Vision
Artificial intelligence and smart systems are one of the national strategies in China. While high-performance hardware has satisfactorily met the demand of a world-class smart system ecosystem in China, many “soft” requirements for smart systems are still missing. Among them, security and privacy protection are essential and indispensable. Unfortunately, there is a mismatch between security technology readiness and policy making, which slows down its further advancement and even hinders the nurture of innovations in this field.
The establishment of this research center will bridge between academic research in security and privacy and industrial and legal needs in smart systems. On one hand, the adoption of cutting-edge security and privacy technologies, such as hardware-assisted cryptography and differential privacy, empower businesses to comply with legal obligations and industrial standards with affordable costs. On the other hand, the true needs from smart system industries, such as intelligent transportation system and AI robots, in turn drive security and privacy research to the next generation.
In short term, the center will serve as the hub for security and privacy researchers to share their findings with downstream smart applications and systems, whereas for them to receive feedbacks to drive new lines of upstream research. In long term, the center will become the point of contact for PolyU researchers to engage with industrialists and legislators in the field of security and privacy. Synergies can be built in this community to align technologies with policies, standards, and laws in a better manner.
Mission
The aim of Research Centre for Privacy and Security Technologies in Future Smart Systems (RCPST) is to bridge between academic security and privacy research and real-life security and legal needs from smart system industries. On one hand, the adoption of cutting-edge security and privacy technologies, such as hardware-assisted cryptography and differential privacy, empower many smart systems to comply with legal obligations and industrial standards with affordable costs. On the other hand, the true security needs from various smart system industries, such as intelligent transportation system and AI robots, in turn drive security and privacy research to the next generation.
We believe privacy and security are long-lasting (non-buzzword) needs and call for interdisciplinary research from information science, computing, communication, manufacturing, engineering, finance, and law.
Objectives
- To foster applied research in security and privacy that address the true needs in next-generation smart systems.
- To establish sustainable cooperation with smart system shareholders, such as those manufactuers, operators, and users of smart manufacturing, smart transportation, smart agents.
- To facilitate external grant application under various funding schemes, including CRF/RIF/TRS/ITF.
- To line up PolyU researchers in security, privacy, and system engineering, and create research synergy among them.
