Sponsor: Foothill Section Chapter, C16 Foothill Section, Orange County Section Chapter, C16
Speaker: Dr. Weizhi Meng

Date: 05 Jun 2025
Time: 07:00 PM PDT to 08:00 PM PDT
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Reservations: IEEE
Summary:
The lack of trusted, secure, ethical-driven personal data platforms and privacy-aware analytics, hinders the growth of the data economy and creates concerns. The talk first aims to introduce DataVaults, a platform to address this kind of concerns that pertain privacy, ethics and intellectual property rights, by allowing individuals to take ownership and control of their data and share them at will, through flexible data sharing and fair compensation schemes with other entities (companies or not). Then this talk aims to introduce an open blockchain platform – DevLeChain, which comes with unified access method, easy-to-understand development workflow, and constant design philosophy. It provides an easy toolset to customize and control the underlying blockchain’s behavior.

Bio: Dr. Weizhi Meng is currently an Associate Professor (tenured) in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark (DTU) , Denmark. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the City University of Hong Kong. Prior to joining DTU, he worked as Research Scientist in Institute for Infocomm Research, A*Star, Singapore. He won the Outstanding Academic Performance Award during his doctoral study, and is a recipient of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) Outstanding Paper Award for Young Engineers/Researchers in both 2014 and 2017. He received the IEEE ComSoc Best Young Researcher Award for Europe, Middle East, & Africa Region (EMEA) in 2020, and the IEEE MGA Young Professionals Achievement Award in 2020 for his contributions to leading activities in Denmark and Region 8. His primary research interests are intersections between Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security and Blockchain technology. He serves as associate editors / editorial board members for many reputed journals such as IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, as well as General Chair / Program Committee Chair for various international conferences such as ACM CCS 2023 and ESORICS 2022. He is directing the SPTAGE Lab at DTU.