Liqun Chen

Liqun Chen is a Chinese computer scientist known for her work on trusted systems including Direct Anonymous Attestation, the Trusted Platform Module, and the incorporation of post-quantum cryptography into trusted systems.^[1] She works in the UK as Professor in Secure Systems in the University of Surrey School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering.^[2]

Education and career

Chen has a 1988 doctorate from Southeast University in China, with the dissertation Study of an asynchronous speech scrambling system.^[3]

After working in the UK at the University of Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London, she joined HP Labs in Bristol in 1997.^[2] It was at HP Labs that she became one of the developers of the Trusted Platform Module in the late 1990s, and a co-designer of Direct Anonymous Attestation in the early 2000s. She moved from HP Labs to the University of Surrey in 2016.^[4]

Recognition

Chen was named to the 2026 class of IEEE Fellows, "for contributions to applied cryptography, trusted computing and their standardization".^[5]

References

1. Meet the academic: Professor Liqun Chen, University of Surrey, 8 March 2022, retrieved 2026-01-09
2. "Professor Liqun Chen", People, University of Surrey, retrieved 2026-01-09
3. Liqun Chen: Publications, HP Labs, retrieved 2026-01-09
4. World-leading cyber security expert moves to Surrey, University of Surrey, 10 April 2018, retrieved 2026-01-09
5. IEEE Fellow Class of 2026, IEEE, retrieved 2026-01-09

External links

• Liqun Chen publications indexed by Google Scholar