He received his PhD from the University of Wollongong in 2009. Dr. Au's research interests include information security, applied cryptography, accountable anonymity and blockchain. He has published over 100 refereed papers in top conferences, including the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) and the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS). His work has been cited over 2500 times, with an h-index of 26. He received the 2009 PET runner-up award for outstanding research in privacy enhancing technologies and the best paper award at ACISP 2016. He is now serving as a committee member of the Hong Kong Blockchain Society R&D division.