Raphaël Phan is Professor at Monash University, specializing in security, cryptography and malicious AI. He has published over 90 journal papers and in excess of 120 conference papers. He was the principal investigator for a project on privacy-preserving data mining funded by the UK government & UK Ministry of Defence, and recently led projects with funding in excess of RM3million from the Malaysian government & industry.

Raphaël was General Chair for Mycrypt 2005 and Asiacrypt 2007, and Technical Program Chair for Mycrypt 2016. He is regularly invited to serve on technical programme committees (TPCs) of internationally leading security conferences; to date having served in over 100 TPCs.

Raphaël has graduated 10 PhD students and currently supervises 10 PhD students; in the areas of security, privacy, emotion recognition, motion analysis and fake videos. He is co-designer of the hash function BLAKE, one of the five finalists in the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) SHA-3 Hash Competition for a new hash function standard. Raphael has Erdős number 2 and h-index 40.

• Security
• Privacy
• Cryptography
• Emotion Recognition
• Surveillance
• Motion Analysis
• Fake Videos

More generally, any area of research related to malice and adversarial behaviour.