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Kefei CHEN was born in Beijing, China,. He received the B.S. and the M.S. degree in applied mathematics from Xidian University (the former Northwest Telecommunications Engineering Institute), Xi’an, in 1982 and 1985, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Justus-Liebig University, Gießen, Germany, in 1994.

      From 1982 to 1990, he served as a lecturer in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Information Security Institute, led by professor Guozhen Xiao, of Xidian University. He got the German Konrad Adenauer Scholarship and visited 1990-1991 in Goethe-Institute Mannheim, spent 1991-1995 as a PhD candidate and researcher assistant at the security group led by professor Albrecht Beutelspacher, in the mathematics Institute, Gießen, Germany, respectively. He came to Shanghai Jiaotong University as associate professor in 1996, and assumed his present position as professor in 1998. He was a vice chairman of Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1999, and is currently vice dean of School of Information Security Engineering, director of Cryptography and Information Security Lab.

    Dr. Chen has been concentrated his work in cryptography and information security in the past years, especially in public key cryptography, authentication, digital signature, block cipher, digital watermarking, networks security, electronic commerce, and coding theory etc. He is the author of more than 100 research papers, and he received a National Natural Science Award of China in 1990, and Science and Technology Progress Awards by the Chinese State Commission of Education, in 1989 and 1993, respectively.

    He is invited as a member of the Expert Panel Committee in the Department of Information Sciences of NSFC in 2004, and a member of Appraisal Committee (Information Science) for National Natural Science Award of China 2001/2002, he also is  a member of the academic committee both of the State Key Laboratory of Informatio n Security at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology at Nanjing University, a member of the Informatization Advisory Committee to Shanghai Municipality, and a member of Editorial Board of the Journal of Software.

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