong, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and a member of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute, was named lead researcher of the Open Application Privacy Partnership in an announcement made at the end of November.
The partnership project will focus on the development of cryptographic techniques to enable private interactions between user data and applications operating on the data.
Gong, whose research is focused on security and privacy in the Internet of Things, blockchain and machine learning systems, brings more than 25 years of experience in applied and theoretical cryptography to the research project.